Monday, December 23

2013 Awards

2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerJonathan Swift: His Life And His WorldLeo DamroschFrom a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language...Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistBach: Music In The Castle Of HeavenJohn Eliot GardinerAmazonBirth Certificate: The Story Of Danilo KisMark ThompsonAmazonHolding On Upside Down: The Life And Work Of Marianne MooreLinda LeavellAmazonLawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle EastScott AndersonAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerDistant ReadingFranco MorettiIn ten essays, presents the author's philosophy of "distant reading" and challenges deep-rooted beliefs about world cultures and art, while applying economic and network theories to literature....Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistConfronting The Classics: Traditions, Adventures And InnovationsMary BeardAmazonForty-One False Starts: Essays On Artists And WritersJanet MalcolmAmazonThe Kraus Project: Essays By Karl Kraus, Translated And Annotated By Jonathan Franzen With Paul Reiter And Daniel KehlmannJonathan FranzenAmazonWhite GirlsHilton AlsAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerAmericanahChimamanda Ngozi AdichieFearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning 'Americanah' is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world....Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Tale For The Time BeingRuth OzekiAmazonSomeoneAlice McDermottAmazonThe GoldfinchDonna TarttAmazonThe InfatuationsJavier MariasAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerFive Days At Memorial: Life And Death In A Storm-Ravaged HospitalSheri FinkA Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor, reporter and author of War Hospital reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed its generators to reveal how caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions without essential ...Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood And The Prison Of BeliefLawrence WrightAmazonThank You For Your ServiceDavid FinkelAmazonThe Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New AmericaGeorge PackerAmazonWhitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster And The Manhunt That Brought Him To JusticeKevin Cullen And Shelley MurphyAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerMetaphysical DogFrank BidartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work today In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex c...Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBlowoutDenise DuhamelAmazonElegy OwedBob HicokAmazonMilk And FilthCarmen Gimenez SmithAmazonStay, IllusionLucie Brock-BroidoAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2013 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2013 Nebula - Novel Winner2312Kim Stanley RobinsonWinner of the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novel The year is 2312. Scientific advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer our only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system, on moons, planets and in bet...Amazon2013 Nebula - Novel ShortlistGlamour in GlassMary Robinette KowalAmazonIronskinTina ConnollyAmazonThe Drowning GirlCaitlín R. KiernanAmazonThe Killing MoonN. K. JemisinAmazonThrone of the Crescent MoonSaladin AhmedAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2013 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2013 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerLost EverythingBrian Francis SlatteryFrom the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road. In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susqueh...Amazon2013 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistBlueprints of the AfterlifeRyan BoudinotAmazonFountain of AgeNancy KressAmazonHarmonyKeith BrookeAmazonHelix WarsEric BrownAmazonLovestarAndri Snær MagnasonAmazonThe Not YetMoira CroneAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2013 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2013 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom ReissThe Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas’s own father, Alex - the son of a marquis and a black slave....Amazon2013 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistFreud: A Life for Our TimePeter GayAmazonThe Duke of DeceptionGeoffrey WolffAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2013 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Orphan Master's SonAdam JohnsonWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 'You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ... fantastic' ZADIE SMITH Pak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his p...Amazon2013 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe Snow ChildEowyn IveyAmazonWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne FrankNathan EnglanderAmazon