Thursday, November 21

1996 Awards

1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLove Thy Neighbor: A Story of WarPeter MaassAn account of one journalist's experience from 1992-93 of the conflict in Bosnia, this work is an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming questions that are provoked by witnessing the destruction of a nation....Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Civil ActionJonathan HarrAmazonAll God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox ButterfieldAmazonAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerAmazonMoving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of IndependenceJohn HockenberryAmazonThe Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an A...
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Fine BalanceRohinton MistryWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The governme...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAbout Schmidt: A NovelLouis BegleyAmazonEvery Man for HimselfBeryl BainbridgeAmazonOpen Heart: A NovelA.B. YehoshuaAmazonSanta EvitaTomás Eloy MartinézAmazonShip Fever and Other StoriesAndrea BarrettAmazonThe Ghost RoadPat BarkerAmazonTree of Heaven: A NovelR.C. BinstockAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Smell of Apples: A NovelMark BehrThe harsh realities of 1970s South African apartheid are witnessed by young narrator Marnus Erasmus, in a story of racial oppression, sexual abuse, lost innocence, and a society driven to the edge of dispair...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistI Never Came to You in WhiteJudith FarrAmazonI Was Amelia EarhartJane MendelsohnAmazonResurrection ManEoin McNameeAmazonSt. Burl's ObituaryDaniel AkstAmazonThe Debt to Pleasure: A NovelJohn LanchesterAmazonThe Secret of the BullsJosé Raúl BernardoAmazonThe Veracruz BluesMark WinegardnerAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerBlack SeaNeal AschersonAn acclaimed, award-winning book on a fascinating subject, recently . and updated by the author. Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, h...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerAmazonEndangered Dreams: The Great Depression in CaliforniaKevin StarrAmazonEurope: A HistoryNorman DaviesAmazonWar Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful SavageLawrence H. KeeleyAmazonWilliam Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicAlan...
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMixed CompanyAlan ShapiroRespected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, and with equal attention to histor...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994Jorie GrahamAmazonMeadowlandsLouise GlückAmazonPassing Through: The Later Poems, New and SelectedStanley KunitzAmazonThe Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996Robert PinskyAmazonThe Terrible Stories: PoemsLucille CliftonAmazonThe World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996James McMichaelAmazonThings That Happen Once: New PoemsRodney Jones...
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1996 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerEvery Man for HimselfBeryl BainbridgeIf ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vi...Amazon1996 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistAsylumPatrick McGrathAmazonCocaine NightsJ. G. BallardAmazonLast OrdersGraham SwiftAmazonMr Clive & Mr PageNeil BartlettAmazonWorst FearsFay WeldonAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

1996 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe Time ShipsStephen BaxterThe highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's The Time Machine, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke....Amazon1996 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBloodMichael MoorcockAmazonChagaIan McDonaldAmazonFairylandPaul J. McAuleyAmazonThe Nano FlowerPeter F. HamiltonAmazonThe PrestigeChristopher PriestAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

1996 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerRequiemGraham JoyceTraveling to Jerusalem after the sudden death of his wife, Tom Webster meets a mysterious old woman, whom he comes to believe is the spirit of Mary Magdalene trying to reveal a secret from the past...Amazon1996 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistBlood CrazySimon ClarkAmazonDead of LightChaz BrenchleyAmazonThe Gap Into Madness: Chaos and OrderStephen R. DonaldsonAmazonThe Time ShipsStephen BaxterAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker - Novel

1996 Bram Stoker – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerZombieJoyce Carol OatesZombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evo...Amazon1996 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistBone MusicAlan RodgersAmazondeadrushYvonne NavarroAmazonWidowBillie Sue MosimanAmazon