2006 Awards Archives - Page 12 of 15

28Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2006 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerMarchGeraldine BrooksBrooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr March. An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone to serve the Union cause as chaplain to the troops. But the war tests his faith, not only in ...Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe Bright ForeverLee MartinAmazonThe MarchE. L. DoctorowAmazon

28Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2006 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerImperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyaCaroline ElkinsOnly a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly t...Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistPostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Tony JudtAmazonThe Assassins' Gate: America in IraqGeorge PackerAmazon

28Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2006 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerPolio: An American StoryDavid OshinskyHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond....Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistNew York BurningJill LeporeAmazonThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnSean WilentzAmazon

28Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2006 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerLate WifeClaudia EmersonA collection of poems in which the poet reminisces about the life she led with her first husband, describes the healing she went through after her divorce, and expresses her feelings toward her second husband, whose former wife died of cancer....Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistAmerican SublimeElizabeth AlexanderAmazonElegy on Toy PianoDean YoungAmazon

28Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerThe Calorie ManPaolo Bacigalupi...Amazon2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistInside JobConnie WillisAmazonKeyboard Practice, Consisting of an Aria with Diverse Variations for the Harpsichord with Two ManualsJohn G. McDaidAmazonLittle FacesVonda N. McIntyreAmazonMagic for BeginnersKelly LinkAmazonPanaceaJason StoddardAmazonSecond Person, Present TenseDaryl GregoryAmazonThe Blemmye's StratagemBruce SterlingAmazonThe Inn at Mount EitherJames Van PeltAmazonThe Little GoddessIan McDonaldAmazon

28Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2006 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerKafka on the ShoreHaruki MurakamiKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. ...Amazon2006 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistA Princess of RoumaniaPaul ParkAmazonLunar ParkBret Easton EllisAmazonOd MagicPatricia A. McKillipAmazonThe Limits of EnchantmentGraham JoyceAmazonVellumHal DuncanAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, International Dublin Literary Award, International Dublin Literary Award - Novel

2006 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel 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...Amazon2006 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAn Altered Light (translated from Danish by Anne Born)Jens Christian GrøndahlAmazonBreaking the TongueVyvyane LohAmazonDon't Move (translated from Italian by John Cullen)Margaret MazzantiniAmazonGraceLandChris AbaniAmazonHavoc in Its Third YearRonan BennettAmazonMaps for Lost LoversNadeem AslamAmazonThe Closed CircleJonathan CoeAmazonThe LogogryphThomas WhartonAmazonThe Swallows of Kabul (translate...

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

2006 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerSpinRobert Charles WilsonOne night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane L...Amazon2006 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistA Feast for CrowsGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonAccelerandoCharles StrossAmazonLearning the WorldKen MacLeodAmazonOld Man's WarJohn ScalziAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. ThomasByron RogersPresenting the life of one of 20th century English literature's greatest poets, this is a hilarious story of a singular man. Here the author unearths the story of R.S. Thomas's life, and that of his household - one both comic, absurd and touching....Amazon2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistBad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and FatherlandCarmen CallilAmazonGeorge Mackay Brown: The LifeMaggie FergussonAmazonJohn Evelyn: Living for IngenuityGillian DarleyAmazonMellon: An American LifeDavid CannadineAmazonThe High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to TibetKate TeltscherAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe RoadCormac McCarthyWith an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves s...Amazon2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistElectricityRay RobinsonAmazonHalf of a Yellow Sun: A NovelChimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmazonSeven Lies: A NovelJames LasdunAmazonThe Night WatchSarah WatersAmazonThe View from Castle Rock: StoriesAlice MunroAmazon