Friday, November 29

Book Awards By Year

1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerRepair: PoemsC.K. WilliamsThe eighth book--and the most various yet--by a major American poet. With his two previous books, a generous Selected Poems and The Vigil, C. K. Williams received great acclaim, including the PEN/Voelcker Award and the prestigious Berlin Prize...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistThe DreamhouseTom SleighAmazonThe Father of the PredicamentsHeather McHughAmazonThe Oval Hour: PoemsKathleen PeirceAmazonThe Red Leaves of NightDavid St. JohnAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerGalileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveDava SobelFrom the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human EvolutionAlison JollyAmazonMind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-BirdsBernd HeinrichAmazonThe Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographySimon SinghAmazonThe River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDSEdward HooperAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerFrenchtown SummerRobert CormierEugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his belov...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistMonsterWalter Dean MyersAmazonSkelligDavid AlmondAmazonSpeak: A NovelLaurie Halse AndersonAmazonStop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went CrazySonya SonesAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2000 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2000 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerA Deepness in the SkyVernor VingeThe prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arachna, which is about to wake up to technology, but the Em...Amazon2000 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistDarwin's RadioGreg BearAmazonGreenhouse SummerNorman SpinradAmazonStarfishPeter WattsAmazonThe Silicon DaggerJack WilliamsonAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2000 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2000 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerHarry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ. K. RowlingSUMMARY: Fun stationary with lenticular imagery to tie-in with the third blockbuster movie....Amazon2000 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Calculus of AngelsJ. Gregory KeyesAmazonA Red Heart of MemoriesNina Kiriki HoffmanAmazonBlack LightElizabeth HandAmazonDark Cities UndergroundLisa GoldsteinAmazonDragonshadowBarbara HamblyAmazonEnchantmentOrson Scott CardAmazonFortress of OwlsC. J. CherryhAmazonMr. XPeter StraubAmazonTamsinPeter S. BeagleAmazonThe Eternal FootmanJames MorrowAmazonThe Fifth ElephantTerry PratchettAmazonThe Marriage of SticksJonathan CarrollAmazonThe Rainy SeasonJames P. BlaylockAmazonThe Stars CompelMichaela RoessnerAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2000 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2000 Locus - SF Novel WinnerCryptonomiconNeal StephensonA gripping and page-turning thriller that explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the twentieth century. From the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' and Seveneves. In his legendary, sprawling masterpiece, Neal ...Amazon2000 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistA Civil CampaignLois McMaster BujoldAmazonA Deepness in the SkyVernor VingeAmazonAll Tomorrow's PartiesWilliam GibsonAmazonDarwin's RadioGreg BearAmazonEnder's ShadowOrson Scott CardAmazonForever FreeJoe HaldemanAmazonOn Blue's WatersGene WolfeAmazonPrecursorC. J. CherryhAmazonTeranesiaGreg EganAmazonThe Cassini DivisionKen MacLeodAmazonThe Martian RaceGregory BenfordAmazonThe Naked GodPeter F. HamiltonAmazonTime: Manifold 1 (US title: Manifold...
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerJefferson Davis, AmericanWilliam J. CooperAn engaging portrait of the Southern soldier-statesman who led the Confederacy retraces his evolution from a reluctant supporter of secession to his eventual total embrace of an independent Southern Confederacy....Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistFounding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationJoseph J. EllisAmazonHitler: Volume 2. 1936-1945 NemesisIan KershawAmazonMao: A LifePhilip ShortAmazonThe First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinH.W. BrandsAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWay Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarFrances FitzGeraldWay Out There in the Blue is a major work of history by the Pulitzer Prize­winning author of Fire in the Lake. Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ro...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistDarkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the AmazonPatrick TierneyAmazonPitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban SportsS.L. PriceAmazonThe Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and WestIan BurumaAmazonThe Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human...
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerAssorted Fire Events: StoriesDavid MeansUpon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received tremendous critical praise. Ranging across America, taking in a breathtaking array of voices and experiences...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistEqual LovePeter Ho DaviesAmazonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayMichael ChabonAmazonThe Human StainPhilip RothAmazonThe Quick and the DeadJoy WilliamsAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Romantics: A NovelPankaj MishraSamar, a young man of limited means, moves to Benares, the ancient city of learning, to lose himself in the world of books. There he meets Rajesh, a poor student, and Catherine, a young French woman, who shows him a very different side of his own country—a...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistAn Obedient FatherAkhil SharmaAmazonSam the Cat and Other StoriesMatthew KlamAmazonThe Last Samurai: A NovelHelen DeWittAmazonWhite Teeth: A NovelZadie SmithAmazon