2008 Awards Archives - Page 13 of 17

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerChildren’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry PotterSeth LererEver since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where...Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistEverything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc GodardRichard BrodyAmazonMaimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest MindsJoel L. KraemerAmazonOrpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of PoetryReginald ShepherdAmazonThe Men in My LifeVivian GornickAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner2666Roberto Bolaño...Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistHomeMarilynne RobinsonAmazonOlive KittredgeElizabeth StroutAmazonThe Ballad of Trenchmouth TaggartM. Glenn TaylorAmazonThe Lazarus ProjectAleksandar HemonAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Forever WarDexter FilkinsProvides a firsthand account of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, from the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, offering a study of the people involved from all sides of the confl...Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistFrom Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776George C. HerringAmazonThe Dark SideJane MayerAmazonThis Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil WarDrew Gilpin FaustAmazonWhite Protestant NationAllan LichtmanAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHalf the World in LightJuan Felipe HerreraNow, in this unprecedented collection, we encounter the trajectory of this highly innovative and original writer, bringing the full scope of his singular vision into view....Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistSleeping It Off in Rapid CityAugust KleinzahlerAmazonHuman Dark With SugarBrenda ShaughnessyAmazonSourcesDevin JohnstonAmazonThe LandscapistPierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery)Amazon

28Mar

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2008 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Yiddish Policemen's UnionMichael ChabonFor sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka Dist...Amazon2008 Nebula - Novel ShortlistOdysseyJack McDevittAmazonRagamuffinTobias S. BuckellAmazonThe Accidental Time MachineJoe HaldemanAmazonThe New Moon's ArmsNalo HopkinsonAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2008 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerNova SwingM. John HarrisonIt is some time after Ed Chianese's trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change, but, more problematically, parts of it have also begun to fall to earth, piecemeal, on the Beach plane...Amazon2008 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistAllyKaren TravissAmazonFrom the Notebooks of Dr. BrainMinister FaustAmazonGradisilAdam RobertsAmazonGreyJon ArmstrongAmazonSaturn ReturnsSean WilliamsAmazonUndertowElizabeth BearAmazon

28Mar

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerEden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherJohn MattesonWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from hi...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistAndrew CarnegieDavid NasawAmazonLouis Armstrong: Master of ModernismThomas BrothersAmazonThe Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American CenturySteve CollAmazonTraitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano RooseveltH.W. BrandsAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot DíazLiving 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...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistShakespeare's KitchenLore SegalAmazonTree of SmokeDenis JohnsonAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2008 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945Saul FriedlanderThe enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily o...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Cigarette CenturyAllan M. BrandtAmazonThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex RossAmazon

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2008 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWhat Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848Daniel Walker HoweThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistNixon and Kissinger: Partners in PowerRobert DallekAmazonThe Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarDavid HalberstamAmazon