Sunday, November 24

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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
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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
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert BrasillachAlice Kaplan...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistIn the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship EssexNathaniel PhilbrickAmazonKosovo: War and RevengeTim JudahAmazonResisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red OrchestraShareen Blair BrysacAmazonThe Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United StatesAlexander KeyssarAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerA Place of ExecutionVal McDermidWinter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of S...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistBlood Rain: An Aurelio Zen MysteryMichael DibdinAmazonCold Is the Grave: A Novel of SuspensePeter RobinsonAmazonPurple Cane RoadJames Lee BurkeAmazonShame the Devil: A NovelGeorge P. PelecanosAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Throne of LabdacusGjertrud SchnackenbergA new collection of poems by the author of A Guilded Lapse of Time revisits the story of Oedipus and Apollo to probe themes of fate and necessity. Reprint....Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistMen in the Off HoursAnne CarsonAmazonPastoralCarl PhillipsAmazonSome Ether: PoemsNick FlynnAmazonThe LedgeMichael CollierAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Rise and Fall of Modern MedicineJames Le FanuThe medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished most common causes of early death...Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical FraudKarl SabbaghAmazonE = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous EquationDavid BodanisAmazonEinstein in Love: A Scientific RomanceDennis OverbyeAmazonGenome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersMatt RidleyAmazon
2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerMiracle's BoysJacqueline WoodsonTwelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother....Amazon2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistEsperanza RisingPam Muñoz RyanAmazonForgotten FireAdam BagdasarianAmazonMany StonesCarolyn ComanAmazonWhen Kambia Elaine Flew in from NeptuneLori Aurelia WilliamsAmazon
2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerTheodore RexEdmund MorrisTheodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terror...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistBoswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. JohnsonAdam SismanAmazonJohn AdamsDavid McCulloughAmazonMarie Antoinette: The JourneyAntonia FraserAmazonSeabiscuit: An American LegendLaura HillenbrandAmazon