Finalists and Winners of the Library of Virginia Annual Literary Awards
Fiction | Non-Fiction | Poetry | Lifetime Achievement
Fiction * Winner
| Title and Author | Annual Awards |
|---|---|
| People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks | 12th Annual Awards |
| Train to Trieste, Domnica Radulescu | 12th Annual Awards * |
| Success Stories, David A. Taylor | 12th Annual Awards |
| The Rope Walk, Carrie Brown | 11th Annual Awards |
| Measuring Time, Helon Habila | 11th Annual Awards |
| What the Thunder Said, Janet Peery | 11th Annual Awards * |
| Thanksgiving Night: A Novel, Richard Bausch | 10th Annual Awards |
| Twilight of the Superheroes, Deborah Eisenberg | 10th Annual Awards * |
| The Quick-Change Artist: Stories, Cary Holladay | 10th Annual Awards |
| March: A Novel Geraldine Brooks | 9th Annual Awards * |
| Little Criminals: Short Stories Kurt Rheinheimer | 9th Annual Awards |
| Holy Skirts René Steinke | 9th Annual Awards |
| Confinement Carrie Brown | 8th Annual Awards * |
| How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things Joe Jackson | 8th Annual Awards |
| A Year and a Day Leslie Pietrzyk | 8th Annual Awards |
| The Stories of Richard Bausch Richard Bausch | 7th Annual Awards |
| The Known World Edward P. Jones | 7th Annual Awards * |
| True Cross T. R. Pearson | 7th Annual Awards |
| Hello to the Cannibals: A Novel Richard Bausch | 6th Annual Awards * |
| The Gypsy Man Robert Bausch | 6th Annual Awards |
| The House on Belle Isle and Other Stories Carrie Brown | 6th Annual Awards |
| Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Geraldine Brooks | 5th Annual Awards |
| Dugan Under Ground Tom De Haven | 5th Annual Awards * |
| I, Roger Williams Mary Lee Settle | 5th Annual Awards |
| The Hatbox Baby: A Novel Carrie Brown | 4th Annual Awards * |
| Graveyard of the Atlantic Alyson Hagy | 4th Annual Awards |
| The Dress Lodger Sheri Holman | 4th Annual Awards |
| Someone To Watch Over Me Richard Bausch | 3rd Annual Awards |
| The Story of A Million Years David Huddle | 3rd Annual Awards |
| Pictures of a Dying Man Agymah Kamau | 3rd Annual Awards * |
| The Hearts of Soldiers Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder | 3rd Annual Awards |
| The Half-Life of Happiness: A Novel John Casey | 2nd Annual Awards |
| Wingtips: Stories by Avery Chenoweth | 2nd Annual Awards |
| Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During The War Donald McCaig | 2nd Annual Awards * |
| News of the Spirit Lee Smith | 1st Annual Awards |
| The Way to Cobbs Creek Dabney Stuart | 1st Annual Awards |
| Black Zodiac Charles Wright | 1st Annual Awards * |
Non-Fiction * Winner
| Title and Author | Annual Awards |
|---|---|
| This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust | 12th Annual Awards |
| The Heminges of Monticello: An American Family, Annette Gordon-Reed | 12th Annual Awards * |
| Remarkable Trees of Virginia, Nancy Ross Hugo and Jeff Kirwan | 12th Annual Awards |
| Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America, Wesley C. Hogan | 11th Annual Awards * |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp & Camille Kingsolver | 11th Annual Awards |
| Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History, Peter Wallenstein | 11th Annual Awards |
| Archie and Emelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age, Donna M. Lucey | 10th Annual Awards |
| Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945, Charles F. McGovern | 10th Annual Awards |
| Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend, Scott Reynolds Nelson | 10th Annual Awards* |
| At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past A. Roger Ekirch | 9th Annual Awards* |
| A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America James Horn | 9th Annual Awards |
| A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race Joe Jackson | 9th Annual Awards |
| His Excellency: George Washington Joseph J. Ellis | 8th Annual Awards |
| Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War Melvin Patrick Ely | 8th Annual Awards * |
| Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma Camilla Townsend | 8th Annual Awards |
| In the Presence of Mine Enemies Edward L. Ayers | 7th Annual Awards |
| An Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr. Margaret Edds | 7th Annual Awards |
| A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial Suzanne Lebsock | 7th Annual Awards * |
| Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital Nelson Lankford | 6th Annual Awards |
| A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 John K. Nelson | 6th Annual Awards |
| Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia J. Douglas Smith | 6th Annual Awards * |
| Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity Jennifer Ackerman | 5th Annual Awards |
| John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court R. Kent Newmyer | 5th Annual Awards * |
| Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders Mark Perry | 5th Annual Awards |
| Eye of the Storm Charles F. Bryan Jr. and Nelson Langford | 4th Annual Awards |
| Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia James Fox | 4th Annual Awards |
| Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga Ronald Hoffman | 4th Annual Awards * |
| German Boy: A Refugee’s Story Wolfgang W. E. Samuel | 4th Annual Awards |
| What The River Means Elizabeth Hodges | 3rd Annual Awards |
| The Rise and Fall Of the American Whig Party Michael F. Holt | 3rd Annual Awards |
| Forced Founders Woody Holton | 3rd Annual Awards |
| Robert Gwathmey Michael Kammen | 3rd Annual Awards * |
| Confederates in the Attic Tony Horwitz | 2nd Annual Awards |
| Slave Counterpoint Philip Morgan | 2nd Annual Awards * |
| We Mean To Be Counted Elizabeth Varon | 2nd Annual Awards |
| William Styron: A Life James L. W. West III | 2nd Annual Awards |
| Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Annette Gordon-Reed | 1st Annual Awards |
| Stonewall Jackson James I. Robertson Jr. | 1st Annual Awards * |
| From Calabar to Carter’s Grove Lorena Walsh | 1st Annual Awards |
Poetry * Winner
| Title and Author | Annual Awards |
|---|---|
| Figure Studies: Poems, Claudia Emerson | 12th Annual Awards |
| The Pear as one Example: New & Seleted Poems 1984-2008, Eric Pankey | 12th Annual Awards |
| Satin Cash, Lisa Russ Spaar | 12th Annual Awards * |
| Blessings and Inclemencies: Poems, Constance Merritt | 11th Annual Awards |
| Outlaw Style: Poems, R. T. Smith | 11th Annual Awards * |
| Littlefoot, Charles Wright | 11th Annual Awards |
| What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, Camille Dungy | 10th Annual Awards |
| Fire Baton, Elizabeth Hadaway | 10th Annual Awards* |
| Ornithologies, Joshua Poteat | 10th Annual Awards |
| Late Wife: Poems Claudia Emerson | 9th Annual Awards |
| Reliquaries by Eric Pankey | 9th Annual Awards |
| Family Preserve: Poems Dabney Stuart | 9th Annual Awards* |
| American Smooth: Poems Rita Dove | 8th Annual Awards |
| In the Dark Ruth Stone | 8th Annual Awards * |
| Buffalo Yoga Charles Wright | 8th Annual Awards |
| Torn Sky Debra Nystrom | 7th Annual Awards * |
| Brightwood: Poems R. T. Smith | 7th Annual Awards |
| The Saint of Letting Small Fish Go Eliot Khalil Wilson | 7th Annual Awards |
| The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems Gregory Orr | 6th Annual Awards |
| Shadow of Heaven: Poems Ellen Bryant Voigt | 6th Annual Awards |
| A Short History of the Shadow Charles Wright | 6th Annual Awards * |
| Icon and Evidence Margaret Gibson | 5th Annual Awards |
| Messenger: Poems R. T. Smith | 5th Annual Awards * |
| Alluvial Katherine Soniat | 5th Annual Awards |
| The Drowned City Jennifer Atkinson | 4th Annual Awards |
| Texas School Book Depositor: Prose Poems Cathryn Hankla | 4th Annual Awards |
| Cenotaph: Poems Eric Pankey | 4th Annual Awards * |
| Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems David Huddle | 3rd Annual Awards |
| Hammerlock Tim Seibles | 3rd Annual Awards |
| Late Leisure: Poems Eleanor Ross Taylor | 3rd Annual Awards * |
| The River Hills & Beyond: Poems Lou V. Crabtree | 2nd Annual Awards * |
| On Long Mountain Elizabeth Seydel Morgan | 2nd Annual Awards |
| Gift of Jade Margaret Ward Moreland | 2nd Annual Awards |
| Name | Annual Awards |
|---|---|
| John Grisham | 12th Annual Awards |
| Rita Dove | 11th Annual Awards |
| Tom Wolfe | 10th Annual Awards |
| William Styron | 9th Annual Awards |
| Merrill D. Peterson | 8th Annual Awards |
| George Garrett | 7th Annual Awards |
| Louis D. Rubin, Jr. | 6th Annual Awards |
| Mary Lee Settle | 5th Annual Awards |
| Booker T. Washington | 4th Annual Awards |
| Anne Spencer | 3rd Annual Awards |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 2nd Annual Awards |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1st Annual Awards |