Wednesday, December 25

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Handmaid's Tale: A NovelMargaret Atwood...Amazon1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Perfect SpyJohn le CarréAmazonLake Wobegon DaysGarrison KeillorAmazonThe Accidental Tourist: A NovelAnne TylerAmazonThe Golden GateVikram SethAmazonThe Old GringoCarlos FuentesAmazon
1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from WithinGeoffrey HoskingThe First Socialist Society is the compelling and often tragic history of what Soviet citizens lived through from 1917 to 1993, told with great sympathy and perception. Tracing the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917, Geoffrey...Amazon
1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerCollected Poems, 1948-1984Derek WalcottThis retrospective collection includes most of the poems from each of the poet's previous books, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of "Another Life," a long narrative poem...Amazon
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without DesignRichard DawkinsRichard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution. The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor...Amazon
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerFools CrowJames WelchThe year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humil...Amazon1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Summons to MemphisPeter TaylorAmazonOf Love and ShadowsIsabel AllendeAmazonThat Night: A NovelAlice McDermottAmazonYou Must Remember ThisJoyce Carol OatesAmazon
1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPartial Accounts: New and Selected PoemsWilliam MeredithPoems deal with dreams, suffering, nature, travel, death, the sea, shipwrecks, poetry, mythology, decisions, the seasons, children, language, and music...Amazon
1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerNora: The Real Life of Molly BloomBrenda MaddoxIn 1904, having known each other for only three months, a young woman named Nora Barnacle and a not yet famous writer named James Joyce left Ireland together for Europe -- unwed. So began a deep and complex partnership, and eventually a marriage, which end...Amazon
1988 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1988 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSecrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the CountryWilliam GreiderReveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy...Amazon