The Locus winners were announced last week. Neal Stephenson’s Anathem won for best science fiction novel, Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia for best fantasy, and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for best young adult.
The full list of winners is available on the Locus site.
The Oscars of audiobooks, the Audies were presented during BEA by the Audio Publishers Association.
Neil Gaiman’s Graveyard Book (Harper/Recorded Books) won both Audiobook of the Year and the Children’s Age 8 to 12 category.
AudioFile has a great rundown, complete with links to audio clips and their reviews. All the winners and nominees are worth checking to make sure they’re in your collection. It’s also a useful list for audio RA.
One headline reads Triumph of the short story; the third man Booker International Prize for fiction goes to Canadian short story writer, Alice Munro.
The prize is awarded every two years. Unlike the annual Booker, which recognizes a single work of fiction in English, the International Prize is awarded for an entire body of work and is open to writers from around the world. The first International Prize was went to Albanian writer Ismail Kadare in 2005; Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe won it in 2007.
Quoted in the Canadian Globe and Mail, her editor and publisher, Douglas Gibson exhibited a rare bit of Canadian nationalism:
“It’s further proof, if proof was needed, that Canadian writers are simply among the best in the world.” Noting the implied modesty of that statement, he said, “Canadians are culturally averse to anyone seeming too big for our boots, so we need to be reminded by objective evidence that our people really are the best.”
The win brings a prize of 60,000 pounds (US $96,000).
Munro has a new collection of stories coming out in August in Canada and in November in the US.
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Also from Random House Audio:
November 17, 2009
ISBN-10: 0307576736
ISBN-13: 978-0307576736
It’s great to see Rosemary Harris’s Pushing Up Daisies as one of the nominees for the Anthony Award for Best First Novel (the full list of nominees is available on the Anthony site; winners will be announced at the World Mystery Convnetion in Indianapolis, Oct. 15 to 18).
Rosemary’s been a real friend to libraries, making dozens of library appearances in the past year (just last week, she spoke at the Cuyahoga [OH] PL). She’s such a fan of libraries that she’s talked several of her mystery writing friends into coming to ALA in Chicago; you can find tham at the Sisters in Crime booth.
The second book in her Dirty Business Mystery series came out in February.
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Also available in large print from Thorndike (9781410415349; $30.95)
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Also available in large print from Thorndike (978-1410407191; $29.95)
The James Beard Foundation Awards were given out at a celebrity-chef studded event last night.
The full list of all the Awards is available at the Foundation’s Web site.
The Cookbook of the Year (as well as winner for the Single Subject category), is:
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You gotta love this quote from the winner in the Outstanding Chef category, Dan Barber (Blue Hill restaurant, NYC),
I remember telling my father, I want to be a chef. He said, why? I said, I love food. He said, I love books, but I don’t read for a living…
The Edgar Awards were announced last night. Below are the winners in full-length novel categories.
For the other categories and a full list of nominees, got to the Edgar Awards site.
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Blue Heaven is available in unabridged audio (and audio download from OverDrive):
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China Lake is available in unabridged audio from Brilliance, and as eBook and audio download from OverDrive.
And on PlayAway: ISBN #: 9781606404089; $74.99
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum (Crown Publishers)
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American Lightning is available as an unabridged audio from Books on Tape and as downloadable eBook and audio from OverDrive.
Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton Children’s Books)
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Paper Towns is available in unabridged audio from Brilliance and downloable from OverDrive.
And on PlayAway:
The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
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The Postcard is available in audio from Listening Library and as downloadable eBook and audio from OverDrive.
The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
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The Killer’s Wife is available in audio from BBC Audiobooks (also downloadable from OverDrive).
The Sci Fi magazine, Locus has just announced the finalists for their awards that will be given out in late June.
We were pleased to see Jo Graham as one of the finalists for first novel for Black Ships; some of you may remember her from the Orbit lunch at ALA Annual ‘07, many months before the book was published.
Below are the finalists for the full-length novel categories; a list of the finalists in all categories is available on the Locus web site.
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Ursula Le Guin author of The Left Hand of Darkness, one of the top ten science fiction novels of all time, has won the coveted Nebula Award for the the third book in the Annals of the Western Shore series, Powers (the first two titles in that series are Voices and Gifts). The paperback came out this month:
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For backlist you don’t want to miss, Le Guin’s adult novel Lavinia is also available in paperback this month.
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While you’re at it, check your holdings for The Earthsea Trilogy and Catwings series. No library should be without them.
Other 2008 Nebula Awards Winners:
Best Novella: The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro
Available on the Analog Web Site: The Spacetime Pool
Best Novelette: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel
Best Short Story: Trophy Wives by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Script: WALL-E Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
Andre Norton Award:
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The nominees for the Shirley Jackson Awards “for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic” were announced today. Below are the finalists for the Novel and Novella categories.
The full list, including the other categories of Novelette, Short Story, Collection and Anthology can be found at:
Nominees Announced for the 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards
The winners will be announced on July 12th.
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“Dormitory,” in The Diving Pool
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Living With the Dead, Darrell Schweitzer (PS Publishing)– UK only
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“N” Stephen King in Just After Sunset
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The winners in Letters, Drama and Music are:
Fiction – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Drama – Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History – The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
Poetry – The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
General Nonfiction – Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
Music – Double Sextet by Steve Reich, premiered March 26, 2008 in Richmond, VA (Boosey & Hawkes)
The Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners will be announced on Monday. Thanks to the L.A. Times book blog, Jacket Copy, we learned that a “Pulitzer Prize Final Prediction List,” was put together over a month ago by PPrize.com (a site for Pulitzer Prize first edition collectors; now there’s a specialty). Last year, they identified the winner and a finalist.
If you’re reading this on Monday, after 3 p.m. EST, you already know the winners.
Too bad we didn’t know about this earlier; the list could be used book displays. We’ve signed up to be notified when PPrize.com publishes the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Prediction List.
The predictions are only for the Fiction category. You’re on your own for the categories of Biography or Autobiography, Drama, General Nonfiction, History or Poetry.
The predictions are based on books that appeared on best books lists, won other awards, and are by authors that have won in the past. As a result, only one first-time novelist is among the predictions, Rachel Kushner for Telex From Cuba, which was a finalist for the National Book Award (the winner in that category was Peter Mathiessen’s Shadow Country, which doesn’t appear on this list. There was some controversy about whether it was actually a new book)
1. Home, Marilynne Robinson, (FSG, 9/08)
2. The Widows of Eastwick, John Updike, (Knopf, 10/08)
3. Indignation, Philip Roth, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9/08)
4. The Lazarus Project, Aleksander Hemon, (Riverhead, 5/08)
5. Fine Just the Way It Is, Annie Proulx, (Scribner, 9/08)
6. The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich, (Harper, 5/08)
7. A Mercy, Toni Morrison, (Knopf, 11/08)
8. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri, (Knopf, 4/08)
9. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, (Random House, 3/ 08)
10. Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser, (Knopf, 2/08)
11. Telex from Cuba, Rachel Kushner, (Scribner, 7/08)
12. Netherland, Joseph O’Neil, (Pantheon, 5/08)
13. My Sister, My Love, Joyce Carol Oates, (Ecco, 6/08)
14. Lush Life, Richard Price, (FSG, 3/08)
15. Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff, (Knopf, 3/08)
The winner if the International Association Culinary Professionals in the General Category was a book on a timely topic from South Portland, Maine independent publisher, Sellers Publishing. The winners were announced on Saturday at the IACP Conference in Denver.
The full list of winners is at IACP Cookbook Awards. The link is also available on our “Book Awards ‘09″ links, to the right.
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And, since doing things for less is the current watchword, we thought we’d mention the previous title is the series, by the same author, on parties. Preview pages are available on the book’s web site.
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Among the 33 finalists for the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Awards, ten titles also appeared on the IACP list. We’ve listed them below and included the number of libraries that own each title, according to OCLC, to help you focus on what you may be missing.
The winners of the James Beard Awards will be announced May 4th.
One of the Beard finalists appears to be self-published by the author/chef, who also has an extensive web site. OCLC shows only 5 libraries owning it. Where it is owned, it is circulating quickly.
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The one surprise from the National Book Critics Circle Awards announced last night was the winner for autiobiography, My Father’s Paradise, by Ariel Sabar. While it garnered some stellar reviews and was on the Christian Science Monitor’s list of best books, it’s not as well known as some of the other finalists, several of which have appeared on bestseller lists and dozens of best books lists.
In addition to being a strong readers advisory title, it is a candidate for book clubs (the author’s web site offers useful background, including book club resources). The book is also the current selection of ”One Book, One Jewish Community” in Philadelphia as well as “On the Same Page, Baltimore.”
Since this award comes from book critics and since the critics lined up to praise Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (according to Neil Hollands’s analysis of over 80 best books of ‘08 lists, it appeared on the most; 23 in total), it’s no surprise that it was the winner in fiction.
Below is a full list of winners and finalists. The links are to NBCC Board members’ descriptions from their admirable Thirty Books in Thirty Days.
Winner:
Roberto Bolaño, 2666, Farrar, Straus
Finalists:
Marilynne Robinson, Home, Farrar, Straus (National Book Award finalist last year)
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, Riverhead (National Book Award finalist last year)
M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, West Virginia University Press
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge, Random
Winners:
August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, Farrar, Strauss
Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, University of Arizona Press
Finalists:
Devin Johnston, Sources, Turtle Point Press
Pierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, Sheep Meadow Press
Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, Copper Canyon Press
Winner:
Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, University of Chicago Press
Finalists:
Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard, Metropolitan Books
Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life, Boston Review/MIT
Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, Doubleday
Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, University of Michigan Press
Winner:
Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Knopf
Finalists:
Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Amistad
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In An American Century, Penguin Press
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, W.W. Norton (This was the winner of the National Book Award in Nonfiction last year)
Norton Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Knopf
Winner:
Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, Algonquin
Finalists:
Rick Bass, Why I Came West, Houghton Mifflin
Helene Cooper, The House On Sugar Beach, Simon and Schuster
Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, WW Norton
Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves Of Heaven, Harmony Books
Winner:
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, Knopf
Finalists:
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War, Knopf (National Book Award finalist last year)
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Doubleday (National Book Award finalist last year)
Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, Atlantic
George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776, Oxford University Press
Last year, everyone was looking for books on green weddings. Now we’ve got them in spades, just as brides-to-be (or anyway, their mothers) are looking for books on cheap weddings.
Happily, one of finalists for Best General Cookbook from the International Association of Culinary Professionals is Do It for Less: Weddings from independent publisher, Sellers Publishing. WorldCat shows it is owned by just 120 libraries.
Do It For Less! Weddings: How to Create Your Dream Wedding Without Breaking the Bank
Denise Vivaldo
We’re happy, but not surprised, to see that Baked, from EarlyWord’s favorite Brooklyn bakery is a finalist in the Baking category. It’s already appeared on several best cookbooks of ‘08 lists. WorldCat shows it’s owned by 269 libraries. And, the reserves? Fugeddaboudit, they’re tru da roof — 37 on 7 copies in one NorthWest library system.
Baked: New Frontiers in Baking
by Matt Lewis, Renato Poliafito, Tina Rupp
And, speaking of Brooklyn, a book on a cuisine that is not widely covered, Senegalese, by Brooklyn resident Pierre Thiam, is one of the finalists for IACP’s Julia Child Award for First Book. It’s also from an independent press, Lake Isle Press. WorldCat shows it’s owned by 128 libraries.
Yolele! Recipes from the Heart of Senegal
Pierre Thiam
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