Saturday, December 27

All Book Awards

2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerFailurePhilip SchultzFailure is a superb collection, “full of slashing language, good rhythms [and] surprises” (Norman Mailer). “Philip Schultz’s poems have long since earned their own place in American poetry....AmazonTime and MaterialsRobert HassThe poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically var...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistMessenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006Ellen Bryant VoigtAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson - Novel

2008 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Shirley Jackson - Novel WinnerGeneration LossElizabeth HandThe secrets of small-town life can be more deadly than fist fights and dead junkies . . . Cass Neary is not afraid of living on the edge. A photographer whose shots of New York's punk scene in the seventies earned her fame, caché, and a cultish kind of coo...Amazon2008 Shirley Jackson - Novel ShortlistBaltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the VampireMike Mignola & Christopher GoldenAmazonSharp TeethToby BarlowAmazonThe TerrorDan SimmonsAmazonTokyo Year ZeroDavid PeaceAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerFinisterraDavid Moles...AmazonTidelineElizabeth BearPresents a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, including "Tideline," "Gods of the forge," and "The death of terrestrial radio."...Amazon2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistAlwaysKaren Joy FowlerAmazonBaby DollJohanna SinisaloAmazonMemorareGene WolfeAmazonThe Dreaming WindJeffrey FordAmazonThe Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the ChangeKij JohnsonAmazonThe ForestLaird BarronAmazonThe Last AmericanJohn KesselAmazonThe Master Miller's TaleIan R. MacLeodAmazonThe Merchant and the Alchemist's GateTed ChiangAmazonThe Tomb WifeGwyneth JonesAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2008 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerYsabelGuy Gavriel KayIn this exhilarating, moving novel set in modern and ancient Provence, Guy Gavriel Kay casts brilliant light on the ways in which history – whether of a culture or a family – refuses to be buried....Amazon2008 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistFanglandJohn MarksAmazonTerritoryEmma BullAmazonThe Gospel of the KnifeWill ShetterlyAmazonThe ServantsMichael Marshall SmithAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyJohn Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left some of the best short stories of the twentieth century, a number of highly acclaimed novels, and a private journal that runs to an astoni...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistBitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio SiloneStanislao G. PuglieseAmazonFlannery: A Life of Flannery O’ConnorBrad GoochAmazonPassing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. SandweissAmazonWhy This World: A Biography of Clarice LispectorBenjamin MoserAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerNotes From No Man’s Land: American EssaysEula BissWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man’s Land begins...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistClose Calls with Nonsense: Reading New PoetryStephen BurtAmazonDancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great DepressionMorris DicksteinAmazonHeroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and CultureDavid HajduAmazonPerfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded MusicGreg MilnerAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerWolf HallHilary MantelEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The ...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistAmerican SalvageBonnie Jo CampbellAmazonBlameMichelle HunevenAmazonLark and TermiteJayne Anne PhillipsAmazonThe Book of Night WomenMarlon JamesAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceRichard HolmesThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 176...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistFordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle CityGreg GrandinAmazonImperialWilliam T. VollmannAmazonStrength in What RemainsTracy KidderAmazonThe Hindus: An Alternative HistoryWendy DonigerAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerVersedRae ArmantroutWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009) Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, off...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Village LifeLouise GlückAmazonCaptive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008Eleanor Ross TaylorAmazonChronicD.A. PowellAmazonMuseum of AccidentsRachel ZuckerAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2009 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Nebula - Novel WinnerPowersUrsula K. Le GuinWinner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel: A young man tries to come to grips with his strange gifts as he sets out on a dangerous journey. Brought up in comfort as a house slave for a great family, young Gavir can recall the page of a book after seeing it...Amazon2009 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBrasylIan McDonaldAmazonCauldronJack McDevittAmazonLittle BrotherCory DoctorowAmazonMaking MoneyTerry PratchettAmazonSuperpowersDavid J. SchwartzAmazon