Sunday, November 24

2004 Awards

2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerGB84David PeaceGreat Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. This book describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalf...Amazon2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistCloud Atlas: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonHavoc in Its Third Year: A NovelRonan BennettAmazonPsychoraag: A NovelSuhayl SaadiAmazonThe AfterglowAnthony CartwrightAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2004 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2004 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerOmegaJack McDevittIn the sequel to the critically acclaimed Chindi, the best military and scientific minds on Earth band together in a desperate attempt to preserve an alien society from the deadly force heading for its home planet....Amazon2004 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistDarwin's ChildrenGreg BearAmazonJennifer GovernmentMax BarryAmazonMemoryLinda NagataAmazonNatural HistoryJustina RobsonAmazonRed ThunderJohn VarleyAmazonSister AliceRobert ReedAmazonStar DragonMike BrothertonAmazonStorytellerAmy ThomsonAmazonThe Braided WorldKay KenyonAmazonThe Changeling PlagueSyne MitchellAmazonThe CompanionsSheri S. TepperAmazonThe Wreck of The River of StarsMichael FlynnAmazonThe X PresidentPhilip BaruthAmazonUntied KingdomJames LovegroveAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2004 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2004 Locus - Fantasy 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 Locus - Fantasy Novel Shortlist1610: A Sundial in a GraveMary GentleAmazonFool's FateRobin HobbAmazonIn the Forests of SerrePatricia A. McKillipAmazonlost boy lost girlPeter StraubAmazonMonstrous RegimentTerry PratchettAmazonSunshineRobin McKinleyAmazonThe Anvil of the WorldKage BakerAmazonThe Briar KingGreg KeyesAmazonThe Crystal CityOrson Scott CardAmazonThe Dark Tower V: Wolves of the CallaStephen KingAmazonThe Light AgesIan R. MacLeodAmazonThe Salt Road...
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2004 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2004 Locus - SF Novel WinnerIliumDan SimmonsTaking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology im...Amazon2004 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistAbsolution GapAlastair ReynoldsAmazonBlind LakeRobert Charles WilsonAmazonCoalescentStephen BaxterAmazonDarwin's ChildrenGreg BearAmazonNatural HistoryJustina RobsonAmazonNothing HumanNancy KressAmazonOmegaJack McDevittAmazonPattern RecognitionWilliam GibsonAmazonQuicksilverNeal StephensonAmazonSingularity SkyCharles StrossAmazonSuccession: The Risen Empire; The Killing of WorldsScott WesterfeldAmazonThe Golden Age: The Phoenix Exultant; The Golden Transce...
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography Winnerde Kooning: An American MasterMark Stevens and Annalyn SwanTraces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease....Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAlexander HamiltonRon ChernowAmazonJohn James Audubon: The Making of an AmericanRichard RhodesAmazonWashington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist HuntMichael YbarraAmazonWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became ShakespeareStephen GreenblattAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerGeneration Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American WarEvan WrightBased on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBlue BloodEdward ConlonAmazonBound to PleaseMichael DirdaAmazonThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of DarknessKaren ArmstrongAmazonTruth & Beauty: A FriendshipAnn PatchettAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe MasterColm Tóibín“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profound...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistGilead: A NovelMarilynne RobinsonAmazonGraceLand: A NovelChris AbaniAmazonHonored Guest: StoriesJoy WilliamsAmazonThe DarlingRussell BanksAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerHarborLorraine AdamsA New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookEntertainment Weekly's #1 Fiction Book of the YearA tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of Aziz Arkoun who, at twenty-four, makes his wa...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A NovelLisa GlattAmazonEve Green: A NovelSusan FletcherAmazonNatasha and Other StoriesDavid BezmozgisAmazonRear View: StoriesPeter DuvalAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerPerilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on TerrorismGeoffrey R. StoneAn investigation into how free speech and other civil liberties have been compromised in America by war in six historical periods describes how presidents, Supreme Court justices, and resistors contributed to the administration of civil freedoms, in an acc...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistBeasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913Richard Steven StreetAmazonHigh Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile CrisisMax FrankelAmazonMasquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental SoldierAlfred F. YoungAmazonThe Coming of the Third Reich: Vol...
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerTijuana Straits: A NovelKem NunnFrom Kem Nunn, the National Book Award-nominated author of Tapping the Source and The Dogs of Winter, comes an exquisitely written tale of loss and redemption. Nunn renders the dangerous beaches and waters of California's borderland as only the critically ...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistA Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus NovelIan RankinAmazonDark Voyage: A NovelAlan FurstAmazonOld BoysCharles McCarryAmazonThe Return of the Dancing MasterHenning Mankell, Laurie ThompsonAmazon