The 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year Awards was the first year that a book in the children's category was chosen as book of the year.

Book of the Year

:Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

Children's Book

Winner:
*Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

Shortlist:
*Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
*Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea
*Terry Jones, The Lady and the Squire

First Novel

Winner:
*Sid Smith, Something Like A House

Shortlist:
*Will Eaves, The Oversight
*Carl Tighe, Burning Worm
*Gerard Woodward, August

Novel

Winner:
*Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues

Shortlist:
*Helen Dunmore, The Siege
*Ian McEwan, Atonement
*Andrew Miller, Oxygen

Biography

Winner:
*Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island

Shortlist:
*Anthony Bailey, A View of Delft
*Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task
*Geoffrey Wall, Flaubert: A Life

Poetry

Winner:
*Selima Hill, Bunny

Shortlist
*Charles Boyle, The Age of Cardboard and String
*Wendy Cope, If I don't know
*John Stammers, Panoramic Lounge-Bar

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Whitbread Awards