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2014 Awards

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerTennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the FleshJohn LahrOn 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'l...Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography Shortlist“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New DirectionsIan S. MacNivenAmazonRebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall JacksonS.C. GwynneAmazonThe Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A BiographyMiriam PawelAmazonWilliam Wells Brown: An African American LifeEzra GreenspanAmazon
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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis AronowitzEllen WillisOut of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular music, ...Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistCitizen: An American LyricClaudia RankineAmazonGeek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of BeautyVikram ChandraAmazonOn Immunity: An InnoculationEula BissAmazonWhat Would Lynne Tillman Do?Lynne TillmanAmazon
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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerLilaMarilynne RobinsonLila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister and widower, J...Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Brief History of Seven KillingsMarlon JamesAmazonAn Unnecessary WomanRabih AlameddineAmazonEuphoriaLily KingAmazonOn Such a Full SeaChang-rae LeeAmazon
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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Problem of Slavery in the Age of EmancipationDavid Brion DavisA conclusion to the historian's three-volume history of slavery in Western culture covers the influential Haitian revolution, the complex significance of colonization, and the less-recognized importance of freed slaves to abolition....Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistCapital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur GoldhammerThomas PikettyAmazonDeep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them FreeHector TobarAmazonThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth KolbertAmazonThe Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a ...
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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCitizen: An American LyricClaudia Rankine...Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAbideJake Adam YorkAmazonOnce in the WestChristian WimanAmazonPrelude to BruiseSaeed JonesAmazonThe Essential Hits of Shorty Bon BonWillie PerdomoAmazon
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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2014 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 Nebula - Novel WinnerAncillary JusticeAnn LeckieThe only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the first book in Ann Leckie's New York Times bestselling trilogy. On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the ...Amazon2014 Nebula - Novel ShortlistA Stranger in OlondriaSofia SamatarAmazonFire with FireCharles E. GannonAmazonHildNicola GriffithAmazonThe Golem and the JinniHelene WeckerAmazonThe Ocean at the End of the LaneNeil GaimanAmazonThe Red: First LightLinda NagataAmazonWe Are All Completely Beside OurselvesKaren Joy FowlerAmazon
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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2014 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerCountdown CityBen H. WintersLosing his job in the wake of an asteroid collision that is set to decimate the planet in 74 days, Detective Hank Palace agrees to help a woman from his past find her missing husband in a world that is rapidly descending into apocalyptic chaos. By the Edga...Amazon2014 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistA Calculated LifeAnne CharnockAmazonAncillary JusticeAnn LeckieAmazonLife on the PreservationJack SkillingsteadAmazonSelf-Reference EngineToh EnJoeAmazonSolaris Rising 2Ian WhatesAmazonThe Mad Scientist's DaughterCassandra RoseAmazon
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