Monday, December 23

2001 Awards

2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerJohn Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946Robert SkidelskyTraces the economist's life and work, offering a portrait of his public and private life....Amazon2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistA Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi GermanyMark RosemanAmazonFrantz Fanon: A LifeDavid MaceyAmazonHitler: Volume 2. 1936-1945 NemesisIan KershawAmazonMartin Frobisher: Elizabethan PrivateerJames McDermottAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerSomething Like a House: A NovelSid SmithThis is Jim Fraser's story: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an army deserter living through the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, when China descended into a moral and physical chaos so extreme that cannibalism became, for...Amazon2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistAtonement: A NovelIan McEwanAmazonNumber9Dream: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonThe Body ArtistDon DeLilloAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2001 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2001 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerGenesisPoul AndersonA billion years after technology frees human consciousness from the body, one man, Brannock, returns to earth to find the planet ruled by a superbeing named Laurinda Ashcroft. there....Amazon2001 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAsh: A Secret HistoryMary GentleAmazonCalculating GodRobert J. SawyerAmazonInfinity BeachJack McDevittAmazonThe FrescoSheri S. TepperAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2001 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2001 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerA Storm of SwordsGeorge R. R. MartinThe three surviving contenders for the throne of the Seven Kingdoms continue to struggle among themselves, Robb defends his kingdom from the Greyjoys, Jon confronts an escalating threat, and Daenerys and her dragon allies continue to grow in power....Amazon2001 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Kiss of ShadowsLaurell K. HamiltonAmazonAsh: A Secret HistoryMary GentleAmazonDaemonomaniaJohn CrowleyAmazonDeclareTim PowersAmazonForests of the HeartCharles de LintAmazonFortress of DragonsC. J. CherryhAmazonGalvestonSean StewartAmazonLord of EmperorsGuy Gavriel KayAmazonPerdido Street StationChina MiévilleAmazonThe Amber SpyglassPhilip PullmanAmazonThe Tower at Stony WoodPatricia A. McKillipAmazonThe TruthTerry PratchettAmazonWhi...
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2001 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2001 Locus - SF Novel WinnerThe TellingUrsula K. Le GuinSutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faste...Amazon2001 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistCrescent City RhapsodyKathleen Ann GoonanAmazonEaterGregory BenfordAmazonGenesisPoul AndersonAmazonIn Green's JunglesGene WolfeAmazonLook to WindwardIain M. BanksAmazonMarrowRobert ReedAmazonMidnight RobberNalo HopkinsonAmazonProbability MoonNancy KressAmazonSpace: Manifold 2 (US title: Manifold: Space)Stephen BaxterAmazonThe CollapsiumWil McCarthyAmazonThe ComingJoe HaldemanAmazonThe Fountains of YouthBrian StablefordAmazonThe Sky RoadKen MacL...
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerTheodore RexEdmund MorrisTheodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terror...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistBoswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. JohnsonAdam SismanAmazonJohn AdamsDavid McCulloughAmazonMarie Antoinette: The JourneyAntonia FraserAmazonSeabiscuit: An American LegendLaura HillenbrandAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaBarbara EhrenreichOur sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join the...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistStates of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and SufferingStanley CohenAmazonThe Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least ValuedAnn CrittendenAmazonThe Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme CourtJohn W. DeanAmazonTom and Huck Don't Live Here AnymoreRon PowersAma...
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerWhy Did I Ever: A NovelMary Robison"Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel." —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her sec...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBy the SeaAbdulrazak GurnahAmazonHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: StoriesAlice MunroAmazonJohn Henry DaysColson WhiteheadAmazonThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Dark Room: A NovelRachel SeiffertIn The Dark Room, the experiences of three people are evoked with stunning emotional depth and psychological authenticity. A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer's assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the changing temp...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistCrawling At Night: A NovelNani PowerAmazonMy Dream of YouNuala O'FaolainAmazonThe Death of Vishnu: A NovelManil SuriAmazonThe Right Hand of SleepJohn WrayAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerBefore the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American ConsensusRick PerlsteinAcclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked “peac...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistFrance: The Dark Years, 1940-1944Julian JacksonAmazonThe Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in AmericaLouis MenandAmazonThe Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William BlakeG.E. Bentley Jr.AmazonVenice: Lion CityGarry WillsAmazon