Monday, December 23

2013 Awards

2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2013 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2013 Locus - SF Novel WinnerRedshirtsJohn ScalziEnsign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laboratory. L...Amazon2013 Locus - SF Novel Shortlist2312Kim Stanley RobinsonAmazonAngelmakerNick HarkawayAmazonArctic RisingTobias S. BuckellAmazonBlue Remembered EarthAlastair ReynoldsAmazonBowl of HeavenGregory Benford & Larry NivenAmazonCaliban's WarJames S. A. CoreyAmazonCaptain Vorpatril's AllianceLois McMaster BujoldAmazonEmpty SpaceM. John HarrisonAmazonIntruderC. J. CherryhAmazonIntrusionKen MacLeodAmazonSlow ApocalypseJohn VarleyAmazonThe Fractal PrinceHannu RajaniemiAmazonThe Hydrogen SonataIa...
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerBolivar: American Liberator,Marie AranaAn authoritative portrait of the Latin-American warrior-statesman examines his life against a backdrop of the tensions of nineteenth-century South America, covering his achievements as a strategist, abolitionist, and diplomat....Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAmerican Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman RockwellDeborah SolomonAmazonCountry Girl: A MemoirEdna O’BrienAmazonThe Red Man’s Bones: George Catlin, Artist and ShowmanBenita EislerAmazonWilsonA. Scott BergAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerFive Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,Sheri 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 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistDetroit: An American AutopsyCharlie LeDuffAmazonGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of BeliefLawrence WrightAmazonManifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His FreedomBarry SiegelAmazonThank You for Your ServiceDavid FinkelAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Tale for the Time Being,Ruth OzekiA brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or e...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistPercival Everett by Virgil RussellPercival EverettAmazonSpectacle: StoriesSusan SteinbergAmazonThe Maid’s Version: A NovelDaniel WoodrellAmazonThe Woman UpstairsClaire MessudAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSeating Arrangements,Maggie ShipsteadThe Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to the impeccably appropriate Greyson Duff. The weekend is full of champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discon...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistFobbit,David AbramsAmazonMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store: A Novel,Robin SloanAmazonShine Shine Shine*Lydia NetzerAmazonThe Natural Order of Things,Kevin P. KeatingAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerToday is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life,Ulli LustBack in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that t...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistHand-Drying in America: And Other StoriesBen KatchorAmazonIncidents in the Night: Volume 1David B.AmazonThe EndAnders NilsenAmazonThe Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the SommeJoe SaccoAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,Christopher ClarkOne of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World W...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistFDR and the JewsRichard Breitman & Allan J. LichtmanAmazonThe Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismDoris Kearns GoodwinAmazonThe Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832Alan TaylorAmazonThe Searchers: The Making of an American LegendGlenn FrankelAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe Cuckoo’s Calling,J. K. Rowling Writing As Robert GalbraithA brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, a...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistHour of the Red GodRichard CromptonAmazonSycamore RowJohn GrishamAmazonThe Collini CaseFerdinand von SchirachAmazonThe Cuckoo’s CallingRobert GalbraithAmazonThe RageGene KerriganAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerCollected Poems,Ron PadgettFifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry....Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDebts & LessonsLynn XuAmazonHello, the RosesMei-Mei BerssenbruggeAmazonOn GhostsElizabeth RobinsonAmazonThe Inside of an AppleJoshua BeckmanAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerCountdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?,Alan WeismanEvery four days there are a million more people on the planet. More people and fewer resources. In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species - including our own - out of...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAnimal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow CreaturesVirginia MorellAmazonBrainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless NeuroscienceSally Satel and Scott O. LilienfeldAmazonScatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass ExtinctionAnnalee NewitzAmazonSocial: Why Our Brains are Wired to ConnectMatthew D. LiebermanAmaz...