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2012 Awards

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerThe Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroExamines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War....Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistAll We Know: Three LivesLisa CohenAmazonPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazonRobert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A BiographyLisa JarnotAmazonThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom ReissAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerStranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsMarina WarnerOur foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exotici...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistRack, and HoneyMary Ruefle MadnessAmazonReinventing BachPaul ElieAmazonThe Grey Album: On the Blackness of BlacknessKevin YoungAmazonWaiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop CultureDaniel MendelsohnAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime WalkBen FountainNew York Times Bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture “Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review “Mothers, father, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel.” —MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadett...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistHHhH. tr. by Sam TaylorLaurent BinetAmazonMagnificenceLydia MilletAmazonNWZadie SmithAmazonThe Orphan Master’s SonAdam JohnsonAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerFar From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for IdentityAndrew SolomonThe National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon explores the consequences of extreme personal differences between parents and children, describing his own experiences as a gay child of straight parents while evaluating the circumstances of peop...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine BooAmazonPrivate Empire: ExxonMobil and American PowerSteve CollAmazonSpillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicDavid QuammenAmazonWhy Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective StoryJim HoltAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerUseless Landscape, or A Guide for BoysD. A. Powell*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry* I have this rearrangement to make: symbolic death, my backward glance. The way the past is a kind of future leaning against the sporty hood. —from "Bugcatching at Twilight" In Useless Lands...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBewilderment: New Poems and TranslationsDavid FerryAmazonFragile ActsAllan PetersonAmazonOlivesA. E. StallingsAmazonOn the Spectrum of Possible DeathsLucia PerilloAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2012 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 Nebula - Novel WinnerAmong OthersJo WaltonWinner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilli...Amazon2012 Nebula - Novel ShortlistEmbassytownChina MiévilleAmazonFirebirdJack McDevittAmazonGod's WarKameron HurleyAmazonMechanique: A Tale of the Circus TresaultiGenevieve ValentineAmazonThe Kingdom of GodsN. K. JemisinAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2012 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe Samuel Petrovich TrilogySimon MordenThe Six Degrees of Samuel Petrovitch: * Michael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch will free him one day, he just has to trust Michael will still be sane by the time he does. * Maddy and Petrovitch h...Amazon2012 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistA Soldier's DutyJean JohnsonAmazonAfter the Apocalypse: StoriesMaureen F. McHughAmazonDeadlineMira GrantAmazonThe Company ManRobert Jackson BennettAmazonThe OtherMatthew HughesAmazonThe PostmortalDrew MagaryAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2012 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGeorge F. Kennan: An American LifeJohn Lewis GaddisA portrait of the Cold War strategist offers insight into his complex, troubled character while tracing his role in defining U.S. policy, covering his critical views on American diplomacy and his struggles with depression....Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazonThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. KennedyDavid NasawAmazon
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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2012 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Swerve: How the World Became ModernStephen GreenblattWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in w...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistOne Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of HealingDiane AckermanAmazonUnnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of MenMara HvistendahlAmazon
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