The short lists have been determined for The Independent Literary Awards. As you may recall, I am a judge for the Lit Fiction panel. It took three tie-breakers to come up with our short list but I am loving the Lit Fiction list that you all came up with. Thank you for taking the time to nominate a book. Now, on to the important stuff… the lists!
2010 Shortlist for GLBTQ
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter
- Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Krakow Melt by Daniel Allen Cox
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green
- Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
2010 Short List for Literary Fiction (isn’t this a great list?)
- C by Tom McCarthy
- Great House by Nicole Krauss
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
The 2010 Short List for Non-Fiction
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- At Home by Bill Bryson
- Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
- Kraken by China Mieville
- Dante’s Journey by JC Marino
- How to Live Safely in a SF Universe by Yu
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
I downloaded all of the lit fiction books to my Kindle and will be reading them through the end of January. This is in addition to the reading list that I already had in place, so I must get cracking. We’re hoping to have a winner by February 1, 2011.
So, if you’re looking for something to read, why not pick up one of these titles?
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