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2000 Awards

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2000 Awards, Agatha Award, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, First Novel

2000 Agatha Award – First Novel Winner and Nominees

2000 Agatha Award - First Novel WinnerDeath on a Silver TrayRosemary Stevens...Amazon2000 Agatha Award - First Novel NomineesDeath Dances to a Reggae BeatKate GrilleyAmazonDeath of an Amiable ChildIrene MarcuseAmazonMurder of a Small-Town HoneyDenise SwansonAmazonThree Dirty Women and the Garden of DeathJulie Wray HermanAmazon
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28Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerHirohito and the Making of Modern JapanHerbert P. BixWinner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never befor...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistI Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945Victor KemplererAmazonMarcel Proust: A LifeJean-Yves TadieAmazonThe Chief: The Life of William Randolph HearstDavid NasawAmazonThe Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of GeneticsRobin Marantz HenigAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerQuarrel & QuandaryCynthia OzickIn this collection of essays, Cynthia Ozick, everywhere acclaimed as a critic, novelist, and storyteller, examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the we...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Poetry of Two MindsSherod SantosAmazonCritical Entertainments: Music Old and NewCharles RosenAmazonFrom Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to PresentJacques BarzunAmazonPassionate MindsClaudia Roth PierpontAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBeing DeadJim CraceWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coas...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Blind Man Can See How Much I Love YouAmy BloomAmazonAssorted Fire Events: StoriesDavid MeansAmazonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayMichael ChabonAmazonWhite TeethZadie SmithAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerNewjack: Guarding Sing SingTed ConoverAfter he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and ...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBetrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public HealthLaurie GarrettAmazonCrucible of WarFred AndersonAmazonThe Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert BrasillachAlice KaplanAmazonWay Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarFrances FitzgeraldAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCarolina Ghost WoodsJudy JordanWintry in tone, titles and topics--"Ice molds my life" as one poem puts it--Jordan's debut scours the wooded terrain for metaphors of death ("It's dirt and dust after all") and trolls her family history for murders, suicides, threats and promises of the en...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistMen in the Off HoursAnne CarsonAmazonTalking Dirty to the GodsYusef KomunyakaaAmazonThe LedgeMichael CollierAmazonUltima ThuleDavis McCombsAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2000 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2000 Nebula - Novel WinnerParable of the TalentsOctavia E. ButlerLauren Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president...Amazon2000 Nebula - Novel ShortlistA Clash of KingsGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonA Deepness in the SkyVernor VingeAmazonMission ChildMaureen F. McHughAmazonMockingbirdSean StewartAmazonThe Cassini DivisionKen MacLeodAmazon
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