HarperCollins Publishers Award Winners

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This page lists books published by HarperCollins Publishers that were finalists or winners of special awards. The list can be found on their website in several categories.

Biography or Autobiography
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (1957 Winner)

Fiction
So Big by Edna Ferber (1925 Winner)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928 Winner)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953 Winner)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961 Winner)

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973 Winner)

The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004 Winner)

General Nonfiction
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975 Winner)

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001 Winner)

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (2003 Winner)

History
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow (1987 finalist)

Poetry
Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath (1982 winner)

The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck (2002 finalist)

Others
Throes of Democracy by Walter A. McDougall

Leadership by James M. Burns

Children's Books, Picture Books (Hardcover)
Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak (1982 Winner)

Children's Literature
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (1979 Winner)

The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson (1977 Winner)

Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary (1981 Children's Book, Fiction (Paperback) Winner)

Young People's Literature
Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez (1996 Winner)

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan (2000 Winner)

Fiction
Atticus by Ron Hansen (1996 finalist)

Nonfiction
Reconstruction:America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1988 finalist)

Others
Leadership by James M. Burns

General Nonfiction
The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris (1989 Winner)

The Content of Our Character by Shelby Steele (1990 Winner)

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (2002 Winner)

Autobiography/Memoir
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn (2006 Winner)

Fiction
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2001 finalist)

The Known World by Edward B. Jones (2003 Winner)

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers (1985 finalist)

Poetry
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield (2001 finalist)

The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck (2001 finalist)

Blue Hour by Carolyn Forche (2003 finalist)

Others
Artists in Exile by Joseph Horowitz

Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay

Limbo by A. Manette Ansay

PEN/Faulkner Award
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2002 Winner)

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (2008 shortlist)

Seek by Denis Johnson

Lucky Girls by Neil Freudenberger

Booker Prize
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall (2003 shortlist)

Caldecott Medal
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Fables by Arnold Lobel

White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt

A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry

Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes

Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer

A Tree Is Nice (Spanish edition) by Janice May Udry

Kitten's First Full Moon (Spanish edition) by Kevin Henkes

Edgar Award
Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline

Son of a Grifter by Kent Walker & Mark Schone

Judgment Ridge by Dick Lehr & Mitchell Zuckoff

Offer of Proof by Robert Heilbrun

True Story by Michael Finkel

The Death of an Irish Singer by Bartholomew Gill

Alfred Hitchcock by Patrick McGilligan

The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick

Amelia Peabody's Egypt by Elizabeth Peters & Kristen Whitbread

Citizen Vince by Jess Walter

Anthony Award
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman

Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover

In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

Fury by G.M. Ford

Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman

Macavity Award
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews

Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter

Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman

Barry Award
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover

Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter

Shamus Award
The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes

Fury by G.M. Ford

The Last Place by Laura Lippman

Enough Rope by Lawrence Block

Hugo Award
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Ilium by Dan Simmons

Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Nekropolis by Maureen F. McHugh

Deepsix by Jack McDevitt

Nebula Award
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones

Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

Nekropolis by Maureen F. McHugh

Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt

Deepsix by Jack McDevitt

World Fantasy Award
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Hidden Queen by Alma Alexander

Otherwise by John Crowley

Books for a Better Life Award
Model Patient by Karen Duffy

The First 30 Days by Ariane de Bonvoisin

Finding Fish by Antwone Q. Fisher & Mim E. Rivas

One Dharma by Joseph Goldstein

First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander by Barbara Coloroso

As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto

I Thought We'd Never Speak Again by Laura Davis

Unholy Ghost by Nell Casey

The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer by Art Berg

The Lost Son by Bernard B. Kerik

Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling T. Norgay

Los primeros 30 dias by Ariane de Bonvoisin