Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees 2019 FICTION 2nd Author's Name Author Title Publisher
Adamov, Bob Chincoteague Calm Packard Island Publishing
Baldacci, David The Fallen Grand Central Publishing
Brown, Rita Mae Probably Claws Bantam
Burton, Mary Cut and Run Amazon Publishing
Burton, Mary Her Last Word Amazon Publishing
Connors, Lisa Oliver's Otter Phase Arbordale Publishing
Copenhaver, John Dodging and Burning Pegasus Books
Little, Brown Books for Young Crockett, Mary How She Died, How I lived Readers Crosby, Ellen Harvest of Secrets Minotaur Books/ St. Martins Press
Dalcher, Christina Vox Berkley Publishing Group, PRH
English, Talley Horse: A Novel Knopf/RandomHouse
Fliess, Sue Mary Had a Little Lab Albert Whitman & Company
Fliess, Sue Mrs. Claus Takes the Rains Two Lions
To Save an Empire: A Novel of Ottoman Gall, Allan R. Allan R. Gall History
Goolrick, Robert The Dying of The Light HarperCollins Publishers
Grisham, John The Reckoning PenguinRandomHouse
Helms, Judith Fournie The Toronto Embryo Snowy Day Publications
Johnson, Chelsey Stray City Custom House/Harper Collins
Kauffman, Rebecca The Gunners Counterpoint Press
1 Kingsolver, Barbara Unsheltered HarperCollins Publishers
Kjeldsen, Kirk The Depths Grenzland Press
Klein, Randall Little Disasters Viking/Penguin Random House LLC
Kleine, Andrea Eden Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lewis, Kristyn Kusek Half of What You Hear HarperCollins
Locke, Margaret The Legendary Duke Locked On Love
The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful MacKenzie, Cameron MadHat Press Career
Majors, Inman Penelope Lemon: Game On! LSU Press
Malliet, G. M. In Prior's Wood Minotaur/St. Martins Press
McLaughlin, James A. Bearskin Ecco/HarperCollins
Nemett, Adam We Can Save Us All Unnamed Press
Otto, Erik A. Detonation Sagis Press
Riverhead Books/Penguin Random Pierce, Thomas The Afterlives House Pietrzyk, Leslie Silver Girl Unnamed Press
Pineda, Jon Let's No One Get Hurt Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) Swallow Press (imprint of Ohio Poland, Tim Yellow Stonefly University Press) Pye, Virginia Shelf Life of Happiness Press 53
Robinson, Mariah Sister Sorrow Sister Joy Brandylane Publishing
Apprentice House Press, Loyola Sagnier, Thierry L'Amerique University Secrets in a House Divided: A Novel of Civil Silverstein, Clara Mercer University Press War Richmond
Sizemore, Vic I Love You I'm Leaving Big Table Publishing
Taylor, Mary Ellen Winter Cottage Amazon Publishing Kasper/an imprint of Trigiani, Adriana Tony's Wife HarperCollinsPublishers
2 Trueblood, Valerie Terrarium Counterpoint Press
Vergot, Carla Lily Barlow: The Mystery of Jane Dough Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press
NONFICTION
Author's Name 2nd Author Title Publisher
Bellamy, Wes Monumental: It Was Never About a Statue BlackGold Publishing
43 Wine Regions: A Practical Guide to the Biddick, Michael Mascot Books Top Regions and Vintages Around the World
Don't You Ever: My Mother and Her Secret Bishop, Mary Carter HarperCollins Son
Brooks, Kim Small Animals: Parenting in the Age of Fear Flatiron Books
Broth, Mickael Murals of Richmond Chop Suey Books Books
Bryan, John & Carter America's Favorite Flies Charles Creek Publishing
Calloway, Colin The Indian World of George Washington Oxford University Press
War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Cashin, Joan E. Environmental Resources in the American Cambridge University Press Civil War What You Are Getting Wrong About Catte, Elizabeth Belt Publishing Appalachia
Dawling, Pam The Year-Round Hoophouse New Society Publishers
We Face The Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Edds, Margaret Robinson, and the Legal Team that University of Virginia Press Dismantled Jim Crow
Freehling, William W. Becoming Lincoln University of Virginia Press
From Rebel Yell to Revolution: My Four Years Gardner, Joel Brandylane Publishers, Inc. at UVA 1966-1970
Gold, Deborah (aka Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Ohio University Press Weinberg, Susan) Parenting and Beyond
Goodbody, Emmet Kentucky Barracuda: Parker Hardin French Mascot Books Joseph (Joe) (1826-1878)
Skepticism and American Faith: From the Grasso, Christopher Oxford University Press Revolution to the Civil War
3 Virginia Beer: A Guide from Colonial Days to Graves, Lee University of Virginia Press Craft's Golden Age A Campaign of Giants - The Battle for Greene, A. Wilson Petersburg: Volume 1 - From the Crossing of University of North Carolina Press the James to the Crater
Hankla, Cathryn Lost Place: On Losing And Finding Home Mercer University Press
Monacan Millennium: A Collaborative Hantman, Jeffrey L. Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian Univeristy of Virginia Press People Waking Up To Love: Our Shared Near-Death Heinbuch, Scarlett L. Encounter Brought Miracles, Recovery and Waterside Press Second Chances
The Age of Eisenhower: American and the Hitchcock, William I. Simon and Schuster World in the 1950s
White, Jonathan Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of Holloway, Anna Gibson The Kent State University Press W. the Civil War
1619: Jamestown and the Forging of Horn, James Basic Books American Democracy
With Walt Whitman, Himself: In the Huets, Jean Circling Rivers Nineteenth Century, in America
Hughes, Rosemarie Forever Parenting: Voices of Parents of West Bow Press A Division of Scotti Adults with Special Needs Thomas Nelson & Zondervan
Richmond's Main Street - Stories From the Keefe, Sr.; John B. Dementi Milestone Wall Street of the South
Kerrison, Catherine Jefferson's Daughters Ballantine Books
Laufer, Gabriel A Survivor’s Duty Academic Studies Press
Homeplace: A Southern Town, A Country Lingan, John Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Honky-Tonk
Dope Sick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Macy, Beth Little, Brown and Company Company that Addicted America
Malcolm, Joyce Lee The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold Pegasus Books
4 The Killing of Reverend Kay: A Hidden Mattson, Cynthia Joanne Dog Ear Publishing Murder in Colonial Virginia
Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Mellen, Joan Prometheous Books Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty
Peacemakers: American Leadership and the Pardew, James W. University Press of Kentucky End of Genocide in the Balkans
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Paul, Joel Richard Riverhead Books Marshall and His Times
Where Valor Proudy Sleeps: A History of Pfanz, Donald C. Southern Illinois University Press Fredericksburg National Cemetary 1866-1933
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Philbrick, Nathaniel Viking/Penguin Random House Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Qazi, Farhana Invisible Martyrs Berrett-Koehler
Smith, Karla; Saint, Larry Sheally, John; Screwpiles: The Forgotten Lighthouses The Donning Company Publishers Speidell, Phyllis
Sethi, Arjun Singh American Hate: Survivors Speak Out The New Press
Sheppard, Nancy E. Hampton Roads Murder & Mayhem The History Press
Shields, Charles J. The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel University of Texas Press
Creating a Progressive Commonwealth: Shockley, Megan Women Activists, Feminism, and the Politics Louisiana State University Press of Social Change in Virginia, 1970s-2000s
Uncle George and Me: Two Southern Families Sizemore, Bill Brandylane Publishers, Inc. Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery
Spencer, Hawes Summer of Hate: Charottesville, USA University of Virginia Press
Stubbs, Tristan Master of Violence University of South Carolina Press
Swift, Earl Chesapeake Requiem HarperCollins Publishers
5 Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World Taylor, David A. Johns Hopkins University Press War II
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Vaidhyanathan, Siva Oxford University Press Us and Undermines Democracy
Hog Wild: The Battle for Worker's Rights at Waltz, Lynn University of Iowa Press the World's Largest Slaughterhouse
Material Witnesses: Domestic Architecture Wells, Camille University of Virginia Press and Early Landscapes in Plantation Virginia Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, Wendel, Tim and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Cornell University Press Leukemia Jefferson on Display: Attire, Ettiquette, and Wilson, G.S. University of Virginia Press the Art of Presentation
POETRY
Author's Name 2nd Author Title Publisher
Bernal, Lindsay What It Doesn't Have To Do With University Georgia Press
Blevins, Adrian Appalachians Run Amok Two Sylvias Press
Brady, Dan Strange Children Publishing Genius Press
Chitwood, Michael Search & Rescue Louisiana State University Press
Emerson, Claudia Before Time and Space Louisiana State University Press
Guest, Paul Because Everything Is Terrible Diode Editions
Hartz, Lisa Beech The Goldfish Window Grayson Books
Hicok, Bob Hold Copper Canyon Press
Jarvis, Andrew Blood Moon Homebound Publications
Johnson, Lauren Burning the Bacon GenZ Publishing
Koff, Joann Lord Sand, Pebbles, Fossils, and Rocks Sappho Publishing
These Flecks of Color: New and Selected Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn San Francisco Bay Press Poems
6 Chitwood, Michael Search and Rescue Louisiana State University Press
Lessley, Shara The Explosive Expert's Wife University Wisconsin Press
Meitner, Erika Holy Moly Carry Me BOA Editions, Ltd.
Millikin, Claire State Fair Animals Unicorn Press
Minturn, Molly W. Not in Heaven Southword Editions
Murawski, Elisabeth Heiress Texas Review Press
Olander, Renee Ellen American Dangerous Backlash Press
Prosdocimi, Ines P. Love Letter to an Afterlife Black Lawrence Press Rivera
Rebele-Henry, Brynne Autobiography of a Wound University of Pittsburgh Press
Schmidt, Susan Let Go Or Hold Fast, Beaufort Poems Library Partner's Press
National Federation of State Poetry Schmitz, Amy Border Crossing Societies
Smith, Carmen Gimenez Cruel Futures City Lights Publishers
Starnes, Sofia The Consequence of Moonlight Paraclete Press
Varon, Lee Shot in the Head Sunshot Press
Woodcock, Diana Tread Softly FutureCycle Press
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