1997

• The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Connie Willis
  1997 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story
• Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  1997 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• Blood of the Dragon by George R. R. Martin
  1997 · Hugo Awards · Best Novella
• Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling
  1997 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette
• Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
  1997 · Pulitzer Prize · History
• No Award by No Award
  1997 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama
• Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
  1997 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction
• Blood on the Fields by Wynton Marsalis
  1997 · Pulitzer Prize · Music
• Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
  1997 · Pulitzer Prize · General Nonfiction
• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
  1997 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography
• Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
  1997 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry
• The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
  1997 · Nebula Awards · Best Novel
• The Flowers of Aulit Prison by Nancy Kress
  1997 · Nebula Awards · Best Novelette
• Sister Emily’s Lightship by Jane Yolen
  1997 · Nebula Awards · Best Short Story
• Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion
  1997 · Nebula Awards · Best Novella