Saturday, December 27

All Book Awards

2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2011 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe Strange Affair of Spring Heeled JackMark HodderLondon, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, fo...Amazon2011 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistChillElizabeth BearAmazonHarmonyProject Itoh translated by Alexander O. SmithAmazonSong of ScarabaeusSara CreasyAmazonState of DecayJames KnappAmazonThe Reapers Are the AngelsAlden BellAmazonYarnJon ArmstrongAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerWashington: A LifeRon ChernowA gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical. Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistIsaac NewtonJames GleickAmazonLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a RevolutionMary GabrielAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - 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...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe PrivilegesJonathan DeeAmazonThe SurrenderedChang-Rae LeeAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2011 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerEmperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha MukherjeeAn assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, providing coverage of such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the development of present-day...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS.C. GwynneAmazonThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas G. CarrAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2011 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryEric Foner“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's cr...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistConfederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War SouthStephanie McCurryAmazonEden on the Charles: The Making of BostonMichael J. RawsonAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Best of It: New and Selected PoemsKay RyanKay Ryan’s recent appointment as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious device...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistBreak the GlassJean ValentineAmazonThe Common ManMaurice ManningAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson - Novel

2011 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 Shirley Jackson - Novel WinnerMr. ShiversRobert Jackson BennettIt is the time of the Great Depression. The dustbowl has turned the western skies red and thousands leave their homes seeking a better life. Marcus Connelly seeks not a life, but a death - a death for the mysterious scarred man who murdered his daughter. A...Amazon2011 Shirley Jackson - Novel ShortlistA Dark MatterPeter StraubAmazonDark MatterMichelle PaverAmazonFeedMira GrantAmazonThe Reapers Are the AngelsAlden BellAmazonThe Silent LandGraham JoyceAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerThe Sultan of the CloudsGeoffrey A. LandisShort novels may well be the perfect length for science fiction. They are movie length tales that resonate with moxie while exploring characters, new worlds, and ideas. The stories in this unabridged collection are the best-of-the best short science fictio...Amazon2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistA Letter from the EmperorSteve Rasnic TemAmazonDead Man's RunRobert ReedAmazonFlower, Mercy, Needle, ChainYoon Ha LeeAmazonGhosts Doing the Orange DancePaul ParkAmazonMammoths of the Great PlainsEleanor ArnasonAmazonThe Maiden Flight of McCauley's BellerophonElizabeth HandAmazonThe Night TrainLavie TidharAmazonThe ThingsPeter WattsAmazonTroikaAlastair ReynoldsAmazonUnder the Moons of VenusDamien...
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2011 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerWho Fears DeathNnedi OkoraforAn award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin!...Amazon2011 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistRedemption in IndigoKaren LordAmazonThe Hundred Thousand KingdomsN. K. JemisinAmazonThe Silent LandGraham JoyceAmazonUnder HeavenGuy Gavriel KayAmazonZoo CityLauren BeukesAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerThe Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroExamines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War....Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistAll We Know: Three LivesLisa CohenAmazonPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazonRobert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A BiographyLisa JarnotAmazonThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom ReissAmazon