2010 Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2010 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

Canadian:

BWO Winterset Award( Newfoundland and Labrador)
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
Cundill Prize in History at McGill University
Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
The Griffin Poetry Prize
Leacock Award for Humour
Quebec Writers’ Federation
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Trillium Book Award (Ontario)
The Writers’ Trust of Canada

American:

Agatha Award for Best First Novel
Agatha Award for Best Novel
Edgar Allan Poe Award
National Book Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction
National Book Critics Circle
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize

International:

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Man Booker Prize
Orange Prize (Now The Women’s Prize for Fiction)
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award

TheBoyInTheMo0on WINNER of the 2010 BMO Winterset Award

The Glass harmonica / Russel Wangersky

Call #: Fic Wan

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
WINNER of the 2010 Trillium Book Award in English-languageThe 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 NovelBury your dead / Louise PennyCall #: MYS Fic Pen
WINNER of the 2010 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years  / Diarmaid MacCulloch

Call #: 270 M133c

Cool Water WINNER of the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards for English-Language Fiction

Cool Water / Donna Warren

Call #: Fic War

Lakeland WINNER of the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards for English-Language Non-Fiction

Lakeland / Allen Casey

Call #: 914.278 D255b

WINNER of the 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards for English-Language Poetry

Boxing the Compass  /  Richard Greene

Call #: 811.54 G811b

WINNER of the 2010 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal

L’homme Blanc  /  Perrine LeBlanc

Call #: FR Fic Leb

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

Ilustrado WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award – Paragraphe Huge MacLennan Prize for Fiction

Ilustrado / Miguel Syjuco

Call #: QWF Fic Syj

The Empire Within WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award – QWF First Book Prize

The Empire Within / Sean Mills

Call #: QWF 971.428 M657e

The Certainty Dream WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award – A.M.Klein Prize for Poetry

The Certainty Dream / Kate Hall

Call #: QWF 811.6 H177c

Quebec, ville du patrimoine mondial WINNER of the 2010 QWF Award – Prix de traduction Fondation Cole
Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial / David Mendel, translated to French by Paule ChampouxCall #: QWF FR 917.1404 M537q
The Sentimentalists WINNER of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize

The Sentimentalists / Johanna Shiverly Skibsrud

Call #: Fic Ski

strip WINNER of the 2010 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

Room / Emma Donoghue

Call #: Fic Don

WINNER of 2010 Agatha Award for Best Novel

The brutal telling / Louise Penny

Call #: MYS Fic Pen

last child WINNER of the 2010 Edgar Awards for Best Novel

The last child / John Hart.

Call #: MYS Fic Har

WINNER of the 2010 National Book Awards for Fiction

Lord of misrule / Jaimy Gordon

Call #: Fic Gor

WINNER of the 2010 National Book Awards for Non-Fiction

Just Kids  /  Patti Smith

Call #:  Bio S656j

WINNER of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

A visit from the goon squad / Jennifer Egan

Call #: Fic Ega

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-fiction

The warmth of other suns / Isabel Wilkerson

Call #: Fic Wan

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

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

twin WINNER of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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

Call #: Fic Bak

The Finkler Question
WINNER
of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for FictionThe Finkler Question / Howard JacobsonCall #: Fic Jac
lacuna WINNER of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction (Now The Women’s 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

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