Sunday, November 24

1999 Awards

1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, International Dublin Literary Award, International Dublin Literary Award - Novel

1999 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerAndrew MillerIngenious PainThe extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he ri...Amazon1999 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistEnduring LoveIan McEwanAmazonQuarantineJim CraceAmazonThe Ordinary SeamanFrancisco GoldmanAmazonThe Puttermesser PapersCynthia OzickAmazonThe ReaderBernhard SchlinkAmazonThe Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki MurakamiAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1999 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerTo Say Nothing of the DogConnie WillisNed Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century - currently engaged in researching the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral. He's also made so many drops into the past that he's suffering from a dangerously advanced case of 'time-...Amazon1999 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistChildren of GodMary Doria RussellAmazonDarwiniaRobert Charles WilsonAmazonDistractionBruce SterlingAmazonFactoring HumanityRobert J. SawyerAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerGeorge Eliot: The Last VictorianKathryn HughesThis intensely engaging biography examines the extraordinary life of George Eliot from her childhood, through her scandalous liaison and social exile, to her hard-won status as one of Victorian England's literary elite....Amazon1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistIsaiah Berlin: A LifeMichael IgnatieffAmazonJohn Soane: An Accidental RomanticGillian DarleyAmazonLady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the EnlightenmentIsobel GrundyAmazonMandela: The Authorised BiographyAnthony SampsonAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerRenegade: Or Halo2Timothy MoRey Castro belongs to a small but highly distinctive tribe: he is a black Amerasian. Born in destitution in the Philippines to a bar girl mother, he is fortunate enough to be taken under the wing of an eccentric Jesuit. However, fate takes a hand when he i...Amazon1999 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Harlot's ProgressDavid DabydeenAmazonHeadlong: A NovelMichael FraynAmazonThe HarvestChristopher HartAmazonThe Leper's Companions: A novelJulia BlackburnAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1999 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerBrute OrbitsGeorge Zebrowski“Like his previous tales of technocratically engineered futures (Macrolife; Stranger Suns; etc.), Zebrowski's latest evokes the pioneering SF of social philosopher Olaf Stapledon... In the 21st century, Earth incarcerates its undesirables in mined-out aste...Amazon1999 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistDistractionBruce SterlingAmazonStarfarersPoul AndersonAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1999 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerA Clash of KingsGeorge R. R. Martin...Amazon1999 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistChangerJane LindskoldAmazonDark Lord of DerkholmDiana Wynne JonesAmazonDragon's WinterElizabeth A. LynnAmazonFortress of EaglesC. J. CherryhAmazonHeartfireOrson Scott CardAmazonJuniper, Gentian, and RosemaryPamela DeanAmazonMockingbirdSean StewartAmazonNewton's CannonJ. Gregory KeyesAmazonPrince of DogsKate ElliottAmazonSong for the BasiliskPatricia A. McKillipAmazonStardustNeil GaimanAmazonThe One-Armed QueenJane YolenAmazontie): Sailing to SarantiumGuy Gavriel KayAmazontie): Someplace to Be FlyingCharles de LintAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1999 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 Locus - SF Novel WinnerTo Say Nothing of the DogConnie WillisNed Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century - currently engaged in researching the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral. He's also made so many drops into the past that he's suffering from a dangerously advanced case of 'time-...Amazon1999 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistChildren of GodMary Doria RussellAmazonCosmGregory BenfordAmazonDarwiniaRobert Charles WilsonAmazonDinosaur SummerGreg BearAmazonDistractionBruce SterlingAmazonKomarrLois McMaster BujoldAmazonMaximum LightNancy KressAmazonMoonseedStephen BaxterAmazonParable of the TalentsOctavia E. ButlerAmazonPorts of CallJack VanceAmazonSix Moon DanceSheri S. TepperAmazonStarfarersPoul AndersonAmazonThe Alien YearsRobert SilverbergAmazonThe Golden G...
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerSecrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteJudith ThurmanA scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Fl...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistByron: Child of Passion, Fool of FameBenita EislerAmazonMy Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and FaithRobert ClarkAmazonRembrandt's EyesSimon SchamaAmazonWalt Whitman: The Song of HimselfJerome LovingAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSidewalkMitchell DuneierPresents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman's JourneyLeila AhmedAmazonAn Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President ClintonRichard A. PosnerAmazonBlack Hawk Down: A Story of Modern WarMark BowdenAmazonChosen By God: A Brother's JourneyJoshua HammerAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerFreedom Song: Three NovelsAmit ChaudhuriFreedom Song is vintage Amit Chaudhuri, playing with big ideas while evoking the smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinary beauty....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistClose Range: Wyoming StoriesAnnie ProulxAmazonHouse of Sand and FogAndre Dubus IIIAmazonPlainsongKent HarufAmazonWaitingHa JinAmazon