Sunday, November 24

2004 Awards

2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2004 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2004 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerKhrushchev: The Man and His EraWilliam TaubmanA portrait of the head of the Soviet Union whose rule followed Stalin's identifies his impact on the country and the rest of the world, tracing his efforts to reform communism and ease the Cold War....Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistThe Fly SwatterNicholas DawidoffAmazonWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became ShakespeareStephen GreenblattAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2004 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Known WorldEdward P. JonesFrom Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave...Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAmerican WomanSusan ChoiAmazonEvidence of Things UnseenMarianne WigginsAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2004 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2004 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerGulag: A HistoryAnne ApplebaumThis landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any language to dr...Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistRembrandt's JewsSteven NadlerAmazonThe Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's MilitaryDana PriestAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2004 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2004 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerA Nation Under Our FeetSteven HahnEmphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction....Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistGreat Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller CenterDaniel OkrentAmazonThey Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967David MaranissAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2004 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2004 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerWalking to Martha's VineyardFranz WrightIn this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortali...Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistEyeshotHeather McHughAmazonMiddle EarthHenri ColeAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerThe Empress of MarsKage BakerIn this rollicking novel of action, planetary romance, and high adventure, a determined Mary Griffith opens the only place to buy a beer on Mars' Tharsis Bulge and soon becomes the center of a terraforming company's machinations, its downfall, and the fou...Amazon2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistBernardo's HouseJames Patrick KellyAmazonDead WorldsJack SkillingsteadAmazonDry BonesWilliam SandersAmazonIt's All TrueJohn KesselAmazonLooking Through LaceRuth NestvoldAmazonOff on a StarshipWilliam BartonAmazonOnly Partly HereLucius ShepardAmazonThe Empire of Ice CreamJeffrey FordAmazonThe Fluted GirlPaolo BacigalupiAmazonThe Tale of the Golden EagleDavid D. LevineAmazonThe Tangled Strings of the Marionette...
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2004 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2004 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerTooth and ClawJo WaltonA family of dragons gathers on the occasion of the death of their father, the elder Bon Agornin. As is custom, they must eat the body. But even as Bon's last remains are polished off, his sons and daughters must all jostle for a position in the new hierarc...Amazon2004 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistFudokiKij JohnsonAmazonThe Etched CityK. J. BishopAmazonThe Light AgesIan R. MacLeodAmazonVeniss UndergroundJeff VanderMeerAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, International Dublin Literary Award, International Dublin Literary Award - Novel

2004 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2004 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerThis Blinding Absence of LightTahar Ben JellounThe award-winning Moroccan-born author of The Sacred Night and Corruption provides a chilling fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the inhumane conditions in which su...Amazon2004 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAny Human HeartWilliam BoydAmazonBalthasar's Odyssey (translated from French by Barbara Bray)Amin MaaloufAmazonCarameloSandra CisnerosAmazonEarth and Ashes (translated from Persian by Erdağ Göknar)Atiq RahimiAmazonFamily MattersRohinton MistryAmazonHouse of Day, House of Night (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)Olga TokarczukAmazonMiddlesexJeffrey EugenidesAmaz...
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

2004 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2004 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerPaladin of SoulsLois McMaster BujoldOne of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. Three years have pass...Amazon2004 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistBlind LakeRobert Charles WilsonAmazonHumansRobert J. SawyerAmazonIliumDan SimmonsAmazonSingularity SkyCharles StrossAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerJohn Clare: A BiographyJonathan BateThe long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet" John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and u...Amazon2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistA Life Of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare And The Noble DreamNicola LaceyAmazonEichmann: His Life and CrimesDavid CesaraniAmazonLike A Fiery Elephant: The Story Of B. S. JohnsonJonathan CoeAmazonMalinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884-1920Michael W. YoungAmazonNelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797John SugdenAmazon