Wednesday, November 27

All Book Awards

2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerSeating Arrangements,Maggie ShipsteadThe Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to the impeccably appropriate Greyson Duff. The weekend is full of champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discon...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistFobbit,David AbramsAmazonMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Book Store: A Novel,Robin SloanAmazonShine Shine Shine*Lydia NetzerAmazonThe Natural Order of Things,Kevin P. KeatingAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerToday is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life,Ulli LustBack in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that t...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistHand-Drying in America: And Other StoriesBen KatchorAmazonIncidents in the Night: Volume 1David B.AmazonThe EndAnders NilsenAmazonThe Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the SommeJoe SaccoAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,Christopher ClarkOne of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World W...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistFDR and the JewsRichard Breitman & Allan J. LichtmanAmazonThe Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismDoris Kearns GoodwinAmazonThe Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832Alan TaylorAmazonThe Searchers: The Making of an American LegendGlenn FrankelAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe Cuckoo’s Calling,J. K. Rowling Writing As Robert GalbraithA brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, a...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistHour of the Red GodRichard CromptonAmazonSycamore RowJohn GrishamAmazonThe Collini CaseFerdinand von SchirachAmazonThe Cuckoo’s CallingRobert GalbraithAmazonThe RageGene KerriganAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerCollected Poems,Ron PadgettFifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry....Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDebts & LessonsLynn XuAmazonHello, the RosesMei-Mei BerssenbruggeAmazonOn GhostsElizabeth RobinsonAmazonThe Inside of an AppleJoshua BeckmanAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerCountdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?,Alan WeismanEvery four days there are a million more people on the planet. More people and fewer resources. In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species - including our own - out of...Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAnimal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow CreaturesVirginia MorellAmazonBrainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless NeuroscienceSally Satel and Scott O. LilienfeldAmazonScatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass ExtinctionAnnalee NewitzAmazonSocial: Why Our Brains are Wired to ConnectMatthew D. LiebermanAmaz...
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerBoxers & Saints,Gene Luen YangVibiana, an unwanted fourth child, finds her name and identity in Christianity, but with the Boxer Rebellion in full swing and Chinese Christians facing death, she must decide whether her loyalties lie with her religion or her country....Amazon2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistFangirlRainbow RowellAmazonLockwood & Co: The Screaming StaircaseJonathan StroudAmazonMortal FireElizabeth KnoxAmazonWhat the Heart Knows: ChantsJoyce SidmanAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2014 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerStrange BodiesMarcel TherouxA dizzying novel of deception and metempsychosis by the author of the National Book Award finalist Far North Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead. In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insi...Amazon2014 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAncillary JusticeAnn LeckieAmazonEvening's EmpiresPaul McAuleyAmazonHildNicola GriffithAmazonLexiconMax BarryAmazonNeptune's BroodCharles StrossAmazonOn the Steel BreezeAlastair ReynoldsAmazonProximaStephen BaxterAmazonShamanKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonThe AdjacentChristopher PriestAmazonThe CircleDave EggersAmazonThe Cusanus GameWolfgang JeschkeAmazonThe Disestablishment of ParadisePhillip MannAmazonThe Red: First LightLinda Naga...
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2014 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe Ocean at the End of the LaneNeil GaimanIt began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator ...Amazon2014 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistBlood OrangesKathleen TierneyAmazonCold SteelKate ElliottAmazonDoctor SleepStephen KingAmazonJoylandStephen KingAmazonLife After LifeKate AtkinsonAmazonLondon FallingPaul CornellAmazonNOS4A2Joe HillAmazonRaising SteamTerry PratchettAmazonRiver of StarsGuy Gavriel KayAmazonSister MineNalo HopkinsonAmazonThe Land AcrossGene WolfeAmazonThe Republic of ThievesScott LynchAmazonThe Shining GirlsLauren BeukesAmazonThe Tyrant's...
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2014 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 Locus - SF Novel WinnerAbaddon's GateJames S. A. CoreyThe explosive third novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a major television series. For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact...Amazon2014 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistBurning ParadiseRobert Charles WilsonAmazonFinches of MarsBrian AldissAmazonID: The Second Machine DynastyMadeline AshbyAmazonLexiconMax BarryAmazonMaddAddamMargaret AtwoodAmazonNeptune's BroodCharles StrossAmazonOn the Steel BreezeAlastair ReynoldsAmazonProtectorC. J. CherryhAmazonProximaStephen BaxterAmazonShamanKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonThe AdjacentChristopher PriestAmazonThe Arrows of TimeGreg EganAmazonThe Best of All Possible WorldsKar...