Sunday, December 28

All Book Awards

1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1996 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismTina RosenbergThe Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe...Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistDarwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of LifeDaniel C. DennettAmazonMr. Wilson's Cabinet of WonderLawrence WeschlerAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1996 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1996 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWilliam Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicAlan TaylorWilliam Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a...Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistDark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen BombRichard RhodesAmazonThe Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal RepublicLance BanningAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1996 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1996 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Dream of the Unified FieldJorie GrahamThe 1996 Pulitzer winner in poetry and a major collection, Jorie Graham's The Dream of the United Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 spans twenty years of writing and includes generous selections from her first five books: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, The...Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistChickamaugaCharles WrightAmazonNew and Selected PoemsDonald JusticeAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

1996 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerJigoku no Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse)John G. McDaid...Amazon1996 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistDiamonds Aren't ForeverS. P. SomtowAmazonFault LinesNancy KressAmazonHome for ChristmasNina Kiriki HoffmanAmazonI, IscariotMichael BishopAmazonMortimer Gray's History of DeathBrian StablefordAmazonThe Age of InnocenceBrian StablefordAmazonThe Chronology Protection CasePaul LevinsonAmazonThe Spine DiversRay AldridgeAmazonThe Wellness PlagueRobert R. ChaseAmazonWe Were Out of Our Minds With JoyDavid MarusekAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

1996 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerThe PrestigeChristopher PriestTwo 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-ve...Amazon1996 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistAll the Bells on EarthJames P. BlaylockAmazonExpiration DateTim PowersAmazonRed Earth and Pouring RainVikram ChandraAmazonRequiemGraham JoyceAmazonThe Silent Strength of StonesNina Kiriki HoffmanAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerErnie Pyle’s WarJames TobinWhen a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly as great...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistAmerican SphinxJoseph EllisAmazonVirginia WoolfHermione LeeAmazonWalking in the ShadeDoris LessingAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerMaking WavesMario Vargas LlosaSpanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin America...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistGod and the American WriterAlfred KazinAmazonThe Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen VendlerAmazonThe End of the Novel of LoveVivian GornickAmazonThe Pleasures of the ImaginationJohn BrewerAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Blue FlowerPenelope FitzgeraldPresents a fictionalized account of the relationship between the eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his true love, Sophie...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistAmerican PastoralPhilip RothAmazonCold MountainCharles FrazierAmazonDreams of My Russian SummersAndrei MakineAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction 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 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAmerican ScripturePauline MaierAmazonHow the Mind WorksStephen PinkerAmazonInto Thin AirJon KrakauerAmazonThe Bible as It WasJames KugelAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDesireFrank BidartAmazonDoes Your House Have Lions?Sonya SanchezAmazonLoose SugarBrenda HillmanAmazonQuestions for EcclesiastesMark JarmanAmazon