Wednesday, November 27

Book Awards By Year

2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe Ghosts of BelfastStuart Neville"Northern Ireland's troubles may be over, but peace has not erased the crimes of the past. Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the twelve people he slaughtered. ... In order to appease the ghosts, Fegan is going ...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistA Darker Domain: A NovelVal McDermidAmazonBlack Water Rising: A NovelAttica LockeAmazonBury Me Deep: A NovelMegan AbbottAmazonThe Hidden ManDavid EllisAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPractical WaterBrenda HillmanWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009) Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman’s previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditati...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Shortlist]Open Interval[Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonAmazonApocalyptic Swing: PoemsGabrielle CalvocoressiAmazonDearest CreatureAmy GerstlerAmazonWhat the Right Hand KnowsTom HealyAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum GeniusGraham FarmeloA monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanRichard WranghamAmazonCold: Adventures in the World's Frozen PlacesBill StreeverAmazonNaming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and ScienceCarol Kaesuk YoonAmazonThe Day We Found the UniverseMarcia BartusiakAmazon
2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerMarching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow WearyElizabeth PartridgeFocusing on the courageous children who faced terrifying violence in order to march alongside King, this is an inspiring look at their fight for the vote. Stunningly emotional black-and-white photos accompany the text....Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistCharles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of FaithDeborah HeiligmanAmazonTales from Outer SuburbiaShaun TanAmazonThe Lost ConspiracyFrances HardingeAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthyJames Cross GiblinAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2010 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiWinner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thaila...Amazon2010 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistGalileo's DreamKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonGardens of the SunPaul McAuleyAmazonJulian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century AmericaRobert Charles WilsonAmazonMakersCory DoctorowAmazonSteal Across the SkyNancy KressAmazonThe CaryatidsBruce SterlingAmazonThe City & the CityChina MiévilleAmazonThe Year of the FloodMargaret AtwoodAmazonTransitionIain M. BanksAmazonWWW: WakeRobert J. SawyerAmazonYellow Blue TibiaAdam RobertsAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2010 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe City & the CityChina MiévilleWith an introduction by novelist Kamila Shamsie When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. B...Amazon2010 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistAvilionRobert HoldstockAmazonCanticleKen ScholesAmazonCloud & Ashes: Three Winter's TalesGreer GilmanAmazonDroodDan SimmonsAmazonFinchJeff VanderMeerAmazonGreenJay LakeAmazonLifelodeJo WaltonAmazonMadness of FlowersJay LakeAmazonPalimpsestCatherynne M. ValenteAmazonThe High CityCecelia HollandAmazonThe Price of SpringDaniel AbrahamAmazonThe Red TreeCaitlín R. KiernanAmazonThe Revolution BusinessCharles StrossAmazonUnseen Academic...
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2010 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Locus - SF Novel WinnerBoneshakerCherie PriestInventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighbor...Amazon2010 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistArkStephen BaxterAmazonChronic CityJonathan LethemAmazonGalileo's DreamKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonGardens of the SunPaul McAuleyAmazonJulian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century AmericaRobert Charles WilsonAmazonSteal Across the SkyNancy KressAmazonThe Devil's AlphabetDaryl GregoryAmazonThe Empress of MarsKage BakerAmazonThe Sunless CountriesKarl SchroederAmazonThe Walls of the UniversePaul MelkoAmazonThe Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiAmazonThis Is Not a G...
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionLaura HillenbrandRelates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war....Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistColonel RooseveltEdmund MorrisAmazonGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War IMiranda CarterAmazonHitch-22: A MemoirChristopher HitchensAmazonThe Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A BiographySelina HastingsAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineMichael LewisThe #1 New York Times bestseller—Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount Pictures From the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble coll...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistAll the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial CrisisBethany McLean, Joe NoceraAmazonJust KidsPatti SmithAmazonThe Promise: President Obama, Year OneJonathan AlterAmazonWarSebastian JungerAmazon
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganJennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader d...Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDay for Night: A NovelFrederick ReikenAmazonFreedom: A NovelJonathan FranzenAmazonNashville Chrome: A NovelRick BassAmazonSomething Is Out There: StoriesRichard BauschAmazon