BOTY 2011 Feb-March-April

1. NAIBA Book of the Year Nominees

These are titles gathered from Indie Bestseller List, IndieNext List, NAIBA Conference Pick of the Lists, for titles published Feb - April 2011. Please check as many titles as you wish for each category. (Books are listed in order approx. by their date of release.)

*Please note: The books nominated must have stories that take place/be about someplace in the NAIBA region and/or the author has to be from the region...thanks!

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* 1. Which ADULT FICTION titles would you nominate for a 2011 NAIBA Book of the Year award?

Kings of the Earth, Jon Clinch (Random House)

Finny, Justin Kramon (Random House)

Elegies for the Brokenhearted, Christie Hodgen (Norton)

The Lake of Dreams, Kim Edwards (Viking)

Gideon's War, Howard Gordon (Touchstone)

The Inner Circle, Brad Meltzer (Hachette)

Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel, Susan Vreeland (Random House)

You Know When the Men Are Gone, Siobhan Fallon (Amy Einhorn)

The Death Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld (Riverhead)

The Red Garden, Alice Hoffman (Crown)

Swamplandia!, Karen Russell (Random House)

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale (Twelve)

A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness (Viking)

Open City, Teju Cole (Random House)

The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas (Harper)

The Other Life, Ellen Meister (Putnam)

Sing You Home, Jodi Picoult (Atria)

Cleaning Nabokov's House, Leslie Daniels (Touchstone)

The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht (Random House)

The Savage City, TJ English (Harper)

So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman (S&S)

Bright Before Us, Katie Arnold-Ratliff (Tin House)

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* 2. Which ADULT NON FICTION titles would you nominate for the 2011 NAIBA Book of the Year?

Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling, Beth Raymer, (Spiegel & Grau)

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, Simon Winchester (Harper)

Prohibition's Prince: the Bizarre Life of America's Millionaire Moonshiner, Guy Graybill (Sunbury Press)

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee, Karen Abbott (Random House)

Little Princes One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal, Conor Grennan (Harper)

Day of Honey, Annia Ciezadlo (Free Press)

A Widow's Story, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)

House of Prayer No. 2, Mark Richard (Nan A. Talese)

Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)

The Information, James Gleick (Pantheon)

Moby-Duck, The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went, Donovan Hohn (Viking)

Modigliani: A Life, Meyrle Secrest (Random House)

Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer (Penguin)

The Social Animal, David Brooks (Random House)

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* 3. Which YOUNG ADULT titles would you like to nominate for the 2011 Book of the Year Awards?

Jane, April Linder (Poppy)

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares, Rachel COHN and David Levithan (Random House)

Delirium, Lauren Oliver (Harper)

Strings Attached, Judy Blundell (Scholastic)

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* 4. Which CHILDREN'S MIDDLE GRADE books would you nominate for NAIBA Book of the Year.

Danger Box, Blue Balliett (Scholastic)

The Familiars, Adam Jay Epstein (Harper)

Incorrigible Children of Aston Place, Maryrose Wood (Blazer & Bray)

Invisible Inkling, Emily Jenkins (Blazer & Bray)

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* 5. Which CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK should be nominated for the NAIBA 2011 Book of the Year list?

Interrupting Chickens, David Ezra Stein (Candlewick)

Clever Jack Takes the Cake, Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade)

A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea, Michael Ian Black (S&S)

Three Little Kittens, Jerry Pinkney (Penguin)

Art and Max, David Wiesner (Clarion)

She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story, Audrey Vernick (Collins)

Bring on the Birds, Susan Stockdale (Peachtree)

I Broke My Trunk!, Mo Willems (Hyperion)

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* 6. How about new trade paperbacks - what did we miss? Tell us what you liked. Remember, the book has to take place/be about someplace in the NAIBA region and/or the author has to be from the region...thanks!