The 2014 Library Book Award From 94 entries, a shortlist of six The American Library in Paris received more than twice the 2013 number of submissions for the second year of the award, which honors the most distinguished book of the year, written in English, about France or the French-American encounter. From this list of 94 works, submitted by authors and publishers, a Paris screening committee selected a shortlist of six books, highlighted below in red. The list has now been presented to the 2014 jury: Alice Kaplan, Sebastian Faulks, and Pierre Assouline, all members of the Library’s Writers Council. Their choice of a winning book will be announced in November in the presence of the author at a ceremony in Paris. The $5,000 prize is underwritten by a generous gift from the Florence Gould Foundation, and the ceremony receives additional support from The de Groot Foundation. All the books on the list below are now in the American Library’s circulating collection and available for checkout by members.
P.J. Adams Intoxicating Paris: Uncorking the Presidents (The History Press) Parisian Within (PJ Adams Books) Richard W.H. Bray Salt & Old Vines: True Tales of Paddy Ashdown Cruel Victory: The French Winemaking in the Roussillon (Unbound) Resistance, D-Day, and the Battle for Vercors, 1944 Fae Brauer Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris (William Collins) Salons and the Modern Art Centre (Cambridge Paul Bailey Prince's Boy (Bloomsbury) Scholars Publishing) Richard Barber Edward III and the Triumph of Michael Broers Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny (Faber England: The Battle of Crécy and the Company of & Faber, UK) the Garter (Allen Lane) Frederick Brown The Embrace of Unreason: Luke Barr Provence, 1970 (Clarkson Potter) France 1914-1940 (Knopf) Will Bashor Marie-Antoinette's Head: The Royal Sean B. Carroll Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Hairdresser, the Queen and the Revolution (Lyons Philosopher and their Daring Adventures from the Press) French Resistance to the Nobel Prize (Crown) John Baxter Paris at the End of the World: The Gerri Chanel Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Pro- City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 tect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War (Harper Perennial) II (Heliopa Press) Jonathan Beckman How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Stephen Clarke Dirty Bertie: An English King Made Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal in France (Century) that Shook the French Throne (John Murray) Colette Colligan Publisher's Paradise: Expatriate Vanora Bennett White Russian (Century) Literary Culture in Paris, 1890-1960 (University of Massachusetts Press) Carol Berkin Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Ad- ventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (Knopf) Alice L. Conklin In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology and Empire in France, 1850-1950 Cara Black Murder in Pigalle (Soho Crime) (Cornell University Press)
Douglas Boyd De Gaulle: The Man who Defied Six 2014 American Library Book Award submissions
Susan Conley Paris Was The Place (Knopf) Matthew Pratt Guteri Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe (Belknap Press/Harvard University Diana Cooper Darling Monster: The Letters of Press) Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 (Chatto & Windus) Robert Harris An Officer and A Spy (Hutchinson) Peter Crawley Mazzeri (Matador) Carol E. Harrison Romantic Catholics: France's Post Revolutionary Generation in Search of a Clare Haru Crowston Credit, Fashion, Sex: Econo- Modern Faith (Cornell University Press) mies of Regard in Old Regime France (Duke Uni- versity Press) Graham Healey The Shattered Peloton: The Devastating Impact of World War I on the Tour de Joan DeJean How Paris Became Paris: The France (Breakaway Books) Invention of the Modern City (Bloomsbury,US) Janet Hubbard Bordeaux: The Bitter Finish Patricia DeMaio Garden of Dreams: The Life of (Poisoned Pen Press) Simone Signoret (University Press of Mississippi) Andrew Hussey French Intifada: The Long War Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See (4th Between France and Its Arabs (Faber & Faber US/ Estate) Granta) William Doyle France and the Age of Revolution: Jonathan Israel Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectu- Regimes Old and New From Louis XIV to Napoleon al History of the French Revolution from The Rights Bonaparte (I.B. Tauris) of Man to Robespierre (Princeton University Press) Philip Dwyer Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power Eric Jager Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and 1799-1815 (Bloomsbury, UK) Detection in Medieval Paris (Little, Brown) Piu Eatwell They Eat Horses Don't They: The Anna Jaquiery The Lying Down Room (Mantle) Truth about the French (Head of Zeus) Sarah Kennel Charles Marville: Photographer of Patricia Engel It's Not Love, It's Just Paris (Grove Paris (University of Chicago Press) Press) HRH Princess Michael of Kent The Queen of Four Kristin Espinasse First French “Essais” (Self- Kingdoms (Constable) Published) Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels Migrants or Caroline Evans The Mechanical Smile: Modernism Expatriates? Americans in Europe (Palgrave Mac- and the First Fashion Shows in France and Ameri- millan) ca, 1900-1929 (Yale University Press) Roger Knight Britain Against Napoleon: The Natalie Meg Evans The Dress Thief (Quercus) Organisation of Victory (Allen Lane) Colin Falconer Isabella: Braveheart of France Nina Kushner Erotic Exchanges: The World of (Cool Gus Publishing) Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Paris Walter Feilchenfeldt Vincent van Gogh: The Years (Cornell University Press) in France (Philip Wilson Publishers) Steven Levingston Little Demon in the City of Jane Gilmour Colette's France: Her Lives, Her Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Loves (Hardie Grant) Belle Epoque Paris (Doubleday) James O. Goldsborough The Paris Herald Nick Lloyd Hundred Days: The End of the Great (Prospecta Press) War (Viking) Jonathan Courtney Grimwood The Last Banquet (Canongate) Jennie Goutet A Lady in France (Self-published) Paul Grossman Brotherhood of Fear (St. Martin’s Press) 2014 American Library Book Award submissions
Nicholas Macdonald In Search of La Grande Marilyn M. Sachs Marcel Proust in the Light Illusion: A Critical Appreciation of Jean Renoir’s of William James: In Search of A Lost Source Elusive Masterpiece (McFarland & Company) (Lexington Books) Janice MacLeod Paris Letters (Sourcebooks) Nicholas Shakespeare Priscilla (Harvill Secker) Ann Mah Mastering the Art of French Eating: Philip Short Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris (Bodley Head) (Pamela Dorman Books) Peter Sis The Pilot and the Little Prince (Farrar, Maud S. Mandel Muslims and Jews in France: Straus and Giroux) History of a Conflict (Princeton University Press) April Smith A Star for Mrs Blake (Knopf) Courtney Maum I Am Having So Much Fun Anita Shreve The Lives of Stella Bain (Little, Here Without You (Touchstone) Brown UK) Tilar Mazzeo The Hotel on Place Vendome: Elizabeth Speller The First of July (Pegasus Life, Death and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris Books) (HarperCollins) Julia Stagg A Fête to Remember (Hodder & Mary McAuliffe Twilight of the Belle Époque: Stoughton) The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Carolyn Tate Unstuck in Provence: The Courage through the Great War (Rowan & Littlefield) to Start Over (Self-Published) Nancy K. Miller Breathless: An American Girl Brian Unwin A Tale in Two Cities: Fanny Burney in Paris (Seal Press) and Adele, Comtesse de Boigne (I.B. Tauris) Martin K. A. Morgan Americans on D-Day: Gerald Vizenor Blue Ravens (Wesleyan University A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion Press) (Zenith Press) Martin Walker Children of War (Quercus) Paul A. Myers Greeks Bonds and French Ladies Heather Webb Becoming Josephine (Plume) (Paul A. Myers Books) Edmund White Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris The Paris Women of Success My Paris Story: (Bloomsbury US) Living, Loving and Leaping without a Net in the City of Light (Balboa Press) Anne Willan One Soufflé at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France (St. Martin’s Press) Francine Prose Lovers at the Chameleon Club Paris, 1932 (HarperCollins US) Kate Williams Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napo- leon (Hutchinson) Rosa Rankin-Gee The Last Kings of Sark (Virago) Naomi Wood Mrs Hemingway (Picador) Mary Louise Roberts D-Day Through French Eyes (University of Chicago Press) Michele Zackheim Last Train to Paris (Europa Editons) Jennifer Robson Somewhere in France (William Morrow) Robert Zaretsky A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning (Belknap Press Kelly Rogers Extraordinary, Ordinary Women: of The Harvard University Press) Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris (University Press of America) Rosemary Rudland That Summer in Normandy (Self-Published) Remembering last year’s Library Book Award
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