Monday, December 23

2008 Awards

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

2008 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerFailurePhilip SchultzFailure is a superb collection, “full of slashing language, good rhythms [and] surprises” (Norman Mailer). “Philip Schultz’s poems have long since earned their own place in American poetry....AmazonTime and MaterialsRobert HassThe poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically var...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistMessenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2006Ellen Bryant VoigtAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson - Novel

2008 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Shirley Jackson - Novel WinnerGeneration LossElizabeth HandThe secrets of small-town life can be more deadly than fist fights and dead junkies . . . Cass Neary is not afraid of living on the edge. A photographer whose shots of New York's punk scene in the seventies earned her fame, caché, and a cultish kind of coo...Amazon2008 Shirley Jackson - Novel ShortlistBaltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the VampireMike Mignola & Christopher GoldenAmazonSharp TeethToby BarlowAmazonThe TerrorDan SimmonsAmazonTokyo Year ZeroDavid PeaceAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerFinisterraDavid Moles...AmazonTidelineElizabeth BearPresents a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, including "Tideline," "Gods of the forge," and "The death of terrestrial radio."...Amazon2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistAlwaysKaren Joy FowlerAmazonBaby DollJohanna SinisaloAmazonMemorareGene WolfeAmazonThe Dreaming WindJeffrey FordAmazonThe Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the ChangeKij JohnsonAmazonThe ForestLaird BarronAmazonThe Last AmericanJohn KesselAmazonThe Master Miller's TaleIan R. MacLeodAmazonThe Merchant and the Alchemist's GateTed ChiangAmazonThe Tomb WifeGwyneth JonesAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2008 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerYsabelGuy Gavriel KayIn this exhilarating, moving novel set in modern and ancient Provence, Guy Gavriel Kay casts brilliant light on the ways in which history – whether of a culture or a family – refuses to be buried....Amazon2008 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistFanglandJohn MarksAmazonTerritoryEmma BullAmazonThe Gospel of the KnifeWill ShetterlyAmazonThe ServantsMichael Marshall SmithAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, International Dublin Literary Award, International Dublin Literary Award - Novel

2008 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerDe Niro's GameRawi HageDe Niro's Game is the stunning winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the very first novel by up-and-coming Lebanese literary star Rawi Hage, also author of Cockroach. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian s...Amazon2008 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAndreï MakineThe Woman Who Waited (translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan)AmazonDreams of SpeakingGail JonesAmazonLet It Be Morning (translated from Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger)Sayed KashuaAmazonThe Attack (translated from French by John Cullen)Yasmina KhadraAmazonThe Speed of Light (translated from Spanish by Anne McLean)Javier CercasAmazonThe Sweet & Simple KindYasmine GooneratneAmazonWint...
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

2008 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Hugo Awards - 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 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistBrasylIan McDonaldAmazonHalting StateCharles StrossAmazonRollbackRobert J. SawyerAmazonThe Last ColonyJohn ScalziAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerA Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable FamiliesMichael HolroydIt will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition....Amazon2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistArthur MillerChristopher BigsbyAmazonChagall: A BiographyJackie WullschlagerAmazonEdward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and LoveSheila RowbothamAmazonGabriel García Márquez: A LifeGerald MartinAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Secret Scripture: A NovelSebastian BarryNearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often wi...Amazon2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Case of Exploding Mangoes: A NovelMohammed HanifAmazonA Mercy: A NovelToni MorrisonAmazonPilcrowAdam Mars-JonesAmazonSputnik CaledoniaAndrew CrumeyAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2008 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerIn War TimesKathleen Ann GoonanIn an alternate-universe depiction of World War II, Sam enlists for the military after his brother is killed at Pearl Harbor and receives plans for a mysterious device from one of his instructors that he spends the war constructing, with unexpected and biz...Amazon2008 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAxisRobert Charles WilsonAmazonBad MonkeysMatt RuffAmazonBrasylIan McDonaldAmazonDeadstockJeffrey ThomasAmazonHARMBrian W. AldissAmazonMainspringJay LakeAmazonRollbackRobert J. SawyerAmazonThe Execution ChannelKen MacLeodAmazonThe MargaretsSheri S. TepperAmazonThe New Moon's ArmsNalo HopkinsonAmazonThe Yiddish Policemen's UnionMichael ChabonAmazonTime's ChildRebecca OreAmazonZig ZagJose Carlos SomozaAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2008 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerMaking MoneyTerry PratchettAmazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is as...Amazon2008 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Betrayal in WinterDaniel AbrahamAmazonDaughter of HoundsCaitlín R. KiernanAmazonEndless ThingsJohn CrowleyAmazonInkHal DuncanAmazonOrphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and SpiceCatherynne M. ValenteAmazonPirate FreedomGene WolfeAmazonSoftspokenLucius ShepardAmazonTerritoryEmma BullAmazonThe New Moon's ArmsNalo HopkinsonAmazonThe Secret History of MoscowEkaterina SediaAmazonThe White TygerPaul ParkAmazonTitans of ChaosJohn C. WrightA...