Agatha Award
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (winner)
By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman
High Country Fall by Margaret Maron
The Pearl Diver by Sujata Massey
We'll Always Have Parrots by Donna Andrews

Anthony Awards
Blood Is The Sky by Steve Hamilton
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman (winner)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The Summer That Never Was by Peter Robinson

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
Overtaken by Alexei Sayle
Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (winner)

Bram Stoker
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Deep in the Darkness by Michael Laimo
In the Night Room by Peter Straub (winner)
The Wind Caller by Patricia D Cacek

British Fantasy Society
Felaheen by Jon Courtenay-Grimwood
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler (winner)
Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub
Nobody True by James Herbert
The Poison Master by Liz Williams

British Science Fiction Association
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod
River of Gods by Ian McDonald (winner)
Stamping Butterflies by Jon Courtenay-Grimwood

Dagger Awards
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky (winner)
Flesh and Blood by John Harvey (winner)
The Lover by Laura Wilson
Midnight Cab by James W Nichol
Tokyo by Mo Hayder
The Torment of Others by Val McDermid

Edgar Awards
The Guards by Ken Bruen
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin (winner)

Hugo
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
Humans by Robert J Sawyer
Ilium by Dan Simmons
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (winner)
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun (winner)
The White Family by Maggie Gee

John W Campbell Memorial Award
The Braided World by Kay Kenyon
The Changeling Plague by Syne Mitchell
The Companions by Sheri S Tepper
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Memory by Linda Nagata
Natural History by Justina Robson
Omega by Jack McDevitt (winner)
Red Thunder by John Varley
Sister Alice by Robert Reed
Star Dragon by Mike Brotherton
Storyteller by Amy Thomson
Untied Kingdom by James Lovegrove
Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn
The X President by Philip Baruth

Macavity Awards
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt
Done for a Dime by David Corbett
For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen
The Guards by Ken Bruen
The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (winner)

Nebula Awards
Chindi by Jack McDevitt
Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (winner)

Newbery Medal
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (winner)

Prometheus Award
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
The Pixel Eye by Paul Levinson
Spin State by Chris Moriarty

Rita Awards
Autumn Dreams by Gayle Roper (winner)
Back Roads by Susan Crandall (winner)
Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah (winner)
Birthright by Nora Roberts (winner)
The Destiny by Kathleen Givens (winner)
Her Royal Baby by Marion Lennox (winner)
The Knight's Kiss by Nicole Burnham (winner)
Prospero's Daughter by Nancy Butler (winner)
Shades of Midnight by Linda Fallon (winner)
The Top Gun's Return by Kathleen Creighton (winner)
Worth Any Price by Lisa Kleypas (winner)

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Foreign Fruit by Jojo Moyes (winner)

Shamus Awards
Blood Is The Sky by Steve Hamilton
Fatal Flaw by William Lashner
The Guards by Ken Bruen (winner)
Scavenger Hunt by Robert Ferrigno
A Visible Darkness by Jonathon King

The Man Booker Prize
Always the Sun by Neil Cross
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
A Blade of Grass by Lewis DeSoto
Cherry by Matt Thorne
Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Havoc by Ronan Bennett
The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (winner)
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
The Master by Colm Tóibín
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
The Unnumbered by Sam North

Whitbread Prize
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Small Island by Andrea Levy (winner)

World Fantasy
The Etched City by K J Bishop
Fudoki by Kij Johnson
The Light Ages by Ian R MacLeod
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (winner)
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer

Anthony Awards
Monkeewrench by P J Tracy (winner)

Bram Stoker
Black Fire by James Kidman
Covenant by John Everson
Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas
Stained by Lee Thomas

Whitbread Prize
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher (winner)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Land as Viewed from the Sea by Richard Collins
The Maze by Panos Karnezis

World Fantasy
Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (winner)
More Tomorrow by Michael Marshall Smith
The Two Sams by Glen Hirshberg

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (winner)

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
The Colour by Rose Tremain
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Small Island by Andrea Levy (winner)

Carnegie Medal
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (winner)

Dilys Awards
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (winner)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Monkeewrench by P J Tracy

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
GB84 by David Peace (winner)
Havoc by Ronan Bennett
Psychoraag by Suhayl Saadi

James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (winner)
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo (winner)

John W. Campbell
Little Gods by Tim Pratt
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
Warchild by Karin Lowachee

Michael L. Printz Award
The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Fat Kid Rules the World by K L Going
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (winner)
Keesha's House by Helen Frost
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Fudoki by Kij Johnson
In the Forests of Serre by Patricia A McKillip
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Sunshine by Robin McKinley

National Book Award for Fiction
Florida by Christine Schutt
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (winner)
Our Kind by Kate Walbert

Oprah's Book Club
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z Z Packer
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike (winner)
Elroy Nights by Frederick Barthelme
Old School by Tobias Wolff

Philip K Dick Award
Air by Geoff Ryman
Apocalypse Array by Lyda Morehouse
City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
Life by Gwyneth Jones (winner)
Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
Stable Strategies and Others by Eileen Gunn

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
American Woman by Susan Choi
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
The Known World by Edward P Jones (winner)

Saltire Literary Awards
In Another Light by Andrew Greig (winner)

Agatha Award
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (winner)

Anthony Awards
Deadly Legacy by Robin Burcell (winner)

Barry Awards
Tough Luck by Jason Starr (winner)

Shamus Awards
Cold Quarry by Andy Straka (winner)

Barry Awards
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid (winner)

Nobel Prize in Literature
Elfriede Jelinek (winner)

World Fantasy
Stephen King (winner)
Gahan Wilson (winner)