Sunday, November 17

2007 Awards

2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerStanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest ExplorerTim JealHenry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of h...Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistEdith WhartonHermione LeeAmazonRalph EllisonArnold RampersadAmazonThe Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932John RichardsonAmazonThomas HardyClaire TomalinAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex RossThe scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences....Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistColtrane: The Story of a SoundBen RatliffAmazonOnce Upon a QuniceaneraJulia AlvarezAmazonThe Terror DreamSusan FaludiAmazonTwenty-Eight Artists and Two SaintsJoan AcocellaAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot DiazLiving with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the author o...Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistIn The Country of MenHisham MatarAmazonSacred GamesVikram ChandraAmazonThe Gravedigger’s DaughterJoyce Carol OatesAmazonThe Shadow CatcherMarianne WigginsAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerMedical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentHarriet WashingtonFrom the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive hi...Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAmerican TranscendentalismPhilip GuraAmazonLegacy of Ashes: A History of the CIATim WeinerAmazonThe World Without Us, Thomas DunneAlan WeismanAmazonWhat Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848Daniel Walker HoweAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerElegyMary Jo BangProvides a collection of poems examining grief and loss of an adult child....Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistModern LifeMatthea HarveyAmazonNew PoemsTadeusz RozewiczAmazonSleeping and WakingMichael O’BrienAmazonThe Ballad of Jamie AllanTom PickardAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2007 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2007 Nebula - Novel WinnerSeekerJack McDevittAfter the disappearance of an entire colony, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict finds a cup that appears to be from one of the colony's ships, and, in attempting to establish its provenance, follows a trail that leads to the ship....Amazon2007 Nebula - Novel ShortlistFarthingJo WaltonAmazonFrom the Files of the Time RangersRichard BowesAmazonThe Girl in the GlassJeffrey FordAmazonThe Privilege of the SwordEllen KushnerAmazonTo Crush the MoonWil McCarthyAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2007 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2007 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerSpin ControlChris MoriartyMajor Catherine Li and A.I. Hyacinthe Cohen join forces once again to track down a defecting clone who has stolen a radical genetic weapon capable of destroying the precarious balance of power throughout the universe, in the sequel to Spin State. Reprint....Amazon2007 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistCarnivalElizabeth BearAmazonCatalystNina Kiriki HoffmanAmazonIdolonMark BudzAmazonLiving Next Door to the God of LoveJustina RobsonAmazonMindscapeAndrea HairstonAmazonRecursionTony BallantyneAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2007 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2007 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherDebby ApplegateNo one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned th...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistHemingwayKenneth S. LynnAmazonJohn Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil LibertyArthur H. CashAmazonThe Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy AdamsLeonard L. RichardsAmazonThe Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in VietnamMax BootAmazonThe Worlds of Lincoln KirsteinMartin DubermanAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2007 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Pulitzer 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...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAfter ThisAlice McDermottAmazonThe Echo MakerRichard PowersAmazon