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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.
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2010 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:
Canadian:
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
2009 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:
Canadian:
Canada Reads
Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award
Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction, Non-fiction
Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
American:
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize
International:
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
CWA Dagger Awards
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Orange Prize
2008 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:
Canadian:
Canada Reads (Winner)
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award
Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction, Non-fiction, Translation
Quebec Writers' Federation
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Trillium Book Award
Writers' Trust of Canada for Fiction and Non-Fiction
Winterset Award
American:
Agatha Awards
Edgar Awards (Best novel)
National Book Critics Circle
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize (Biography, Fiction)
International:
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger
CWA Dagger Awards (Crime novel)
International IMPAC Dublin Award
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Orange Broadband Prize
Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Awards (Fiction, Non-Fiction)
Click here to see 2007 award-winning books
Click here to see 2006 award-winning books
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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 |
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WINNER of the 2009 Canada Reads The book of negroes / Lawrence Hill. Call #: BLK Fic Hil |
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WINNER of the 2009 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize The sentinel : poems / A.F. Moritz. Call #: 811.54 M862s |
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WINNER of the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Shock troops : Canadians fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 / Tim Cook. Call #: 940.41 C771s |
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WINNER of the 2009 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel Too close to home / Linwood Barclay. Call #: MYS Fic Bar |
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WINNER of the 2009 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Mafiaboy : how I cracked the Internet and why it's still broken / Michael Calce, with Craig Silverman. Call #: QWF 364.16 C144m |
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WINNER of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction The mistress of nothing / Kate Pullinger. Call #: Fic Pul |
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WINNER of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Non-fiction A place within : rediscovering India / M.G. Vassanji. Call #: 813.54 V337p |
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WINNER of the 2009 Rogers Writers' Fiction Prize The golden mean : a novel / Annabel Lyon. Call #: Fic Lyo |
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WINNER of the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2009 L'énigme du retour : roman / Dany Laferrière. Call #: BLK FR Fic Laf |
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WINNER of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize The bishop's man : a novel / Linden MacIntyre. Call #: SC Fic MacI
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WINNER of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Never shoot a Stampede Queen : a rookie reporter in the Cariboo / Mark Leiren-Young. Call #: 070.43 L531l |
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WINNER of the 2009 Edgar Awards for Best Novel Blue heaven / C.J. Box. Call #: MYS Fic Box |
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WINNER of the 2009 Edgar Awards for First Novel The foreigner / Francie Lin. Call #: MYS Fic Lin |
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WINNER of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Netherland / Joseph O'Neill. Call #: Fic ONe |
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WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Award for Fiction Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout. Call #: Fic Str |
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WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Award for General Non-Fiction Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon. Call #: BLK 305.896 B629s |
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WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Award for History The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed. Call #: BLK 973.4 H488g |
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WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award The slap / Christos Tsiolkas. Call #: Fic Tsi |
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WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award, Africa Region Say you're one of them / Uwem Akpan. Call #: BLK Fic Akp |
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WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Canada and the Caribbean Region Good to a fault / Marina Endicott. Call #: Fic End
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WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Europe and South Asia Region Unaccustomed earth / Jhumpa Lahiri. Call #: Fic Lah |
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WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award, Europe and South Asia Region A case of exploding mangoes / Mohammed Hanif. Call #: Fic Han |
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WINNER of the 2009 CWA Dagger Awards for Best Crime Novel The chalk circle man / Fred Vargas ; translated from the French by Siân Reynolds. Call #: MYS Fic Var |
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WINNER of the 2009 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Fiction Kieron Smith, boy / James Kelman. Call #: SC Fic Kel |
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WINNER of the 2009 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Man gone down / Michael Thomas. Call #: BLK Fic Tho |
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WINNER of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction Home / Marilynne Robinson. Call #: Fic Rob |
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WINNER of the 2008 Canada Reads King Leary / Paul Quarrington. Call #: Fic Qua
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WINNER of the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction John A. : the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald, volume one: 1815-1867 / Richard Gwyn. Call #: SC Bio M135gw |
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WINNER of the 2008 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel Garcia's heart / Liam Durcan. Call #: QWF Fic Dur c.2 |
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WINNER of the 2008 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction One child at a time : the global fight to rescue children from online predators / Julian Sher. Call #: QWF 362.76 S551o |
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WINNER of the 2008 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel Trumpets sound no more / Jon Redfern.
Call #: MYS Fic Red |
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WINNER of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for English Fiction The origin of species / Nino Ricci. Call #: Fic Ric |
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WINNER of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for English Non-Fiction Fifteen days : stories of bravery, friendship, life and death from inside the new Canadian Army / Christie Blatchford. Call #: 958.1 B644f |
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WINNER of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for English Translation Nikolski : a novel / Nicolas Dickner. Translated by Lazer Lederhendler. Call #: Fic Dic |
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WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Translation Prize |
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WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Non-Fiction |
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WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for First Book Prize |
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WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Poetry |
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WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Fiction |
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WINNER of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize Through black spruce / Joseph Boyden.
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WINNER of the 2008 Trillium Book Award for English Literature Helpless : a novel / Barbara Gowdy. Call #: Fic Gow
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WINNER of the Writers' Trust of Canada for Fiction The flying Troutmans / Miriam Toews. Call #: Fic Toe |
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WINNER of the Writers' Trust of Canada for Non-Fiction Bottomfeeder : how to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood / Taras Grescoe. Call #: QWF 641.692 G831b |
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WINNER of the 2008 Winterset Award Night work : the Sawchuk poems / Randall Maggs. Call #: 811.54 M193n |
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WINNER of the 2008 Agatha Award
The cruellest month / Louise Penny. |
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WINNER of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Novel Down river / John Hart. Call #: MYS Fic Har |
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WINNER of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle for Biogrphy The world is what it is : the authorized biography of V.S. Naipaul / Patrick French. Call #: Bio N1575f |
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WINNER of the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The great man : a novel / Kate Christensen. Call #: Fic Chr |
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WINNER of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Eden's outcasts : the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father / John Matteson. Call #: Bio A355m |
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WINNER of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz. Call #: Fic Dia |
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WINNER of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Overall Best Book (Canada) The book of negroes / Lawrence Hill. Call #: BLK Fic Hil |
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WINNER of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (South Asia) Animal's people / Indra Sinha. Call #: Fic Sin |
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WINNER of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Overall Best First Book (South Asia) A golden age : a novel / Tahmima Anam. Call #: Fic Ana |
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WINNER of the 2008 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award T is for trespass / Sue Grafton. Call #: MYS Fic Gra c.1, c.2 |
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WINNER of the 2008 CWA Dagger Awards for Best Crime Novel Blood From Stone / Frances Fyfield. Call #: MYS Fic Fyf
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WINNER of the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Award De Niro's game / Rawi Hage. Call #: QWF Fic Hag |
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WINNER of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga. Call #: Fic Adi
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WINNER of the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction The Road Home / Rose Tremain. Call #: Fic Tre
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WINNER of the 2008 Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Non-Fiction The Wild Places / Robert Macfarlane. Call #: SC 914.104 M143m
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WINNER of the 2008 Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Fiction Girl Meets Boy / Ali Smith. Call #: SC Fic Smi
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Click here to see 2006 award-winning books
Click here to see 2007 award-winning books
To know more about the awards, click on the links below.
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 Awards
Governor General's Literary Awards
Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
The Griffin Poetry Prize
Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Trillium Book Award (Ontario)
Winterset Literary Award (Newfoundland and Labrador)
The Writers' Trust of Canada
<American>
Agatha Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
National Book Awards
National Book Critics Circle
PEN/Faulkner Prize (Fiction)
Pulitzer Prize
<British and International>
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards
Man Booker Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature
Orange Broadband Prize
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
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