Sunday, December 28

All Book Awards

1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerVisions of Jazz: The First CenturyGary GiddinsAn outstanding voice in the field, the jazz critic for The Village Voice leads readers through the first century of the music in a voluminous, expert account of the great jazz artists past and present and their distinctive contributions. UP....Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistHip Hop AmericaNelson GeorgeAmazonOut of Sheer RageGeoff DyerAmazonShakespeare: The Invention of the HumanHarold BloomAmazonThe Sounds of PoetryRobert PinskyAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Love of a Good WomanAlice Munro**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of wom...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBirds of AmericaLorrie MooreAmazonNo Lease on LifeLynne TillmanAmazonPreston FallsDavid GatesAmazonThe HoursMichael CunninghamAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerWe Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from RwandaPhilip GourevichAn unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone i...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistKing Leopold’s GhostAdam HochschildAmazonMany Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaIra BerlinAmazonThe Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy PorterAmazonThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxf...
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Bird CatcherMarie PonsotIn 1998, Marie Ponsot was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, confirming the praise that has been bestowed on her by critics and peers--among them Eavan Boland and Carolyn Kizer (who are quoted on the back of the book jacket) and Amy...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLast Chance for the Tarzan HollerThylias MossAmazonSelf-EvidencePamela White HadasAmazonThe Autobiography of Red: A Novel in VerseAnn CarsonAmazonThieves of ParadiseYusef KomunyakaaAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1998 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1998 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Moon and the SunVonda N. McIntyreSelected as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and nominated for a Nebula Award, a novel of alternative history features a sea monster raised by King Louis XIV that portends a frightening future. Reprint....Amazon1998 Nebula - Novel ShortlistA Game of ThronesGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonAncient ShoresJack McDevittAmazonBellwetherConnie WillisAmazonCity on FireWalter Jon WilliamsAmazonKing's DragonKate ElliottAmazonMemoryLois McMaster BujoldAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1998 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1998 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe TroikaStepan ChapmanBeneath the glare of three purple suns, three travelers - an old Mexican woman, an automated jeep, and a brontosaurus - have trudged across a desert for hundreds of years. They do not know if the desert has an end, and if it does, what they might find ther...Amazon1998 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistActs of ConscienceWilliam BartonAmazonAn Exchange of HostagesSusan R. MatthewsAmazonCarlucci's HeartRichard Paul RussoAmazonMother GrimmCatherine WellsAmazonOpalite MoonDenise VitolaAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1998 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerPersonal HistoryKatharine GrahamAs seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistAn Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural BoyhoodJimmy CarterAmazonJohann Sebastian Bach: The Learned MusicianChristoph WolffAmazonSaint-Exupery: A BiographyStacy SchiffAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1998 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerAmerican PastoralPhilip RothA former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory, Seymour "Swede" Levov finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father'...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistBear and His Daughter: StoriesRobert StoneAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1998 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistHow the Mind WorksStephen PinkerAmazonInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest DisasterJon KrakauerAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1998 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1998 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerSummer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionEdward J. LarsonThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious cou...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistBig Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of AmericaJ. Anthony LukasAmazonCivic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. HistoryRogers SmithAmazon