2013 Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2013 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

Canadian:

BMO Winterset Award (Newfoundland and Labrador)
British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
CBC Canada Reads
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award
Cundill Prize in Historical Literature at McGill
Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction, Non-fiction
Griffin Poetry Prize
Leacock Medal for Humour
Quebec Writer’s Federation
ReLit Award
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Scotiabank Giller Prize
Trillium Book Award

American:

Agatha Awards
The Edgar Awards
National Book Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Award
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes

International:

Commonwealth Writer’s Prize
Crime Writers Association Dagger Award
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Man Booker Prize
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award
Women’s Prize for Fiction

 

Winner of the 2013 BMO Winterset Award

The strangers’ gallery / Paul Bowdring

Call #: Fic Bow

Winner of the 2013 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

Solar dance / Modris Eksteins

Call #: 940.5 E36s

Winner of the 2013 CBC Canada Reads

February / Lisa Moore

Call #: Fic Moo

Winner of the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction

Sword of the spirit, shield of faith / Andrew Preston

Call #: 201.767 P93s

Winner of the 2013 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel

Until the night / Giles Blunt

Call #: MYS Fic Blu

Winner of the 2013 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel

The haunting of Maddy Clare / Simone St. James

Call #: Fic Stj

Winner of the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature at McGill

Iron curtain / Anne Applebaum

Call #: 947 A648i

Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize

The luminaries / Eleanor Catton

Call #: Fic Cat

Winner of the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize

What’s the score? / David W. McFadden

Call #: 811.6 M143w

Winner of the 2013 Leacock Medal for Humour

Dance, Gladys, Dance / Cassie Stocks

Call #: Fic Sto

Winner of the 2013 QWF Award – AM Klein Prize for Poetry

The civic-mindedness of trees / Ken Howe

Call #: QWF 811.6 H855c

Winner of the 2013 QWF Award – Cole Foundation Prize for Translation – French to English

The major verbs / Pierre Nepveu, translated by Donald Winkler

Call #: QWF 811.6 N439m

Winner of the 2013 QWF Award – Concordia University First Book Prize

The barista and I / Andrew Szymanski

Call #: QWF Fic Szy

Winner of the 2013 QWF Award – Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction

The book of immortality / Adam Leith Gollner

Call #: QWF 100 G617b

Winner of the 2013 QWF Award – Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

Bone and bread / Saleema Nawaz

Call #: QWF Fic Naw

Winner of the 2013 QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Undercurrent / Paul Blackwell

Call #: QWF Fic Bla

Winner of the 2013 ReLit Award

Life is about loosing everything / Lynn Crosbie

Call #: Fic Cro

Winner of the 2013 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

A beautiful truth / Colin McAdam

Call #: Fic McA

Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Hellgoing / Lynn Coady

Call #: Fic Coa

Winner of the 2013 Trillium Book Award

Dear life / Alice Munro

Call #: Fic Mun

Winner of the 2013 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel

A question of honor / Charles Todd

Call #: MYS Fic Tod

Winner of the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Novel

Live by night / Dennis Lehane

Call #: Fic Leh

Winner of the 2013 Edgar Award for Best First Novel

The expats / Chris Pavone

Call #: Fic Pav

Winner of the 2013 National Book Awards for Fiction

The good lord bird / James McBride

Call #: BLK Fic McB

Winner of the 2013 National Book Awards for Non-fiction

The unwinding / George Packer

Call #: 973.924 P119u

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

Jonathan Swift / Leo Damrosch

Call #: Bio S977d

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Call #: BLK Fic Adi

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction

Five days at Memorial / Sheri Fink

Call #: 362.11 F499f

Winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club / Benjamin Alire Saenz

Call #: Fic Sae

Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The orphan master’s son / Adam Johnson

Call #: Fic Joh

Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

Devil in the grove / Gilbert King

Call #: 305.896 K52d

Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The black count / Tom Reiss

Call #: Bio D886r

Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize

The death of bees / Lisa O’Donnell

Call #: Fic Odo

Winner of the 2013 Crime Writers Association Dagger Award

Alex / Pierre Lemaitre

Call #: MYS Fic Lem

Winner of the 2013 Crime Writers Association Dagger Award

Ghost riders of Ordebec / Fred Vargas

Call #: MYS Fic Var

Winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

City of Bohane / Kevin Barry

Call #: Fic Bar

Winner of the 2013 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award

Empire Antarctica / Gavin Francis

Call #: SC 598.47 F818e

Winner of the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction

May we be forgiven / A.M. Homes

Call #: Fic Hom

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