We are excited to announce the 2011 Short Listed titles for the Independent Literary Awards! We are in the process of contacting publishers to seek review copies for our judges (if you are a publisher of one of these titles and would like to help us, please contact us at independent.literary.awards@gmail.com).
Our judges will be reading and discussing these titles over the next couple of months, and we will be presenting you with the winners and runners-up in Mid-March.
2011 Short Lists
Biography/ Memoir
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (Penguin)
- Bossypants by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur Books)
- I Pray Hardest When Being Shot At by Kyle Garret (Hellgate Press)
- Little Princes by Conor Grennan (William Morrow)
- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch (Harper)
GLBTQ
- Well With My Soul by Gregory Allen (ASD Publishing)
- Swimming to Chicago by David Matthew Barnes (Bold Strokes Books)
- Songs for the New Depression by Kergan Edwards-Stout (Circumspect Press)
- Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger (Beacon Press)
- Huntress by Melinda Lo (little brown books for young readers)
Fiction
- Dance Lessons by Aine Greaney (Syracuse University Press)
- Cross Currents by John Shors (Penguin Group: NAL Trade)
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Knopf/Doubleday Publishing Group)
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
- The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene (Penguin Group)
Mystery
- Missing Daughter, Shattered Family by Liz Strange (MLR Press)
- The Cut by George Pelecanos (Reagan Arthur/LIttle, Brown)
- A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (St. Martin’s Press)
- The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey (Dutton)
- Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown)
Non-Fiction
- Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe (Putnam Adult)
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (Crown)
- Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff (Harper)
- Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (Doubleday)
- The Social Animal by David Brooks (Random House)
Poetry
- Beyond Scent of Sorrow by Sweta Vikram (Modern History Press)
- Catalina by Laurie Soriano (Lummox Press)
- What Looks Like an Elephant by Edward Nudelman (Lummox Press)
- Three Women: A Poetic Triptych and Selected Poems by Ramos, Emma Eden (Heavy Hands Ink)
- Sonics in Warholia by Megan Volpert (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Speculative Fiction
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Candlewick)
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman (Viking)
- 11/22/1963 by Stephen King (Scribner)
- Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor Books)
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Crown)
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Wow! I can’t believe I made the cut, especially in such great company!! Very happy and proud, both for myself and my publisher.
Good luck to all!
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So grateful to be included! For all of us doing it on our own, this is the best recognition we could receive! Can’t wait to read these books!
How can I get nominated for one of these awards? I’ve published a ton of poetry and everyone says it’s good, but I never get recognized for it.
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Thanks for awarding first place to Laurie Soriano’s first collection, CATALINA, and to Ed Nudelman’s first collection, WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN ELEPHANT. Lummox Press is very proud of these two poets.
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