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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Smell of Apples: A NovelMark BehrThe harsh realities of 1970s South African apartheid are witnessed by young narrator Marnus Erasmus, in a story of racial oppression, sexual abuse, lost innocence, and a society driven to the edge of dispair...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistI Never Came to You in WhiteJudith FarrAmazonI Was Amelia EarhartJane MendelsohnAmazonResurrection ManEoin McNameeAmazonSt. Burl's ObituaryDaniel AkstAmazonThe Debt to Pleasure: A NovelJohn LanchesterAmazonThe Secret of the BullsJosé Raúl BernardoAmazonThe Veracruz BluesMark WinegardnerAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Fine BalanceRohinton MistryWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The governme...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAbout Schmidt: A NovelLouis BegleyAmazonEvery Man for HimselfBeryl BainbridgeAmazonOpen Heart: A NovelA.B. YehoshuaAmazonSanta EvitaTomás Eloy MartinézAmazonShip Fever and Other StoriesAndrea BarrettAmazonThe Ghost RoadPat BarkerAmazonTree of Heaven: A NovelR.C. BinstockAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLove Thy Neighbor: A Story of WarPeter MaassAn account of one journalist's experience from 1992-93 of the conflict in Bosnia, this work is an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming questions that are provoked by witnessing the destruction of a nation....Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Civil ActionJonathan HarrAmazonAll God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox ButterfieldAmazonAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerAmazonMoving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of IndependenceJohn HockenberryAmazonThe Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an A...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerAngela's Ashes: A MemoirFrank McCourtA Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: th...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Life of Picasso: Volume 2. The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916John RichardsonAmazonAn Uncommon Woman: The Empress FrederickHannah PakulaAmazonEdward Hopper: An Intimate BiographyGail LevinAmazonHellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell HammettJoan MellenAmazonOrson Welles: The Road to XanaduSimon CallowAmazonTom: The Unknown Tennessee WilliamsLyle LeverichAmazon...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1996 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 Locus - SF Novel WinnerThe Diamond AgeNeal StephensonDecades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of...Amazon1996 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistAmnesia MoonJonathan LethemAmazonBrightness ReefDavid BrinAmazonChaga (US title: Evolution's Shore)Ian McDonaldAmazonFairylandPaul J. McAuleyAmazonInvaderC. J. CherryhAmazonKaleidoscope CenturyJohn BarnesAmazonLegacyGreg BearAmazonMetropolitanWalter Jon WilliamsAmazonSailing Bright EternityGregory BenfordAmazonSlow RiverNicola GriffithAmazonThe Ganymede ClubCharles SheffieldAmazonThe Killing StarCharles Pellegrino & George ZebrowskiAmazonThe ...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1996 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerAlvin JourneymanOrson Scott CardAlvin Miller, a gifted seventh son of a seventh son, utilizes his skills as a Maker to help create a brighter future for America, but his task is further challenged by his ancient enemy, the Unmaker, who plots to end Alvin's life...Amazon1996 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistAssassin's ApprenticeRobin HobbAmazonBloodMichael MoorcockAmazonCity of BonesMartha WellsAmazonCrown of ShadowsC. S. FriedmanAmazonFortress in the Eye of TimeC. J. CherryhAmazonMaskeradeTerry PratchettAmazonResurrection ManSean StewartAmazonStone of TearsTerry GoodkindAmazonStorm RisingMercedes LackeyAmazonThe Book of Atrix WolfePatricia A. McKillipAmazonThe Lions of Al-RassanGuy Gavriel KayAmazonThe Silent Strength of StonesNina Kiriki HoffmanAmazonWaking ...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1996 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Time ShipsStephen BaxterThe highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's The Time Machine, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke....Amazon1996 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistChaga (US title: Evolution's Shore)Ian McDonaldAmazonThe Diamond AgeNeal StephensonAmazon

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1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerNaturalistEdward O. WilsonThe author, a professor of entomology at Harvard, looks back on his life, education, and career, and discusses his work....Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAn Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesOliver SacksAmazonDescartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human BrainAntonio R. DamasioAmazonThe Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the Milky WayKen CroswellAmazonThe Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary PsychologyRobert WrightAmazon

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1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Inferno of Dante: A New Verse TranslationRobert PinskyA translation of the classic poem about man's spiritual journey...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistCity of SaltGregory OrrAmazonNew and Selected PoemsGary SotoAmazonSong: PoemsBrigit Pegeen KellyAmazonSplit Horizon: PoemsThomas LuxAmazon

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1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerFables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in AmericaJackson LearsFables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistMarketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle EuropeRobert JensenAmazonRewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of MemoryIan HackingAmazonSpeak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the SouthJohn EgertonAmazonStalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956David HollowayAmazon