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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerEverything Together: Collected StoriesSammy HarkhamOffers a collection of graphic stories, including "Somersaulting" and "Poor Sailor."...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistAre You My Mother?: A Comic DramaAlison BechdelAmazonBuilding StoriesChris WareAmazonCruisin’ With the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred TooteSpain RodriguezAmazonUnterzakhnLeela CormanAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSeating ArrangementsMaggie ShipsteadThe Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to the impeccably appropriate Greyson Duff. The weekend is full of champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discon...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistFobbit: A NovelDavid AbramsAmazonMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A NovelRobin SloanAmazonShine Shine ShineLydia NetzerAmazonThe Natural Order of ThingsKevin P. KeatingAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A NovelBen FountainNew York Times Bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture “Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review “Mothers, father, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel.” —MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadett...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistArcadiaLauren GroffAmazonMagnificence: A NovelLydia MilletAmazonTelegraph Avenue: A NovelMichael ChabonAmazonThe Middlesteins: A NovelJami AttenbergAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine BooThis brilliant work of reportage on the Mumbai slum called Annawadi, and the true-life stories of some of its inhabitants, is a powerful and unforgettable account of the impact of corruption, inequality, globalization and religion in an Indian megacity. It...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistNature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into BattlegroundsJim SterbaAmazonOn Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and FutureKaren Elliott HouseAmazonPrivate Empire: ExxonMobil and American PowerSteve CollAmazonThe Outpost: An Untold Story of American ValorJake TapperAmazon...
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerThe Passage of Power: Volume 4 of 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 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian HellmanAlice Kessler-HarrisAmazonThe Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and PeaceH.W. BrandsAmazonThe One: The Life and Music of James BrownR.J. SmithAmazonThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. KennedyDavid NasawAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2012 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 Locus - SF Novel WinnerEmbassytownChina MiévilleWinner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world. Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is a...Amazon2012 Locus - SF Novel Shortlist23337Stephen KingAmazonDancing with BearsMichael SwanwickAmazonDeadlineMira GrantAmazonEarthboundJoe HaldemanAmazonFirebirdJack McDevittAmazonGrailElizabeth BearAmazonHeart of IronEkaterina SediaAmazonHome FiresGene WolfeAmazonLeviathan WakesJames S. A. CoreyAmazonRule 34Charles StrossAmazonThe Children of the SkyVernor VingeAmazonThe Clockwork RocketGreg EganAmazonThe IslandersChristopher PriestAmazonVortexRobert Charles WilsonAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2012 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerA Dance with DragonsGeorge R. R. Martin...Amazon2012 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistAmong OthersJo WaltonAmazonDeathlessCatherynne M. ValenteAmazonHeartlessGail CarrigerAmazonProfessor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'UrbervillesKim NewmanAmazonRaising Stony MayhallDaryl GregoryAmazonRedwood and WildfireAndrea HairstonAmazonSnuffTerry PratchettAmazonThe Cold CommandsRichard K. MorganAmazonThe Folded WorldCatherynne M. ValenteAmazonThe HeroesJoe AbercrombieAmazonThe Kingdom of GodsN. K. JemisinAmazonThe Magician KingLev GrossmanAmazonThe Uncertain PlacesLisa GoldsteinAmazonThe Wise Man's FearPatrick RothfussAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2012 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Highest FrontierJoan SlonczewskiPreparing to enter her first year at a college located in orbit, Jennifer Ramos Kennedy grieves the untimely death of her twin brother and is urged to fulfill the expectations of her influential family in the wake of a surge in global warming and a threat ...Amazon2012 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistThe IslandersChristopher PriestAmazonDancing with BearsMichael SwanwickAmazonEmbassytownChina MiévilleAmazonHome FiresGene WolfeAmazonOsamaLavie TidharAmazonReady Player OneErnest ClineAmazonRobopocalypseDaniel H. WilsonAmazonSeedRob ZieglerAmazonSoft ApocalypseWill McIntoshAmazonThis Shared DreamKathleen Ann GoonanAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Big CrunchPete HautmanA funny, clear-eyed view of the realities of teenage love from National Book Award winner Pete Hautman. Jen and Wes do not "meet cute." They do not fall in love at first sight. They do not swoon with scorching desire. They do not believe that they are inst...Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistA Monster CallsPatrick Ness, Jim KayAmazonBeauty QueensLibba BrayAmazonLife: An Exploded DiagramMal PeetAmazonThe Scorpio RacesMaggie StiefvaterAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerGrand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSylvia NasarTraces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen....Amazon2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil GusherJoel AchenbachAmazonBlood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific RevolutionHolly TuckerAmazonThe Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodJames GleickAmazonUnnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of MenMara HvistendahlAmazon