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Reader's Advisory: Reading For Fun!: Awards

A Guide to discovering fiction with links to reviews, web resources, award winners, and much more! If you sometimes just want to read a book that is not required reading for your classes, then this guide is for you!

Book Awards

Larger list of general book awards.

Genre Awards

The Bram Stoker Award
Horror Fiction
The Hugo Award
Science Fiction
The Lambda Literary Award
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans literature
The Agatha Award
Mystery
The Rita Award
Romance
Scott O'Dell Award
Historical Fiction
The Poe Award for First Novel
Mystery (first novel)

Recent Award Winners

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
ISBN: 0929701836
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2010
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
ISBN: 1608196119
MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
ISBN: 0802119190
PEN/ FAULKNER AWARD 2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding
ISBN: 193413712X
PULITZER PRIZE (FICTION) 2010

Recent Genre Award Winners

Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan
ISBN: 0061624217
BRAM STOKER AWARD 2009
The City and The City by China Mieville
ISBN: 0345497511
HUGO AWARD 2010
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
ISBN: 0312377037
AGATHA AWARD 2009
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stephanie Pintoff
ISBN: 0312544901
POE AWARD 2010

Guide Creator

Elizabeth Shepard

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