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Literature

Something Is Out There Stories by Richard Bausch Richard Bausch has won the 2012 Rea Award for the Short Story, an annual prize given to a living American or Canadian writer whose body of work has made a "significant contribution in the discipline of the short story as an art form."

Jamrach's Menagerie A Novel by Carol Birch Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

All the Time in the World New and Selected Stories by E. L. Doctorow E. L. Doctorow has won both the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Arts, celebrating his large body of work.

The Colonel A Novel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Translated by Tom Patterdale Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Stories by Nathan Englander Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award

Remember Ben Clayton by Stephen Harrigan Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize

The Orphan Master's Son A Novel by Adam Johnson Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Mundo Cruel Stories by Luis Negrón Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine Suzanne Jill Levine has won the PEN Center USA Translation Award for her translation of Mundo Cruel

I Am Forbidden A Novel by Anouk Markovits Honorable Mention for the Sophie Brody Award for Jewish Literature

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena A Novel by Anthony Marra Anthony Marra has won the Whiting Writer's Award, awarded each year to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.

Waiting for the Barbarians Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Stag's Leap Poems by Sharon Olds Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The Expats A Novel by Chris Pavone Winner of the Edgar Award Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

All That Is by James Salter James Salter has won the PEN/Malamud Award, an annual award honoring "excellence in the art of the short story."

Promised Land The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit Winner of the Natan Book Award

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead Winner of the The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

In the House of the Interpreter A Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Zone One by Colson Whitehead Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto Translated by Michael Emmerich Shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize

History

Iron Curtain The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 by Anne Applebaum Finalist for the National Book Award

The Barbarous Years The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675 by Bernard Bailyn Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Isaac's Army A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Matthew Brzezinski Finalist of the National Jewish Book Award

Into the Silence The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

Inferno The World at War, 1939–1945 by Max Hastings Max Hastings has won the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

Liberty's Exiles American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff Winner of the George Washington Book Prize

Embers of War The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize (The Society of American Historians)

Catherine the Great Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt Winner of the Cundill Prize in History

The Black Count Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the NAACP Image Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Non-Fiction

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone Wrong by Raymond Bonner Winner of the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award

Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shorlisted for Samuel Johnson Prize

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski Winner of the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

The Passage of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV by Robert A. Caro Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize

Apocalyptic Planet A Field Guide to the Future of the Earth by Craig Childs Winner of The Orion Book Award

Debt The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Winner of the Bateson Book Prize (Society for Cultural Anthropology)

Full Body Burden Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston Winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Finalist for the Cundill Prize in History

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