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1976 Awards

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1976 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerGeography IIIElizabeth BishopWhether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small em...Amazon1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistSearching for the OxLouis SimpsonAmazonThe GatesMuriel RukeyserAmazonThe Mind-ReaderRichard WilburAmazonThe Names of the LostPhilip LevineAmazon
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1976 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsMaxine Hong KingstonIn her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its i...Amazon1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistRootsAlex HaleyAmazonSimple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for EqualityRichard KlugerAmazonThe Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish RelationsGeorge DangerfieldAmazonWorld of Our FathersIrving Howe with Kenneth LiboAmazon
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1976 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerOctober LightJohn GardnerAs Sally becomes immersed in the book, the story envelops the narrative of the siblings’ dysfunctional relationship, and Gardner explores a wide array of themes from human autonomy to self-definition to political extremism....Amazon1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBloodshed and Three NovellasCynthia OzickAmazonDetails of a Sunset and Other StoriesVladimir NabokovAmazonSpeedboatRenata AdlerAmazonThe Easter ParadeRichard YatesAmazon
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1976 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy TalesBruno BettelheimWinner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award "A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the tw...Amazon1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistArnold SchoenbergCharles RosenAmazoned. by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, Letters of E.B. WhiteE.B. WhiteAmazonKicked a Building Lately?Ada Louise HuxtableAmazonRepresentations: Essays on Literature and SocietySteven MarcusAmazon
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1976 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1976 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1976 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerThe Forever WarJoe HaldemanDrafted into the ranks of Earth's interstellar warriors, private William Mandella finds his fight against the Taurans secondary to the side-effects of faster-than-light space travel, which affects the rate at which he ages. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Aw...Amazon1976 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistDoorways in the SandRoger ZelaznyAmazonInfernoLarry Niven & Jerry PournelleAmazonThe Computer ConnectionAlfred BesterAmazonThe Stochastic ManRobert SilverbergAmazon
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