Thursday, November 21

2002 Awards

2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2002 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2002 Locus - SF Novel WinnerPassageConnie WillisDr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come ...Amazon2002 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistAppleseedJohn CluteAmazonChasm CityAlastair ReynoldsAmazonCosmonaut KeepKen MacLeodAmazonDefenderC. J. CherryhAmazonNekropolisMaureen F. McHughAmazonOrigin: Manifold 3Stephen BaxterAmazonProbability SunNancy KressAmazonReturn to the WhorlGene WolfeAmazonShadow of the HegemonOrson Scott CardAmazonShip of FoolsRichard Paul RussoAmazonTerraforming EarthJack WilliamsonAmazonThe ChronolithsRobert Charles WilsonAmazonThe Pickup ArtistTerry BissonAmazonThe Se...
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerMaster of the Senate: Volume 3 of The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroThe greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The Times Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account o...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistJesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil WarT.J. StilesAmazonSamuel Pepys: The Unequalled SelfClaire TomalinAmazonSecrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersDaniel EllsbergAmazonThe Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and WarGioconda BelliAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerHarmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from SexJudith LevineExplores the highly sensitive issue of children and sex, offers advice on separating harmful from safe information about sex, and offers parents a guide to presenting the topic to their children....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Problem from Hell: America and the Age of GenocideSamantha PowerAmazonSeeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary PerilTimothy FerrisAmazonThe New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of InterventionNicolaus Mills, Kira BrunnerAmazonWealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American RichKevin PhillipsAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerAtonement: A NovelIan McEwanGENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence', Independent .'Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book- A superb...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistMoral Hazard: A NovelKate JenningsAmazonNowhere ManAleksandar HemonAmazonThe City of Your Final DestinationPeter CameronAmazonTourmaline: A NovelJoanna ScottAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerPrague: A NovelArthur PhillipsFive American expatriates living in Budapest in the early 1990s seek to establish themselves and make their fortunes in a city still haunted by the tragedies of its Communist past....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistEverything Is Illuminated: A NovelJonathan Safran FoerAmazonMan Walks Into a RoomNicole KraussAmazonThe ImpressionistHari KunzruAmazonThe Stars Can Wait: A NovelJay BasuAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerSix Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle EastMichael B. OrenRelates the events of the six-day Arab-Israeli war of June, 1967, discussing it in the context of regional and international politics and examining its consequences for the Middle East....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistAt the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black AmericaPhilip DrayAmazonBrotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward TellerGregg HerkenAmazonIn the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692Mary Beth NortonAmazonThe Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave TradeRobert W. HarmsAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerHell to Pay: A NovelGeorge P. PelecanosDerek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute. The two ex-cops think ...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistLiving Dead GirlTod GoldbergAmazonOne Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander MysteryHenning Mankell, Ebba SegerbergAmazonReversible Errors: A NovelScott TurowAmazonThe Emperor of Ocean ParkStephen L. CarterAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Watercourse: PoemsCynthia ZarinA powerful anthology of poetry by the critically acclaimed author of Fire Lyric and Swordfish Tooth takes a close-up look at the subject of divorce, the effects of a failed marriage, and the destruction and reforming a family that follows. Reprint....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistHazmatJ.D. McClatchyAmazonHip LogicTerrance HayesAmazonNorth Point North: New and Selected PoemsJohn KoetheAmazonSleeping With the DictionaryHarryette MullenAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerRosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNABrenda MaddoxIn 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and ...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLove at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of AffectionDeborah BlumAmazonOf Moths and Men: An Evolutionary TaleJudith HooperAmazonSalt: A World HistoryMark KurlanskyAmazonThe Demon in the Freezer: A True StoryRichard PrestonAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerFeedM.T. AndersonIn a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistAmericaE.R. FrankAmazonBig Mouth & Ugly GirlJoyce Carol OatesAmazonDillon DillonKate BanksAmazonThis Lullaby: A NovelSarah DessenAmazon