Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees 2018
FICTION
2nd Author's Name Author Title Publisher
Anders, Adriana In His Hands Sourcebooks Casablanca
On Tokyo's Edge: Gaijin Tales from Postwar Ball, Gordon Red Mountain Press Japan
Bryan, Mollie Cox Macramé Murder Kensington Publishing Corp.
Carter, Erika Lucky You Counterpoint Press
Clayborn, Kate Beginner's Luck Kensington Publishing Corp.
Thomas Nelson/ HarperCollins Coffey, Billy Some Small Magic Christian Publishing
Love Big, Be Well: Letters to a Small Town William B. Eerdmans Publishing Collier, Winn Church Company
Crosby, Ellen The Vineyard Victims: A Wine Country Mystery Minotaur Books
Di Maio ,Camille Before the Rain Falls Lake Union Publishing
Fliess, Sue How to Trap a Leprechaun Sky Pony Press
Fliess, Sue We Wish for a Monster Christmas Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Grisham, John The Rooster Bar Doubleday
Harmon, A. G. Some Bore Gifts: Stories Word Galaxy Press
Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon Henshaw, Mark The Last Man in Tehran & Schuster
Johnson, Jeffrey N. Other Fine Gifts Meddler Press
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June, Christina It Started with Goodbye Blink YA Books (Ketchem)
King, Patricia Grace Day of All Saints Miami University Press
Avon Impulse, and Imprint of Livesay, Tracey Love Will Always Remember HarperCollins Delacorte Press, an imprint of McIntosh, Will Watchdog Penguin Random House Children's Books
McRaven , Charles The Rifling Secant Publishing
Ohio University Press/ Swallow Minick, James D. Fire Is Your Water Imprint
Moon, Lynn Yvonne The Tower Köehler books
Owen, Howard The Devil's Triangle The Permanent Press
Dutton/Penguin Random House Parks, Brad Say Nothing LLC
Perry, Janet The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs St. Martin's Press
Powers, Zach Gravity Changes BOA Editions, Ltd.
Poyer, David Hunter Killer St. Martin's Press
Preston, Caroline The War Bride's Scrapbook: A Novel in Pictures Ecco Books (HarperCollins)
Raskin, Erika Best Intentions St. Martin's Press
Sanders, Scott Loring Shooting Creek and Other Stories Down & Out Books
Skinner, Peter The Edge of Farallon Peter Skinner Books
Stein, Tammar The Six-Day Hero KAR-BEN Publishers
Sourcebooks Landmark, an Weiss, Leah If the Creek Don’t Rise Imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Will, Barry Scott The Long-Lost Troll Valutivity Press
Williams, David When the English Fall Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Yoerg, Sonja All the Best People Random House Group, USA NON FICTION
2nd Author's Name Title Publisher Author
Abell, Joyce Prickly Roses: Stories from a Life Passeger
Abraham, Michael Chasing the Powhatan Arrow Pocahontas Press
Newell, Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Alexander, Eben Rodale Karen Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Ayers, Edward W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Emancipation in the Heart of America
The Dooley's of Richmond: An Irish Family in the Bayliss, Mary Lynn UVA Press Old and New South
Stains, Through a Glass Darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Macmillan Publishers/St. Bechtel, Stefan Laurence and the Quest to Solve the Greatest Mystery of Martin’s Press Roy All
Bicknell, John Lincoln's Pathfinder Chicago Review Press
Hachette Book Group - Basic Boles, John B. Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty Books
Brooks, Clayton The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across the UVA Press McClure Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia
Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Basic Books/Hachette Book Brooks, Peter Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year Group
Browne, Henry J. Vanishing History - Ruins in Virginia Paper Show Press
Carlson, Jeanne A. And Then There Were Dogs BookBaby Self-Publishing
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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Cashin, Sheryll Beacon Press Threat to White Supremacy
Clement, Joe Miles, Matt Screen Schooled Chicago Review Press
How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Crawford, Alan Pell Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Misadventures of Mark Twain
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Springer Nature, an Imprint of Daut, Marlene Atlantic Humanism Palgrave Macmillan
Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Deetz, Kelley Fanto University Press of Kentucky Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
Jefferson Davis's Final Campaign: Confederate Dillard, Philip D. Mercer University Press Nationalism and the Fight to Arm Slaves
Dunbar, Erica Never Caught: The Washington's Relentless Atria Books, an Imprint of Simon
Armstrong Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge & Schuster,
The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined Edelson, S. Max Harvard University Press America Before Independence
American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, & Penguin Random House/Knopf; Ekirch, A. Roger National Identity in the Age of Revolution Pantheon
New American Library published Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Farzad, Roben by Berkley/an Imprint of Penguin Partied and Plotted to Control Miami Random House
Fraiman, Susan Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins Columbia University Press
End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Garrett, Brandon Harvard University Press Can Revive Criminal Justice
Harrigan, Sharon Playing with Dynamite: A Memoir Truman State University Press
Harris, Joy Singing Ain't Enough Harris House Publishing
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Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Hattery, Angela J. Smith, Earl Rowman & Littlefield Surveilled and How to Work for Change
Hayes, Kevin J. George Washington: A Life in Books Oxford University Press
The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Hayter, Julian Maxell University Press of Kentucky Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
The Law School at the University of Virginia: Herrington, Philip Mills Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas UVA Press Jefferson
with Ingrid Proud to be A Marine: Stories of Strength and Kelly, C. Brian Sourcebooks Smyer Courage from the Few and the Proud
An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Random House, an Imprint of Khan, Khizer Sacrifice Penguin Random House
Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds King, Barbara J. University of Chicago Press of Animals We Eat
Kukla, Jon Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty Simon & Schuster
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Lucey, Donna M. W. W. Norton & Company Canvas
Maher, Neil M. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius Harvard University Press
Vintage Saints & Sinners: 25 Christians Who Marsh, Karen Wright IVP (Inter Varsity Press) Transformed My Faith
One Thousand Miles: Following My Father's Matthews, Matt Avenida Books WWII Footsteps
His Other Life: Searching for My Father, His First McCabe, Melanie University of New Orleans Press Wife, and Tennessee Williams
The Best President the Nation Never Had: A McElroy, Roland Mercer University Press Memoir of Working with Sam Nunn
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Myers, The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during McKnight, Brian D. (eds. Barton A. LSU Press the Civil (eds.)
Melvin, Leland Chasing Space HarperCollins Publishers
Privacy and Power: A Transatlantic Dialogue in Miller, Russell A. Cambridge University Press the Shadow of the NSA-Affair
Morris, David B. Eros and Illness Harvard University Press
Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America's Special Basic Books/Hachette Book Moyer, Mark Operations Forces Group
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Mundy, Liza Hachette Books Women Code Breakers of WWII
Grand Canyon for Sale: Public Lands versus Nash, Stephen University of California Press Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Gerlach: A Boyhood Story from the Edge of the Neely, Richard Phillips Booklocker.com, Inc. Black Rock Desert 1950 to 1952
Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Studies in Legal History Nicoletti, Cynthia Jefferson Davis series/University of Penn.
Pallant, Cheryl Ginseng Tango Big Table Publishing
The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared Basic Books/Hachette Book Perry, Mark War Against American's Presidents Group
Letters from a Soviet Prison: The Personal Powers Jr., Francis Campbell, Journal and Correspondence of CIA U-2 Pilot Lulu/ The Cold War Museum Gary Douglas E. Francis Gary Powers
Opera for the People: English-Language Opera Preston, Katherine K. and Women Managers in Late 19th Century Oxford University Press America
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Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Schwartz, Marie Jenkins University of Chicago Press Slaves
Fuhrmann, Sechser, Todd S. Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy Cambridge University Press Matthew
Sikes, Mary Montague An Artful Animal Alphabet Aakenbaaken & Kent
How May I Help You? An Immigrant's Journey Singh, Deepak University of California Press from MBA to Minimum Wage
Smucker, Philip G. Riding With George Chicago Review Press
Sizemore, A Far, Far Better Thing: Did a Fatal Attraction Soering, Jens Lantern Books Bill Lead to a Wrongful Conviction?
Hill and Wang, a division of Stoll, Steven Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African Twitty, Michael W. HarperCollins American Culinary History in the Old South
Just Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Wahl, Rachel Stanford University Press Eyes of the Police
Whitacre, Paula A Civil Life in An Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur's University of Nebraska Press Tarnapol Struggle for Purpose
Love and Sacrifice: A World War Brings Double Whitehead, Dennis MMImedia LLC Tragedy to an American Family
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: University of North Carolina Winiarski, Douglas L. Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Press Eighteenth-Century New England
POETRY
2nd Author's Name Title Publisher Author
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Alexander, Kwame Solo Blink/HarperCollins
Bingham-Risher, Starlight & Error Diode Editions Remica
The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Brown, Molly McCully Persea Books Feebleminded
Cherry, Kelly Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem LSU Press
Derr-Smith, Heather Thrust Persea Books
Falco, Ed Wolf Moon Blood Moon: Poems LSU Press
Frank, Rebecca Morgan Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country Carnegie Mellon UP
Gillespie, Carmen The Ghosts of Monticello: A Recitatif Stillhouse Press
Hankla, Cathryn Galaxies: Poems Mercer University Press
Hankla, Susan Clinch River Groundhog Poetry Press LLC
Hawken, Wendell White Bird: A Sequence FutureCycle Press
Journey, Anna The Atheist Wore Goat Silk LSU Press
Osterhaus, Joe The Short Drive Home Trio House Press, Inc.
University of Alaska Press, Partridge, Kate Ends of the Earth Fairbanks
Willow Books, a division of Roy, Lucinda Fabric Aquarius Press
Sevick, Leona Lion Brothers Press 53
Smith, Ron The Humility of Brutes LSU Press
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Spaar, Lisa Russ Orexia Persea Books
Titus, Allison The True Book of Animal Homes Saturnalia Books
Washington Writer's Publishing Tong, Nicole How to Prove a Theory House
Wheeler, Lesley Propagation Dancing Girl Press
Winn, Sarah Ann Alma Almanac Barrow Street Press
Wojahn, David For the Scribe University of Pittsburgh Press
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