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Award-winning Books and Films

Award Winning Books 2016

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Call Number: PS3614.G97 S96 2015
ISBN: 0802123457
Best First Novel

Award Winning Books 2015

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Call Number: PS3561.I483 M7 2014 - Roanoke College ; PS 3561 .I483 M519 2014 - HU Bestsellers
ISBN: 1476754470
Best Novel

Award Winning Books 2014

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Call Number: PS3561.R766 O73 2013
ISBN: 1451645821
Best Novel
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Call Number: PS3613.A8484 R43 2013
ISBN: 1476706123
Best First Novel
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
Call Number: PR6063.A2438 W53 2013
ISBN: 0143123866
Best Paperback Original
America Is Elsewhere by Erik Dussere
Call Number: PS374.D4 D87 2014
ISBN: 0199969914
Best Critical/Biographical

Award Winning Books 2013

The Expats by Chris Pavone
ISBN: 0307956350
Best first novel - Available from Roanoke College
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes by James O'Brien
Call Number: HV8073 .O36 2012
ISBN: 0199794960
Best Critical/Biographical
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
Call Number: PS3562.E426 L58 2013
ISBN: 0062197754
Best Novel
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
Call Number: PS3623.I6735 L37 2012
ISBN: 1594746745
Best Paperback Original

Award Winning Books 2012

Gone by Mo Hayder
ISBN: 0802119646
Best Novel - Available from Roanoke College
Bent Road by Lori Roy
Call Number: PS3618.O89265 B46 2012
ISBN: 0452297591
Best First Novel
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Call Number: PS3602.E66455 C66 2011
ISBN: 0316054704
Best Paperback Original
On Conan Doyle by Michael Dirda
Call Number: PR4624 .D57 2012
ISBN: 0691151350
Best Critical/Biography

Award Winning Books 2011

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
ISBN: 0312696957
Best Novel - Available from Roanoke College
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
ISBN: 0393340392
Best Critical Biographical - Available from Roanoke College
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
Call Number: PS3604.E7575 R64 2010
ISBN: 0765329816
Publication Date: 2011-06-21
Best First Novel
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard
Call Number: PR6057.O33 L66 2010b
ISBN: 9780593060261
Publication Date: 2010
Best Paperback Original

Award Winning Books 2010

Columbine by David Cullen
Call Number: LB 3013.33 .C6 C84 2009
ISBN: 0446546933
Best Fact Crime
The Last Child by John Hart
Call Number: PS3608.A78575 L37 2010
ISBN: 0312642369
Best Novel
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
Call Number: PS3616.I58 I5 2009
ISBN: 0312544901
Best First Novel
Body Blows by Marc Strange
Call Number: PR9199.4.S77 B63 2009
ISBN: 1554883903
Best Paperback Original
The Lineup by Otto Penzler (Editor)
Call Number: PS374.D4 L56 2010
ISBN: 0316031941
Best Critical/Biographical

Award Winning Books 2009

The Foreigner by Lin, Francie
Call Number: PS3612.I497 F67 2008
ISBN: 9780312364045
Best First Novel
Edgar Allan Poe by Harry Lee Poe
Call Number: PS2631 .P74 2008
ISBN: 9781435104693
Best Critical/Biographical
Blue Heaven by C. J. Box
Call Number: PS3552.O87658 B48 2008
ISBN: 0312365713
Best Novel
China Lake by Meg Gardiner
Call Number: PR6107.A725 C45 2008
ISBN: 0451224558
Best Paperback Original

Award Winning Books 2008

Queenpin by Abbott, Megan
Call Number: PS3601.B37 Q44 2007
ISBN: 1416534288
Best Paperback Original
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Lellenburg, Jon L.; Stashower, Daniel; Foley, Charles
Call Number: PR4623 .A44 2007
ISBN: 1594201358
Best Critical/Biographical
Down River by John Hart
Call Number: PS3608.A78575 D68 2007 - Request from Roanoke College
ISBN: 0312359314
Publication Date: 2007-10-02
Best Novel
In the Woods by Tana French
Call Number: PR6106.R457 I52 2008
ISBN: 0143113496
Best First Novel