More book award listings, via the Poisoned Pen eNews for May 1, 2008. I am fond of these lists, both to give me an idea of what's popular in various genres and also because the lists offer fodder for my reading appetite.
2008 AGATHA AWARDS
BEST NOVEL
Louise Penny, Fatal Grace (St Martin's)
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Hank Phillippi Ryan, Prime Time (Harlequin)
BEST NONFICTION
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (The Penguin Press)
BEST SHORT STORY
Donna Andrews, "A Rat's Tale," in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Sept/Oct 2007)
BEST JUVENILE
Sarah Masters Buckley, A Light in the Cellar (American Girl)
2008 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARDS
BEST NOVEL
John Hart, Down River (St Martin's)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Tana French, In the Woods (Viking)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Megan Abbott, Queenpin (Simon & Schuster)
BEST FACT CRIME
Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (W.W. Norton and Company)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (The Penguin Press)
BEST SHORT STORY
Susan Straight, "The Golden Gopher" – Los Angeles Noir (Akashic), ed. by Denise Hamilton.
2008 ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINEES
From the Crime Writers of Canada
BEST NOVEL
Linwood Barclay, No Time for Goodbye (Bantam)
Terry Carroll, Snow Candy (Mercury Press)
Maureen Jennings, Journeyman to Grief (McClelland & Stewart)
Louise Penny, Cruellest Month (St Martin's)
Jon Redfern, Trumpets Sound No More (RendezVous Crime/Napoleon & Company)
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Claire Cameron, The Line Painter (HarperCollins)
Sean Chercover, Big City, Bad Blood (Harper)
Liam Durcan, Garcia's Heart (McClelland & Stewart)
Susan Parisi, Blood of Dreams (Penguin Australia)
Sharon Rowse, The Silk Train Murder (Carroll & Graf)
Marc Strange, Sucker Punch (Castle Street Mysteries/Dundurn)
2008 LAST LAUGH AWARD NOMINEES
The Last Laugh Award is for the best humorous crime novel published in the British Isles in 2007.
Declan Burke, The Big O (Harcourt)
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Murdering Americans (Poisoned Pen Press)
Chris Ewan, The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam (St. Martin's)
Allan Guthrie, Hard Man (Harcourt)
Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave (Mira)
Mike Ripley, Angel's Share (Allison & Busby Ltd.)
LC. Tyler, The Herring Seller's Apprentice (MacMillan)
Donald Westlake, What's So Funny? (Grand Central)
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4 comments:
I guess I've been out of the loop. I had only heard of one of those books.
I always like reading the latest nominees and I never seem to run across them on my own. These are good to know. Thanks for posting.
There sure are a lot of different awards. Both Swords of Talera and Wings won the "reader's choice award" for the magazine that first published them.
Sphinx Ink, I tagged you for a meme over at my blog today—http://ShaunaRoberts.blogspot.com.
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