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Fiction Bestsellers: 15 Years Ago Today

3m — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:30:49 +0000

The New York Times Best Seller List
October 26, 1997

Fiction

This Week/Title/Author/Last Week/Weeks On List

1 FLOOD TIDE, by Clive Cussler. 1 4

2 COLD MOUNTAIN, by Charles Frazier. 2 16

3 THE BEST LAID PLANS, by Sidney Sheldon. 3 6

4 THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS, by Caleb Carr. 4 5

5 10 LB. PENALTY, by Dick Francis. 6 3

6 UNDERWORLD, by Don DeLillo. 5 5

7 TIMEQUAKE, by Kurt Vonnegut. 7 3

8 TEMPLE OF THE WINDS, by Terry Goodkind. – 1

9 NIGHT PASSAGE, by Robert B. Parker. 11 3

10 THE NOTEBOOK, by Nicholas Sparks. 8 53

11 THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, by Arundhati Roy. 9 11

12 DEJA DEAD, by Kathy Reichs. 12 7

13 REIGN IN HELL, by William Diehl. – 1

14 UNNATURAL EXPOSURE, by Patricia Cornwell. 10 13

15 THE LETTER, by Richard Paul Evans. – 1

Fiction Bestsellers 25 Years Ago Today

3m — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:24:44 +0000

The New York Times Best Seller List
October 11, 1987

Fiction

This Week/Title/Author/Last Week/Weeks On List

1 PRESUMED INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. 1 16

2 PATRIOT GAMES, by Tom Clancy. 2 11

3 HEAVEN AND HELL, by John Jakes. 8 2

4 LEAVING HOME, by Garrison Keillor. 4 2

5 BELOVED, by Toni Morrison. 3 4

6 SARUM, by Edward Rutherfurd. 6 8

7 LEGACY, by James A. Michener. 5 6

8 MISERY, by Stephen King. 7 19

9 HOT FLASHES, by Barbara Raskin. 9 3

10 FREEDOM, by William Safire. 11 5

11 THE NEW BREED, by W. E. B. Griffin. 10 3

12 TEAM YANKEE, by Harold Coyle. – 2

13 THE PRINCE OF TIDES, by Pat Conroy. 15 47

14 THE FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE, by Martha Grimes. 14 6

15 WEEP NO MORE, MY LADY, by Mary Higgins Clark. 12 15

Thoughts on the first 1/3 of Cloud Atlas + trailer

3m — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:27:41 +0000

I really, really wanted to read Cloud Atlas before I saw the movie, so I started it today, and I’m already 1/3 of the way through. I struggled a bit at first to get through the first segment, which is written in an old fashioned style to fit the time of the narrator. It took me about halfway through this first part to get used to the style, and then it was onto another main character of the novel. These parts, or segments, of the novel end somewhat abruptly just as you are getting used to that character and the occurrences of his or her life. However, I’m loving it so far. I can’t wait to finish it and I’m really looking forward to the film, which will be released October 26. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, among others, it received a 10 minute standing ovation from the audience at the Toronto Film Festival.

I hope I’ve convinced you to read it or at least see it; I think the film is going to be spectacular.

11 new titles on the 1001 list

3m — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:20:14 +0000

History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
There but for the by Ali Smith
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Cain by Jose Saramago
Nemesis by Philip Roth
1Q84 Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Fiction Bestsellers 35 Years Ago Today

3m — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:20:29 +0000

The New York Times Best Seller List
September 25, 1977

Fiction

This Week/Title/Author/Last Week/Weeks On List

1 THE THORN BIRDS, by Colleen McCullough. (Harper & Row, $9.95.)
Australian family saga.
1 19

2 ILLUSIONS, by Richard Bach. (Delacorte/Eleanor Friede, $5.95.) Messiah
barnstorms Middle America.
2 15

3 THE SILMARILLION, by J.R.R. Tolkien. (Houghton Mifflin, $10.95.) Middle
Earth in pre-Hobbit days.
– 1

4 THE CRASH OF ’79, by Paul E. Erdman. (Simon & Schuster, $8.95.)
Sheiks, oil, International intrigue and skullduggery.
4 41

5 DYNASTY, by Robert S. Elegant. (McGraw-Hill, $10.95.) Saga of a Eurasian
family in Hong Kong over three generations.
3 6

6 COMA, by Robin Cook. (Little, Brown, $8.95.) Manchurian horror at the
Boston Memorial Hospital.
7 4

7 DELTA OF VENUS, by Anais Nin. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $10.)
Elegant erotica written for a wealthy patron.
6 8

8 THE INVESTIGATION, by Dorothy Uhnak. (Simon & Schuster, $9.95.)
Woman accused of murdering her children.
9 3

9 THE SECOND DEADLY SIN, by Lawrence Sanders. (Putnam’s, $9.95.) Cop
tracks down a painter’s murderer.
11 2

10 FULL DISCLOSURE, by William Safire. (Doubleday, $10.95.) President
goes blind; White House intrigue.
5 10

11 OLIVER’S STORY, by Erich Segal. (Harper & Row, $7.95.) Tearless but
well-meaning sequel to “Love Story.”
8 29

12 CONDOMINIUM, by John D. MacDonald. (J.B. Lippincott, $10.) Disaster hits
Leisure Village.
10 23

13 THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT, by Susan Howatch. (Simon & Schuster,
$11.50.) They have more money.
12 5

14 FALCONER, by John Cheever. (Knopf, $7.95.) Stunning prison novel of
escape and redemption.
14 25

15 DANIEL MARTIN, by John Fowles. (Little, Brown, $12.95.) English
screenwriter reviews his life.

Bestsellers 50 Years Ago Today – Fiction

3m — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:13:44 +0000

The New York Times Best Seller List
September 16, 1962

Fiction

This Week/Title/Author/Last Week/Weeks On List

1 SHIP OF FOOLS, by Katherine Anne Porter. 1 23
2 DEARLY BELOVED, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 2 14
3 YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE, by Herman Wouk. 3 17
4 THE REIVERS, by William Faulkner. 5 13
5 THE PRIZE, by Irving Wallace. 4 13
6 ANOTHER COUNTRY, by James Baldwin. 6 11
7 PORTRAIT IN BROWNSTONE, by Louis Auchincloss. 8 8
8 UHURU, by Robert Ruark. 7 13
9 HORNBLOWER AND THE HOTSPUR, by C.S. Forester. 14 3
10 ACT OF ANGER, by Bart Spicer. 11 3
11 THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY, by Irving Stone. 10 77
12 MAGNIFICENT DESTINY, by Paul I. Wellman. 13 4
13 LETTING GO, by Philip Roth. 8 11
14 BEFORE MY TIME, by Niccolo Tucci. — 1
15 FRANNY AND ZOOEY, by J.D. Salinger. 12 52

2012 Booker Shortlist

3m — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:09:30 +0000

Well, I got 4 right, not bad!! I’ve only read Swimming Home. I definitely am going to read The Garden of Evening Mists and The Lighthouse. Not sure if I’ll get to the others.

Tan Twang Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Alison Moore, The Lighthouse
Will Self, Umbrella
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

2009 Best Film: The Hurt Locker

3m — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:22:51 +0000

I don’t like war movies. At all. I had to stop this movie about every 1/2 hour or so and go back to it later because it was so intense. This went on for weeks at a time. Is it deserving of the Academy Award for best film? Yes, probably. It’s just extremely difficult to watch.

I’ve spent time in the Middle East so it was a little more personal to me than for most.

Is it sexist to say that I’m very surprised that this film was done by a female director? I admire her work. I just find it difficult to watch, no matter the quality. All in all, though, an A+ rating cannot be denied.

A+

2012 Man Booker Shortlist Prediction

3m — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:30:47 +0000

I’ve only read one of the longlist titles, and that is Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, which I will review shortly — it was a 4 or 4.5 star book for me, I haven’t decided yet. However, I still have an opinion on the shortlist titles and would like to share it here. I know that the shortlist will consist of 6 titles but I would like to predict the 5 titles that I think or hope, based on my interests, will be on the shortlist:

Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident
Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies
Alison Moore, The Lighthouse

The announcement of the shortlist will come today. Do you have any predictions?

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

3m — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:05:46 +0000

This had been on my tbr list for soooooo long. My real life book club selected it for August so that gave me the push to finally read it. Actually, I listened to it on unabridged audio narrated by Linda Stephens. It was absolutely fantastic. The narration was excellent, and the story was so much more than was depicted in the movie, which I also love.

If you didn’t already know, there is so much more to Scarlett than is in the movie. More marriages, more children, and more selfishness and immaturity. At the same time, we also learn that despite her emotional immaturity, she is a very savvy business woman. In addition, I learned quite a bit about the Civil War that I didn’t know, but at the same time, also learned more about the attitudes that doomed the South to failure. What I really want to know but couldn’t really grasp from the novel or the film was how Margaret Mitchell herself actually viewed the issues facing the South in the Civil War.

All in all, this Pulitzer novel is a must read for every American. I can’t believe it took me so long to read it, but I’m very grateful that I finally did and encourage anyone and everyone to read this American masterpiece.

East of Denver by Gregory Hill

3m — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:42:10 +0000

Amazon info

Gregory Hill won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for East of Denver in 2011.

Disclaimer: I grew up near the area where the story takes place.

Due to that fact, I was especially interested in reading this novel. I’d been disappointed in the past by books set in northeastern Colorado — most notably, Kent Haruf’s Plainsong (though I’m still willing to give his other books a chance.)

I was impressed, though, by East of Denver. There were still a few elements I didn’t like that I won’t go into; but overall, I enjoyed the book tremendously. I very much related to the themes of the book involving the decline of the family farm, which is intense and personal for the people who are or were attached to these communities. Hill illustrated this theme very well.

There are so many things I could go into that I felt were spot on: declining farming communities, the ‘plight’ of the people who have stayed there, and the struggle of dealing with aging parents or grandparents who were once the stalwarts of their families and communities.

No question about it, I’m looking forward to reading Hill’s next book about a rancher (and basketball?) that takes place in the same general setting as this novel.

If you have an interest in small town life or farming, I highly recommend Gregory Hill’s books.

Author’s website: http://eastofdenver.com/ (I love the background!!)

Colorado Public Radio interview with Gregory Hill:

Please note: I was provided an electronic copy of this book from Netgalley as well as a physical copy from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

3m — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:07:00 +0000

2012 Pieta
2011 Faust
2010 Somewhere
2009 Lebanon
2008 The Wrestler
2007 Lust, Caution (Se, jie)
2006 Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
2005 Brokeback Mountain
2004 Vera Drake
2003 The Return (Vozvrashcheniye)
2002 The Magdalene Sisters
2001 Monsoon Wedding
2000 The Circle (Dayereh)
1999 Not One Less (Yi ge dou bu neng shao)
1998 The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano)
1997 Fireworks (Hana-bi)
1996 Michael Collins
1995 Cyclo (Xich lo)
1994 Vive L’Amour (Ai qing wan sui) (tie)
1994 Before the Rain (tie)
1993 Three Colours: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu) (tie)
1993 Short Cuts (tie)
1992 The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si)
1991 Urga
1990 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1989 A City of Sadness (Bei qing cheng shi)
1988 The Legend of the Holy Drinker (La leggenda del santo bevitore)
1987 Au revoir, les enfants
1986 The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
1985 Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi)
1984 The Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego slonca)
1983 First Name: Carmen (Prénom Carmen)
1982 The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge)
1981 Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit)
1980 Gloria (tie)
1980 Atlantic City (tie)
1969-79 No award
1968 Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed (Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos)
1967 Beauty of the Day (Belle de jour)
1966 The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri)
1965 Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa)
1964 Red Desert (Il deserto rosso)
1963 Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città)
1962 Ivan’s Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) (tie)
1962 Family Diary (Cronaca familiare) (tie)
1961 Last Year in Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad)
1960 The Crossing of the Rhine (Le passage du Rhin)
1959 The Great War (La grande guerra) (tie)
1959 General della Rovere (Il generale della Rovere) (tie)
1958 Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho)
1957 The Unvanquished (Aparajito)
1956 No award
1955 The Word (Ordet)
1954 Romeo and Juliet
1953 No award
1952 Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
1951 Rashōmon
1950 Justice Is Done (Justice est faite)
1949 Manon

Bestsellers 60 Years Ago Today – Fiction

3m — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:10:26 +0000

The New York Times Best Seller List
September 7, 1952

Fiction

This Week/Title/Author/Last Week/Weeks On List

1 THE SILVER CHALICE, by Thomas B. Costain. 2 6
2 THE CAINE MUTINY, by Herman Wouk. 1 73
3 THE HOUSES IN BETWEEN, by Howard Spring. 3 17
4 MATADOR, by Barnaby Conrad. 4 9
5 THE GOWN OF GLORY, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull. 5 23
6 MY COUSIN RACHEL, by Daphne du Maurier. 6 30
7 CATHERINE CARTER, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. 9 5
8 THE CRUEL SEA, by Nicholas Monsarrat. 8 56
9 DON CAMILLO AND HIS FLOCK, by Giovanni Guareschi. 14 2
10 THE HIDDEN FLOWER, by Pearl S. Buck. 7 14

Summer Box Office: 1 Year Ago

3m — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:17:42 +0000

May 22, 2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $90,151,958
May 29, 2011 The Hangover Part II $85,946,294
June 5, 2011 X-Men: First Class $55,101,604
June 12, 2011 Super 8 $35,451,168
June 19, 2011 Green Lantern $53,174,303
June 26, 2011 Cars 2 $66,135,507
July 3, 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon $97,852,865
July 10, 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon $47,103,276
July 17, 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 $169,189,427
July 24, 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger $65,058,524
July 31, 2011 Cowboys & Aliens $36,431,290
August 7, 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes $54,806,191
August 14, 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes $27,832,307
August 21, 2011 The Help $20,018,659
August 28, 2011 The Help $14,536,118
September 4, 2011 The Help $14,594,623

Summer Box Office: 5 Years Ago

3m — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:08:16 +0000

May 13, 2007 Spider-Man 3 $58,166,256
May 20, 2007 Shrek the Third $121,629,270
May 27, 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End $114,732,820
June 3, 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End $44,206,660
June 10, 2007 Ocean’s Thirteen $36,133,403
June 17, 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer $58,051,684
June 24, 2007 Evan Almighty $31,192,615
July 1, 2007 Ratatouille $47,027,395
July 8, 2007 Transformers $70,502,384
July 15, 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $77,108,414
July 22, 2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry $34,233,750
July 29, 2007 The Simpsons Movie $74,036,787
August 5, 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum $69,283,690
August 12, 2007 Rush Hour 3 $49,100,158
August 19, 2007 Superbad $33,052,411
August 26, 2007 Superbad $18,044,369
September 2, 2007 Halloween $26,362,367

Palme d’Or (Cannes Film Festival)

3m — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:54:49 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or#Award_winners

2012 Love (Amour)
2011 The Tree of Life
2010 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ / Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat)
2009 The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
2008 The Class (Entre les murs)
2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile)
2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2005 L’enfant (The Child)
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11
2003 Elephant
2002 The Pianist (Pianista)
2001 The Son’s Room (La stanza del figlio)
2000 Dancer in the Dark
1999 Rosetta
1998 Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα / Mia aio̱nióti̱ta kai mia méra)
1997 Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس / Ta’m-e gīlās), The Eel (うなぎ / Unagi)
1996 Secrets & Lies
1995 Underground (Подземље / Podzemlje)
1994 Pulp Fiction
1993 Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬 / Bàwáng bié jī), The Piano
1992 The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan)
1991 Barton Fink
1990 Wild at Heart
1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1988 Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)
1987 Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan)
1986 The Mission
1985 When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu)
1984 Paris, Texas
1983 The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考 / Narayama bushikō)
1982 Missing , The Way (Yol)
1981 Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza)
1980 All That Jazz, Kagemusha (影武者)
1979 Apocalypse Now, The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L’albero degli zoccoli)
1977 Padre Padrone
1976 Taxi Driver
1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise)
1974 The Conversation
1973 The Hireling, Scarecrow
1972 The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso), The Mattei Affair (Il caso Mattei)
1971 The Go-Between
1970 MASH
1969 if….
1967 Blow-Up
1966 A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme), The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore e signori)
1965 The Knack …and How to Get It
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg)
1963 The Leopard (Il gattopardo)
1962 O Pagador de Promessas
1961 The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) , Viridiana
1960 La Dolce Vita
1959 Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro)
1958 The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли / Letât žuravli)
1957 Friendly Persuasion
1956 The Silent World (Le monde du silence)
1955 Marty
1954 Gate of Hell (地獄門 / Jigokumon)
1953 The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur)
1952 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza)
1951 Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano)
1949 The Third Man

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

3m — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:49:09 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonwealth_Writers_prizes

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize was changed in 2012 to be a Best First Book Prize only.

Best First Book
2012 – Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka

Best Book
2011 – The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
2010 – Solo by Rana Dasgupta
2009 – The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
2008 – Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (U.S. title: Someone Knows My Name)
2007 – Lloyd Jones, Mr. Pip
2006 – Kate Grenville, The Secret River
2005 – Andrea Levy, Small Island
2004 – Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
2003 – Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
2002 – Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish
2001 – Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 – John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
1999 – Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
1998 – Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
1997 – Earl Lovelace, Salt
1996 – Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
1995 – Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
1994 – Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
1993 – Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game
1992 – Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
1991 – David Malouf, The Great World
1990 – Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
1989 – Janet Frame, The Carpathians
1988 – Festus Iyayi, Heroes
1987 – Olive Senior, Summer Lightning

Carnegie Medal in Literature

3m — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 04:44:19 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_in_Literature

Please note that before 2007 the year refers to when the book was published rather than when the medal was awarded i.e. the 2005 winner was announced and the medal presented in July 2006.

2012 Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
2011 Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
2010 Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
2009 Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
2008 Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur
2007 Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin
2005 Mal Peet, Tamar, Walker Books
2004 Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan
2003 Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury Children’s Books
2002 Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury Children’s Books
2001 Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
2000 Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin
1999 Aidan Chambers, Postcards From No Man’s Land, Bodley Head
1998 David Almond, Skellig, Hodder Children’s Books
1997 Tim Bowler, River Boy, OUP
1996 Melvin Burgess, Junk, Andersen Press
1995 Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights, Scholastic
1994 Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard, Methuen
1993 Robert Swindells, Stone Cold, H Hamilton
1992 Anne Fine, Flour Babies, H Hamilton
1991 Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody, H Hamilton
1990 Gillian Cross, Wolf, OUP
1989 Anne Fine, Goggle-eyes, H Hamilton
1988 Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies, OUP
1987 Susan Price, The Ghost Drum, Faber
1986 Berlie Doherty, Granny was a Buffer Girl, Methuen
1985 Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm, Heinemann
1984 Margaret Mahy, The Changeover, Dent
1983 Jan Mark, Handles, Kestrel
1982 Margaret Mahy, The Haunting, Dent
1981 Robert Westall, The Scarecrows, Chatto & Windus
1980 Peter Dickinson, City of Gold, Gollancz
1979 Peter Dickinson, Tulku, Gollancz
1978 David Rees, The Exeter Blitz, H Hamilton
1977 Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Faber
1976 Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings, Kestrel
1975 Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, Macmillan
1974 Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold, H Hamilton
1973 Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Heinemann
1972 Richard Adams, Watership Down, Rex Collings
1971 Ivan Southall, Josh, Angus & Robertson
1970 Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen, The God Beneath the Sea, Longman
1969 Kathleen Peyton, The Edge of the Cloud, OUP
1968 Rosemary Harris, The Moon in the Cloud, Faber
1967 Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Collins
1966 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1965 Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force, OUP
1964 Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank, OUP
1963 Hester Burton, Time of Trial, OUP
1962 Pauline Clarke, The Twelve and the Genii, Faber
1961 Lucy M Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe, Faber
1960 Dr I W Cornwall, The Making of Man, Phoenix House
1959 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers, OUP
1958 Philipa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden, OUP
1957 William Mayne, A Grass Rope, OUP
1956 C S Lewis, The Last Battle, Bodley Head
1955 Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom, OUP
1954 Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver), Knight Crusader, OUP
1953 Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up
1952 Mary Norton, The Borrowers, Dent
1951 Cynthia Harnett, The Woolpack, Methuen
1950 Elfrida Vipont Foulds, The Lark on the Wing, OUP
1949 Agnes Allen, The Story of Your Home, Faber
1948 Richard Armstrong, Sea Change, Dent
1947 Walter De La Mare, Collected Stories for Children
1946 Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse, University of London Press
1945 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1944 Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon, Macmillan
1943 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1942 ‘BB’ (D J Watkins-Pitchford), The Little Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode
1941 Mary Treadgold, We Couldn’t Leave Dinah, Cape
1940 Kitty Barne, Visitors from London, Dent
1939 Eleanor Doorly, Radium Woman, Heinemann
1938 Noel Streatfeild, The Circus is Coming, Dent
1937 Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, Muller
1936 Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, Cape

Spur Award

3m — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:35:14 +0000

http://westernwriters.org/spur-awards/

2012
Best Western Short Novel: Legacy of a Lawman by Johnny D. Boggs
Best Western Long Novel: Remember Ben Clayton by Stephen Harrigan

2011
Best Western Short Novel: Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler
Best Western Long Novel: Last Train from Cuernavaca by Lucia St. Clair Robson

2010
Best Western Short Novel: Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead
Best Western Long Novel: Echoes of Glory by Robert Flynn

2009
Best Western Short Novel: Another Man’s Moccasins by Craig Johnson
Best Western Long Novel: Shavetail by Thomas Cobb

2008
Best Western Short Novel: Tallgrass By Sandra Dallas
Best Western Long Novel: The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle

2007
Best Western Long Novel: The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook
Best Western Short Novel: The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman

Best Western Novel (short novel)
Novel of the West (long novel)

2006 WESTERN NOVEL (tie) Camp Ford: A Western Story by Johnny D. Boggs
The Undertaker’s Wife by Loren D. Estleman
NOVEL OF THE WEST High Country: A Novel by Willard Wyman

2005 WESTERN NOVEL Buy the Chief a Cadillac by Rick Steber
NOVEL OF THE WEST People of the Raven by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W Michael Gear

2004 WESTERN NOVEL I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company by Brian Hall
NOVEL OF THE WEST So Wild A Dream by Win Blevins

2003 WESTERN NOVEL The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas
NOVEL OF THE WEST Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling

2002 WESTERN NOVEL The Way of the Coyote by Elmer Kelton
NOVEL OF THE WEST The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

2001 WESTERN NOVEL Summer of Pearls by Mike Blakely
NOVEL OF THE WEST The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan

2000 WESTERN NOVEL Masterson by Richard S. Wheeler
NOVEL OF THE WEST Prophet Annie by Ellen Recknor

1999 WESTERN NOVEL Journey of the Dead by Loren D. Estleman
NOVEL OF THE WEST The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley

1998 WESTERN NOVEL The Kiowa Verdict by Cynthia Haseloff
NOVEL OF THE WEST Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

1997 In 1997, the Western Writers Association decided to have the year of the award reflect material published in that year. Thus, the awards given out prior to and including 1997 are for the previous calendar year’s material, while the awards presented post-1997 will reflect the same year.

1996 WESTERN NOVEL Blood of Texas by Preston Lewis writing as Will Camp
NOVEL OF THE WEST Sierra by Richard S. Wheeler

1995 WESTERN NOVEL The Dark Island by Robert J. Conley
NOVEL OF THE WEST Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse by Win Blevins

1994 WESTERN NOVEL St. Agnes’ Stand by Tom Eidson
NOVEL OF THE WEST The Far Canyon by Elmer Kelton

1993 WESTERN NOVEL Friends by Charles Hackenberry
NOVEL OF THE WEST Empire of Bones by Jeff Long

1992 WESTERN NOVEL Nickajack by Robert J. Conley
NOVEL OF THE WEST Slaughter by Elmer Kelton

1991 WESTERN NOVEL Journal of the Gun Years by Richard Matheson
NOVEL OF THE WEST The Medicine Horn by Jory Sherman

1990 WESTERN NOVEL Sanctuary by Gary Svee
NOVEL OF THE WEST Home Mountain by Jeanne Williams

1989 WESTERN NOVEL Fool’s Coach by Richard Wheeler
NOVEL OF THE WEST Panther in the Sky by James Alexander Thom

1988 WESTERN NOVEL Mattie by Judy Alter
NOVEL OF THE WEST The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout

1987 WESTERN NOVEL Skinwalker by Tony Hillerman
1986 WESTERN NOVEL The Blind Corral by Ralph Robert Beer
1985 WESTERN NOVEL Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1984 HISTORICAL NOVEL Gone the Dreams and Dancing by Douglas C. Jones
1983 NOVEL Leaving Kansas by Frank Roderus
1982 NOVEL Match Race by Fred Grove
1981 NOVEL Eye of the Hawk by Elmer Kelton
1980 NOVEL The Valiant Women by Jeanne Williams
1979 NOVEL The Holdouts by William Decker
1978 NOVEL Riders to Cibola by Norman Zollinger
1977 NOVEL The Great Horse Race by Fred Grove
1976 NOVEL The Spirit Horses by Lou Cameron
The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer by Douglas C. Jones
1975 NOVEL The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
1974 NOVEL A Hanging In Sweetwater by Stephen Overholser
1973 NOVEL The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
1972 NOVEL A Killing in Kiowa by Lewis B. Patten
1971 NOVEL The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton
1970 NOVEL The Last Days of Wolf Garnett by Clifton Adams
1969 NOVEL Tragg’s Choice by Clifton Adams
1968 NOVEL Down the Long Hills by Louis L’Amour
1967 NOVEL The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman
1966 NOVEL My Brother John by Herbert R. Purdum
1965 NOVEL Sam Chance by Benjamin Capp
1964 NOVEL The Trail to Ogallala by Benjamin Capps
1963 NOVEL Follow the Free Wind by Leigh Brackett
1962 NOVEL Comanche Captives by Fred Grove
1961 NOVEL The Honyocker by Giles Lutz
1960 NOVEL The Nameless Breed by Will C. Brown
1959 NOVEL Long Run by Nelson Nye
1958 NOVEL Short Cut to Red River by Noel Loomis
1957 NOVEL Buffalo Wagons by Elmer Kelton
1956 NOVEL High Gun by Leslie Ernenwein
1955 NOVEL Somewhere They Die by L.P. Holmes
1954 NOVEL The Violent Land by Wayne D. Overholser
1953 NOVEL Lawman by Lee Leighton

Nebula Award

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2011 Among Others by Jo Walton
2010 Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
2009 The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
2008 Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
2007 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
2006 Seeker by Jack McDevitt
2005 Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
2004 Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
2002 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2001 The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
2000 Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear
1999 Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
1998 Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
1997 The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. Mcintyre
1996 Slow River by Nicola Griffith
1995 The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
1994 Moving Mars by Greg Bear
1993 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
1992 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1991 Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
1990 Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
1989 The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
1988 Falling Free by Lois Mcmaster Bujold
1987 The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
1986 Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
1985 Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
1984 Neuromancer by William Gibson
1983 Startide Rising by David Brin
1982 No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop
1981 Claw of the Conciliator: New Sun 2 by Gene Wolfe
1980 Timescape by Gregory Benford
1979 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur Charles Clarke
1978 Dreamsnake by Vonda N. Mcintyre
1977 Gateway by Frederik Pohl
1976 Mars Plus by Frederik Pohl
1975 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
1974 The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula Le Guin
1973 Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur Charles Clarke
1972 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
1971 Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
1970 Ringworld by Larry Niven
1969 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
1968 Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
1967 The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
1966 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and Babel-17: Including
Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany
1965 Dune by Frank Herbert