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Book Awards By Year

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the DarkCarl SaganA prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a mani...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistFermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical ProblemAmir D. AczelAmazonFire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for OrderGeorge JohnsonAmazonHome from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st CenturyJames Howard KunstlerAmazonThe Dying of the TreesCharles E. LittleAmazonThe Forgotten PollinatorsS...
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1997 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerA Game of ThronesGeorge R. R. Martin...Amazon1997 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Crown of SwordsRobert JordanAmazonAncient EchoesRobert HoldstockAmazonBlameless in AbaddonJames MorrowAmazonClouds EndSean StewartAmazonFeet of ClayTerry PratchettAmazonLunaticsBradley DentonAmazonNadya: The Wolf ChroniclesPat MurphyAmazonOne for the Morning GloryJohn BarnesAmazonRoyal AssassinRobin HobbAmazonThe Golden Compass (UK title: Northern Lights)Philip PullmanAmazonThe PrestigeChristopher PriestAmazonThe Wood WifeTerri WindlingAmazonWalking the LabyrinthLisa GoldsteinAmazonWinter RosePatricia A. McKillipAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1997 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1997 Locus - SF Novel WinnerBlue MarsKim Stanley RobinsonThe final novel in the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy, now part of the Voyager Classics collection....Amazon1997 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistBeggars RideNancy KressAmazonCetagandaLois McMaster BujoldAmazonChildren of the MindOrson Scott CardAmazonEndymionDan SimmonsAmazonExcessionIain M. BanksAmazonExodus from the Long SunGene WolfeAmazonFairylandPaul J. McAuleyAmazonHoly FireBruce SterlingAmazonIdoruWilliam GibsonAmazonInheritorC. J. CherryhAmazonMemoryLois McMaster BujoldAmazonNight LampJack VanceAmazonThe Ringworld ThroneLarry NivenAmazonVoyageStephen BaxterAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerWhittaker Chambers: A BiographySam TanenhausWhittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable j...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistBogartA.M. Sperber, Eric LaxAmazonBurning the Days: RecollectionJames SalterAmazonNapoleon Bonaparte: A LifeAlan SchomAmazonNazimova: A BiographyGavin LambertAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne FadimanA study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods....Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest DisasterJon KrakauerAmazonOur Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect SuburbBernard LefkowitzAmazonRace, Crime, and the LawRandall KennedyAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Gay CultureDaniel HarrisAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerIn the Rogue BloodJames Carlos BlakeHeading out to nineteenth-century Texas to recover from their sister's murder and their father's alcoholism, brothers Edward and John Little find themselves on opposing sides during the Mexican-American War. Winner of the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize ...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistCalifornia's Over: A novelLouis B. JonesAmazonReading in the Dark: A NovelSeamus DeaneAmazonThe Ordinary SeamanFrancisco GoldmanAmazonThe Reader: A NovelBernhard Schlink, Carol Brown JanewayAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerDon't Erase Me: StoriesCarolyn FerrellPortrays the lives of Black teenagers in New York's South Bronx, where, in the title story, a woman recounts her life after learning she has AIDS...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Child Out of AlcatrazTara IsonAmazonA Crime in the NeighborhoodSuzanne BerneAmazonRound RockMichelle HunevenAmazonThe God of Small ThingsArundhati RoyAmazon
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerA People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian RevolutionOrlando FigesUnrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. 'A modern masterpiece' Andrew Marr 'The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEchoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian VillageSerge SchmemannAmazonFat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern WestPeter N. StearnsAmazonNazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939Saul FriedländerAmazonSun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the WorldGeoffrey MoorhouseAmazo...
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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAn Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected PoemsCarol Muske-DukesAmazonNatal CommandPeter SacksAmazonResurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997James GalvinAmazonThe Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected PoemsTomaz Salamun, Christopher MerrillAmazon
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