Sunday, November 24

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerAtonement: A NovelIan McEwanGENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence', Independent .'Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book- A superb...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistMoral Hazard: A NovelKate JenningsAmazonNowhere ManAleksandar HemonAmazonThe City of Your Final DestinationPeter CameronAmazonTourmaline: A NovelJoanna ScottAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerPrague: A NovelArthur PhillipsFive American expatriates living in Budapest in the early 1990s seek to establish themselves and make their fortunes in a city still haunted by the tragedies of its Communist past....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistEverything Is Illuminated: A NovelJonathan Safran FoerAmazonMan Walks Into a RoomNicole KraussAmazonThe ImpressionistHari KunzruAmazonThe Stars Can Wait: A NovelJay BasuAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerSix Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle EastMichael B. OrenRelates the events of the six-day Arab-Israeli war of June, 1967, discussing it in the context of regional and international politics and examining its consequences for the Middle East....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistAt the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black AmericaPhilip DrayAmazonBrotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward TellerGregg HerkenAmazonIn the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692Mary Beth NortonAmazonThe Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave TradeRobert W. HarmsAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerHell to Pay: A NovelGeorge P. PelecanosDerek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute. The two ex-cops think ...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistLiving Dead GirlTod GoldbergAmazonOne Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander MysteryHenning Mankell, Ebba SegerbergAmazonReversible Errors: A NovelScott TurowAmazonThe Emperor of Ocean ParkStephen L. CarterAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Watercourse: PoemsCynthia ZarinA powerful anthology of poetry by the critically acclaimed author of Fire Lyric and Swordfish Tooth takes a close-up look at the subject of divorce, the effects of a failed marriage, and the destruction and reforming a family that follows. Reprint....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistHazmatJ.D. McClatchyAmazonHip LogicTerrance HayesAmazonNorth Point North: New and Selected PoemsJohn KoetheAmazonSleeping With the DictionaryHarryette MullenAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerRosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNABrenda MaddoxIn 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and ...Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLove at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of AffectionDeborah BlumAmazonOf Moths and Men: An Evolutionary TaleJudith HooperAmazonSalt: A World HistoryMark KurlanskyAmazonThe Demon in the Freezer: A True StoryRichard PrestonAmazon
2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerFeedM.T. AndersonIn a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble....Amazon2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistAmericaE.R. FrankAmazonBig Mouth & Ugly GirlJoyce Carol OatesAmazonDillon DillonKate BanksAmazonThis Lullaby: A NovelSarah DessenAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerAmerican Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to GlobalizationNeil SmithArguing that American globalism had a very distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision, this text explores US global ambition. The story unfolds through an account of the career of Isaiah Bowman, the most famous Ame...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistGoyaRobert HughesAmazonJung: A BiographyDeirdre BairAmazonPushkin: A BiographyT.J. BinyonAmazonRiver of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild WestRebecca SolnitAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe New Chinese Empire And What It Means for the United StatesRoss TerrillA new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it back. The Chinese dynastic state’s blend of idealism and realism, attachment to doctrine, paternalism, and obsession with unity has continued to shadow ‘revolutionary Chin...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistCut Time: An Education at the FightsCarlo RotellaAmazonJarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other BattlesAnthony SwoffordAmazonUnder the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent FaithJon KrakauerAmazonWhy America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11Gerald PosnerAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerTrain: A NovelPete Dexter...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistJameslandMichelle HunevenAmazonOld SchoolTobias WolffAmazonTen Little IndiansSherman AlexieAmazonThe Namesake: A NovelJhumpa LahiriAmazon