Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Populist, Glitzy
Posted by: Keir
The Quills, my favorite–could they really be the only?–book awards “to pair a populist sensibility with Hollywood-style glitz,” have been announced (and yes, they found room somehow for Cormac McCarthy):
Audio
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, read by Sissy Spacek (HarperCollins/Caedmon)
Biography/Memoir
Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Business
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, by Robert I. Sutton (Grand Central/Business Plus)
Children’s Chapter/Middle Grade
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
Children’s Picture Books
Flotsam, by David Wiesner (Houghton/Clarion)
Cooking
Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition, by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker (Scribner)
Debut Author
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield (Atria)
General Fiction
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf)
Graphic Novel
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, by Scott McCloud (Harper)Paperbacks
Health/Self-Improvement
How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin)
History/Current Events/Politics
The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore (Penguin)
Humor
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, by Amy Sedaris (Warner)
Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
Poetry
For the Confederate Dead, by Kevin Young (Knopf)
Religion/Spirituality
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t, by Stephen Prothero (Harper One)
Romance
Angels Fall, by Nora Roberts (Putnam)
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Sports
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America’s Top High School Chess Team, by Michael Weinreb (Gotham)
Young Adult/Teen
Sold, by Patricia McCormick (Hyperion)
September 10th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
[...] Extra timely because of To Kill a Mockingbird’s audio win at the Quills and because of the L.A. Times article (blogged last week) about reclusive authors. [...]
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
[...] Nora Roberts’ Angels Fall won Book of the Year at the Quills last night, beating out both Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason. [...]