Nominations for the 14th Virginia Literary Awards held in 2011
Fiction | Non-Fiction | Poetry
Adams, Stacy Hawkins Dreams That Won't Let Go: A Novel
Andrews, Donna Stork Raving Mad: A Meg Langslow Mystery
Baldacci, David G. Deliver Us From Evil
Baldacci, David G. Hell's Corner
Blevins, Jay The Last Fall
Boggs, Belle Mattaponi Queen: Stories
Byrnes, William G. Unfinished Business: A Novel
Casey, John Compass Rose
Cole, Meredith Dead in the Water: A Mystery
Combs, Allison The Spirit War Trilogy: The Mansion of Misfortune
Cotter, James The Bridge Over the Bering Strait
Crosby, Ellen The Viognier Vendetta: A Wine Country Mystery
Ducharme, Diann Schnell The Outer Banks House: A Novel
Erskine, Kathryn Mockingbird
Grisham, John Ford County: Stories
Grisham, John The Confession: A Novel
Grissom, Kathleen The Kitchen House: A Novel
Hoagland, Linda Hudson Death By Computer
Honenberger, Sarah Collins Catcher, Caught
Kaldas, Pauline The Time between Places: Stories That Weave In and Out of Egypt and America
Karon, Jan In the Company of Others
Kraus Jr., Harry L. The Six-Liter Club: A Novel
Laird, Meredith S. Dangerous Differences
Madison, Savannah Daddy's Wives
Malliet, G. M. Death at the Alma Mater
Martin, Stephen H. Dead Man of the Year: A Whodunit
McCrumb, Sharyn The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel
McKenzie, Jake When Pigs Flu
Nichols, George The View from Afton Mountain
Orloff, Alan Diamonds for the Dead
Pearson, T. R. Jerusalem Gap
Radulescu, Domnica Black Sea Twilight
Rathbone, Emma The Patterns of Paper Monsters
Richards, Jacqueline E. The Pinnacle Seven: A Political Mystery
Robinson, Mariah Love and Other Illusions
Somma, C. Thomas Midori and the 1000 stitch Belt
Trigiani, Adriana Brava Valentine
Wenzel, Richard P. Labyrinth of Terror
Wilson, Jack Hamilton Sent Back
Wingfield, Andrew Right of Way
Young-Stone, Michele The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
Ziegler, Irene Ashes to Water
Aaron, Larry G. The Wreck of Old 97
Allard, William Albert William Albert Allard: Five Decades, A Retrospective
Allen, George What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports
Bassard, Katherine Clay Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
Berrier Jr., Ralph If Trouble Don't Kill Me: A Family's Story of Brotherhood, War and Bluegrass
Borte, Jason Kook's Guide to Surfing
Brodie, Laura F. Love in a Time of Homeschooling
Browder, Laura When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women CombatVeterans
Brown, Beth Wicked Richmond
Buford, Kate Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
Campbell, Julie A. The Horse in Virginia
Censer, Jack R. On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper, Fear and the Media
Chernow, Ron Washington: A Life
Christianson, Scott Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Cyrus, Bainy B. All Eyes. A Memoir of Deafness
De Haven, Tom Our Hero: Superman on Earth
Doumlele, Ruth The Randolph Women & Their Men
Ekirch, A. Roger Birthright: The True Story That Inspired Kidnapped
Evans, James W. A Morning in June - Defending Outpost Harry
Ford, David R. Blind in One Eye: A Story About Seeing the Possibilities
Fox, John J. The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg’s Fort Gregg
on April 2, 1865
Gorant, Jim The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
Grayson, George W. Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?
Hoagland, Linda Hudson Living Life For Others
Horn, James A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Howard, Chris Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business
Hudson, Michael W. The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America - and Spawned a Global Crisis
Hume, Ivor Noel A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist
Kaminski, John P. The Great Virginia Triumvirate: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison in the Eyes of their Contemporaries
King, Barbara J. Being with Animals: Why We Are Obsessed with the Furry, Scaly, Feathered Creatures Who Populate the World
Kranish, Michael Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
Lambert, Lillian Lincoln The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond
Leland, John G. Learning the Valley: Excursions into the Shenandoah Valley
Lendon, J.E. Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins
Lohmann, Bill Backroads and Byways of Virginia
MacVicar, Jamie The Advance Man: A Journey Into the World of the Circus
Miller, Kristie Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies
Minick, Jim The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family
Morsman, Amy Feely The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment
Pearson, T. R. Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope, and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
Peters, John O. Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery
Pineda, Jon Sleep in Me
Ragosta, John A. Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty
Ruthchild, Rochelle Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917
Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Smartt, Elizabeth Thalhimer Finding Thalhimers
Smith, Suzanne E. To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
Stronski, Paul Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930-1966
Sundquist, Josh Just Don't Fall Down
Swenson, Kristin Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked about Book of All Time
Theroux, Phyllis The Journal Keeper: A Memoir
Tillson Jr., Albert Accommodating Revolutions: Virginia’s Northern Neck in an Era of Transformations
Trigiani, Adriana Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmothers
Turner, Jeffrey A. Sitting In and Speaking Out: Student Movements in America 1960–1970
Tweedy, Katie Chenery and Ladin, Leanne Meadows. Secretariat's Meadow
Unger, Harlow Giles Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
Valeri, Mark Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America
Vuic, Kara Dixon Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War
Walsh, Lorena S. Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
Watman, Max Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventuresin Moonshine
Williams, Robin Traywick Bush Hogs and Other Swine
Wittenberg, Eric J. The Battle of Brandy Station: North America's Largest Cavalry Battle
Yarsinske, Amy Waters Flyboys over Hampton Roads: Glenn Curtiss's Southern Experiment
Aragon, Francisco Glow of Our Sweat
Beasley, Sandra I Was the Jukebox: Poems
Bernier, Cliff Earth Suite
Black, David The Clown in the Tent
Chitwood, Michael Poor-Mouth Jubilee
Cone, Temple The Broken Meadow
Coudriet, Daniel Say Sand
Daniels, Kate A Walk in Victoria's Secret
Duff, Valerie To the New WorldDurrant, Rita Dancing to the Marigold Mazurka: A Collection of Poems
Eps, W. Perry Nothing Happened
Gallo, Louis The Truth Changes
Graber, Kathleen The Eternal City: Poems
Graham, Loren The Ring Scar
Henry, Brian Wings Without Birds
Hicok, Bob Words for Empty and Words for Full
Meitner, Erika Ideal Cities
Mockler, Susan Bucci Noisy Souls
Moeckel, Thorpe Venison: a poem
Murawski, Elisabeth A. Zorba's Daughter
Rhodes, Suzanne U. A Welcome Shore
Singleton, Sharron A Thin Thread of Water
Wheeler, Lesley Heterotopia
Woodcock, Diana In the Shade of the Sidra Tree