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1984 Awards

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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerThe Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz KafkaErnst PawelA comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world....Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera, Michael Henry HeimWhen The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It we...Amazon1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDemocracyJoan DidionAmazonHim With His Foot in His Mouth and Other StoriesSaul BellowAmazonStones for IbarraHarriet DoerrAmazonThe Witches of EastwickJohn UpdikeAmazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert DarntonWhen the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime...Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1984 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerKruger's AlpChristopher HopeTheodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an astonishing journey that takes Blanchaille through a lan...Amazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

1984 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 BSFA - Novel WinnerTik-TokJohn SladekA Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm'. That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law. But something had gone t...Amazon1984 BSFA - Novel ShortlistCat KarinaMichael G. ConeyAmazonGolden WitchbreedMary GentleAmazonHelliconia SummerBrian W. AldissAmazonThe Citadel of the AutarchGene WolfeAmazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

1984 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

1984 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerFloating DragonPeter StraubThe quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors--one is natural, the unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all--and makes the first look like child's play. Includes a new Introduction by the author. Rei...Amazon
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