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2006 Awards

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Audies, Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year

2006 Audies – Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium Winner and Nominees

2006 Audies - Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium WinnerHidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More From NPR's The Kitchen SistersDavia Nelson and Nikki Silva...Amazon2006 Audies - Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium NomineesKing of ShadowsSusan CooperAmazonThe Essential Dylan ThomasDylan ThomasAmazonThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary PhaseDouglas AdamsAmazonThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary PhaseDouglas AdamsAmazon
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerJames Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. SheldonJulie PhillipsJames Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his female characters, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston,...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistA Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest TravelerJason RobertsAmazonAt Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968Taylor BranchAmazonFlaubert: A BiographyFrederick BrownAmazonThe Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherDebby ApplegateAmazon
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerEverything That Rises: A Book of ConvergencesLawrence WeschlerFrom a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, thr...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistBreaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural PhenomenonDaniel DennettAmazonFollies of the Wise: Dissenting EssaysFrederick CrewsAmazonOn Looking: EssaysLia PurpuraAmazonWhile Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From WithinBruce BawerAmazon
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Inheritance of LossKiran DesaiWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review). In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga i...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistHalf of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmazonThe Lay of the LandRichard FordAmazonThe RoadCormac McCarthyAmazonWhat Is the WhatDave EggersAmazon
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerRough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American RevolutionSimon SchamaIf you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of ...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. WadeAnne FesslerAmazonThe Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle EastSandy TolanAmazonThe Occupation: War and Resistance in IraqPatrick CockburnAmazonThe Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural Hi...
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerTom Thomson in PurgatoryTroy Jollimore...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistMy Brother is Getting Arrested AgainDaisy FriedAmazonNot for Specialists: New and Selected PoemsW.D. SnodgrassAmazonOoga-BoogaFrederick SeidelAmazonPoems (1945-1971)Miltos SachtourisAmazon
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2006 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 Nebula - Novel WinnerCamouflageJoe HaldemanWinner of the Nebula Award for best novel, 2005 Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2004 Unknown to anyone, two creatures have wandered the Earth for generations. The aliens have no knowledge of each other, but share a residual memory of a mysterious, s...Amazon2006 Nebula - Novel ShortlistAirGeoff RymanAmazonGoing PostalTerry PratchettAmazonJonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSusanna ClarkeAmazonOrphans of ChaosJohn C. WrightAmazonPolarisJack McDevittAmazon
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2006 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerWar SurfM. M. BucknerA rich, jaded thrill seeker is drawn into a vicious competition in this “innovative and exciting” novel by a Philip K. Dick Award winner (C. J. Cherryh). It’s the twenty-third century and Nasir Deepra is 248 years old. A wealthy corporate executive kept yo...Amazon2006 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistCagebirdKarin LowacheeAmazonCowlNeal AsherAmazonNatural HistoryJustina RobsonAmazonSilver ScreenJustina RobsonAmazonTo Crush the MoonWil McCarthyAmazon
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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2006 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerKai Bird and Martin J. SherwinJ. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific pr...Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistA Beautiful MindSylvia NasarAmazonGeorge Santayana: A BiographyJohn Owen McCormickAmazonJonathan Swift: His Life and His WorldLeo DamroschAmazonThe Road From CoorainJill Ker ConwayAmazon
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