Awards and Honors
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction – Kate Christensen, The Great Man
- Canada Reads – Paul Quarrington, King Leary
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
- Man Booker Prize – Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Junot Diaz, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Scotiabank Giller Prize – Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
- Nobel Prize in Literature – J. M. G. Le Clézio
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais, Philip M. Parker
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Amy Schlitz, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Bruce Serafin, Stardust
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