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1986 Awards

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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

1986 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1986 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerSong of KaliDan SimmonsThe World Fantasy Award winner by the author of the Hyperion Cantos and Carrion Comfort: An American finds himself encircled by horrors in Calcutta. Praised by Dean Koontz as “the best novel in the genre I can remember,” Song of Kali follows an American ma...Amazon1986 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistIllywhackerPeter CareyAmazonThe Damnation GameClive BarkerAmazonThe Dream YearsLisa GoldsteinAmazonThe Vampire LestatAnne RiceAmazonWinterkingPaul HazelAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1986 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1986 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Flying ChangeHenry S. TaylorHenry Taylor’s poems in The Flying Change embrace a wide range of subjects and tones. Taylor’s concern with the rural anecdote, demonstrated in his two earlier books of poetry, The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, is here broade...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistSaints and StrangersAndrew HudginsAmazonSelected Poems, 1963-1983Charles SimicAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerThe Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941Arnold RampersadExhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new ......Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistDostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865Joseph FrankAmazonMaus: A Survivor’s TaleArt SpiegelmanAmazonTombee: Portrait of a Cotton PlanterTheodore RosengartenAmazonVelázquez: Painter and CourtierJonathan BrownAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLess Than One: Selected EssaysJoseph BrodskyGenius . . . bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus Heaney Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays ...Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: Vols. 5 & 6René WellekAmazonBohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and Boundaries of Bourgeois LifeJerrold SiegelAmazonThe Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its HistoryLeo BraudyAmazonThe Philosophical Disenfranchisement of ArtArthur DantoAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerKate VaidenReynolds Price...Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Summons to MemphisPeter TaylorAmazonRoger’s VersionJohn UpdikeAmazonThe Beet QueenLouise ErdrichAmazonThe Moon PinnacleThomas WilliamsAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerArctic DreamsBarry LopezIn crystalline prose, Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic: the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man’s imagination and ambition for centuries. ‘The Arctic dreamland seen and described by a writer of rare ......Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist’s Journey Through a Land of Political TurmoilJonathan Evan MaslowAmazonCadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing WaterMarc ReisnerAmazonVoyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionBernard BailynAmazonWar Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarJohn W. DowerAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerWild GratitudeEdward HirschAn excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude: "Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey, And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth, And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens, And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air, An...Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAll of Us Here and Other PoemsIrving FeldmanAmazonCats of the TempleBrad LeithauserAmazonSapphics Against AngerTimothy SteeleAmazonThe Key to the CityAnne WintersAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1986 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1986 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerDinner at Deviant's PalaceTim PowersOne of the most ingeniously imaginative writers of our time, Tim Powers dazzles in an early work that displays his unique creative genius, earning him a nomination for the Nebula Award....Amazon1986 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistEmpriseMichael P. Kube-McDowellAmazonKnight MovesWalter Jon WilliamsAmazonSaraband of Lost TimeRichard GrantAmazonTerrariumScott Russell SandersAmazonThe Remaking of Sigmund FreudBarry N. MalzbergAmazonThe TimeserversRussell GriffinAmazon
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1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1986 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1986 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerLouise Bogan: A PortraitElizabeth FrankA full-scale biography of the distinguished lyric poet, translator, and critic details the highs and lows of her elegant and sorrowful life and the steady growth and influence of her work...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistDostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865Joseph FrankAmazon
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