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2010 Awards

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2010 Awards, Agatha Award, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Children/Young Adult

2010 Agatha Award – Children/Young Adult Winner and Nominees

2010 Agatha Award - Children/Young Adult WinnerThe Other Side of DarkSarah Smith...Amazon2010 Agatha Award - Children/Young Adult NomineesA Spy in the HouseY.S. LeeAmazonTheodore Boone: Kid LawyerJohn GrishamAmazonTheodosia and the Eyes of HorusR.L. LaFeversAmazonViralsKathy Reichs and Brendan ReichsAmazon
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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerHow To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an AnswerSarah BakewellHow to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and exper...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistCharlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American HistoryYunte HuangAmazonSimon Wiesenthal: The Life and LegendsTom SegevAmazonThe Killing of Crazy HorseThomas PowersAmazonThe Secret Lives of Somerset MaughamSelina HastingsAmazon
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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the WestClare CavanaghLyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh demonst...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistThe Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political ViolenceSusie LinfieldAmazonThe Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read ThemElif BatumanAmazonThe Professor and Other WritingsTerry CastleAmazonVanishing Point: Not a MemoirAnder MonsonAmazon
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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganJennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader d...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistComedy in a Minor Key, tr. by Damion SearlsHans KeilsonAmazonFreedomJonathan FranzenAmazonSkippy DiesPaul MurrayAmazonTo the End of the LandDavid GrossmanAmazon
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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great MigrationIsabel WilkersonIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistApollo’s Angels: A History of BalletJennifer HomansAmazonEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS.C. GwynneAmazonNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaBarbara DemickAmazonThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography o...
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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerOne with Others: [a little book of her days]C. D. Wright’s...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLightheadTerrance HayesAmazonNoxAnne CarsonAmazonThe Best of It: New and Selected PoemsKay RyanAmazonThe Eternal CityKathleen GraberAmazon
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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2010 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiWinner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thaila...Amazon2010 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBoneshakerCherie PriestAmazonFinchJeff VanderMeerAmazonFlesh and FireLaura Anne GilmanAmazonThe City & the CityChina MiévilleAmazonThe Love We Share Without KnowingChristopher BarzakAmazon
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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2010 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerBitter AngelsC. L. AndersonAn Imploding Star System. A Murdered Galactic Spy. A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable… The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling ...Amazon2010 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistCenturies Ago and Very FastRebecca OreAmazonCyberabad DaysIan McDonaldAmazonProphetsS. Andrew SwannAmazonThe Devil's AlphabetDaryl GregoryAmazonThe PrisonerCarlos J. CortesAmazonThe Repossession MamboEric GarciaAmazon
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