Monday, May 20

2005 Awards

2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2005 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerVoices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear DisasterSvetlana AlexievichWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Be...Amazon2005 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistEating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the WildEllen MeloyAmazonHuman Cargo: A Journey Among RefugeesCaroline MooreheadAmazonNight Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s WarAnthony ShadidAmazonThe Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle EastRobert FiskAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2005 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerRefusing HeavenJack GilbertMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the...Amazon2005 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBent to the EarthBlas Manuel de LunaAmazonCrushRichard SikenAmazonThe Incentive of the MaggotRon SlateAmazonThe ShoutSimon ArmitageAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2005 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 Nebula - Novel WinnerPaladin of SoulsLois McMaster BujoldOne of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. Three years have pass...Amazon2005 Nebula - Novel ShortlistCloud AtlasDavid MitchellAmazonDown and Out in the Magic KingdomCory DoctorowAmazonOmegaJack McDevittAmazonPerfect CircleSean StewartAmazonThe KnightGene WolfeAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2005 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerLifeGwyneth Jones...Amazon2005 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistAirGeoff RymanAmazonApocalypse ArrayLyda MorehouseAmazonBanner of SoulsLiz WilliamsAmazonCity of PearlKaren TravissAmazonStable Strategies and OthersEileen GunnAmazonThe Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor PadMinister FaustAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2005 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography Winnerde Kooning: An American MasterMark Stevens and Annalyn SwanTraces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease....Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistThe Year of Magical ThinkingJoan DidionAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2005 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerGileadMarilynne RobinsonIn 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was o...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAn Unfinished SeasonWard JustAmazonWar TrashHa JinAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2005 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerGhost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve CollProvides a comprehensive overview of the CIA's and other covert agencies' operations in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, detailing the rise of the Taliban and bin Laden, the secret efforts of the CIA to capture or k...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistMaximum City: Bombay Lost and FoundSuketu MehtaAmazonThe Devil's Highway: A True StoryLuis Alberto UrreaAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2005 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWashington's CrossingDavid Hackett FischerSix months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer rec...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistArc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz AgeKevin BoyleAmazonConjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2Michael O'BrienAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2005 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerDelights & ShadowsTed KooserWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2004–2006), is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility, so that each distinctive poem appears to be as fresh and bright and spontaneous as a good waterc...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistSearch Party: Collected PoemsWilliam MatthewsAmazonThe OrchardBrigit Pegeen KellyAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerSergeant ChipBradley Denton"With these three novellas, science-fiction, fantasy, and horror storyteller Bradley Denton takes you inside hearts and minds filled with violence, mystery, and magic--whose startling worlds are no more than half a step away from your own: In the Hugo Awar...Amazon2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistAn Appeal to AdolfIan WatsonAmazonArabian WineGregory FeeleyAmazonDancer in the DarkDavid GerroldAmazonInvisible KingdomsSteven UtleyAmazonMereRobert ReedAmazonSavant SongsBrenda CooperAmazonScout's HonorTerry BissonAmazonSinging My Sister DownMargo LanaganAmazonStart the ClockBenjamin RosenbaumAmazonStone AnimalsKelly LinkAmazonThe Baum Plan for Financial IndependenceJohn KesselAmazonThe Fear GunJudith Berman...