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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera, Michael Henry HeimWhen The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It we...Amazon1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDemocracyJoan DidionAmazonHim With His Foot in His Mouth and Other StoriesSaul BellowAmazonStones for IbarraHarriet DoerrAmazonThe Witches of EastwickJohn UpdikeAmazon
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1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert DarntonWhen the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime...Amazon
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1985 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1985 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerJob: A Comedy of JusticeRobert A. HeinleinOn vacation in Polynesia, Alex Hergensheimer experiences a series of world-changes, all of which point to Armageddon and reveal him to be a pawn in the ancient feud between God and Lucifer....Amazon1985 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistBearing an HourglassPiers AnthonyAmazonCastle of WizardryDavid EddingsAmazonCrewel Lye: A Caustic YarnPiers AnthonyAmazonDamiano's LuteR. A. MacAvoyAmazonEnchanter's End GameDavid EddingsAmazonGilgamesh the KingRobert SilverbergAmazonMythago WoodRobert HoldstockAmazonRaphaelR. A. MacAvoyAmazonThe BusinessmanThomas M. DischAmazonThe Infinity ConcertoGreg BearAmazonThe Ladies of MandrigynBarbara HamblyAmazonThe TalismanStephen King & Peter StraubAmazonVampire JunctionS. P. SomtowAmazonWho...
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1985 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1985 Locus - SF Novel WinnerThe Integral TreesLarry Niven...Amazon1985 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistAcross the Sea of SunsGregory BenfordAmazonChanur's VentureC. J. CherryhAmazonCity of SorceryMarion Zimmer BradleyAmazonClay's ArkOctavia E. ButlerAmazonDemonJohn VarleyAmazonHeechee RendezvousFrederik PohlAmazonIcehengeKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonNeuromancerWilliam GibsonAmazonStars In My Pocket Like Grains of SandSamuel R. DelanyAmazonThe AdversaryJulian MayAmazonThe Final EncyclopediaGordon R. DicksonAmazonThe Peace WarVernor VingeAmazonWest of EdenHarry HarrisonAmazonWorld's EndJoan D. VingeAmazon
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerSolzhenitsyn: A BiographyMichael ScammellDraws on new materials made available by the Solzhenitsyn family and on interviews with the writer himself to create a profile of this complex personality and of the culture from which he emerged...Amazon
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerHabits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. TiptonBased on conversations with hundreds of Americans, this volume reveals the self-understanding of Americans as a people and as a nation "The contemporary benchmark from which to look back and look forward in the continuing inquiry about ......Amazon
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLove MedicineLouise ErdrichThe first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the rese...Amazon1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAnnie JohnJamaica KincaidAmazonEmpire of the SunJ.G. BallardAmazonHotel du LacAnita BrooknerAmazonSlow DancingElizabeth BenedictAmazon
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1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerSon of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little BighornEvan S. ConnellOn a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers, com...Amazon
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