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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerLiberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary WarMaya JasanoffA global history of the post-Revolutionary War exodus of 60,000 Americans loyal to the British Empire to such regions as Canada, India and Sierra Leone traces the experiences of specific individuals while challenging popular conceptions about the founding ...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil WarAmanda ForemanAmazonPulphead: EssaysJohn Jeremiah SullivanAmazonThe InformationJames GleickAmazonTo End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918Adam HochschildAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSpace, in ChainsLaura Kasischke"Space, in Chains" speaks in ghostly voices, fractured narratives, songs, prayers, and dark riddles as it moves through contemporary tragedies of grief and the complex succession of generations. In her eighth book of poetry, Laura Kasischke has pared the c...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistCore Samples from the WorldForrest GanderAmazonDevotionsBruce SmithAmazonKingdom AnimaliaAracelis GirmayAmazonThe Chameleon CouchYusef KomunyakaaAmazon

28Mar

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2011 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 Nebula - Novel WinnerBlackout/All ClearConnie WillisAward-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history....Amazon2011 Nebula - Novel ShortlistEchoJack McDevittAmazonShades of Milk and HoneyMary Robinette KowalAmazonThe Hundred Thousand KingdomsN. K. JemisinAmazonThe Native StarM. K. HobsonAmazonWho Fears DeathNnedi OkoraforAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2011 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe Strange Affair of Spring Heeled JackMark HodderLondon, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, fo...Amazon2011 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistChillElizabeth BearAmazonHarmonyProject Itoh translated by Alexander O. SmithAmazonSong of ScarabaeusSara CreasyAmazonState of DecayJames KnappAmazonThe Reapers Are the AngelsAlden BellAmazonYarnJon ArmstrongAmazon

28Mar

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerWashington: A LifeRon ChernowA gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical. Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistIsaac NewtonJames GleickAmazonLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a RevolutionMary GabrielAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - 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...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe PrivilegesJonathan DeeAmazonThe SurrenderedChang-Rae LeeAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2011 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerEmperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha MukherjeeAn assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, providing coverage of such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the development of present-day...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS.C. GwynneAmazonThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas G. CarrAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2011 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryEric Foner“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's cr...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistConfederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War SouthStephanie McCurryAmazonEden on the Charles: The Making of BostonMichael J. RawsonAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Best of It: New and Selected PoemsKay RyanKay Ryan’s recent appointment as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious device...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistBreak the GlassJean ValentineAmazonThe Common ManMaurice ManningAmazon

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson - Novel

2011 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

2011 Shirley Jackson - Novel WinnerMr. ShiversRobert Jackson BennettIt is the time of the Great Depression. The dustbowl has turned the western skies red and thousands leave their homes seeking a better life. Marcus Connelly seeks not a life, but a death - a death for the mysterious scarred man who murdered his daughter. A...Amazon2011 Shirley Jackson - Novel ShortlistA Dark MatterPeter StraubAmazonDark MatterMichelle PaverAmazonFeedMira GrantAmazonThe Reapers Are the AngelsAlden BellAmazonThe Silent LandGraham JoyceAmazon