1997

Agatha Award
The Devil in Music by Kate Ross (winner)
Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
Goose in the Pond by Earlene Fowler
Hocus by Jan Burke
Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters

Anthony Awards
Firestorm by Nevada Barr
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Lethal Genes by Linda Grant
Multiple Wounds by Alan Russell
The Poet by Michael Connelly (winner)

Booker Prize
The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John
Europa by Tim Parks
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (winner)
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Quarantine by Jim Crace
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson

Bram Stoker
Crota by Owl Goingback
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite
The Green Mile by Stephen King (winner)
The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub

British Fantasy Society
Amnesiascope by Steve Erickson
Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
Bad Chili by Joe R Lansdale
The Barbed Coil by J V Jones
The Brentford Chainstore Massacre by Robert Rankin
Burning Bright by Jay Russell
The Chosen Child by Graham Masterton
Darker Angels by S P Somtow
Disturbia by Christopher Fowler
Dracula, The Undead by Freda Warrington
Dragonflame by Graham Edwards
Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell
Fog Heart by Thomas Tessier
The Harlequin's Dance by Tom Arden
The House on Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
King Blood by Simon Clark
Light Errant by Chaz Brenchley
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
The Matter of the Heart by Nicholas Royle
Mesmer by Tim Lebbon
Methods of Confinement by Simon Maginn
Oracle by Ian Watson
Pagan Moon by Freda Warrington
Polgara the Sorceress by David Eddings and Leigh Eddings
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
Sacrament of Night by Louise Cooper
Scissorman by Mark Chadbourn
Shrouded by Carol Anne Davis
Signs of Life by M John Harrison
Somewhere South of Midnight by Stephen Laws
Stealing Sacred Fire by Storm Constantine
Thorn by Frances Gordon (Sarah Rayne)
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce (winner)
Trader by Charles de Lint
The Troika by Stepan Chapman
Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
The Waterborn by Greg Keyes
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

British Science Fiction Association
Excession by Iain M Banks (winner)

Dagger Awards
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin (winner)
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

Edgar Awards
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H Cook (winner)
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Mean Streak by Carolyn Wheat
Pentecost Alley by Anne Perry
With Child by Laurie R King

Guardian Fiction Prize
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (winner)

Hugo
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (winner)
Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
Starplex by Robert J Sawyer

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Good Negress by A J Verdelle
A Heart So White by Javier Marías (winner)
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
A Tiler's Afternoon by Lars Gustafsson

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Fairyland by Paul McAuley (winner)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Macavity Awards
Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey (winner)

Nebula Awards
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Expiration Date by Tim Powers
The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Slow River by Nicola Griffith (winner)
Starplex by Robert J Sawyer
Winter Rose by Patricia A McKillip

Newbery Medal
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The Moorchild by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The View from Saturday by E L Konigsburg (winner)

Prometheus Award
Firestar by Michael Flynn
Kings of the High Frontier by Victor Koman (winner)
Paths to Otherwhere by James P Hogan
Sliders by Brad Linaweaver
Wildside by Steven Gould

Rita Awards
Always to Remember by Lorraine Heath (winner)
As Sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers (winner)
Conor's Way by Laura Lee Guhrke (winner)
Cowboy Pride by Anne McAllister (winner)
Daniel's Gift by Barbara Freethy (winner)
Her Very Own Husband by Lauryn Chandler (winner)
The Lady's Companion by Carla Kelly (winner)
The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers (winner)
See How They Run by Bethany Campbell (winner)
Stardust of Yesterday by Lynn Kurland (winner)
Wild Blood by Naomi Horton (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
The Hours of the Night by Sue Gee (winner)

Shamus Awards
Damned in Paradise by Max Allan Collins
Flesh Wounds by Stephen Greenleaf
Invasion Of Privacy by Jeremiah Healy
Sentinels by Bill Pronzini
Sunset Express by Robert Crais (winner)
When Wallflowers Die by Sandra West Prowell

Whitbread Prize
Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Quarantine by Jim Crace (winner)
The Untouchable by John Banville

Women's Prize For Fiction
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (winner)
Hen's Teeth by Manda Scott
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden

World Fantasy
The 37th Mandala by Marc Laidlaw
The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
Devil's Tower by Mark C Sumner
A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (winner)
The Golden Key by Kate Elliott, Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson
Shadow of Ashland by Terence M Green

Anthony Awards
Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani (winner)

Betty Trask Award
The Beach by Alex Garland (winner)
Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo
Theory of Mind by Sanjida O'Connell

Bram Stoker
Crota by Owl Goingback (winner)
Dead Heat by Del Stone Jr
Flute Song by Donald R Burleson
Horror Show by Greg Kihn

Whitbread Prize
The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville (winner)

Bram Stoker
The House of Mourning by Brian Stableford
Metalica by P D Cacek (winner)
Plan 10 from Inner Space by Karl Edward Wagner
The Secret Shih Tan by Graham Masterton
The Slobbering Tongue that Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman by Robert Devereaux

Hugo
The Dead by Michael Swanwick
Decency by Robert Reed
Gone by John Crowley
The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective by Connie Willis (winner)
Un-Birthday Boy by James White

Nebula Awards
Five Fucks by Jonathan Lethem
In the Pound, Near Breaktime by Kent Brewster
In the Shade of the Slowboat Man by Dean Wesley Smith
The String by Kathleen Ann Goonan
These Shoes Strangers Have Died of by Bruce Holland Rogers

World Fantasy
The Dead Cop by Dennis Etchison
Thirteen Phantasms by James P Blaylock (winner)
Underbed by Graham Masterton

Bram Stoker
Brimstone and Salt by S P Somtow
Kilroy Was Here by Jack Cady
The Thing from Lover's Lane by Nancy A Collins

Hugo
Age of Aquarius by William Barton
Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast by Suzy McKee Charnas
Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling (winner)
The Land of Nod by Mike Resnick
Mountain Ways by Ursula K Le Guin

Nebula Awards
After a Lean Winter by Dave Wolverton
The Chronology Protection Case by Paul Levinson
Erase/Record/Play by John M Ford
Mirror of Lop Nor by George Guthridge
Must and Shall by Harry Turtledove
The Perseids [short story] by Robert Charles Wilson

Hugo
Abandon in Place [short story] by Jerry Oltion
Blood of the Dragon by George R R Martin (winner)
The Cost to Be Wise [short story] by Maureen F McHugh
Gas Fish by Mary Rosenblum
Immersion by Gregory Benford
Time Travelers Never Die [short story] by Jack McDevitt

Nebula Awards
Blood of the Dragon by George R R Martin
The Cost to Be Wise [short story] by Maureen F McHugh
The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele
Time Travellers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
A Woman's Liberation by Ursula K Le Guin

World Fantasy
Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast by Suzy McKee Charnas
Blood of the Dragon by George R R Martin
A City in Winter [short story] by Mark Helprin (winner)
GI Jesus by Susan Palwick
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself by Michael Marshall Smith

Bram Stoker
The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti (winner)
The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S P Somtow
With Wounds Still Wet by Wayne Allen Sallee

World Fantasy
Bible Stories for Adults by James Morrow
Conference with the Dead by Terry Lamsley
Midnight Promises by Richard Chizmar
The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S P Somtow

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh (winner)
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S Tepper
Looking for the Mahdi by N Lee Wood
Voyage by Stephen Baxter

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Hen's Teeth by Manda Scott
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
Larry's Party by Carol Shields (winner)
One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden

Carnegie Medal
Junk by Melvin Burgess (winner)

Dagger Awards
The Reluctant Investigator by Frank Lean

Dilys Awards
Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry
Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Fade Away by Harlan Coben
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Moody Gets the Blues by Steve Oliver
The Poet by Michael Connelly (winner)
A Test of Wills by Charles Todd
Tularosa by Michael McGarrity

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Feeding the Ghosts by Fred D'Aguiar
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller (winner)
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey (winner)

John W. Campbell
Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle
The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter
The Shape-changer's Wife by Sharon Shinn
Wind from a Foreign Sky by Katya Reimann

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Fair Peril by Nancy Springer
Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes
Winter Rose by Patricia A McKillip
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (winner)

National Book Award for Fiction
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (winner)
Echo House by Ward Just
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
Underworld by Don DeLillo

Oprah's Book Club
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Atticus by Ron Hansen
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
The Book of Mercy by Kathleen Cambor
St Burl's Obituary by Daniel Akst
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault (winner)

Philip K Dick Award
Acts of Conscience by William Barton
Carlucci's Heart by Richard Paul Russo
An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R Matthews
Mother Grimm by Catherine Wells
Opalite Moon by Denise Vitola
The Troika by Stepan Chapman (winner)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Manikin by Joanna Scott
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser (winner)
Unlocking the Air by Ursula K Le Guin

Saltire Literary Awards
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty (winner)

Anthony Awards
Somebody Else's Child by Terris McMahan Grimes (winner)

Barry Awards
Walking Rain by Susan Wade (winner)

Shamus Awards
Fade Away by Harlan Coben (winner)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Dario Fo (winner)

World Fantasy
Madeleine L'Engle (winner)