Friday, December 20

2017 Awards

2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSour Heart, LennyJenny ZhangWinner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017 'Relegate anything else you're reading – there is no other book to be seen with now' The Times 'Obscene...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistGoodbye, VitaminRachel KhongAmazonHer Body and Other PartiesCarmen Maria MachadoAmazonMy Absolute DarlingGabriel TallentAmazonThe IdiotElif BatumanAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerPresentLeslie Stein...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistAnti-GoneConnor WillumsenAmazonEverything is FlammableGabrielle BellAmazonIcelandYuichi YokoyamaAmazonThe InterviewManuele Fior Translated by Jamie RichardsAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Death and Life of the Great LakesDan EganThe Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistHue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in VietnamMark BowdenAmazonLondon’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s CityStephen AlfordAmazonThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard RothsteinAmazonThe Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaFrances FitzGeraldAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerA Book of American MartyrsJoyce Carol OatesTwo families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences....Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistBluebird, BluebirdAttica LockeAmazonThe Late ShowMichael ConnellyAmazonThe Night OceanPaul La FargeAmazonWonder ValleyIvy PochodaAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerIncendiary Art: PoemsPatricia SmithThis phenomenal, visionary book addresses what is frightening, and what is revelatory, about history now....Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDaylily Called it A Dangerous MomentAlessandra LynchAmazonFor the ScribeDavid WojahnAmazonIn the Language of my CaptorShane McCraeAmazonsemiautomaticEvie ShockleyAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBehave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M. SapolskyWhy do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is ...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control EvolutionJennifer A. Doudna & Samuel H. SternbergAmazonLife 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceMax TegmarkAmazonMaking Sense of Science: Separating Substance from SpinCornelia DeanAmazonWhy We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dr...
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerLong Way DownJason ReynoldsAs Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know....Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistGenuine FraudE. LockhartAmazonPiecing Me TogetherRenée WatsonAmazonThe 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their LivesDashka SlaterAmazonThe Hate U GiveAngie ThomasAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2017 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 BSFA - Novel WinnerEurope in WinterDave HutchinsonA Fractured Europe. A Parallel World. A Global Threat. Union has come. The Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. So what is the reason fo...Amazon2017 BSFA - Novel ShortlistA Closed and Common OrbitBecky ChambersAmazonAzanian BridgesNick WoodAmazonDaughter of EdenChris BeckettAmazonOccupy MeTricia SullivanAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

2017 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerReservoir 13Jon McGregorA new novel from celebrated British novelist Jon McGregor--twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize--Reservoir 13 tells the story of a whole English village haunted by one family's loss....Amazon2017 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistHome FireKamila ShamsieAmazonTin ManSarah WinmanAmazonUnder a Pole StarStef PenneyAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerIndian ArmHiro KanagawaThe Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfie--caught in the middle of an intense, unhappy mother and a resigned father--is the pressur...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Shortlist1979Michael HealeyAmazonThe Colony of Unrequited DreamsRobert ChafeAmazonThe Virgin TrialKate HennigAmazonWithin the GlassAnna ChattertonAmazon