2012

Agatha Award
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny (winner)
The Buzzard Table by Margaret Maron
The Diva Digs Up the Dirt by Krista Davis
A Fatal Winter by G M Malliet
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Anthony Awards
The Drop by Michael Connelly
The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (winner)

Barry Awards
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (winner)

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
Capital by John Lanchester
Jude in London by Julian Gough
The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell
Snuff by Terry Pratchett (winner)
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend

Bram Stoker
Bottled Abyss by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R Kiernan (winner)
The Haunted by Bentley Little
Inheritance by Joe McKinney
NightWhere by John Everson

British Fantasy Society
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Among Others by Jo Walton (winner)
Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith
A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
The Ritual by Adam Nevill

Costa Book Awards
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (winner)
Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May

Costa Children's Book Award
A Boy and A Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner (winner)
The Seeing by Diana Hendry
What's Up With Jody Barton? by Hayley Long

Edgar Awards
Gone by Mo Hayder (winner)

Hugo
Among Others by Jo Walton (winner)
A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin
Deadline by Mira Grant
Embassytown by China Miéville
Leviathan Wakes by James S A Corey

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards
The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor (winner)
Landed by Tim Pears
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
Limassol by Yishai Sarid
The Matter with Morris by David Bergen
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

John W Campbell Memorial Award
Dancing With Bears by Michael Swanwick
Embassytown by China Miéville
The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski (winner)
Home Fires by Gene Wolfe
The Islanders by Christopher Priest (winner)
Osama by Lavie Tidhar
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson
Seed by Rob Ziegler
Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh
This Shared Dream by Kathleen Ann Goonan

Macavity Awards
City of the Dead by Sara Gran (winner)

Nebula Awards
Among Others by Jo Walton (winner)
Embassytown by China Miéville
Firebird by Jack McDevitt
God's War by Kameron Hurley
The Kingdom of Gods by N K Jemisin
Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine

Newbery Medal
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (winner)
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Please Don't Stop The Music by Jane Lovering (winner)

Shamus Awards
A Bad Night's Sleep by Michael Wiley (winner)

The Man Booker Prize
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (winner)
Communion Town by Sam Thompson
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Philida by André Brink
Skios by Michael Frayn
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
Umbrella by Will Self
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Yips by Nicola Barker

World Fantasy
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Among Others by Jo Walton
A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (winner)
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

Agatha Award
Faithful Unto Death by Stephanie Jaye Evans
Iced Chiffon by Duffy Brown
A Killer Read by Erika Chase
Lowcountry Boil by Susan M Boyer (winner)
Scrapbook of Secrets by Mollie Cox Bryan

Anthony Awards
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen
Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
Learning to Swim by Sara J Henry (winner)
Nazareth Child by Darrell James
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab

Barry Awards
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens (winner)

Betty Trask Award
Bed by David Whitehouse (winner)
The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton
Hungry, the Stars and Everything by Emma Jane Unsworth
My Sister Lives On the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day

Costa Book Awards
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
The Innocents by Francesca Segal (winner)
The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by J W Ironmonger
Snake Ropes by Jess Richards

Edgar Awards
Bent Road by Lori Roy (winner)

Macavity Awards
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (winner)

Rita Awards
First Grave On the Right by Darynda Jones (winner)

Shamus Awards
Shortcut Man by P G Sturges (winner)

Bram Stoker
Black Dahlia & White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates (winner)
Errantry by Elizabeth Hand
The Janus Tree and Other Stories by Glen Hirshberg
New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle (winner)
The Woman Who Married a Cloud by Jonathan Carroll

Andre Norton Award
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
The Boy at the End of the World by Greg Van Eekhout
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Everybody Sees the Ants by A S King
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (winner)
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
Ultraviolet by R J Anderson

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Embassytown by China Miéville
The End Specialist by Drew Magary
Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
Rule 34 by Charles Stross
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers (winner)
The Waters Rising by Sheri S Tepper

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
The Blue Book by A L Kennedy
The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Gillespie And I by Jane Harris
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
On the Floor by Aifric Campbell
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (winner)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Submission by Amy Waldman
There but for the by Ali Smith
Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay

British Science Fiction Association
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (winner)

Carnegie Medal
Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (winner)
My Name is Mina by David Almond
My Sister Lives On the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans
Trash by Andy Mulligan

Dagger Awards
Bereft by Chris Womersley
The Flight by M R Hall
The Rage by Gene Kerrigan (winner)
Vengeance in Mind by N J Cooper (Natasha Cooper)

Desmond Elliott Prize
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen (winner)
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Dilys Awards
Ghost Hero by S J Rozan (winner)
Tag Man by Archer Mayor
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey
Wicked Autumn by G M Malliet

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner (winner)

James Tiptree, Jr. Award
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R Kiernan (winner)

John W. Campbell
Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht
Ray of Light by Brad R Torgersen (winner)
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord

Michael L. Printz Award
Bloodflower by Christine Hinwood
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (winner)
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Among Others by Jo Walton
Deathless by Catherynne M Valente
The Heavenly Fox by Richard Parks
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein (winner)

National Book Award for Fiction
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (winner)
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (winner)

Philip K Dick Award
Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
The Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress
Harmony by Keith Brooke
Helix Wars by Eric Brown
Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (winner)
Lovestar by Andri Snaer Magnason
The Not Yet by Moira Crone

Prometheus Award
The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (winner)
In the Shadow of Ares by Carl Carlsson and Thomas L James
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (winner)
The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod
Snuff by Terry Pratchett

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

Saltire Literary Awards
Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman (winner)

Agatha Award
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker
Murder on Fifth Avenue by Victoria Thompson
Murder Your Darlings by J J Murphy
Naughty In Nice by Rhys Bowen (winner)
Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson
The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen
An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson (winner)

Walter Scott Prize
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry (winner)
Pure by Andrew Miller
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

Agatha Award
The Haunted Lighthouse by Penny Warner (winner)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (winner)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente
Mastiff by Tamora Pierce
Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
So Silver Bright by Lisa Mantchev
Terrier by Tamora Pierce

Anthony Awards
Buffalo West Wing by Julie Hyzy (winner)
Choke Hold by Christa Faust
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Deadly Communion by Frank Tallis
The Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley

Barry Awards
The Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (winner)

Edgar Awards
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (winner)

Shamus Awards
Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski (winner)

Barry Awards
Dead Man's Grip by Peter James (winner)

Barry Awards
The Informant by Thomas Perry (winner)

Edgar Awards
Icefall by Matthew J Kirby (winner)

Edgar Awards
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (winner)

Edgar Awards
Learning to Swim by Sara J Henry (winner)

Rita Awards
Beautiful Disaster by Laura Spinella
The Darling Strumpet by Gillian Bagwell
The Devil in Disguise by Stefanie Sloane
Hourglass by Myra McEntire
How to Marry a Duke by Vicky Dreiling
I'm Not Her by Janet Gurtler
Warped by Maurissa Guibord