Saturday, November 23

1997 Awards

1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerDon't Erase Me: StoriesCarolyn FerrellPortrays the lives of Black teenagers in New York's South Bronx, where, in the title story, a woman recounts her life after learning she has AIDS...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Child Out of AlcatrazTara IsonAmazonA Crime in the NeighborhoodSuzanne BerneAmazonRound RockMichelle HunevenAmazonThe God of Small ThingsArundhati RoyAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerA People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian RevolutionOrlando FigesUnrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. 'A modern masterpiece' Andrew Marr 'The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEchoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian VillageSerge SchmemannAmazonFat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern WestPeter N. StearnsAmazonNazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939Saul FriedländerAmazonSun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the WorldGeoffrey MoorhouseAmazo...
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAn Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected PoemsCarol Muske-DukesAmazonNatal CommandPeter SacksAmazonResurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997James GalvinAmazonThe Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected PoemsTomaz Salamun, Christopher MerrillAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerHow the Mind WorksStephen Pinker"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." —New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—an...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDeadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueRichard RhodesAmazonThe Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its ImplicationsDavid DeutschAmazonThe Trouble With Testosterone And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human PredicamentRobert M. SapolskyAmazonVenus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin PlanetDavid Harry G...
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

1997 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 BSFA - Novel WinnerExcessionIain M. BanksThe fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It wa...Amazon1997 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBlue MarsKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonHoly FireBruce SterlingAmazonInterfaceStephen BuryAmazonThe Memory PalaceGill AldermanAmazonThe Stone CanalKen MacLeodAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1997 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerQuarantineJim CraceWith an introduction by Stuart Evers So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri without shame or hesitation, of letting drop her headscarf f...Amazon1997 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistAsylumPatrick McGrathAmazonBleeding LondonGeoff NicholsonAmazonEnduring LoveIan McEwanAmazonGrace NotesBernard MacLavertyAmazonThe UntouchableJohn BanvilleAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

1997 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerThe Tooth FairyGraham JoyceSeven-year-old Sam Southall loses a tooth and that night he's visited by a sinister, rank, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy, a demonic being that apparently only he can see, but whose malignant influence spills over onto his family and friends.The Tooth...Amazon1997 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistAssassin's ApprenticeRobin HobbAmazonExcessionIain M. BanksAmazonHogfatherTerry PratchettAmazonSacramentClive BarkerAmazonScenting Hallowed BloodStorm ConstantineAmazonSparesMichael Marshall SmithAmazonThe Hellfire ClubPeter StraubAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker - Novel

1997 Bram Stoker – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerThe Green MileStephen KingAt Col Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychopathic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky."...Amazon1997 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistCrotaOwl GoingbackAmazonExquisite CorpsePoppy Z. BriteAmazonThe Hellfire ClubPeter StraubAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke - Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year

1997 Arthur C. Clarke – Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Arthur C. Clarke - Novel WinnerThe Calcutta ChromosomeAmitav GhoshFrom Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers t...Amazon1997 Arthur C. Clarke - Novel ShortlistBlue MarsKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonGibbon's Decline and FallSheri S. TepperAmazonLooking for the MahdiN. Lee WoodAmazonThe Engines of GodJack McDevittAmazonVoyageStephen BaxterAmazon