Award-winning Books

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Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2010 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

Canadian:
Canada Reads
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

 

 

 
award_nikolski.jpg

WINNER of the 2010 Canada Reads

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

Call #: Fic Dic / QWF Fic Dic

 

 
award_boy_in_the_moon.jpg

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

 
the book of negroes

WINNER of the 2009 Canada Reads

The book of negroes / Lawrence Hill.

Call #: BLK Fic Hil

 
award_sentinel.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize

The sentinel : poems / A.F. Moritz.

Call #: 811.54 M862s

 
shock troops

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

 
award_too_close_to_home.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel

Too close to home / Linwood Barclay.

Call #: MYS Fic Bar

award_mafiaboy.jpg

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


 
award_mistress_of_nothing.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction

The mistress of nothing / Kate Pullinger.

Call #: Fic Pul

award_a_place_within.jpg

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


 
award_golden_mean.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Rogers Writers' Fiction Prize

The golden mean : a novel / Annabel Lyon.

Call #: Fic Lyo

 
award_lenigme_du_retour.jpg

WINNER of the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2009

L'énigme du retour : roman / Dany Laferrière.

Call #: BLK FR Fic Laf

 
award_thebishopsman.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize

The bishop's man : a novel / Linden MacIntyre.

Call #: SC Fic MacI

 

 
nevershootastampedequeen

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

 
award_blueheaven.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Edgar Awards for Best Novel

Blue heaven / C.J. Box.

Call #: MYS Fic Box

award_foreigner

WINNER of the 2009 Edgar Awards for First Novel

The foreigner / Francie Lin.

Call #: MYS Fic Lin

 
netherland

WINNER of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Netherland / Joseph O'Neill.

Call #: Fic ONe

 
award_olive_kitteridge 

WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Award for Fiction

Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout.

Call #: Fic Str

slavery_by_another_name 

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

award_hemingses.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Award for History

The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed.

Call #: BLK 973.4 H488g

 
slap

WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award

The slap / Christos Tsiolkas.

Call #: Fic Tsi

award_sayuronesofthem.JPG

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

Award_Good_to_a_Fault

WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Canada and the Caribbean Region

Good to a fault / Marina Endicott.

Call #: Fic End

 

award_unaccustomed-earth.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Europe and South Asia Region

Unaccustomed earth / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Call #: Fic Lah

award_Case-of-exploding-mangoes.jpg

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

 
thechalkcircleman

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

 
award_kieron_smith_boy

WINNER of the 2009 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Fiction

Kieron Smith, boy / James Kelman.

Call #: SC Fic Kel

 
award_man_gone_down.JPG

WINNER of the 2009 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Man gone down / Michael Thomas.

Call #: BLK Fic Tho

 
award_home.jpg

WINNER of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction

Home / Marilynne Robinson.

Call #: Fic Rob

 
king leary

WINNER of the 2008 Canada Reads

King Leary / Paul Quarrington.

Call #: Fic Qua

 

 
John A.

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

 
garcia's heart

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

one child at a time

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

trumpets sound no more

WINNER of the 2008 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel

 

Trumpets sound no more / Jon Redfern.

 

Call #: MYS Fic Red

 
originofspecies

WINNER of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for English Fiction

The origin of species / Nino Ricci. 

Call #: Fic Ric

fifteendays

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

nikolski
 

WINNER of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for English Translation

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

Call #: Fic Dic

 
bigbang

WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Translation Prize

Big bang : nouvelles / Neil Smith ; trad. de l'anglais (Canada) par Lori Saint-Martin et Paul Gagné.

Call #: QWF FR Fic Smi


bottomfeeder

WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Non-Fiction

Bottomfeeder : how to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood / Taras Grescoe.

Call #: QWF 641.692 G831b


fruithunters

WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for First Book Prize

The fruit hunters : a story of nature, adventure, commerce and obsession / Adam Leith Gollner.

Call #: QWF 641.34 G626f


sympathyforthecouriers

WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Poetry

Sympathy for the couriers / Peter Richardson.

Call #: QWF 811.54 R524s


cockroach

WINNER of the 2008 QWF Literary Award for Fiction

Cockroach / Rawi Hage.

Call #: Fic Hag


 
throughblackspruce

WINNER of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize

 

Through black spruce / Joseph Boyden.

 

Call #: Fic Boy

 
helpless

WINNER of the 2008 Trillium Book Award for English Literature

Helpless : a novel / Barbara Gowdy.

 

Call #: Fic Gow

 

 
flyingtroutmans

WINNER of the Writers' Trust of Canada for Fiction

The flying Troutmans / Miriam Toews.

Call #:
Fic Toe
bottomfeeder

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
 
award_nightwork

WINNER of the 2008 Winterset Award

Night work : the Sawchuk poems / Randall Maggs.

Call #:
811.54 M193n
 
Award_cruelestmonth.jpg

WINNER of the 2008 Agatha Award

The cruellest month / Louise Penny. 

Call #:
MYS Fic Pen
 
down river

WINNER of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Novel

Down river / John Hart.

Call #: MYS Fic Har

 
world_is_what_it_is

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 

 
The Great Man

WINNER of the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The great man : a novel / Kate Christensen.

Call #: Fic Chr

 
Eden's Outcasts

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

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

WINNER of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz.

Call #: Fic Dia

 
the book of negroes

WINNER of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Overall Best Book (Canada)

The book of negroes / Lawrence Hill.

Call #: BLK Fic Hil

animal's people

WINNER of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (South Asia)

Animal's people / Indra Sinha.

Call #: Fic Sin

a golden age

WINNER of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Overall Best First Book (South Asia)

A golden age : a novel / Tahmima Anam.

Call #: Fic Ana

 
T is for trespass

WINNER of the 2008 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award

T is for trespass / Sue Grafton.

Call #: MYS Fic Gra c.1, c.2

 
bloodfromstone

WINNER of the 2008 CWA Dagger Awards for Best Crime Novel

Blood From Stone / Frances Fyfield.

Call #: MYS Fic Fyf

 

 
de niro's game

WINNER of the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Award

De Niro's game / Rawi Hage.

Call #: QWF Fic Hag

 
white tiger

WINNER of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga.

Call #: Fic Adi

 

 
theroadhome

WINNER of the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction

The Road Home / Rose Tremain.

Call #: Fic Tre

 

 
thewildplaces

WINNER of the 2008 Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Non-Fiction

The Wild Places / Robert Macfarlane.

Call #: SC 914.104 M143m

 

girlmeetsboy

WINNER of the 2008 Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Fiction

Girl Meets Boy / Ali Smith.

Call #: SC Fic Smi

 

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.

<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 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