Oct, 2005
JK Rowling won in the Children's Chapter Book category and Book of the Year for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" at the inaugural 2005 Quill Awards.
Sue Monk Kidd won in General Fiction for "The Mermaid Chair", Janet Evanovich's "Eleven On Top" won in Mystery/Suspense, while Romance went to Debbie Macomber for "44 Cranberry Road".
Jon Stewart won best Audio Book and the Humor category for "The Daily With Jon Stewart Presents America".
| Quill Awards - Book of the Year | |
| JK Rowling (Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince) | |
| Quill Awards - General Fiction | |
| Sue Monk Kidd (The Mermaid Chair) | |
| Other Nominees: Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down); Marilynne Robinson (Gilead); Philip Roth (The Plot Against America); Isabel Allende (Zorro) | |
| Quill Awards - Mystery/Suspense | |
| Janet Evanovich (Eleven On Top) | |
| Other Nominees: Michael Connelly (The Closers); Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian); Alexander McCall Smith (In the Company of Cheerful Ladies); Elizabeth George (With No One as Witness) | |
| Quill Awards - Romance | |
| Debbie Macomber (44 Cranberry Point) |    |
| Other Nominees: Nora Roberts (Blue Dahlia); Nora Roberts (Nothern Lights); Janet Evanovich (The Rocky Road to Romance); MaryJanice Davidson (Undead and Unemployed) | |
| Quill Awards - Biography/Memoir | |
| Bob Dylan (Chronicles: Volume One) | |
| Other Nominees: Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle); Joseph J Ellis (His Excellency: George Washington); Augusten Burroughs (Magical Thinking: True Stories); Stephen Greenblatt (Will in the World) | |
| Quill Awards - History/Current Affairs/Politics | |
| David McCullough (1776) |  |
| Other Nominees: Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn (102 Minutes); David Laskin (The Children's Blizzard); Jared Diamond (Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed); Thomas L Friedman (The World Is Flat) | |
| Quill Awards - Business | |
| Steven D Levitt (Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything) | |
| and Stephen J Dubner | |
| Other Nominees: Kurt Eichenwald (Conspiracy of Fools); John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man); James B Stewart (DisneyWar); Jack Welch with Suzy Welch (Winning) | |
| Quill Awards - Cooking | |
| Rachael Ray (Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals) | |
| Other Nominees: Gayden Metcalfe (Being Dead Is No Excuse); Giada de Laurentiis (Everyday Italian); Ruth Reichl (The Gourmet Cookbook); Harold McGee (On Food and Cooking) | |
| Quill Awards - Health/Self Improvement | |
| Greg Behrendt (He's Just Not That Into You) | |
| and Liz Tuccillo | |
| Other Nominees: Maria Shriver (And One More Thing Before You Go?); Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking); Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don't Get Fat); Christiane Northrup (Mother-Daughter Wisdom) | |
| Quill Awards - Humor | |
| Jon Stewart (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America) | |
| Other Nominees: Jim Edgar (Bad Cat); Robert Mankoff (The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker); Charles M Schulz (The Complete Peanuts); George Carlin (When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?) | |
| Quill Awards - Poetry | |
| Langston Hughes (Let America Be America Again) | |
| Other Nominees: Billy Collins (180 More); Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition); Stephen Mitchell (Gilgamesh: A New English Version); Mary Oliver (Blue Iris) | |
| Quill Awards - Religion/Spirituality | |
| Deepak Chopra (Peace Is The Way) | |
| Other Nominees: Jim Wallis (God's Politics); Martha Nibley Beck (Leaving the Saints); Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts On Faith); Joel Osteen (Your Best Life Now) | |
| Quill Awards - Graphic Novel | |
| Neil Gaiman (Marvel 1602 Volume I) | |
| Andy Kubert; Richard Isanove | |
| Other Nominees: Harvey Pekar (American Splendor: Our Movie Year); Jeff Smith (Bone: One Volume Edition); Art Spiegelman (In the Shadow of No Towers); Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return) | |
| Quill Awards - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | |
| Christopher Moore (The Stupidest Angel) | |
| Other Nominees: Stephen King (The Dark Tower VII); Terry Pratchett (Going Postal); Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell); Orson Scott Card (Shadow of the Giant) | |
| Quill Awards - Sports | |
| Stewart O'Nan (Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season) | |
| and Stephen King | |
| Other Nominees: Aron Ralston (Between A Rock and a Hard Place); Brett Favre (Favre); Buzz Bissinger (Three Nights In August); Geoffrey C Ward (Unforgivable Blackness) | |
| Quill Awards - Audio Book | |
| Jon Stewart (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America) | |
| Other Nominees: Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking); Bob Dylan (Chronicles: Volume One); Joseph J Ellis (His Excellency: George Washington); George Carlin (When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?) | |
| Quill Awards - Debut Author | |
| Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian) | |
| Other Nominees: Stephanie Kallos (Broken For You); Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don't Get Fat); Dave King (The Ha-Ha); John Twelve Hawks (The Traveler) | |
| Quill Awards - Children's Chapter Books | |
| JK Rowling (Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince) | |
| Other Nominees: Cornelia Funke (Dragon Rider); Katherine Hannigan (Ida B..and Her Plans to Maximize Fun); Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (Peter and the Starcatchers); Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto) | |
| Quill Awards - Children's Picture Books | |
| Shel Silverstein (Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook) | |
| Other Nominees: Robert Sabuda (America the Beautiful); Nick Harris (Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris); Mo Willems (Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale); Jon J Muth (Zen Shorts) | |
| Quill Awards - Young Adult/Teen | |
| Ann Brashares (Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood) | |
| Other Nominees: Walter Mosley (47); Clive Barker (Abarat: Days of Magic Nights of War); Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now); GP Taylor (Wormwood) | |
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