Saturday, December 27

All Book Awards

2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2010 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2010 Pulitzer Prize - 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...Amazon2010 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistInseminating the ElephantLucia PerilloAmazonTrystAngie EstesAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson - Novel

2010 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Shirley Jackson - Novel WinnerBig MachineVictor LaValleRicky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, reminding hi...Amazon2010 Shirley Jackson - Novel ShortlistLast DaysBrian EvensonAmazonThe Little StrangerSarah WatersAmazonThe Owl KillersKaren MaitlandAmazonThe Red TreeCaitlín R. KiernanAmazonWhite is for WitchingHelen OyeyemiAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerShambling Towards HiroshimaJames MorrowIt is the early summer of 1945, and war reigns in the Pacific Rim with no end in sight. Back in the States, Hollywood B-movie star Syms Thorley lives in a very different world, starring as the Frankenstein-esque Corpuscula, and Kha-Ton-Ra, the living Mummy...Amazon2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistAs Women FightSara GengeAmazonBlood DauberTed Kosmatka & Michael PooreAmazonClockatriceTanith LeeAmazonEros, Philia, AgapeRachel SwirskyAmazonHer Voice in a BottleTim PrattAmazonSparKij JohnsonAmazonThe Death of Che GuevaraLewis ShinerAmazonThe IslandPeter WattsAmazonThings UndoneJohn BarnesAmazonThis Wind Blowing, and this TideDamien BroderickAmazonTrue FameRobert ReedAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2010 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerThe City & the CityChina MiévilleWith an introduction by novelist Kamila Shamsie When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. B...Amazon2010 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistBlood of AmbroseJames EngeAmazonFinchJeff VanderMeerAmazonIn Great WatersKit WhitfieldAmazonThe Red TreeCaitlín R. KiernanAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerGeorge F. Kennan: An American LifeJohn Lewis GaddisA portrait of the Cold War strategist offers insight into his complex, troubled character while tracing his role in defining U.S. policy, covering his critical views on American diplomacy and his struggles with depression....Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistDeng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. VogelAmazonHemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost , 1934-1961Paul HendricksonAmazonLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the RevolutionMary GabrielAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerOtherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and ReviewsGeoff Dyer*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistIs That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of EverythingDavid BellosAmazonKaraoke CultureDubravka UgresicAmazonOut of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock MusicEllen WillisAmazonThe Ecstasy of InfluenceJonathan LethemAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBinocular VisionEdith PearlmanTenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection....Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistOpen CityTeju ColeAmazonStone ArabiaDana SpiottaAmazonThe Marriage PlotJeffrey EugenidesAmazonThe Stranger’s ChildAlan HollinghurstAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerLiberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary WarMaya JasanoffA global history of the post-Revolutionary War exodus of 60,000 Americans loyal to the British Empire to such regions as Canada, India and Sierra Leone traces the experiences of specific individuals while challenging popular conceptions about the founding ...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil WarAmanda ForemanAmazonPulphead: EssaysJohn Jeremiah SullivanAmazonThe InformationJames GleickAmazonTo End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918Adam HochschildAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSpace, in ChainsLaura Kasischke"Space, in Chains" speaks in ghostly voices, fractured narratives, songs, prayers, and dark riddles as it moves through contemporary tragedies of grief and the complex succession of generations. In her eighth book of poetry, Laura Kasischke has pared the c...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistCore Samples from the WorldForrest GanderAmazonDevotionsBruce SmithAmazonKingdom AnimaliaAracelis GirmayAmazonThe Chameleon CouchYusef KomunyakaaAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2011 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 Nebula - Novel WinnerBlackout/All ClearConnie WillisAward-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history....Amazon2011 Nebula - Novel ShortlistEchoJack McDevittAmazonShades of Milk and HoneyMary Robinette KowalAmazonThe Hundred Thousand KingdomsN. K. JemisinAmazonThe Native StarM. K. HobsonAmazonWho Fears DeathNnedi OkoraforAmazon