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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaBarbara EhrenreichOur sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join the...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistStates of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and SufferingStanley CohenAmazonThe Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least ValuedAnn CrittendenAmazonThe Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme CourtJohn W. DeanAmazonTom and Huck Don't Live Here AnymoreRon PowersAma...

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerWhy Did I Ever: A NovelMary Robison"Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel." —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Three husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Melanie, her sec...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBy the SeaAbdulrazak GurnahAmazonHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: StoriesAlice MunroAmazonJohn Henry DaysColson WhiteheadAmazonThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Dark Room: A NovelRachel SeiffertIn The Dark Room, the experiences of three people are evoked with stunning emotional depth and psychological authenticity. A boy born with a physical deformity finds work as a photographer's assistant during the 1930s and captures on film the changing temp...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistCrawling At Night: A NovelNani PowerAmazonMy Dream of YouNuala O'FaolainAmazonThe Death of Vishnu: A NovelManil SuriAmazonThe Right Hand of SleepJohn WrayAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerBefore the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American ConsensusRick PerlsteinAcclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked “peac...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistFrance: The Dark Years, 1940-1944Julian JacksonAmazonThe Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in AmericaLouis MenandAmazonThe Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William BlakeG.E. Bentley Jr.AmazonVenice: Lion CityGarry WillsAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerSilent JoeT. Jefferson ParkerAtmospheric, complex and intelligent psychological suspense from the bestselling author of The Blue Hour and Red LightWith the horrible remnants of a childhood trauma forever visible on his face, Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an ...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistChasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New OrleansDavid FulmerAmazonLittle AmericaHenry BromellAmazonOpen Season: A Joe Pickett NovelC.J. BoxAmazonThe Wooden Leg of Inspector AndersMarshall BrowneAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 TangosAnne CarsonSince Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red a...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistFelt: PoemsAlice FultonAmazonLandscape with Chainsaw: PoemsJames LasdunAmazonSong of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001Pattiann RogersAmazonThe Seven AgesLouise GlückAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Invention of CloudsRichard HamblynAn extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they are known to this day. By creating a language to define st...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistA Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain FutureDavid HancocksAmazonIn Code: A Mathematical JourneySarah Flannery, David FlanneryAmazonThe Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic AncestryBryan SykesAmazonUncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical BoyhoodOliver SacksAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Land: Book 1 of Logan FamilyMildred D. TaylorThe son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows. His white father has acknowledged him and raised him openly-something unusual in post-Civil War Georgia. But as he grows into a man he learns that lif...Amazon2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistDamageA.M. JenkinsAmazonGirlheartsNorma Fox MazerAmazonThe Other Side Of TruthBeverley NaidooAmazonThe Seeing Stone: Book 1 of Arthur TrilogyKevin Crossley-HollandAmazon

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2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerMaster of the Senate: Volume 3 of The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroThe greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The Times Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account o...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistJesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil WarT.J. StilesAmazonSamuel Pepys: The Unequalled SelfClaire TomalinAmazonSecrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersDaniel EllsbergAmazonThe Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and WarGioconda BelliAmazon

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2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerHarmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from SexJudith LevineExplores the highly sensitive issue of children and sex, offers advice on separating harmful from safe information about sex, and offers parents a guide to presenting the topic to their children....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Problem from Hell: America and the Age of GenocideSamantha PowerAmazonSeeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary PerilTimothy FerrisAmazonThe New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of InterventionNicolaus Mills, Kira BrunnerAmazonWealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American RichKevin PhillipsAmazon