Wednesday, November 27

All Book Awards

2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerBeverlyNick DrnasoNick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistDemon: Volume 1Jason ShigaAmazonDon’t Come in HerePatrick KyleAmazonThe ArtistAnna HaifischAmazonWhat Is Obscenity: The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her PussyRokudenashikoAmazon
2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerAn American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873Benjamin MadleyBetween 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supp...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyHeather Ann ThompsonAmazonSpain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939Adam HochschildAmazonWhere the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous RegionMasha GessenAmazonWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold...
2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerDodgersBill BeverlyDodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys—includin...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistDarktownThomas MullenAmazonHis Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick MacraeGraeme Macrae BurnetAmazonThe GirlsEmma ClineAmazonThe North WaterIan McGuireAmazon
2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerGap Gardening: Selected PoemsRosmarie WaldropAn essential edition of a major avant-garde poet: "Waldrop compels us to seek out new superlatives"...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistA Woman of PropertyRobyn SchiffAmazonHouse of Lords and Commons: PoemsIshion HutchinsonAmazonMr. Memory & Other PoemsPhillis LevinAmazonWorld of Made and UnmadeJane MeadAmazon
2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerPatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family SecretsLuke Dittrich“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much ...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistGrunt: The Curious Science of Humans at WarMary RoachAmazonI Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of LifeEd YongAmazonLight: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum AgeBruce WatsonAmazonPandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and BeyondSonia ShahAmazon
2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Lie TreeFrances HardingeRead this thought-provoking, critically acclaimed novel (6 starred reviews!!!) from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year, Costa Children's Book Award, and Horn Book-Boston Globe Award. Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, s...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBurn, Baby, BurnMeg MedinaAmazonMarch: Book ThreeJohn Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate PowellAmazonThe Head of the SaintSocorro Acioli/ Daniel Hahn (Translator)AmazonThe Passion of DolssaJulie BerryAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2017 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerCentral StationLavie TidharAn NPR Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book A Guardian Best SF & Fantasy Book of 2016 Longlist, British Science Fiction Award 2016, Best Novel 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee "It's all of science fiction distilled in...Amazon2017 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAlien MorningRick WilberAmazonAzanian BridgesNick WoodAmazonEverfairNisi ShawlAmazonInto EverywherePaul McAuleyAmazonOccupy MeTricia SullivanAmazonRosewaterTade ThompsonAmazonThe Arrival of MissivesAliya WhiteleyAmazonThe Dream-Quest of Vellitt BoeKij JohnsonAmazonThe Medusa ChroniclesStephen Baxter & Alastair ReynoldsAmazonThe Underground RailroadColson WhiteheadAmazonUnderground AirlinesBen H. WintersAmazonZero KDon DeLilloAmaz...
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2017 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerAll the Birds in the SkyCharlie Jane AndersChildhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and ...Amazon2017 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistChildren of Earth and SkyGuy Gavriel KayAmazonCity of BladesRobert Jackson BennettAmazonNecessityJo WaltonAmazonSummerlongPeter S. BeagleAmazonThe Last Days of New ParisChina MiévilleAmazonThe Nightmare StacksCharles StrossAmazonThe Obelisk GateN. K. JemisinAmazonThe Wall of StormsKen LiuAmazonThe Winged HistoriesSofia SamatarAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2017 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2017 Locus - SF Novel WinnerDeath's EndCixin LiuThe New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's bestselling and beloved science fiction writer. With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to read China's most belove...Amazon2017 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistAfter AtlasEmma NewmanAmazonBabylon's AshesJames S. A. CoreyAmazonCentral StationLavie TidharAmazonCompany TownMadeline AshbyAmazonLast YearRobert Charles WilsonAmazonTake Back the SkyGreg BearAmazonThe Medusa ChroniclesStephen Baxter & Alastair ReynoldsAmazonThe Underground RailroadColson WhiteheadAmazonVisitorC. J. CherryhAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerHenry David Thoreau: A LifeLaura Dassow Walls“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods...Amazon2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAli: A LifeJonathan EigAmazonFasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience GrayAdam FedermanAmazonGrantRon ChernowAmazonRichard Nixon: The LifeJohn A. FarrellAmazon