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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookWalker Percy“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is ...Amazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerSchindler's Ark: (Schindler's List)Thomas KeneallyA stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust ......Amazon1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistChronicle of a Death ForetoldGabriel García MárquezAmazonThe Little Drummer Girl: A NovelJohn le CarréAmazonThe Name of the RoseUmberto EcoAmazonThe Philosopher's PupilIris MurdochAmazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Wheels of Commerce: Volume 2 of Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th CenturyFernand BraudelBy examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history o...Amazon

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1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Changing Light at Sandover: A PoemJames MerrillA series of mystical poems explores the author's experiences communicating through a Ouija board with a spirit named Ephraim who guides the poet through a series of conversations with W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, and others....Amazon

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1984 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Citadel of the AutarchGene WolfeSeverian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse . . . Winner of the John W. Ca...Amazon1984 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistThe Birth of the People's Republic of AntarcticaJohn Calvin BatchelorAmazonTik-TokJohn SladekAmazon

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1984 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe Mists of AvalonMarion Zimmer BradleyMorgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change. Through the lives of ...Amazon1984 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistChristineStephen KingAmazonCugel's SagaJack VanceAmazonDamianoR. A. MacAvoyAmazonDragon on a PedestalPiers AnthonyAmazonHart's HopeOrson Scott CardAmazonLyonesseJack VanceAmazonNeveryónaSamuel R. DelanyAmazonPet SemataryStephen KingAmazonTea with the Black DragonR. A. MacAvoyAmazonThe Anubis GatesTim PowersAmazonThe Armageddon RagGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonThe DreamstoneC. J. CherryhAmazonThe Sword of WinterMarta RandallAmaz...

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1984 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Locus - SF Novel WinnerStartide RisingDavid BrinThe second in the Uplift series and winner of the Hugo and Nebula award, this novel describes how a spaceship crew of dolphins and a genetically engineered human find an ancient fleet and cadaver. They must fight to carry their prize of knowledge and power...Amazon1984 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistAgainst InfinityGregory BenfordAmazonHelliconia SummerBrian W. AldissAmazonMillenniumJohn VarleyAmazonMoreta: Dragonlady of PernAnne McCaffreyAmazonOrion Shall RisePoul AndersonAmazonSuperluminalVonda N. McIntyreAmazonThe Crucible of TimeJohn BrunnerAmazonThe Nonborn KingJulian MayAmazonThe Robots of DawnIsaac AsimovAmazonThe Void Captain's TaleNorman SpinradAmazonThendara HouseMarion Zimmer BradleyAmazonValentine PontifexRobert SilverbergAmazonWe...

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerThe Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz KafkaErnst PawelA comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world....Amazon

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerCities and the Wealth of NationsJane JacobsIn this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities a...Amazon

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera, Michael Henry HeimWhen The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It we...Amazon1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDemocracyJoan DidionAmazonHim With His Foot in His Mouth and Other StoriesSaul BellowAmazonStones for IbarraHarriet DoerrAmazonThe Witches of EastwickJohn UpdikeAmazon