Now through June 30, the Library of Virginia is accepting ballots for the best work of fiction and non-fiction by a Virginia author.  Winners will be announced at the Library of Virginia  Awards Celebration on October 17, 2009.  Here are the chosen books for this year. 

FICTION

Divine Justice by David Baldacci

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The Legal Limit by Martin Clark

The Fire by Katherine Neville

Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek

NONFICTION

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust.

The Hemingses of Monticello, an American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed.

A Voyage Long and Strange; Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz.

The Place to Be; Washington, CBS and the Glory Days of Television News by Roger Mudd

Because the Cat Purrs: How We Relate to Other Species and Why it Matters by Janet Lembke (This title is still on order and we await it’s arrival)

Stop by and check these titles out and vote for your favorite!