Today begins voting for The Library of Virginia 7th Annual People’s Choice Awards. The Library of Virginia has announced the finalists for the fiction and nonfiction catagories. These books were selected by an independent panel of judges and the winners are decided by you all,  the vote of Virginia readers. The People's Choice Awards are given for the best fiction and nonfiction books by Virginia authors or in the case of nonfiction on a Virginia subject. These books must have been published in the past calendar year. The winners of the People’s Choice Awards for fiction and nonfiction will be chosen from these finalists by readers voting at libraries and online at the Library of Virginia’s Web site.
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This year’s fiction finalists for the People’s Choice Awards are First Family by David Baldacci, The Riesling Retribution by Ellen Crosby, The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani, and Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls.

The nonfiction finalists are Haunted Plantations of Virginia by Beth Brown, I Am Murdered by Bruce Chadwick, Girl in a Library by Kelly Cherry, It’ll All Come Out in the Wash by Joanne Crutchfield, and Soul of a People by David A. Taylor.

Voting for the People’s Choice Awards runs from May 17 through June 30. The winners will be announced at the Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration on October 16, 2010.