The Annual People’s Choice Awards were established in 2004 to give readers an opportunity to share their enthusiasm for favorite works by Virginia authors. An independent panel of judges selects finalists for the People’s Choice Awards from the books nominated for the annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards. The People’s Choice winners are chosen by readers voting in public libraries and bookstores, as well as online. The winners each receive a cash prize and an engraved crystal book.

Voting for the 2011 People’s Choice winners has now closed. The winner will be announced at the Library’s Literary Awards Celebration on Saturday, October 15, 2011.

Past Winners:
13th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (2010)
Fiction: Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Nonfiction: Haunted Plantations of Virginia by Beth Brown

12th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (2009)
Fiction: The Legal Limit by Martin Clark
Nonfiction: The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News by Roger Mudd

11th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (2008)
Fiction: Puss 'n Cahoots by Rita Mae Brown
Nonfiction: Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton

10th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (2007)
Fiction: Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Nonfiction: Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso

9th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (2006)
Fiction: St. Dale by Sharyn McCrumb
Nonfiction: Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument by Allen St. John

8th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (2005)
Fiction: Hour Game by David Baldacci
Nonfiction: Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King

7th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (2004)
Fiction: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Nonfiction: Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon