The 2011 Indie Lit Awards Short List is here!!

Finally!  We have the short lists for the 2011 Indie Lit Awards.  And here they are:

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 of 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)

What great lists! I can't wait to find out which titles will win! The winners will be announced mid-March.  Until then, I'm off to read a stack from the Biography/Memoir category (which is the category that I'm voting in ).  If you want any more information on the Indie Lit Awards, check out the site.