Nora Roberts won the award for Book of the Year with her romance novel, Angels Fall. The Platinum Quill, for lifetime achievement, went to David Halberstam posthumously.
The Book to Film Award was given for Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne Trilogy which Universal pictures (also part of NBC) brought to the screen. Ludlum's estate has allowed Eric Van Lustbader to continue the character.
The Debut Author award went to Diane Setterfield for her modern day gothic novel, The Thirteenth Tale which gives tribute to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. It is set in Yorkshire.Other awards to be seen are:
Audio - Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird - read by Sissy Spacek
Biography / Memoir - Walter Isaacson - Einstein: his life and universe
Business - Robert I. Sutton - The No Asshole Rule
Children's Chapter / Middle Grade - Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Children's Picturebooks - David Wiesner - Flotsam
Cooking - Irma Rimbauer - The Joy of Cooking (75th anniversary edition)
General Fiction - Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Graphic Novel - Scott McCloud - Making Comics
Health / Self Improvement - Jerome Groopman - How Doctors Think
History / Current Affairs / Politics - Al Gore - The Assault on Reason
Humor - Amy Sedaris - I Like You
Mystery / Suspense / Thriller - Laura Lippman - What the Dead Know
Poetry - Kevin Young - For the Confederate Dead
Religion / Spirituality - Stephen Prothero - Religious Literacy
Romance - Nora Roberts - Angels Fall
Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror - Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
Sports - Michael Weinreb - The Kings of New York (chess)
Young Adult / Teen - Patricia McCormick - Sold
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