Friday, December 20

2017 Awards

2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerImprovementJoan SilberReyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece'...Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistExit WestMohsin HamidAmazonSing, Unburied, SingJesmyn WardAmazonThe Ministry of Utomst HappinessArundhati RoyAmazonThe Ninth HourAlice McDermottAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaFrances FitzGeraldA history of the Evangelical movement in America traces the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that rendered evangelism a dominant religious force, describing the rise and fall of denominations and how they influenced American agendas....Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our GenesAdam RutherfordAmazonBorder: A Journey to the Edge of EuropeKapka KassabovaAmazonThe Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaMasha GessenAmazonThe Gulf: The Making of An American SeaJack E. DavisAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerWhereasLayli Long SoldierWhereas confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtu...Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDirections for Use, translated by Steven Teref and Maja TerefAna RistovicAmazonEarthlingJames LongenbackAmazonFourth Person SingularNuar AlsadirAmazonThe Darkness of SnowFrank OrmsbyAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

2017 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 Nebula - Novel WinnerAll the Birds in the SkyCharlie Jane AndersChildhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and ...Amazon2017 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBorderlineMishell BakerAmazonEverfairNisi ShawlAmazonNinefox GambitYoon Ha LeeAmazonThe Obelisk GateN. K. JemisinAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

2017 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe Mercy JournalsClaudia CasperIn the aftermath of a new world war, a former soldier confronts his own morality and its impact on others....Amazon2017 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistConsiderKristy AcevedoAmazonGraftMatt HillAmazonHwarhath StoriesEleanor ArnasonAmazonSuper Extra GrandeYossAmazonUnpronounceableSusan diRendeAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2017 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2017 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenHisham Matar"From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of answers to his father's disappearance. In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham...Amazon2017 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistRichard Nixon: The LifeJohn A. FarrellAmazonUnder a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of AmericaWilliam SouderAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2017 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Underground RailroadColson WhiteheadLike millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight...Amazon2017 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistImagine Me GoneAdam HaslettAmazonThe Sport of KingsC. E. MorganAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2017 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Pulitzer Prize - 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...Amazon2017 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistIn a Different Key: The Story of AutismJohn Donvan and Caren ZuckerAmazonThe Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National CemeteryMicki McElyaAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2017 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2017 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyHeather Ann ThompsonEver since the USS Walkercame from another world war to defy the terrifying Grik and diabolical Dominion, Matt Reddy and his crew have given their all to protect the oppressed Lemurians. But with the Walkerin desperate need of repairs just as the Grik's Fi...Amazon2017 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistBrothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved ItLarrie D. FerreiroAmazonNew England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early AmericaWendy WarrenAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2017 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2017 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerOlioTyehimba JessWith ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America s blues, worksongs and church hymns."...Amazon2017 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistCollected Poems: 1950-2012Adrienne RichAmazonXXCampbell McGrathAmazon