2022 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Chapter One Honor Books

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

Best Story

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Best Writing

J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Best Non-Fiction or Poetry Selection

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

Best Male Protagonist

Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas / Brother Odd)

Best Female Protagonist

Tita de la Garza (Like Water for Chocolate)

Best Supporting Male Character

Gollum (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Best Supporting Female Character

Talia (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

Best Antagonist

Captain Ahab (Moby-Dick)

Best Narrator

Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas / Brother Odd)

Best Opening Line

Call me Ishmael. (Moby-Dick)

Best Literary Insult

“You rascals, you woolly-footed and wool-pated truants!” (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

2021 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Chapter One Honor Books

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Best Story

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Best Writing

Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye)

Best Non-Fiction or Poetry Selection

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Best Male Protagonist

Patroclus (The Song of Achilles)

Best Female Protagonist (Tie)

Claudia MacTeer (The Bluest Eye)

Beth Harmon (The Queen’s Gambit)

Best Supporting Male Character

Rocky (Project Hail Mary)

Best Supporting Female Character

Thetis (The Song of Achilles)

Best Antagonist

The Nazgûl (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

Best Narrator

Patroclus (The Song of Achilles)

Best Opening Line

When I was very young and the urge to be somplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)

Best Literary Insult

“You've always been a cold, calculating son of a bitch - that's why they all called you the Android.” (TekWar)

Best Featured Short Story

Galatea by Madeline Miller

Best Featured Poem

Her Strong Enchantments Failing by A.E. Housman

2020 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Chapter One Honor Books

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Best Story

The Snow Child

Best Writing

Shirley Jackson (Life Among the Savages)

Best Non-Fiction or Poetry Selection

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

Best Male Protagonist

Jaswinder Bhattacharya (Salvation Day)

Best Female Protagonist

Aunt Lydia (The Testaments)

Best Supporting Male Character

Ged (The Tombs of Atuan)

Best Supporting Female Character

Beloved (Beloved)

Best Antagonist

Chet Ondowsky (If It Bleeds)

Best Narrator

Shirley Jackson (Life Among the Savages)

Best Opening Line

Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified. (The Testaments)

Best Literary Insult

Others, inspired by Heaven knows what intemperate madness, called Sir William to his face a damnable humbug. (Mrs Dalloway)

Best Featured Short Story

The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu

Best Featured Poem

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

2019 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Chapter One Honor Books

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Best Story

A Wizard of Earthsea

Best Writing

Donald Ray Pollock (The Devil All the Time)

Best Non-Fiction or Poetry Selection

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu by Various Authors, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika

Best Male Protagonist

Ged/Sparrowhawk (A Wizard of Earthsea)

Best Female Protagonist

Janie Crawford (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

Best Supporting Male Character

Father Merrin (The Exorcist)

Best Supporting Female Character

Kiche (White Fang)

Best Antagonist

Captain Howdy/Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

Best Narrator

Michelle McNamara (I’ll Be Gone in the Dark)

Best Opening Line

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

Best Literary Insult

“Now put his cock in his hands!” (The Exorcist)

Best Featured Short Story

The Rule of Names by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Featured Poem

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

2018 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Chapter One Honor Books

Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Best Story

Alias Grace

Best Writing

Margaret Atwood (Alias Grace)

Best Non-Fiction Selection

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) by Bridget Quinn

Best Male Protagonist

Rick Deckard (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

Best Female Protagonist

Grace Marks (Alias Grace)

Best Supporting Male Character

Speaker-to-Animals (Ringworld)

Best Supporting Female Character

Naomi Nagata (Leviathan Wakes)

Best Antagonist

John Thorpe (Northanger Abbey)

Best Narrator

John Hodgman (Vacationland)

Best Opening Line

Here is the first thing I think you should know: Art can be dangerous, even when decorous. (Broad Strokes)

Best Literary Insult

“One of those no-neck monsters hit me with a hot buttered biscuit so I have t’change!” (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

Best Featured Short Story

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman

Best Featured Poem

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2017 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

Chapter One Honor Books

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Best Story

Planet of the Apes

Best Writing

Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

Best Non-Fiction Selection (Tie)

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Best Male Protagonist

Geralt of Rivia (Blood of Elves)

Best Female Protagonist

Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)

Best Supporting Male Character

Dandelion (Blood of Elves)

Best Supporting Female Character

Zira (Planet of the Apes)

Best Antagonist

Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)

Best Narrator

Christopher John Francis Boone (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)

Best Opening Line

Before the beginning there was nothing - no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky; only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning. (Norse Mythology)

Best Literary Insult

“That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.” (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

Best Featured Short Story

The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

Best Featured Poem

A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg

2016 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Chapter One Honor Books

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd

Best Story (Tie)

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The Left Hand of Darkness

Best Writing (Tie)

George R.R. Martin (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There)

Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

Best Non-Fiction or Poetry Selection

Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir, with Recipes by Freda Love Smith

Best Male Protagonist or Subject

Dunk, a.k.a. Ser Duncan the Tall (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

Best Female Protagonist or Subject

Wonder Woman (The Secret History of Wonder Woman)

Best Supporting Male Character

Aegon Targaryen, a.k.a. Egg (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

Best Supporting Female Character

Phoebe Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)

Best Antagonist

Velociraptor (Jurassic Park)

Best Narrator or Poet (Tie)

Genly Ai (The Left Hand of Darkness)

Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)

Best Opening Line

The spring rains had softened the ground, so Dunk had no trouble digging the grave. (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

Best Literary Insult

“I don't even think the bastard had a handkerchief, if you want to know the truth.” (The Catcher in the Rye)

Best Featured Short Story

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Featured Poem (Tie)

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

2015 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Chapter One Honor Books

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Martian by Andy Weir

Best Story

Stardust

Best Writing

Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

Best Male Protagonist

Mark Watney (The Martian)

Best Female Protagonist

Kathy H. (Never Let Me Go)

Best Supporting Male Character (Tie)

Charles Wallace (A Wrinkle in Time)

Zaphod Bebblebrox (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Best Supporting Female Character

Ruth (Never Let Me Go)

Best Antagonist

Ted Bundy (The Stranger Beside Me)

Best Narrator

Kathy H. (Never Let Me Go)

Best Opening Line (Tie)

It was a dark and stormy night. (A Wrinkle in Time)

I’m pretty much fucked. (The Martian)

Best Literary Insult

“Aunty,” she said, cordially, “why don’t you go pee in your hat?” (Go Set a Watchman)

2014 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Chapter One Honor Books

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Best Story (Tie)

The Once and Future King

Dracula

Redwall

Best Writing (Tie)

Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian)

Bram Stoker (Dracula)

Best Male Protagonist

Harry Dresden (Storm Front)

Best Female Protagonist (Tie)

Krystal Weedon (The Casual Vacancy)

Mina Murray (Dracula)

Best Supporting Male Character (Tie)

Merlyn (The Once and Future King)

Bob the Skull (Storm Front)

Best Supporting Female Character

Sam (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Best Antagonist

Count Dracula (Dracula)

Best Narrator

Ralph Parker (In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash)

Best Opening Line

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. (The Metamorphosis)

Best Literary Insult

“A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick!  It makes me tired.” (The Once and Future King)

2013 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Chapter One Honor Books

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Best Story

The Old Man and the Sea

Best Writing

Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)

Best Male Protagonist

Unnamed Narrator (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)

Best Female Protagonist

Dagny Taggert (Atlas Shrugged)

Best Supporting Male Character (Tie)

Manolin (The Old Man and the Sea)

Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged)

Bigwig (Watership Down)

Best Supporting Female Character

Lettie Hempstock (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)

Best Antagonist

The House (House of Leaves)

Best Narrator

Unnamed Narrator (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)

Best Opening Line

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. (The Old Man and the Sea)

Best Literary Insult

“Don’t be a pest, Bernard!  What an anemic!” (Death of a Salesman)

2012 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Chapter One Honor Books

Jaws by Peter Benchley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Best Story

The Help

Best Writing

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

Best Male Protagonist

Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

Best Female Protagonist

Aibileen Clark (The Help)

Best Supporting Male Character

Quint (Jaws)

Best Supporting Female Character

Celia Foote (The Help)

Best Antagonist

Hilly Holbrook (The Help)

Best Narrator

Dr. John Watson (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

Best Film or Stage Adaptation

Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)

Best Literary Insult (Tie)

“For Two-Slice Hilly” (The Help)

“They say he doesn’t like Obstacle Golf.” (Brave New World)

“Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!” (Dune)

2011 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Chapter One Honor Books

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Best Story

A Game of Thrones

Best Writing

George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)

Best Male Protagonist

Eddard Stark (A Game of Thrones)

Best Female Protagonist

Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

Best Supporting Male Character (Tie)

Tyrion Lannister (A Game of Thrones)

Hassan (The Kite Runner)

Best Supporting Female Character

Three Witches, a.k.a. The Weird Sisters (Macbeth)

Best Antagonist

August Rosenbluth (Water for Elephants)

Best Narrator (Tie)

Jacob Jankowski (Water for Elephants)

Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

Best Film or Stage Adaptation

Macbeth (as performed by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company)

Best Literary Insult

“What a pied ninny’s this!  Thou scurvy patch!” (The Tempest)

2010 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Chapter One Honor Books

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Best Story

The Graveyard Book

Best Writing

Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield)

Best Male Protagonist

Nobody Owens (The Graveyard Book)

Best Female Protagonist

Elphaba (Wicked)

Best Supporting Male Character (Tie)

Silus (The Graveyard Book)

Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities)

The Creature (Frankenstein)

Best Supporting Female Character (Tie)

Livia (I, Claudius)

Glinda (Wicked)

Miss Lupescu (The Graveyard Book)

Best Antagonist

The Man in Black (The Gunslinger)

Best Narrator

Dante (Inferno)

Best Film or Stage Adaptation

Wicked: The Musical

Best Literary Insult

“You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer.” (A Tale of Two Cities)

Best Featured Short Story

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Best Featured Poem

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning

2009 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Chapter One Honor Books

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Best Story

The Book Thief

Best Writing

Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

Best Male Protagonist (Tie)

Billy Pilgrim (Slaughterhouse-Five)

Ender Wiggin (Ender’s Game)

Best Female Protagonist

Liesel Meminger (The Book Thief)

Best Supporting Male Character

Hans Huberman (The Book Thief)

Best Supporting Female Character

Aunt Sissy (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

Best Antagonist

The Overlook Hotel (The Shining)

Best Narrator

Death (The Book Thief)

Best Film Adaptation

The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)

Best Literary Insult

Fudging Crevasse-hole Dipshiitake (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

Best Featured Short Story

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Best Featured Poem

Because I could not stop for Death — by Emily Dickinson

2008 CHAPTER ONE LITERARY AWARDS

Selection of the Year

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Chapter One Honor Books

The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Best Literary Insult

Big Wet Hen (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Best Featured Short Story

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Best Featured Poem

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas