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2009 Awards

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyJohn Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left some of the best short stories of the twentieth century, a number of highly acclaimed novels, and a private journal that runs to an astoni...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistBitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio SiloneStanislao G. PuglieseAmazonFlannery: A Life of Flannery O’ConnorBrad GoochAmazonPassing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. SandweissAmazonWhy This World: A Biography of Clarice LispectorBenjamin MoserAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerNotes From No Man’s Land: American EssaysEula BissWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man’s Land begins...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistClose Calls with Nonsense: Reading New PoetryStephen BurtAmazonDancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great DepressionMorris DicksteinAmazonHeroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and CultureDavid HajduAmazonPerfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded MusicGreg MilnerAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerWolf HallHilary MantelEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The ...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistAmerican SalvageBonnie Jo CampbellAmazonBlameMichelle HunevenAmazonLark and TermiteJayne Anne PhillipsAmazonThe Book of Night WomenMarlon JamesAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceRichard HolmesThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 176...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistFordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle CityGreg GrandinAmazonImperialWilliam T. VollmannAmazonStrength in What RemainsTracy KidderAmazonThe Hindus: An Alternative HistoryWendy DonigerAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerVersedRae ArmantroutWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009) Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, off...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Village LifeLouise GlückAmazonCaptive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008Eleanor Ross TaylorAmazonChronicD.A. PowellAmazonMuseum of AccidentsRachel ZuckerAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2009 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Nebula - Novel WinnerPowersUrsula K. Le GuinWinner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel: A young man tries to come to grips with his strange gifts as he sets out on a dangerous journey. Brought up in comfort as a house slave for a great family, young Gavir can recall the page of a book after seeing it...Amazon2009 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBrasylIan McDonaldAmazonCauldronJack McDevittAmazonLittle BrotherCory DoctorowAmazonMaking MoneyTerry PratchettAmazonSuperpowersDavid J. SchwartzAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2009 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerEmissaries from the DeadAdam-Troy Castro“As great as I’d hoped...Andrea Cort and her universe have terrific scope for future development.” —i09 The place is One One One, a gigantic enclosed space station constructed by the AIsource, a mysterious software collective that may be the most advanced,...Amazon2009 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistTerminal MindDavid WaltonAmazonFast Forward 2Lou AndersAmazonJudgeKaren TravissAmazonPlague WarJeff CarlsonAmazonTime Machines Repaired While-U-WaitK. A. BedfordAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2009 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2009 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerAmerican Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseJon MeachamChronicles the life and career of Andrew Jackson, a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history....Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyAmazonMurrow: His Life and TimesA.M. SperberAmazon
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