2012 Awards Archives - Page 15 of 18

28Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2012 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableGroundbreaking . . . It will be difficult for anyone to better this book . . . a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post 'He was a...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistEmpires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860Anne F. HydeAmazonRailroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaRichard WhiteAmazonThe Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin LadenAnthony Summers and Robbyn SwanAmazon

28Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2012 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerLife on MarsTracy K. SmithWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by th...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistCore Samples from the WorldForrest GanderAmazonHow LongRon PadgettAmazon

28Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Shirley Jackson, Shirley Jackson - Novel

2012 Shirley Jackson – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 Shirley Jackson - Novel WinnerWitches on the Road TonightSheri HolmanHis private life shattered amid rumors of his mother's witchcraft activities, Eddie Alley leaves his Depression-era Virginia hometown to begin a television career in New York and finds the past returning years later when he offers shelter to a homeless tee...Amazon2012 Shirley Jackson - Novel ShortlistKnock KnockS. P. MiskowskiAmazonThe Devil All the TimeDonald Ray PollockAmazonThe Dracula PapersReggie OliverAmazonThe Great LoverMichael CiscoAmazonThe Last WerewolfGlen DuncanAmazon

28Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerThe ChoicePaul McAuley...Amazon2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistGhostweightYoon Ha LeeAmazonSilently and Very FastCatherynne M. ValenteAmazonSix Months, Three DaysCharlie Jane AndersAmazonThe Copenhagen InterpretationPaul CornellAmazonThe Man Who Bridged the MistKij JohnsonAmazonThe Man Who Ended History: A DocumentaryKen LiuAmazonThe Old EquationsJake KerrAmazonThe Paper MenagerieKen LiuAmazon

28Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Awards - Novel

2012 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerOsamaLavie TidharLavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King’s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks—exper...Amazon2012 World Fantasy Awards - Novel Shortlist23337Stephen KingAmazonA Dance with DragonsGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonAmong OthersJo WaltonAmazonThose Across the RiverChristopher BuehlmanAmazon

25Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, International Dublin Literary Award, International Dublin Literary Award - Novel

2012 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel WinnerEven the DogsJon McGregor“A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental.” —James Wood, The New Yorker On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies...Amazon2012 International Dublin Literary Award - Novel ShortlistA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganAmazonLandedTim PearsAmazonLean on PeteWilly VlautinAmazonLimassolYishai SaridAmazonMatterhornKarl MarlantesAmazonRocks in the BellyJon BauerAmazonThe Eternal SonCristóvão TezzaAmazonThe Matter with MorrisDavid BergenAmazonThe Memory of LoveAminatta FornaAmazon

25Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

2012 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 Hugo Awards - 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 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistA Dance with DragonsGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonDeadlineMira GrantAmazonEmbassytownChina MiévilleAmazonLeviathan WakesJames S. A. CoreyAmazon

25Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography WinnerThe Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the CountercultureTanya HarrodBritish studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. After graduating from Oxford in 1923, he made majestic slipwar...Amazon2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography ShortlistCirculation: William Harvey's Revolutionary IdeaThomas WrightAmazonJoseph Anton: A MemoirSalman RushdieAmazonPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazon

25Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Deadman's PedalAlan WarnerWinner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and g...Amazon2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction ShortlistLeaving the Atocha Station: A NovelBen LernerAmazonThe Big MusicKirsty GunnAmazonThe PanopticonJenni FaganAmazon

25Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2012 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Highest FrontierJoan SlonczewskiPreparing to enter her first year at a college located in orbit, Jennifer Ramos Kennedy grieves the untimely death of her twin brother and is urged to fulfill the expectations of her influential family in the wake of a surge in global warming and a threat ...Amazon2012 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistThe IslandersChristopher PriestAmazonDancing with BearsMichael SwanwickAmazonEmbassytownChina MiévilleAmazonHome FiresGene WolfeAmazonOsamaLavie TidharAmazonReady Player OneErnest ClineAmazonRobopocalypseDaniel H. WilsonAmazonSeedRob ZieglerAmazonSoft ApocalypseWill McIntoshAmazonThis Shared DreamKathleen Ann GoonanAmazon