Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
FICTION
Abbott, Kate Running Through the Wormhole Black Rose Writing
Abraham, Michael Orange, VA Pocahontas Press
Addison, Corbin The Tears of Dark Water Thomas Nelson
Andrews, Donna Lord of the Wings Minotaur Books
Anagnost, Arthur, Robert P. Passover: A Supernatural Thriller Koehler Books Aphrodite
Ashton, Betsy Unchartered Territory: Koehler Books
Basnight, Gray Shadows in the Fire Five Star
Belcher, R.S. Nightwise Tor Books
Bennett, Paul A Fall of Sparrows Athanatos
Brown, Rita Mae Tail Gait: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery Bantam
Bryan, Mollie Cox Scrapbook of the Dead Kensington
Caldwell, Ian The Fifth Gospel: A Novel Simon and Schuster
Campbell, Rick Empire Rising: A Novel St. Martin's Press
Twelve Women in a Country Called Cherry, Kelly Press 53 America
Clark, Martin The Jezebel Remedy Knopf
Coryell, Susan Beneath the Stones The Wild Rose Press
Crosby, Ellen Ghost Image Scribner Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Berekley Publishing Davis, Krista The Diva Steals a Chocolate Kiss Group
Doppa, Jerald The Most Dangerous Self-Published
Foote, Frederick, For the Sake of Soul Blue Nile Press Jr.
Goodjohn, B.A. The Beginning Things Underground Voices Goolrick, Robert The Fall of Princes: A Novel Algonquin Books
Grisham, John Rogue Lawyer Doubleday Hilliker, Houghton Mifflin Hepinstall, Kathy Becky Sisters of Shiloh Harcourt Hepinstall Hoagland, Linda An Unjust Court Createspace Hudson Hoagland, Linda Jan-Carol Publishing Hudson Onward and Upward Inc. Hoagland, Linda Jan-Carol Publishing Missing Sammy Hudson Inc. Johnson, Shattered Time Createspace Jacqueline
Karon, Jan Come Ran or Come Shine G.P. Putnam's Sons
Berekley Publishing Kleine, Andrea Calf: A Novel Group Chris Kennedy (Self- Kennedy, Chris The Search for Gram Published)
Kulter, Andy The Other Side of Life Neverland Publishing
Lawson, B.V. Requiem for Innocence Crimetime Press
Leslie, Nathan Root and Shoot Texture Press Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Lliteras, D.S. Viet Man Rainbow Bridge
Maxwell, Lisa Gathering Deep Flux Books
The Wealth of Virginia: A Novel of Colonial McLennan, Barbara Koehler Books Virginia
Meeropol, Ellen On Hurricane Island Red Hen Press
Metcalf, Ben Against the Country: A Novel Random House
O'Sullivan, Kathryn Neighing with Fire St. Martin's Minotaur
Owen, Howard The Bottom Permanent Press
Me and Daddy Listen to Bob Marley: Pancake, Ann Counterpoint Novellas and Stories
Parks, Brad The Fraud Minotaur Books
Parshall, Sandra Under the Dog Star Worldwide
University of Pietrzyk, Leslie This Angel on My Chest Pittsburgh Press Tipping Point: The War with China- The Poyer, David St. Martin's Press First Salvo
Pye, Virginia Dreams of the Red Phoenix Unbridled Books
Rice, Horace Patriot Pinn’s Pearl Xlibris Publishing. Scotton, Grand Central The Secret Wisdom of the Earth Christopher Publishing
Shogan, Colleen Stabbing in the Senate Camel Press
Spears, Kat Breakaway: A Novel St. Martin's Griffin Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
The Poisoned Stevens, B.K. Fighting Chance Pencil/Pen Press Nelson, LLW Media/Fountain Strake, Andy Dragonflies Durrell Hill Books
Taylor, Art On the Road with Del and Louise Henerey Press
Taylor, Sara The Shore Hogarth
Trigiani, Adriana All the Stars in the Heavens Harper
Urbani, Ellen Landfall: A Novel Forest Avenue Press
Vanderwarker, Cedar Creek Ads for God Tony Publishing
Vollmer, Matthew Gateway to Paradise Persea Books
Webber, Pamela The Wiregrass SheWrites Press
Wetterau, Bruce Killer Fog Self-Published
Penguin/New Yoerg, Sonja Middle of Somewhere American Library Penguin/New Yoerg, Sonja House Broken American Library Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky: A Novel Simon and Schuster Michele
Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
NONFICTION
American Crimes and the Liberation of Alford, Kenneth McFarland Paris Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Agbe-Davis, Anna Left Coast Press, Inc. Virginia: Little Tubes of Mighty Power Al-Samman, Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, Syracuse University
Hanadi and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings Press Hinkle Fieldhouse: Indiana's Basketball Angevine, Eric The History Press Cathedral
Ashe, Bert Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles Agate Bolden
Orrison, A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Backus, Bill Savas Beatie Robert Campaign, October 9-19, 1863 Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Harvard University Bilder, Mary Sarah Convention Press Virginia Vignettes: Famous Characters and Cedar Creek Britton, Rick Events in Central Virginia History Publishing Independent Press in D.C. and Virginia: An Brumfield, Dale The History Press Underground History
Democracy's Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan University of Virginia Burstein, Andrew Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, all the Press While Being Dead.
Defending the Old Dominion: Virginia and University Press of Butler, Stuart its Militia in the War of 1812 America
Butler Bass, Diana Grounded HarperOne
Cannady, Laurie Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul Etruscan Press Jean Environment in the Balance: The Green Harvard University Cannon, Jonathan Movement and the Supreme Court Press Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an University of Chen, Victor Tan Unfair Economy California Press
Clagett, Martin Excelsior: The Story of Kappa Alpha Order Kappa Alpha Order
Crossing the Line: How One Incident in a Online-Book/ Kindle Coleman, Jonathan Girls' Soccer Match Rippled Across Small Edition Town America Crawford, Matthew Farrar, Straus, and The World Beyond Your Head B. Giroux
Dalferes, Kimberley Magic Fishing Panties Booktrope
Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to University of David, Edward Table Alabama Press
Crucible of Command: Ulyssus S. Grant Davis, William and Robert E Lee - The War They Fought , Da Capo Press The Peace They Forged
Rowman & Little Freedom's Dawn: The Last Days of John DeCaro, Louis Publishing Group, Brown in Virginia Inc.
DeVito, Carlo Mrs. Lee's Rose Garden Simon and Schuster
DuVal, Kathleen Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of Random House the American Revolution Harvard University Edelson, Max The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence Press Harvard University Edmunson, Mark Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals Press
Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and University of Eisenfeld, Sue Betrayal Nebraska Press
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second Ellis, Joseph Knopf American Revolution: 1783-1789 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
The Great Divide: The Conflict between Fleming, Thomas Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Da Capo Press Nation The Washingtons: George and Martha Fraser, Flora Knopf "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love."
Gjelten, Tom A Nation of Nations Simon and Schuster Founding Friendships: Friends between Oxford University Good, Cassandra Men and Women in the Early American Press Republic
Matthew Fontaine Maury: Father of Grady, John McFarland & Co Oceanography: A Biography
Something Must Be Done About Prince Green, Kristen Edward County: A Family, A Virginia Town, HarperCollins A Civil Rights Battle
Griggs, Walter Richmond, Virginia, and the Titanic History Press
Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Harding, Stephen Mission, and the Last American Killed in Da Capo Press World War II Potomac Press: A Powerful Mind: The Self-Education of Harrison, Adrienne University of George Washington Nebraska
Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Haskew, Michael Zenith Press Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Horn, Jonathan Robert E Lee's Civil War and His Decision Scribner that Changed American History
Hughes Sturdivant, A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the Naval Institute Press Dwight CSS Shenandoah Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Jakub, Lisa You Look Like That Girl Beauford Books
Intimate Reconstructions: Children in Post- University of Virginia Jones, Catherine emancipation Virginia Press High Tides Keane, Gwen Local Color Publication
Kennedy, Cannan Struggles for Victory E-Book (2015) Potomac Press: She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Kiesel, Diane University of Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer Nebraska Thomas Jefferson & the Tripoli Pirates: The Kilmeade, Brian Yaeger, Don Forgotten War that Changed American Sentinel History Paranormal Petersburg, Virginia, and the Kinney, Pamela Schiffer Publishing Tri-Cities Area Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Knott, Stephen Sourcebooks Forged America Excommunicated From the Union: How the Fordham University Kurtz, William B. Civil War Created a Separate Catholic Press America Lauterbach, Beale Street Dynasty Norton Preston
Lavatino, Audrey Woman-Powered Farm Countryman Press
University of South Leland, John Readings in Wood Carolina Press
George Washington Written Upon the Land: West Virginia Levy, Philip Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape University Press
A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the University Press of Lind, Stephen Spiritual Life and Work of Charles Schulz Mississippi The "Colored Hero" of Harpers Ferry: John Cambridge University Lubet, Steven Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery Press Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Lyons, Mary Evelyn The Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad The History Press
Strike Them a Blow: Battle Along the North MacKowski, Chris Savas Beatie Anna River, May 21-25, 1864 Little, Brown, and Mann, Sally Hold Still Company Family Bonds: Free Blacks and University of North Maris-Wolf, Ted Reenslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia Carolina Press Dancing on the Color Line: African University Press of Martin, Gretchen American Tricksters in Nineteenth Century Mississippi American Literature
Mayes, Frances Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir Broadway Books
The Forum Files: The Stories Behind the McAllister, Ray The Richmond Forum Richmond Forum Rutgers University Meyer, Doug Violence Against Queer People Press Washington's Revolution: The Making of Middlekauff, Robert Alfred A. Knopf America's First Leader
Watershed Days: Adventures (A Little Mercer University Moeckel, Thorpe Thorny and Familiar) in the Home Range Press
War in the Chesapeake: The British Neimeyer, Charles Naval Institute Press Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813-1814
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar The Countryman Ocker, J.W. Allen Poe Press Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Portrait of a Town: Cape Charles, 1940- Pleasant Living Parsons, Patricia J. 1960 Books
Mark Warner the Dealmaker: From Arcadia Publishing Payne, Will Business Success to the Business of &The History Press Governing
Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Polasky, Janet Yale University Press Liberty in the Atlantic World From Morning 'til Evening: The Powell, Grady (Sr.) Belle Isle Books Autobiography of Grady W. Powell, Sr.
Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Oxford University Preston, David Monogahela & the Road to Revolution Press
The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Oxford University Pugh, Allison Caring in an Age of Insecurity Press Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of University of Virginia Ray, Benjamin 1692 Press Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black University of Raymond, Emilie Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement Washington Press
Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Oxford University Reiff, Joseph Mississippi's Closed Society Press
The First Battle of Petersburg: The Attack Roberton, William and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, Savas Beatie Glenn 1864
After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Robertson, James Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed National Geographic America The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and University Press of Schimdt, Ethan Indian Hatred in Early Virginia Colorado Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Sedgwick, John Berekley Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Signer, Michael Public Affairs Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Smithers, Gregory Cherokee Diaspora Yale University Press
Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built Stewart, David O. Simon and Schuster America
Stewart, John Jefferson Davis's Flight from Richmond McFarland & Co
Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia University of Virginia Tarter, Brent Family Faces Secession and War Press
Tooley, Mark The Peace that Almost Was Nelson Books
The Legacy of St. George Tucker: College University of Vanderford, Chad Professors in Virginia Confront Slavery and Tennessee Press the Rights of States, 1771-1987
Vowell, Sarah Lafayette in the Somewhat United States Riverhead Books
It's Been Beautiful: Soul! And Black Power Wald, Gayle SpinOffs Television Children of the Streets of Richmond: 1865- Wald, Harry McFarland & 1920 Company, Inc. Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of Wheelan, Joseph Da Capo Press the Civil War Arming the Confederacy: How Virginia Whisonant, Robert Springer Minerals Forged the Rebel War Machine The Great Hound Match of 905: Alexander Rowman & Little Wolfe, Martha Henry Higginson, Harry Worcester Smith, Publishing Group, and the Rise of Virginia Hunt Country Inc.
Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
POETRY
Arthur, Robert Hymn to the Chesapeake Rolling Olive Press
Intervals: Appalachia to Ayyildiz, Judy Light Mountain Empire Publications Instanbul
Bachmann, Beth Do Not Rise University of Pittsburgh Press
Beasley, Sandra Count the Waves W.W. Norton & Company
Beitelman, T.J. Americana Black Lawrence Press
Bjorlie, Carol Impossible Brightening North Star Press (St. Cloud Minnesota)
Bray, Tara Small Mothers of Fright: Poems LSU Press
Brown, Sass USA -1000 Southern Illinois University Press
Clark, George Reveille: Poems The University of Arkansas Press David Donovan, Gregory Torn from the Sun Red Hen Press (Dr.)
Dop, Gary Father, Child, Water Red Hen Press
Duvall, John Plant a Tree: Poetry National Media Services
Dwyer, Neal The Sun's Heart Seasonings Press, Inc
Emerson, Claudia Impossible Bottle: Poems LSU Press
Entsminger, Gary Two Miles West Pinyon Publishing Lee
Fogelin, Florence Once It Stops Deerbrook Editions
Goodjohn, Bunny Bone Song Briery Creek Press Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Henry, Brian Static and Snow Black Ocean
Hensley, Julie Viable Five Oaks Press
Herrington, Neva Open Season David Robert Books
Huddle, David Dream Sender: Poems LSU Press
Jarvis, Andrew The Strait Homebound Publications
Kelly, Victoria When Men Go off to War Naval Institute Press
Magherefteh, Sipping Memories: A Poetic Michal Journal to Morocco Poetica Publishing Miranda, Deborah Raised by Humans Tia Chucha Press
Moeckel, Thrope Arcadia Road Etruscan Press
921B Elysian Fields Avenue Moore, Catherine Kentucky Story Press (Return to Sender)
Morgner, Andreas Kinyamaswa: An Epic Poem Apprentice House Press
Mulvihill, Michael The Twilight Fox Cambium Press
Nacem, Nicholas Catch-Words Cornerhouse Books
Pankey, Eric Crow-Work Milkweed Editions
Peterson, Jim Original Face Gunpower Press
Pineda, Jon Little Anodynes: Poems University of South Carolina Press
Poliner, Elizabeth What You Know In Your Hands David Robert Books
Poteat, Joshua The Regret Histories Harper Perennial Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominees
Powell, Nancy The Blackbirds Tell Stories San Francisco Bay Press
Scrupe, Mara BEAST National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press Adamitz
Wagenaar, Chelsea Mercy Spurs the Bone Anhinga Press
Wheeler, Lesley Radioland Barrow Street Press
Under the Spell of a Persian Woodcock, Diana WordTech Communication/Word Poetry Imprint Nightingale