Saturday, December 27

All Book Awards

2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the WestClare CavanaghLyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh demonst...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistThe Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political ViolenceSusie LinfieldAmazonThe Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read ThemElif BatumanAmazonThe Professor and Other WritingsTerry CastleAmazonVanishing Point: Not a MemoirAnder MonsonAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganJennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader d...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistComedy in a Minor Key, tr. by Damion SearlsHans KeilsonAmazonFreedomJonathan FranzenAmazonSkippy DiesPaul MurrayAmazonTo the End of the LandDavid GrossmanAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great MigrationIsabel WilkersonIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistApollo’s Angels: A History of BalletJennifer HomansAmazonEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS.C. GwynneAmazonNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaBarbara DemickAmazonThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography o...
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerOne with Others: [a little book of her days]C. D. Wright’s...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLightheadTerrance HayesAmazonNoxAnne CarsonAmazonThe Best of It: New and Selected PoemsKay RyanAmazonThe Eternal CityKathleen GraberAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2010 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiWinner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thaila...Amazon2010 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBoneshakerCherie PriestAmazonFinchJeff VanderMeerAmazonFlesh and FireLaura Anne GilmanAmazonThe City & the CityChina MiévilleAmazonThe Love We Share Without KnowingChristopher BarzakAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2010 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerBitter AngelsC. L. AndersonAn Imploding Star System. A Murdered Galactic Spy. A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable… The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling ...Amazon2010 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistCenturies Ago and Very FastRebecca OreAmazonCyberabad DaysIan McDonaldAmazonProphetsS. Andrew SwannAmazonThe Devil's AlphabetDaryl GregoryAmazonThe PrisonerCarlos J. CortesAmazonThe Repossession MamboEric GarciaAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2010 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2010 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius VanderbiltT.J. StilesA biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism, documenting how Vanderbilt helped launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation....Amazon2010 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistCuster's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaT.J. StilesAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2010 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerTinkersPaul HardingConfined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris- newspaper clippings, ......Amazon2010 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistIn Other Rooms, Other WondersDaniyal MueenuddinAmazonLove in Infant MonkeysLydia MilletAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2010 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2010 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous LegacyDavid E. HoffmanA history of the end of the arms race describes the Soviet Union's development of an automatic retaliatory attack system, the United States's efforts to create space-based missile defenses, and the struggle to prevent nuclear weapons from being acquired by...Amazon2010 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistHow Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic CalamitiesJohn CassidyAmazonThe Evolution of GodRobert WrightAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2010 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2010 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the WorldLiaquat AhamedArgues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard....Amazon2010 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistEmpire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815Gordon S. WoodAmazonFordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle CityGreg GrandinAmazon