Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

To see some award-winning books that are in the Atwater Library collection and then get connected to the Library online catalogue,

  • click on the link you see below, which will take you to the award book, then click on the book cover or title
  • or scroll down further and click directly on the book cover or title

When the catalogue comes up, click on "Search" in the blue rectangle. If you see a green box on the left, the book is available. If the box is red, the book is out on loan but you can reserve it.

2010 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

Canadian:
British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
CBC Canada Reads
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award
The Griffin Poetry Prize
Leacock Award for Humour
Trillium Book Award (Ontario)

American:
Agatha Award for Best First Novel
Agatha Award for Best Novel
Edgar Allan Poe Award
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize

International:
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
Crime Writers Association Dagger Award
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Orange Prize
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award

 

Click here to see 2009 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection


   
TheBoyInTheMo0on

WINNER of the 2010 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
WINNER of the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction

The boy in the moon : a father's search for his disabled son / Ian Brown.

Call #: 362.196 B881b

 
award_nikolski.jpg

WINNER of the 2010 CBC Canada Reads

Nikolski : a novel / Nicolas Dickner. Translated by Lazer Lederhendler.

Call #: Fic Dic / QWF Fic Dic

 

 
sweetness pie

WINNER of the 2010 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
WINNER of the 2010 Agatha Award
for Best First Novel

The sweetness at the bottom of the pie / Alan Bradley.

Call #: MYS Fic Bra

 
pigeon

Canadian WINNER of the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize
WINNER of the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry

Pigeon : poems / Karen Solie.

Call #: 811.6 S686p

WINNER of the 2010 Leacock Medal for Humour

Beyond Belfast : a 560-mile walk across Northern Ireland on sore feet / Will Ferguson

Call#: 914.16 F353b

TheBoyInTheMo0on

WINNER of the 2010 Trillium Book Award in English-language

The boy in the moon : a father's search for his disabled son / Ian Brown.

Call #: 362.196 B881b

WINNER of 2010 Agatha Award for Best Novel

The brutal telling / Louise Penny

MYS Fic Pen

 
last child

WINNER of the 2010 Edgar Awards for Best Novel

The last child / John Hart.

Call #: MYS Fic Har

 
award_war_dances

WINNER of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

War dances / by Sherman Alexie.

Call #: Fic Ale

 
tinkers

WINNER of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Tinkers / Paul Harding.

Call #: Fic Har

 
solo

The WINNER of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book

Solo / Rana Dasgupta.

Call #: Fic Das

galore

WINNER of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Canada and the Caribbean Region

Galore : a novel / Michael Crummey.

Call #: Fic Cru

 
Darkest-room

WINNER of the 2010 Crime Writers Association Dagger Award

The darkest room : a novel / Johan Theorin

Call #: MYS Fic The

twin

WINNER of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The twin / Gerbrand Bakker ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer.

Call #: Fic Bak

 
lacuna

WINNER of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction

The lacuna : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.

Call #: Fic Kin

 
passion nature

WINNER of the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Non-Fiction

WINNER of the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Book of the Year

A passion for nature : the life of John Muir / Donald Worster.

Call #: SC Bio M953w

strip

WINNER of the 2010 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Fiction

Strip the willow / John Aberdein.

Call #: SC Fic Abe

Click here to see 2009 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection