Thursday, January 1

Book Awards

1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1986 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1986 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerLonesome DoveLarry McMurtryThe timeless, bestselling four-part epic that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove takes readers into the lives of Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, two tough-as-nails Texas Rangers in the heyday of the Old West. Dead Man’s Walk As young Tex...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistContinental DriftRussell BanksAmazonThe Accidental TouristAnne TylerAmazon
1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1986 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1986 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony LukasWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of...AmazonMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteJoseph Lelyveld...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistHabits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert Neelly BellahAmazon
1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1986 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1986 Pulitzer Prize - History Winner…The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeWalter A. McDougallWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for 1986, this highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on exhaustive research, author and ORBIS editor Walter A. McDougall examines U.S., European, and Sovi...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistEmigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North AmericaKerby A. MillerAmazonLabor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the PresentJacqueline JonesAmazonNovus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the ConstitutionForrest McDonaldAmazon
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
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
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerChaucer: His Life, His Work, His WorldDonald HowardIn this award-winning biography, the editor of the most popular edition of The Canterbury Tales re-creates the public, private, and poetic life and times of this extraordinary man. 16-page photo insert....Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistAn American ChildhoodAnnie DillardAmazoned., Don’t Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. PerelmanPrudence CrowtherAmazonPrivate DomainPaul TaylorAmazonTimebends: A LifeArthur MillerAmazon
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerDance WritingsEdwin DenbyEdwin Denby, who died in 1983, was the most important and influential American dance critic of this century. His reviews and essays, which he wrote for almost thirty years, were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his s...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistCollected ProseRobert LowellAmazonEvery Force Evolves a FormGuy DavenportAmazonSight LinesArlene CroceAmazonUnderstanding ToscaniniJoseph HorowitzAmazon
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe CounterlifePhilip RothThe Counterlife is a novel unlike any that Philip Roth has written before, a book of astonishing 180-degree turns, a book of conflicting perspectives and points of view, and, by far, Roth's most radical work of fiction. The Counterlife is about people enac...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBelovedToni MorrisonAmazonCrossing to SafetyWallace StegnerAmazonThe Age of GriefJane SmileyAmazonThe Bonfire of the VanitiesTom WolfeAmazon
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Making of the Atomic BombRichard RhodeTwenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAnd the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS EpidemicRandy ShiltsAmazonDemocracy Is in the Streets,James MillerAmazonGenius of the PeopleCharles MeeAmazonTime’s Arrow, Time’s CycleStephen Jay GouldAmazon
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerFlesh and BloodC.K. WilliamsFlesh & Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams, was awarded the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, Edward Hirsch noted that the book's compression and exactitude gave it "the feeling o...Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistApril GalleonsJohn AshberyAmazonHappy HourAlan ShapiroAmazonIn Other WordsMay SwensonAmazonThe Sunset MakerDonald JusticeAmazon