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1969 Awards

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1969 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1969 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1969 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerSo Human an AnimalRené Jules DubosThe book sounds both an urgent warning, and offers important policy insights into how this trend toward dehumanization can be halted and finally reversed....AmazonThe Armies of the NightNorman MailerOctober 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Ma...Amazon
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1969 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1969 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1969 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerHouse Made of DawnN. Scott MomadayThe magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land “Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language...Amazon
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1969 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1969 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1969 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Man From New York: John Quinn and His FriendsBenjamin Lawrence Reid...Amazon1969 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistThe Publisher: Henry Luce and His American CenturyAlan BrinkleyAmazon
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1969 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1969 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1969 Nebula - Novel WinnerRite of PassageAlexei PanshinIn 2198 man lives precariously on hastily-established colony worlds and in seven giant starships. Mia Haveros ship tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Her trial is fast approachi...Amazon1969 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBlack EasterJames BlishAmazonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. DickAmazonPast MasterR. A. LaffertyAmazonPicnic on ParadiseJoanna RussAmazonStand on ZanzibarJohn BrunnerAmazonThe Masks of TimeRobert SilverbergAmazon
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1969 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1969 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1969 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerRocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of KosmosGeorge Bowering...AmazonThe Shadow-MakerGwendolyn MacEwenThere is no doubt Rosemary Sullivan is a biographer of extraordinary talent. Her first biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart: A Life was a bestseller and nominated for a Governor Generals Award. Her third biography, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood, Starting...Amazon
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1969 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1969 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1969 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerStand on ZanzibarJohn BrunnerThere are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes ... all the hysteria...Amazon1969 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistNovaSamuel R. DelanyAmazonPast MasterR. A. LaffertyAmazonRite of PassageAlexei PanshinAmazonThe Goblin ReservationClifford D. SimakAmazon
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1969 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1969 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1969 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Studhorse ManRobert KroetschFront french flap Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward chevalier, Hazards outrageous adventures are recorded by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who, as the n...Amazon
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