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2016 Awards

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2016 Awards, Agatha Award, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Historical

2016 Agatha Award – Historical Winner and Nominees

2016 Agatha Award - Historical WinnerThe Reek of Red HerringsCatriona McPherson...Amazon2016 Agatha Award - Historical NomineesDelivering the TruthEdith MaxwellAmazonGet Me to the Grave on TimeD.E. IrelandAmazonMurder in Morningside HeightsVictoria ThompsonAmazonWhispers Beyond the VeilJessica EstevaoAmazon
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2016 Awards, Agatha Award, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nonfiction

2016 Agatha Award – Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Agatha Award - Nonfiction WinnerMastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their SeatsJane K. Cleland...Amazon2016 Agatha Award - Nonfiction NomineesA Good Man with a Dog: A Game Warden’s 25 Years in the Maine WoodsRoger Guay with Kate ClarkAmazonSara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery FictionMargaret KinsmanAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerShirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted LifeRuth FranklinInstantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. In this "remarkable...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistBlack Elk: The Life of an American VisionaryJoe JacksonAmazonGuilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De QuinceyFrances WilsonAmazonKrazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and WhiteMichael TisserandAmazonMoscow Nights: The Van Cliburn StoryNigel CliffAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerWhite Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial DivideCarol AndersonFrom the Civil War to our combustible present, and now with a new epilogue about the 2016 presidential election, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race. White Rage chronicles the powerful forces opposed to black ...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAgainst Everything: EssaysMark GreifAmazonAm I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to LivePeter OrnerAmazonLooking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary ClassicAlice KaplanAmazonThe Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being AloneOlivia LaingAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerLaRoseLouise ErdrichLate summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich, the deceased ...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistCommonwealthAnn PatchettAmazonImagine Me GoneAdam HaslettAmazonMoonglowMichael ChabonAmazonSwing TimeZadie SmithAmazon
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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew DesmondA Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional le...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightJane MayerAmazonNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarViet Thanh NguyenAmazonStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. KendiAmazonWriting to Save a Life: The Louis Till FileJohn Edgar WidemanAma...
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