2009 Awards Archives - Page 14 of 17

28Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2009 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerOlive KitteridgeElizabeth StroutThe world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son....Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAll SoulsChristine SchuttAmazonThe Plague of DovesLouise ErdrichAmazon

28Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2009 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerSlavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIDouglas A. BlackmonReveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to businesses and provincial farmers....Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistGandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgeArthur L. HermanAmazonThe Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of EuropeWilliam I. HitchcockAmazon

28Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2009 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2009 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyAnnette Gordon-ReedWinner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicl...Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistThe Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960sG. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert WeisbrotAmazonThis Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil WarDrew Gilpin FaustAmazon

28Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2009 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Shadow of SiriusW. S. MerwinUS Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his Selected Poems in 2007. At 82, Merwin produced 'h...Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistWatching the Spring FestivalFrank BidartAmazonWhat Love Comes To: New & Selected PoemsRuth StoneAmazon

28Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson - Novel

2009 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Shirley Jackson - Novel WinnerThe Shadow YearJeffrey FordIn New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints ...Amazon2009 Shirley Jackson - Novel ShortlistAlive in NecropolisDoug DorstAmazonPandemoniumDaryl GregoryAmazonTender MorselsMargo LanaganAmazonThe Man on the CeilingSteve Rasnic Tem & Melanie TemAmazonThe ResurrectionistJack O'ConnellAmazon

28Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerThe Ray Gun: A Love StoryJames Alan GardnerAn unabridged collection spotlighting the “best of the best” science fiction stories published in 2017 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “My English Name,” by R. S. Benedict, an intelligent alien, who parasitizes an E...Amazon2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistFrom Babel's Fall'n Glory We FledMichael SwanwickAmazonHis Master's VoiceHannu RajaniemiAmazonMemory DogKathleen Ann GoonanAmazonSpecial EconomicsMaureen McHughAmazonThe GamblerPaolo BacigalupiAmazonThe Political PrisonerCharles Coleman FinlayAmazonThe TearIan McDonaldAmazonTrue NamesCory Doctorow & Benjamin RosenbaumAmazon

28Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2009 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerTender MorselsMargo LanaganA young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down....AmazonThe Shadow YearJeffrey FordIn New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints ...Amazon2009 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistPandemoniumDaryl GregoryAmazonThe Graveyard BookNeil GaimanAmazonThe House of the StagKage BakerAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, International Dublin Literary Award, International Dublin Literary Award - Novel

2009 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerMan Gone DownMichael ThomasOn the eve of this thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend's six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the mo...Amazon2009 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistAnimal's PeopleIndra SinhaAmazonRavel (translated from French by Linda Coverdale)Jean EchenozAmazonThe Archivist's StoryTravis HollandAmazonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot DíazAmazonThe Burnt-Out Town of Miracles (translated from Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett)Roy JacobsenAmazonThe Indian ClerkDavid LeavittAmazonThe Reluctant FundamentalistMohsin HamidAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

2009 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerThe Graveyard BookNeil GaimanWhen a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life ...Amazon2009 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistAnathemNeal StephensonAmazonLittle BrotherCory DoctorowAmazonSaturn's ChildrenCharles StrossAmazonZoe's TaleJohn ScalziAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerWilliam Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the FliesJohn CareyIn 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to ...Amazon2009 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistCheever: A LifeBlake BaileyAmazonDifferent Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillanJann ParryAmazonMuriel Spark: The BiographyMartin StannardAmazonThe English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De QuinceyRobert MorrisonAmazon