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1997 Awards

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, International Dublin Literary Award, International Dublin Literary Award - Novel

1997 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerA Heart So WhiteJavier MaríasWinner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, and widely considered Javier Marías's masterpiece, A Heart So White is a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; ...Amazon1997 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Fine BalanceRohinton MistryAmazonA Tiler's AfternoonLars GustafssonAmazonMorvern CallarAlan WarnerAmazonNovel Without a NameDương Thu HươngAmazonPereira MaintainsAntonio TabucchiAmazonReservation BluesSherman AlexieAmazonThe Good NegressA. J. VerdelleAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1997 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerBlue MarsKim Stanley RobinsonThe final novel in the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy, now part of the Voyager Classics collection....Amazon1997 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistHoly FireBruce SterlingAmazonMemoryLois McMaster BujoldAmazonRemnant PopulationElizabeth MoonAmazonStarplexRobert J. SawyerAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerW.B. Yeats: A Life: Volume 1. The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914R.F. FosterThis is the first volume in what will be the definitive biography of William Butler Yeats. The text, written by eminent Irish historian R.F. Foster, illuminates not only the wellspring of Yeats' artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to c...Amazon1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistChe Guevara: A Revolutionary LifeJon Lee AndersonAmazonStanding in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. TurnerAnthony BaileyAmazonThe Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong KongJonathan DimblebyAmazonTurner: A LifeJames HamiltonAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerIngenious Pain: A NovelAndrew MillerThe extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he ri...Amazon1997 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistEnduring Love: A NovelIan McEwanAmazonFeeding the Ghosts: A NovelFred D'AguiarAmazonGrace NotesBernard MacLavertyAmazonJack Maggs: A NovelPeter CareyAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1997 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerA Game of ThronesGeorge R. R. Martin...Amazon1997 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Crown of SwordsRobert JordanAmazonAncient EchoesRobert HoldstockAmazonBlameless in AbaddonJames MorrowAmazonClouds EndSean StewartAmazonFeet of ClayTerry PratchettAmazonLunaticsBradley DentonAmazonNadya: The Wolf ChroniclesPat MurphyAmazonOne for the Morning GloryJohn BarnesAmazonRoyal AssassinRobin HobbAmazonThe Golden Compass (UK title: Northern Lights)Philip PullmanAmazonThe PrestigeChristopher PriestAmazonThe Wood WifeTerri WindlingAmazonWalking the LabyrinthLisa GoldsteinAmazonWinter RosePatricia A. McKillipAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1997 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Locus - SF Novel WinnerBlue MarsKim Stanley RobinsonThe final novel in the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy, now part of the Voyager Classics collection....Amazon1997 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistBeggars RideNancy KressAmazonCetagandaLois McMaster BujoldAmazonChildren of the MindOrson Scott CardAmazonEndymionDan SimmonsAmazonExcessionIain M. BanksAmazonExodus from the Long SunGene WolfeAmazonFairylandPaul J. McAuleyAmazonHoly FireBruce SterlingAmazonIdoruWilliam GibsonAmazonInheritorC. J. CherryhAmazonMemoryLois McMaster BujoldAmazonNight LampJack VanceAmazonThe Ringworld ThroneLarry NivenAmazonVoyageStephen BaxterAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerWhittaker Chambers: A BiographySam TanenhausWhittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable j...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistBogartA.M. Sperber, Eric LaxAmazonBurning the Days: RecollectionJames SalterAmazonNapoleon Bonaparte: A LifeAlan SchomAmazonNazimova: A BiographyGavin LambertAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne FadimanA study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods....Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest DisasterJon KrakauerAmazonOur Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect SuburbBernard LefkowitzAmazonRace, Crime, and the LawRandall KennedyAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Gay CultureDaniel HarrisAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerIn the Rogue BloodJames Carlos BlakeHeading out to nineteenth-century Texas to recover from their sister's murder and their father's alcoholism, brothers Edward and John Little find themselves on opposing sides during the Mexican-American War. Winner of the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize ...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistCalifornia's Over: A novelLouis B. JonesAmazonReading in the Dark: A NovelSeamus DeaneAmazonThe Ordinary SeamanFrancisco GoldmanAmazonThe Reader: A NovelBernhard Schlink, Carol Brown JanewayAmazon
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