Honors and Awards

Here is a list of honors and awards that Tamora has achieved over the course of her career. This page is fairly comprehensive, with more to be added over time!

The Tortall Universe

The Circle Universe

Career Awards & Other

The Tortall Universe

The Song of the Lioness:

Alanna: The First Adventure

In the Hand of the Goddess

Lioness Rampant

  • Selection, “Youth-to-Youth Books: A List for Imagination and Survival”: Enoch Pratt Free Library Young Adult Advisory Board.

The Immortals:

Wild Magic

Wolf-Speaker

Emperor Mage

The Realms of the Gods

The Protector of the Small:

First Test

Page

  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (2000): VOYA.

Squire

Lady Knight

  • Best Seller, Children’s Chapter Books (#1, September 8, 2002; #4, September 15, 2002; #7, September 22, 2002): The New York Times.
  • Best Seller, Fiction (#6, September 6, 2002; #12, September 13, 2002): The Wall Street Journal.
  • Best Seller, Children’s Chapter Books (#5, September 9, 2002; #6, October 14, 2002): Publisher’s Weekly.
  • Best Seller, Book Sense National Children’s Fiction (#3, September 12, 2002): American Booksellers Association.
  • Best Seller, Teen & Young Adult Books (#5, September 22, 2002): Amazon.
  • Best Seller, Best-Selling Books (#49, September 12, 2002): USA Today.
  • Selection, Customer Favorites: Teens (#5, 2002): Amazon.
  • Selection, Books for the Teen Age List (2002): New York Public Library.
  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (2003): VOYA.

Tricksters:

Trickster’s Choice

Trickster’s Queen

  • Best Seller, Children’s Chapter Books (#1, October 17, 2004; #2, October 24, 2004; #2, October 31, 2004; #4, November 7, 2004; #5, November 14, 2004; #7, 11/21/2004; #5, January 16, 2005): The New York Times.
  • Best Seller, Best-Selling Books (October 21, 2004; October 28, 2004): USA Today.
  • Best Seller, Book Sense National Children’s Fiction (October 17, 2004; October 24, 2004): American Booksellers Association.
  • Best Seller, Children’s Books (#8, November 2004): Australian Bookseller & Publisher.
  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (2004): VOYA.
  • Selection, Book Sense National Children’s Winter Picks (2004): American Booksellers Association.

Beka Cooper:

Terrier

Bloodhound

Mastiff

The Numair Chronicles:

Tempests and Slaughter


The Circle Universe

The Circle of Magic:

Sandry’s Book

Tris’s Book

Daja’s Book

Briar’s Book

  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (1999): VOYA.
  • Selection, Top 10 Fantasy Novels for Youth (1999): Booklist Online.
  • Selection, “The Perfect Tens: The Top Forty Books Reviewed in Voice of Youth Advocates 1996 – 2000” (June 2001): VOYA.

The Circle Opens:

Magic Steps

  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (2000): VOYA.

Street Magic

  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (2002): VOYA.
  • Selection, Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers (2001): VOYA.

Cold Fire

  • Selection, Customer Favorites: Teens (#8, 2002): Amazon.
  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (2003): VOYA.

Shatterglass

  • Selection, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List (2004): VOYA.

The Circle Reforged:

The Will of the Empress

  • Best Seller, Children’s Chapter Books (#4, October 16, 2005; #4, November 6, 2005; #9, November 11, 2005; #10, December 4, 2005): The New York Times.
  • Best Seller, Children’s Chapter Books (December 2005): Publisher’s Weekly.

Battle Magic


Career Awards & Other