Sunday, December 22

1984 Awards

1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerDostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59Joseph Frank...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistHome Before DarkSusan CheeverAmazonJosephine HerbstElinor LangerAmazonOne Writer’s BeginningsEudora WeltyAmazonWalt Whitman: The Making of a PoetPaul ZweigAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerTwentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on PoetryRobert Hass...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistDawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern EraDonald KeeneAmazonHazlitt: The Mind of a CriticDavid BromwichAmazonThe Innocent EyeRoger ShattuckAmazonThe Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern OblivionLeo SteinbergAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerLove MedicineLouise ErdrichThe first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the rese...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistFamily DancingDavid LeavittAmazonForeign AffairsAlison LurieAmazonMachine DreamsJayne Anne PhillipsAmazonStones for IbarraHarriet DoerrAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerWeapons and HopeFreeman Dyson...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBrothers and KeepersJohn Edgar WidemanAmazonSon of the Morning StarEvan S. ConnellAmazonThe Abandonment of the JewsDavid WymanAmazonThe Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert DarntonAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Dead and the LivingSharon OldsThe 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. From the Trade Paperback edition....Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA WaveJohn AshberyAmazonGround Work: Before the WarRobert DuncanAmazonOvernight in the Guest House of the MysticDick AllenAmazonThe Other Side of the RiverCharles WrightAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1984 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Nebula - Novel WinnerStartide RisingDavid BrinThe second in the Uplift series and winner of the Hugo and Nebula award, this novel describes how a spaceship crew of dolphins and a genetically engineered human find an ancient fleet and cadaver. They must fight to carry their prize of knowledge and power...Amazon1984 Nebula - Novel ShortlistAgainst InfinityGregory BenfordAmazonLyonesseJack VanceAmazonTea with the Black DragonR. A. MacAvoyAmazonThe Citadel of the AutarchGene WolfeAmazonThe Void Captain's TaleNorman SpinradAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1984 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe Anubis GatesTim PowersBrendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi an...Amazon1984 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistBenefitsZoe FairbairnsAmazonMillenniumJohn VarleyAmazonTea with the Black DragonR. A. MacAvoyAmazonThe Floating GodsM. John HarrisonAmazonThe Zen GunBarrington J. BayleyAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1984 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1984 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerBooker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915Louis R. HarlanA chronicle of Washington's last fifteen years reviews his accomplishments and explains how he gained strong political influence...Amazon1984 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistBecoming William JamesHoward M. FeinsteinAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1984 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerIronweedWilliam KennedyThe beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after ...Amazon1984 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistCathedralRaymond CarverAmazonThe FeudThomas BergerAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerCities and the Wealth of NationsJane JacobsIn this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities a...Amazon