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All Book Awards

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerWhite Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial DivideCarol AndersonFrom the Civil War to our combustible present, and now with a new epilogue about the 2016 presidential election, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race. White Rage chronicles the powerful forces opposed to black ...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAgainst Everything: EssaysMark GreifAmazonAm I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to LivePeter OrnerAmazonLooking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary ClassicAlice KaplanAmazonThe Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being AloneOlivia LaingAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerLaRoseLouise ErdrichLate summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich, the deceased ...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistCommonwealthAnn PatchettAmazonImagine Me GoneAdam HaslettAmazonMoonglowMichael ChabonAmazonSwing TimeZadie SmithAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew DesmondA Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional le...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightJane MayerAmazonNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarViet Thanh NguyenAmazonStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. KendiAmazonWriting to Save a Life: The Louis Till FileJohn Edgar WidemanAma...
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHouse of Lords and CommonsIshion HutchinsonExquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and bein...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAt the Foundling HospitalRobert PinskyAmazonBlackacreMonica YounAmazonOlioTyehimba JessAmazonWorks and DaysBernadette MayerAmazon
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28Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2016 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2016 Nebula - Novel WinnerUprootedNaomi NovikWinner of the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the 2016 Hugo A...Amazon2016 Nebula - Novel ShortlistAncillary MercyAnn LeckieAmazonBarsk: The Elephants' GraveyardLawrence M. SchoenAmazonRaising CaineCharles E. GannonAmazonThe Fifth SeasonN. K. JemisinAmazonThe Grace of KingsKen LiuAmazonUpdraftFran WildeAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2016 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2016 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerBarbarian Days: A Surfing LifeWilliam FinneganSurfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chase...Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistKarl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century LifeJonathan SperberAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2016 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe SympathizerViet Thanh NguyenThe winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell,The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, ...Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistGet in Trouble: StoriesKelly LinkAmazonMaud's LineMargaret VerbleAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2016 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerBlack Flags: The Rise of ISISJoby WarrickDrawing on unique access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Joby Warrick weaves together heart-pounding, moment-by-moment operational details with overarching historical perspectives to reveal the long trajectory of today's most dangerous ......Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistBetween the World and MeTa-Nehisi CoatesAmazonIf the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the QuranCarla PowerAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2016 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2016 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerCuster's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaT. J. Stiles"In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a capable yet insecure man, i...Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistMarching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil WarBrian Matthew JordanAmazonTarget Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl HarborJames M. ScottAmazonThe Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research AgencyAnnie JacobsenAmazon
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