Monday, November 18

1995 Awards

1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerTime & MoneyWilliam MatthewsOffers the poet's observations on topics including time, music, loss, sports, and women...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Scattering of SaltsJames MerrillAmazonCortegeCarl PhillipsAmazonKyrieEllen Bryant VoigtAmazonThe Only WorldLynda HullAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerSavage Art: A Biography of Jim ThompsonRobert PolitoThe art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a death ...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistEmerson: The Mind on FireRobert Richardson Jr.AmazonMoving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of IndependenceJohn HockenberryAmazonThe Liars’ ClubMary KarrAmazonWalt Whitman’s AmericaDavid S. ReynoldsAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution FranceRobert DarntonIn this remarkable book, Robert Darnton addresses one of the classic 'big questions' of history - what caused the French Revolution? - by beginning with a query of a different order, a more manageable one that can be answered: what did the ......Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAfter the FactClifford GeertzAmazonPaul Celan: Poet, Survivor, JewJohn FelstinerAmazonThe All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994Stanley CrouchAmazonThe Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets and PoetastersThomas M. DischAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerMrs. Ted BlissStanley ElkinElkin’s National Book Critics Circle Award–winning classic: The story of an elderly woman who suddenly becomes mixed up in a world of criminals and con artists After her beloved husband dies of cancer, Dorothy Bliss is consigned to a life of tedium, waitin...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistGalatea 2.2Richard PowersAmazonIndependence DayRichard FordAmazonMooJane SmileyAmazonThe Tent of Orange MistPaul WestAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerA Civil ActionJonathan HarrThis true story of an epic courtroom showdown, where two of the nation's largest corporations were accused of causing the deaths of children from water contamination, was a #1 national bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Descri...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for BooksNicholas BasbanesAmazonAll God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox ButterfieldAmazonIn These Girls, Hope Is a MuscleMadeleine BlaisAmazonMr. Wilson’s Cabinet of WonderLawrence WeschlerAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1995 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1995 Nebula - Novel WinnerMoving MarsGreg BearA galaxy-altering scientific breakthrough on Mars inspires treachery and revolution in this Nebula Award–winning science fiction epic. The child of one of the oldest, most revered family-corporate units on colonized Mars, Casseia Majumdar has spent her ent...Amazon1995 Nebula - Novel ShortlistA Night in the Lonesome OctoberRoger ZelaznyAmazonGreen MarsKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonGun, With Occasional MusicJonathan LethemAmazonParable of the SowerOctavia E. ButlerAmazonTemporary AgencyRachel PollackAmazonTowing JehovahJames MorrowAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1995 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1995 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerMysteriumRobert Charles WilsonIn the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. That morning the men and women of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own - a world of curfews, food rationing and secret police. Something ...Amazon1995 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistInagehiJack CadyAmazonRIM: A Novel of Virtual RealityAlexander BesherAmazonScissors Cut Paper Wrap StoneIan McDonaldAmazonSummer of LoveLisa MasonAmazonTonguing the ZeitgeistLance OlsenAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1995 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1995 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Stone DiariesCarol ShieldsThe Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhoo...Amazon1995 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe Collected Stories of Grace PaleyGrace PaleyAmazonWhat I Lived ForJoyce Carol OatesAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1995 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1995 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our TimeJonathan WeinerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent ...Amazon1995 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistHow We Die: Reflections on Life's Final ChapterSherwin B. NulandAmazonMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah StoryJohn BerendtAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1995 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1995 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerHarriet Beecher Stowe: A LifeJoan D. Hedrick"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher St...Amazon1995 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistIn Extremis: The Life of Laura RidingDeborah BakerAmazonIn the DarkroomSusan FaludiAmazonWalter Lippmann and the American CenturyRonald SteelAmazonWoodrow Wilson: A BiographyJohn Milton Cooper, Jr.Amazon