2015 Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2015 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

Canadian:

BMO Winterset Literary Award
British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
CBC Canada Reads
Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards
Cundill Prize
Governor General’s Literary Awards
Griffin Poetry Prize
Leacock Medal for Humour
Quebec Writers’ Federation
RBC Taylor Prize
The ReLit Awards
Roger’s Writers’ Trust of Canada
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Trillium Book Award

American:

The Edgar Awards
National Book Awards
National Book Critic’s Circle
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prizes

International:

Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
Crime Writers Association Dagger Award
International IMPAC Dublin Literary awards
The Man Booker Prize
Saltire Society Literary Awards

Winner of the 2015 BMO Winterset Literary Award
Duke
/ Sara Tilley
Call #: Fic Til
Winner of the 2015 British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
One Hour in Paris
/ Karyn Freedman
Call #: Bio F853o
Winner of the 2015 CBC Canada Reads
Ru
/ Kim Thuy
Call #: Fic Thu
Winner of the 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards Best Novel
Plague
/ C.C. Humphreys
Call #: Fic Hum
Winner of the 2015 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards Best Novel
A Siege of Bitterns
/ Steve Burrows
Call #: eBook
Winner of the 2015 Cundill Prize
The Guardians
/ Susan Pedersen
Call #: 341.22 P371g
Winner of the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction
Daddy Lennin
/ Guy Vanderhaeghe
Call #: Fic Van
Winner of the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Non-Fiction
Bee Time
/ Mark L. Winston
Call #: 638.1 W783b
Winner of the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Poetry
My Shoes Are Killing Me
/ Robyn Sarah
Call #: QWF 811.54 S243m
Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize
Blue Sonoma
/ Jane Munro
Call #: eBook
Winner of the 2015 Leacock Medal for Humour
No Relation
/ Terry Fallis
Call #: Fic Fal
Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers’ Federation – Concordia University First Book Prize
Swing in the House
/ Anita Anand
Call #: QWF Fic Ana
Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers’ Federation – Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Boo
/ Neil Smith
Call #: QWF Fic Smi
Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers’ Federation – Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Teaching Plato in Palestine
/ Carlos Fraenke
Call #: QWF 107.1 F797t
Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers’ Federation – A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Asbestos Heights
/ David McGimpsey
Call #: QWF 811.54 M145a
Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers’ Federation – Cole Fondation Prize for Translation
Turkey and the Armenian ghost
/ Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier, translated by Debbie Blythe
Call #: QWF 956.620 M315t
Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize
They Left Us Everything
/ Plum Johnson
Call #: Bio J66t
Winner of the 2015 The ReLit Awards
The Tiny Wife
/ Andrew Kaufman
Call #: Fic Kau
Winner of the 2015 Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Fifteen Dogs
/ André Alexis
Call #: BLK Fic Ale
Winner of the 2015 Trillium Book Award
How You Were Born
/ Kate Cayley
Call #: Fic Cay
Winner of the 2015 The Edgar Awards for Best Novel
Mr. Mercedes
/ Stephen King
Call #: Fic Kin
Winner of the 2015 National Book Awards For Non-Fiction
Between the World and Me
/ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call #: BLK Bio C652b
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critic’s Circle for Biography
The Sellout
/ Paul Beatty
Call #: Fic Bea
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critic’s Circle for Biography
Romantic Outlaws
/ Charlotte Gordon
Call #: 828.609 G662r
Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Preparation for the Next Life
/ Atticus Lish
Call #: Fic Lis
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See
/ Anthony Doerr
Call #: Fic Doe
Winner of the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
How To Be Both
/ Ali Smith
Call #: SC Fic Smi
Winner of the 2015 Crime Writers Association Dagger Award
Camille
/ Pierre Lemaitre
Call #: MYS Fic Lem
Winner of the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary awards
Harvest / Jim Crace
Call #: Fic Cra
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
A Brief History of Seven Killings / Marlon James
Call #: BLK Fic Jam
Winner of the 2015 Saltire Society Literary Awards – Scottish Book of the Year
The Book of Strange New Things
/ Michel Faber
Call #: SC Fic Fab
Winner of the 2015 Saltire Society Literary Awards – History Book of the Year
A Chasm in Time / Patricia R. Andrew
Call #: Coming soon
Winner of the 2015 Saltire Society Literary Awards – First Book of the Year
On the Edges of Vision / Helen McClory
Call #: SC Fic McC
Winner of the 2015 Saltire Society Literary Awards – Poetry Book of the Year
The Good Dark / Ryan Van Winkle
Call #: Coming soon
Winner of the 2015 Saltire Society Literary Awards – Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Adventures in Human Being / Gavin Francis
Call #: SC 612 F818a
Winner of the 2015 Saltire Society Literary Awards – Research Book of the Year
Clubbing Together
/ Tanja Bueltmann
Call #: SC 304.809 B928c

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