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2015 Awards

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Audies, Audio Drama, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year

2015 Audies – Audio Drama Winner and Nominees

2015 Audies - Audio Drama WinnerTHE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLESSir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright...Amazon2015 Audies - Audio Drama NomineesAnne Manx and the Blood ChaseLarry WeinerAmazonMistborn: The Final EmpireBrandon SandersonAmazonThe Swords of RiversideEllen Kushner and Delia ShermanAmazonUnder Drake's FlagG.A. HentyAmazon
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28Mar By awardsarchive_e47t1fNo Comments
2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary ShelleyCharlotte Gordon"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never ...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistCuster’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaT.J. StilesAmazonDietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two LivesKarin Wieland translated by Shelley FrischAmazonFortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes BoothTerry AlfordAmazonStalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous...
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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe ArgonautsMaggie NelsonWinner, 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking about desire, identity and the limitations and possibilities of love an...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistBetween the World and MeTa-Nehisi CoatesAmazonEternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William BlakeLeo DamroschAmazonOn Elizabeth BishopColm TóibínAmazonThe Nearest Thing to LifeJames WoodAmazon
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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe SelloutPaul Beatty**WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016** ‘Outrageous, hilarious and profound.’ Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘The longer you stare at Beatty’s pages, the smarter you’ll get.’ The Guardian ‘The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I’ve read.’ The...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistEileenOttessa MoshfeghAmazonFates and FuriesLauren GroffAmazonThe Story of My Teeth, translated by Christina MacSweeneyValeria LuiselliAmazonThe Tsar of Love and TechnoAnthony MarraAmazon
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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerDreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate EpidemicSam QuinonesAn explosive true account of addiction, marketing and the making of an epidemic weaves together the story of Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, while, at the same time, a massive influx of black tar heroin took the county by storm through an alm...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistGhettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaJill LeovyAmazonGive Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in AmericaAri BermanAmazonSPQR: A History of RomeMary BeardAmazonWhat the Eye Hears: A History of Tap DancingBrian SeibertAmazon
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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCatalogue of Unabashed GratitudeRoss GayWinner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained m...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBright Dead ThingsAda LimónAmazonHow to Be DrawnTerrance HayesAmazonParallax and Selected PoemsSinéad MorrisseyAmazonWhat About This: Collected Poems of Frank StanfordFrank StanfordAmazon
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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2015 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2015 Nebula - Novel WinnerAnnihilationJeff VanderMeerDescribes the 12th expedition to “Area X,” a region cut off from the continent for decades, by a group of intrepid women scientists who try to ignore the high mortality rates of those on the previous 11 missions....Amazon2015 Nebula - Novel ShortlistAncillary SwordAnn LeckieAmazonComing HomeJack McDevittAmazonThe Goblin EmperorKatherine AddisonAmazonThe Three-Body ProblemCixin Liu translated by Ken LiuAmazonTrial by FireCharles E. GannonAmazon
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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2015 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2015 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe Book of the Unnamed MidwifeMeg ElisonPhilip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science Fiction When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for...Amazon2015 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistElysiumJennifer Marie BrissettAmazonMaplecroft: The Borden DispatchesCherie PriestAmazonMemory of WaterEmmi ItärantaAmazonReach for InfinityJonathan StrahanAmazonThe Bullet-Catcher's DaughterRod DuncanAmazon
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