2006 QUILL BOOK AWARDSThe Quills aim is to be the "People's Choice" awards for books - basically, a popularity contest voted on by the public. I've listed all the nominees in all the categories below - my picks are in
bold italics. I don't know how they came up with some of these lists but I didn't get to vote on who got nominated...
Consumer voting for the 2006 Quill Book awards is now open.
Below is a list of the nominees by category.
Vote now at
www.quillsvote.com Debut Author of the Year$64 Tomato
William Alexander/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment KitchenJulie Powell/Little, Brown & Company
The Last Templar
Raymond Khoury/Dutton
The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel
Debra Dean/William Morrow
The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Mike Leonard/Ballantine Books
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Audio Book A Dirty Job: A Novel
Christopher Moore/Harper Audio
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson/Harper Audio
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
John Grogan/Harper Audio
Teacher Man: A Memoir
Frank McCourt/Simon & Schuster Audio
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin/Simon & Schuster Audio
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Children's Illustrated Book Fancy Nancy
Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser /HarperCollins Publishers
If You Give a Pig a Party
Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond /HarperCollins Children's Book Group/Geringer
John, Paul, George & Ben
Lane Smith/Hyperion
Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise
William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray and Elizabeth Gundy, illustrated by Audrey Colman /Dutton Juvenile
Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-up JourneyRobert Sabuda/Little Simon
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Children's Chapter Book/Middle GradeFlushCarl Hiaasen/Knopf Books for Young Readers
Inkspell
Cornelia Funke/Scholastic, Incorporated/Chicken House
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo/Candlewick Press
The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket/HarperCollins Publishers
Ptolemy's Gate
Jonathan Stroud/Miramax Books
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Young Adult/Teen The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak/Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock/Houghton Mifflin Company
Eldest
Christopher Paolini/Random House Children's Books
Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
King Dork
Frank Portman/Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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General Fiction Black Swan Green: A Novel
David Mitchell/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
A Dirty Job: A Novel
Christopher Moore/William Morrow
March
E. L. Doctorow/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
Suite Française
Irene Nemirovsky/Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Graphic Novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel/Houghton Mifflin Company
Maximum Fantastic Four: A Visual Exegesis of Fantastic Four #1
Stan Lee/Marvel Enterprises, Incorporated
Mom's Cancer
Brian Fies/Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated
Naruto
Masashi Kishimoto/Viz Media
Hellsing
Kohta Hirano / Dark Horse Comics
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Mystery/Suspense/Thriller The Lincoln Lawyer: A NovelMichael Connelly/Little, Brown & Company
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles; and The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle/W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Promise Me
Harlan Coben/Dutton
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Elizabeth Peters/William Morrow
Twelve Sharp
Janet Evanovich/St. Martin's Press
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Poetry Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Maya Angelou/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
Good Poems for Hard Times
Garrison Keillor/Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
New and Selected Poems
Mary Oliver/Beacon Press
Still Another Day (A Kagean book)
Pablo Neruda/Copper Canyon Press
The Trouble with Poetry and Other PoemsBilly Collins/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
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Romance Blue Smoke
Nora Roberts/Putnam
The Masque of the Black Tulip
Lauren Willig/Dutton
The Preacher's Daughter
Beverly Lewis/Bethany House Publishers
Savannah BreezeMary Kay Andrews/HarperCollins Publishers
Undead and Unpopular
Mary Janice Davidson/Berkley
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Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror A Breath of Snow and AshesDiana Gabaldon/Dell Publishing
Cell
Stephen King/Scribner, Simon & Schuster
A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin/Bantam Books
Labyrinth
Kate Mosse/Putnam
The Stolen Child
Keith Donohue/Doubleday Publishing
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Religion/Spirituality The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong/Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Mama Made the Difference
T. D. Jakes/Putnam
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Bart D. Ehrman/HarperSanFrancisco
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Alan Jacobs/HarperSanFrancisco
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Dalai Lama XIV/Broadway Books
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Biography/Memoir Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Anderson Cooper/HarperCollins
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst DogJohn Grogan/William Morrow
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Charles J. Shields/Henry Holt & Company
The Tender Bar: A Memoir
J. R. Moehringer/Hyperion
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion/Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
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Business Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Barbara Ehrenreich/Henry Holt & Company
The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch): Valuable Lessons, Smart Suggestions, and True Stories for Succeeding as the Chick-in-Charge
Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio/Broadway Books
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer
Jim Collins/Collins
The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life!: From Debt to Wealth on $10 a Day
Lee Eisenberg/Free Press, Simon & Schuster
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American EconomyCharles Fishman/Penguin Press
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Cooking Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in TuscanyBill Buford/Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Julie Powell/Little, Brown & Company
My Life in France
Julia Child/Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners
Rachael Ray/Crown Publishing Group
The Silver Spoon
Phaidon Press Editors/Phaidon Press
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Health/Self Improvement Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being
Andrew Weil/Knopf Publishing Group
It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy
Greg Behrendt/Broadway Books
It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
Jim Henson/Hyperion
Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
Tim Russert/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
YOU: The Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best TreatmentMichael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz/Free Press, Simon & Schuster
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History/Current Events/PoliticsAn Inconvenient TruthAl Gore/Rodale Press, Incorporated
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Jonathan Harr/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson/William Morrow
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard/Doubleday
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin/Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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Humor The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson/Andrews McMeel Publishing
Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
Tyler Perry/Riverhead
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Bobby Henderson/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in RhymeCalvin Trillin/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
The Truth (with Jokes)
Al Franken/Dutton
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SportsClemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
David Maraniss/Simon & Schuster
The Education of a Coach
David Halberstam/Hyperion
Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro FootballHolly Robinson Peete/Rodale Press, Incorporated
Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever
Don Haskins/Hyperion
Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad
Mike Greenberg/Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
