Which book award did Hofstadter's 1979 book also win?
The American Book Awards for Science
Audie Awards
Edgar Awards
Bram Stoker Awards
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Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It also won The American Book Awards for Science in the same year. The book is a popular science book that explores themes of self-reference, recursion, and consciousness. It has been praised for its originality and its ability to make complex ideas accessible to a general audience.
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