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NOTEWORTHY 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death at a Storm- Overseas Press Club Ed Cunningham Award: MacArthur Fellowship: Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink - “The Uncounted,” by Azmat Khan and - Nikole Hannah-Jones Anand Gopal - Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama - Lauren Redniss bin Laden, by Peter Bergen PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice: - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Award Finalist: Has the Time, by Brigid Schulte - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death - Ark of the Liberties: America and the World, by Ted Widmer - Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled at a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink Profession, by Dana Goldstein PEN America Writing for Social Justice Fellowship: - Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times, - The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright - Reginald Dwayne Betts by Eyal Press - The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to PEN Open Book Award: - United States of Jihad: Investigating Change the American Way of War, by Fred Kaplan - A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary America’s Homegrown Terrorists, by - The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Peter Bergen America and Al-Qaeda, by Peter Bergen Africa, by Alexis Okeowo New York Times Best 10 Books of the Year: - The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Pictures of the Year International’s Portrait - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death at a Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox, by Gabriel Sherman Category—Second Place: Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink - The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line - “DEPORTED,” Photos of Mexican drug New York Times List of Notable Books: Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold war, by Louie Palu - No Good Men Among the Living: America, the - Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes, by by Christopher Hayes - No Good Men Among the Living: Anand Gopal America, the Taliban, and the War - No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in LITERARY, FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS through Afghan Eyes, by Anand Gopal Wartime Syria, by Rania Abouzeid - The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright - Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Deadline Club Award for Magazine Investigative - The Insurgents: David Petraeus and Embattled Profession, by Dana Goldstein Reporting: the Plot to Change the American Way of - The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright War, by Fred Kaplan - “The Uncounted,” by Azmat Khan and - The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Anand Gopal Ridenhour Book Prize: Freedom, by Evgeny Morozov Emmy Award: - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death - The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault at a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by - All in with Chris Hayes, “All In America: Line Between Christianity and Islam, yb Sheri Fink Chicago,” hosted by Christopher Hayes & Eliza Griswold featuring reporter Trymaine Lee (Outstanding - No Good Men Among the Living: - To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of News Discussion & Analysis) America, the Taliban, and the War Technological Solutionism, by Evgeny Morozov through Afghan Eyes, by Anand Gopal Emmy Nomination: New Yorker’s List of Reviewers’ Favorites: Salon Book Award: - Holy War Inc., based on the book by - The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Peter Bergen (Outstanding Individual - An American Story, Hubris, by Peter Beinart Achievement in a Craft: Research) by Debra Dickerson - The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of - In the Footsteps of bin Laden., based South by Southwest Best Documentary: Information Empires, by Tim Wu on the book The Osama bin Laden - People’s Republic of Desire, Washington Post’s “Notable Works of Nonfiction”: I Know and produced by Peter Bergen by Hao Wu (Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a - Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Washington Institute Book Prize (Gold Medal): News Story—Long Form) Osama bin Laden, by Peter Bergen - The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict - Legion of Brothers, produced by Greg - Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No between America and Al-Qaeda, by Barker & Peter Bergen (Outstanding One Has the Time, by Brigid Schulte Peter Bergen Politics & Government Documentary) - The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of White House News Photographers Association Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism: America’s Food Business, by Annual Eyes of History Video Contest, First Place in Christopher Leonard - “The Uncounted,” by Azmat Khan and the Conflict/Disaster Coverage Category: Anand Gopal - The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History - Kandahar Journals, by Louie Palu of al Qaeda’s Leader, by Peter Bergen (non- Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Best White House News Photographers Association, First fiction category) Documentary Editing Award: Place in the Portrait Category: - The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of - The Road to Fame, by Hao Wu - “DEPORTED,” Photos of Mexican drug Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love Los Angeles Film Review Independent Film Awards war, by Louie Palu and Family, by Liza Mundy Gold Award: - The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They - Kandahar Journals, by Louie Palu OTHER NOTABLE AWARDS Got That Way, by Amanda Ripley Los Angeles Times Book Prize: - The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death American Library Association Outstanding Academic by Eliza Griswold at a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Titles: Sheri Fink - Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and - United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists, by Peter Bergen National Book Award Finalist: Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America, by Gregory Whiting
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