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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1981 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole"A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhi...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistGodricFrederick BuechnerAmazonSo Long, See You TomorrowWilliam MaxwellAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

1981 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerThe Shadow of the TorturerGene WolfeSeverian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian h...Amazon1981 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistAriostoChelsea Quinn YarbroAmazonFirelordParke GodwinAmazonShadowlandPeter StraubAmazonThe MistStephen KingAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1981 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Morning of the PoemJames SchuylerSchuyler's new collection has at its core a nearly book-length poem in which the elements of letter writing, autobiography, and fable combine to transfigure poet and audience, past and present, and suffering and pleasure...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistSelected PoemsMark StrandAmazonThe Right Madness on SkyeRichard HugoAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1981 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerAmerican Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876Lawrence A. Cremin...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistA Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New EnglandLyle KoehlerAmazonOver Here: The First World War and American SocietyDavid M. KennedyAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1981 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerFin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and CultureCarl E. SchorskeA landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid ...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistChina MenMaxine Hong KingstonAmazonGoodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific WarWilliam ManchesterAmazonSoutherners: A Journalist's OdysseyMarshall FradyAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1981 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1981 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerPeter the Great: His Life and WorldRobert K. MassieThis biography of the notorious Russian ruler examines his background and accomplishments, detailing the armed conflicts during his reign and scrutinizing his transformation of medieval Russia into modern Russia...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistGalileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveDava SobelAmazonHugo Black: A BiographyRoger K. NewmanAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1981 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1981 Nebula - Novel WinnerTimescapeGregory BenfordDetecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever. Reprint. Nebula Award winner....Amazon1981 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBeyond the Blue Event HorizonFrederik PohlAmazonMockingbirdWalter S. TevisAmazonThe OrphanRobert StallmanAmazonThe Shadow of the TorturerGene WolfeAmazonThe Snow QueenJoan D. VingeAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerA Coast of TreesA.R. AmmonsThis collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981....Amazon1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBrotherly LoveDaniel HoffmanAmazonThe RevisionistDouglas CraseAmazonThe SleepwalkersEdward HirschAmazonWhat Manner of BeastDonald FinkelAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Mismeasure of ManStephen Jay GouldThe definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts an...Amazon1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistForms of TalkErving GoffmanAmazonNational DefenseJames FallowsAmazonNo Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920T.J. Jackson LearsAmazonThe Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume SixDumas MaloneAmazon

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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerRabbit is RichJohn UpdikeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative...Amazon1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Flag for SunriseRobert StoneAmazonRiddley WalkerRussell HobanAmazonSixty StoriesDonald BarthelmeAmazonThe Men’s ClubLeonard MichaelsAmazon