Award Winners

Award Winners

The following are lists of “award-winning” fiction and non-fiction works. These lists are as complete as we could find accurate records for — going back to the origins of each individual award. “Hotlinked” titles within these booklists will connect you to the holdings screens in our catalog, so that you can check on the availability of individual books. Titles which are not hotlinked in many of these lists, might not be owned by the Lincoln City Libraries but appear here for the sake of keeping these established lists complete. You may wish to pursue such titles through other sources, including the library’s Interlibrary Loan request service.

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To see the ten most recent winners in over 25 additional award categories for adults and over 20 categories for award-winning Teen literature, visit the Award Winners and Bestsellers page of our new Books, Movies & More service!

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• The Agatha Award (traditional Mystery fiction – no blood, no gore, usually amateur detectives)
• The Anthony Awards (traditional Mystery fiction)
• The Asian American Literary Award (for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and stage and screenplays by Asian American writers) (1998-2012)
• The Audie Award (Recorded Books and Spoken-Word Recordings)
• The Bancroft Prize (for non-fiction works about American History and Diplomacy)
• The Booker Prize (a.k.a. The Man Booker Prize) (formerly fiction by an author from the British Commonwealth or Ireland, now a broader category)
• The Bram Stoker Award (Horror)
• The Christy Award (several categories of Christian Fiction)
• The Coretta Scott King Awards (for African American writers and illustrators of books for youth and teens)
• The Dashiell Hammett Prize (Crime Writing)
• The Dilys Award (mysteries as voted on by mystery bookstore owners) (1992-2014)
• The First Novel Prize (presented by The Center for Fiction)
• The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Mystery fiction/non-fiction by American authors)
•   The Goodreads Choice Awards (around 20 categories, nominated and voted on by users of Goodreads)
• The Gumshoe Awards (for mystery and thriller fiction) (2002-2008)
• The Hillerman Prize (for first-time mystery novels set in the U.S. Southwest)
• The Hugo Awards (Science Fiction & Fantasy – selected by readers)
• The James Beard Foundation Awards for Books (Culinary field)
• The Kiriyama Prize (for fiction and non-fiction about the Pacific Rim and South Asia geographic regions) (1996-2008)
• The Left Coast Crime Awards (for mystery fiction, particularly humorous mystery novels, set in the western North America region)
• The Macavity Awards (for mystery fiction)
• The McIlvanney Prize (for Best Scottish Crime Book of the year)
• The National Book Awards (general American fiction)
• The National Book Critics Circle Awards (general American fiction)
• The Nebraska Book Awards (books by Nebraska authors, published in Nebraska, or about Nebraska)
• The Nebula Awards (Science Fiction & Fantasy – selected by authors)
• The Newbery Medal Winners (for outstanding Fiction for Youth)
• The Otherwise Award (Science Fiction & Fantasy focusing on Gender Issues)
• The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (for published fiction by an American author)
• The Philip K. Dick Award (Science Fiction & Fantasy published original in paperback form)
• The Prometheus Award (Libertarian Science Fiction that focuses on themes of personal freedom)
• The Pulitzer Prizes for Letters and Drama (for distinguished fiction, biographies, dramas, poetry and history texts by an American author dealing with American Life)
• The Rita Award (Romance Fiction) (1982-2019)
• The Scribe Awards (for media tie-in novels, original and adaptations)
• The Shamus Award (for mystery fiction featuring private investigators)
• The Shirley Jackson Awards (for psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic)
• The Sidewise Award (for works of Alternate History)
• The Spur Award (Westerns)
• The Stonewall Book Award (fiction and non-fiction books of exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience)
• The Thriller Awards (for thriller and suspense novels)
• The World Fantasy Award (Fantasy & Supernatural)
• You’ve Seen the Movie…Now Read the Book! (novels and stories turned into Oscar-winning Best Pictures)
   

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