Monday, November 25

2014 Awards

2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2014 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerStrange BodiesMarcel TherouxA dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insi...Amazon2014 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAncillary JusticeAnn LeckieAmazonEvening's EmpiresPaul McAuleyAmazonHildNicola GriffithAmazonLexiconMax BarryAmazonNeptune's BroodCharles StrossAmazonOn the Steel BreezeAlastair ReynoldsAmazonProximaStephen BaxterAmazonShamanKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonThe AdjacentChristopher PriestAmazonThe CircleDave EggersAmazonThe Cusanus GameWolfgang JeschkeAmazonThe Disestablishment of ParadisePhillip MannAmazonThe Red: First LightLinda Naga...
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2014 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe Ocean at the End of the LaneNeil GaimanIt began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator ...Amazon2014 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistBlood OrangesKathleen TierneyAmazonCold SteelKate ElliottAmazonDoctor SleepStephen KingAmazonJoylandStephen KingAmazonLife After LifeKate AtkinsonAmazonLondon FallingPaul CornellAmazonNOS4A2Joe HillAmazonRaising SteamTerry PratchettAmazonRiver of StarsGuy Gavriel KayAmazonSister MineNalo HopkinsonAmazonThe Land AcrossGene WolfeAmazonThe Republic of ThievesScott LynchAmazonThe Shining GirlsLauren BeukesAmazonThe Tyrant's...
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2014 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 Locus - SF Novel WinnerAbaddon's GateJames S. A. CoreyThe explosive third novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a major television series. For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact...Amazon2014 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistBurning ParadiseRobert Charles WilsonAmazonFinches of MarsBrian AldissAmazonID: The Second Machine DynastyMadeline AshbyAmazonLexiconMax BarryAmazonMaddAddamMargaret AtwoodAmazonNeptune's BroodCharles StrossAmazonOn the Steel BreezeAlastair ReynoldsAmazonProtectorC. J. CherryhAmazonProximaStephen BaxterAmazonShamanKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonThe AdjacentChristopher PriestAmazonThe Arrows of TimeGreg EganAmazonThe Best of All Possible WorldsKar...
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerNapoleon: A LifeAndrew RobertsAndrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation....Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistEugene O’Neill: A Life in Four ActsRobert M. DowlingAmazonIsabella: The Warrior QueenKirstin DowneyAmazonStalin: Volume 1 – Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928Stephen KotkinAmazonUpdikeAdam BegleyAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy LeagueJeff HobbsTraces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing....Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndAtul GawandeAmazonDeep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them FreeHéctor TobarAmazonJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan StevensonAmazonThe Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the...
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Blazing WorldSiri HustvedtNamed one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 **...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBoy, Snow, BirdHelen OyeyemiAmazonDept. of SpeculationJenny OffillAmazonSilence Once BegunJesse BallAmazonThe Emerald Light in the Air: StoriesDonald AntrimAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerFaces in the CrowdValeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from "one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing." (Alma Guillermoprieto)...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Girl is a Half-Formed ThingEimear McBrideAmazonMan V. Nature: StoriesDiane CookAmazonThe Heaven of Animals: StoriesDavid James PoissantAmazonWolf in White VanJohn DarnielleAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerThe Love BunglersJaime HernandezThe suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. Bu...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistAn Iranian MetamorphosisMana NeyestaniAmazonArséne SchrauwenOlivier SchrauwenAmazonCan’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A MemoirRoz ChastAmazonThis One SummerMariko Tamaki and Jillian TamakiAmazonThis One SummerMariko Tamaki and Jillian TamakiAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931Adam Tooze"A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial sys...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistFive Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World WarMark HarrisAmazonThe Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionWalter IsaacsonAmazonThe Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ LondonJudith FlandersAmazonThirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp DavidLawrence Wri...
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerDry Bones in the ValleyTom BoumanWhen an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. As...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistAfter I’m GoneLaura LippmanAmazonSins of Our FathersShawn Lawrence OttoAmazonThe Girl With a Clock for a HeartPeter SwansonAmazonThe PainterPeter HellerAmazon