Wednesday, December 7, 2011

2011 Indie Lit Awards - It's Not Too Late for Your Nominations!

The 2011 edition of the Indie Lit Awards is open for nominations until December 31st, which means you still have a few weeks to get your favourite reads of the year submitted for consideration.

A truly 'independant' literary award, the nominations are open to readers only (i.e. no authors, publishers, or publicists). The only rule is that the book must have a 2011 release date. You can nominate up to 5 books in each genre. The books with the most nominations will make the 'Long List' so don't worry if your favourites have already been nominated - that's a good thing!

I'm a Voting Member this year for the Speculative Fiction category, which means I won't be nominating, just reading the Long List! To help kickstart those of you who have yet to make a nomination, here are a few notable sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books of 2011 (with those on my read/to-be-read lists highlighted):

  • 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Award)
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Award)
  • A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Award)
  • A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Aftermath by Ann Aguirre (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (Amazon Best Books)
  • Alien in the Family by Gini Koch (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Among Others by Jo Walton (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • An Apple for Zoe by Thomas Amo (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Basilisk by Rob Thurman (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Blackveil by Kristen Britain (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Blood Challenge by Eileen Wilks (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Bloodrights by Kristen Painter (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Cast in Ruin by Michelle Sagara (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Deadline by Mira Grant (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Choice Award)
  • Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Eat Slay Love by Jesse Petersen (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Embassytown by China Mieville (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Flashback by Dan Simmons (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Ghost Story by Jim Butcher (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Grave Dance by Kalayna Price (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Graveminder by Melissa Marr (Goodreads Choice Award)
  • Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Heartless by Gail Carriger (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Hounded by Kevin Hearne (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Hunt the Moon by Karen Chance (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (Amazon Best Books)
  • Legends of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Pale Demon by Kim Harrison (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Rising Tides by Taylor Anderson (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • River Marked by Patricia Briggs (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Rogue by Trudi Canavan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Rule 34 by Charles Stross (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Seed by Ania Ahlborn  (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Shadowfever by Karen Marie Morning (Goodreads Choice Award)
  • Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Snuff by Terry Pratchett (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Spellbound by Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Succubus Revealed by Richelle Mead (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Allow of Law by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Cypress House by Michael Koryta (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The King of Plagues by Jonathan Mayberrry (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Magician King by Lev Grossman (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Night Eternal by Guillermo Del Toro (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Night Stranger by Chris Bohjalian (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • This Side of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Twilight's Dawn by Anne Bishop (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson (Amazon Best Books)
  • what the night knows by Dean Koontz (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
  • Zone One by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Choice Nominee)

If you are a blogger, please consider helping to promote the awards by posting about program, posting your nominations, adding a badge to your blog, or doing whatever you can to get the word out.

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