2008

Agatha Award
Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry
The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny (winner)
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming
A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen
Six Geese A-slaying by Donna Andrews

Anthony Awards
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
The Watchman by Robert Crais
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (winner)

Barry Awards
Dirty Martini by J A Konrath
Down River by John Hart
Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
The Unquiet by John Connolly
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (winner)

BCA Crime Thriller of the Year
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell (winner)
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
The Butt by Will Self (winner)
Jude: Level 1 by Julian Gough
Pontoon by Garrison Keillor
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

British Fantasy Society
The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell (winner)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Intruders by Michael Marshall
The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith
The Taken by Sarah Pinborough
The Terror by Dan Simmons

Costa Book Awards
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (winner)
Trauma by Patrick McGrath

Costa Children's Book Award
Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine
The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
Just Henry by Michelle Magorian (winner)
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray

Dagger Awards
Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield (winner)
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Night Work by Steve Hamilton
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
A Vengeful Longing by R N Morris
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

Edgar Awards
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Down River by John Hart (winner)
Priest by Ken Bruen
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Hugo
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Halting State by Charles Stross
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
Rollback by Robert J Sawyer
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage (winner)
Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua
The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas
The Sweet and Simple Kind by Yasmine Gooneratne
Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
The Woman Who Waited by Andreï Makine

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
HARM by Brian Aldiss
In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan (winner)
Mainspring by Jay Lake
The Margarets by Sheri S Tepper
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
Rollback by Robert J Sawyer
Time's Child by Rebecca Ore
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Zig Zag by José Carlos Somoza

Macavity Awards
Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
The Unquiet by John Connolly
Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (winner)

Nebula Awards
The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
Odyssey by Jack McDevitt
Ragamuffin by Tobias S Buckell
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (winner)

Newbery Medal
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (winner)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
The Seven Year Itch by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees
An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi
The Baby Group by Rowan Coleman
Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand
The Best of Sisters by Dilly Court
The Chalet Girl by Kate Lace
Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazebrook
I Did a Bad Thing by Linda Green
The Leaving Of Liverpool by Maureen Lee
One Last Summer by Catrin Collier
Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher
Pillow Talk by Freya North (winner)
Silk and Steel by Catherine King
Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes
A Stranger In Burracombe by Lilian Harry
Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas
That Summer Affair by Sarah Challis
Too Beautiful to Dance by Diana Appleyard
Where Earth Meets Sky by Annie Murray
Young Wives' Tales by Adele Parks

Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi
The Ghost by Robert Harris
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (winner)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Shamus Awards
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
From A to X by John Berger
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (winner)

World Fantasy
Fangland by John Marks
The Gospel of the Knife by Will Shetterly
The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith
Territory by Emma Bull
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (winner)

Agatha Award
Death of a Cozy Writer by G M Malliet (winner)
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme by Krista Davis
Paper, Scissors, Death by Joanna Campbell Slan
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
Through a Glass, Deadly by Sarah Atwell

Anthony Awards
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
Head Games by Craig McDonald
In the Woods by Tana French (winner)
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

Barry Awards
The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
In the Woods by Tana French (winner)
Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

Costa Book Awards
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney
The Outcast by Sadie Jones (winner)

Edgar Awards
Head Games by Craig McDonald
In the Woods by Tana French (winner)
Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
Pyres by Derek Nikitas
Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard

Macavity Awards
The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
In the Woods by Tana French (winner)
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny

Rita Awards
Dead Girls Are Easy by Terri Garey (winner)

Shamus Awards
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (winner)

Andre Norton Award
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau Wilce
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling (winner)
Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
The Lion Hunter by Elizabeth E Wein
The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
Vintage by Steve Berman

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Black Man by Richard Morgan (winner)
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
The H-bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
The Gathering by Anne Enright
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
Lottery by Patricia Wood
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
Mistress by Anita Nair
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Road Home by Rose Tremain (winner)
The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson

British Science Fiction Association
The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod (winner)

Carnegie Medal
Apache by Tanya Landman
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve (winner)
Ruby Red by Linzi Glass
What I Was by Meg Rosoff

desmond elliott prize
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn (winner)
Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh

Dilys Awards
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger (winner)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (winner)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Filter House by Nisi Shawl (winner)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (winner)

John W. Campbell
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Grey by Jon Armstrong
Infoquake by David Louis Edelman
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (winner)

Michael L. Printz Award
The Dream Quake by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
Repossessed by A M Jenkins
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (winner)
Your Own, Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Fugitives of Chaos by John C Wright
In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M Valente (winner)
In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss
In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
Orphans of Chaos by John C Wright
Titans of Chaos by John C Wright
Titans of Chaos by John C Wright
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

National Book Award for Fiction
The End by Salvatore Scibona
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (winner)
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

Oprah's Book Club
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash
The Gateway by T M McNally
The Great Man by Kate Christensen (winner)
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard

Philip K Dick Award
Emissaries from the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (winner)
Fast Forward 2 by Lou Anders
Judge by Karen Traviss
Plague War by Jeff Carlson
Terminal Mind by David Walton (winner)
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K A Bedford

Prometheus Award
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M Lerner
The Gladiator by Harry Turtledove (winner)
Ha'penny by Jo Walton (winner)
Ragamuffin by Tobias S Buckell

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (winner)
Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Saltire Literary Awards
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman (winner)

The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
A Quiet Belief In Angels by R J Ellory
Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

Agatha Award
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Dusssie by Nancy Springer
Ironside by Holly Black
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Tithe by Holly Black
Valiant by Holly Black

Anthony Awards
Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues by Robert Fate
Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
Queenpin by Megan Abbott
Slide by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
A Thousand Bones by P J Parrish (winner)

Shamus Awards
Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas (winner)

Barry Awards
Queenpin by Megan Abbott (winner)

Barry Awards
Damnation Falls by Edward Wright (winner)

Barry Awards
The Watchman by Robert Crais (winner)

Rita Awards
Graffiti Girl by Kelly Parra
Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Snow Angel by Jamie Carie
Thief with No Shadow by Emily Gee
Treasure by Helen Brenna

Nobel Prize in Literature
J M G Le Clézio (winner)