My humble literary awards ceremony will be held next month and this month will be dedicated to introduce you the nominees in different categories. But first things first, here is the official list of eligible works for this year. I have read seventy-three books since last years ceremony. Novels, short story collections, novellas and a few non-fiction books here and there. Not all the books here will be nominated, but all the nominees will be picked from this list alone. The first books that will be eligible for next year is the book I'm reading right now, ALREADY GONE by John Rector.
Eligible Works For 2011 Dead End Follies Awards Ceremony: 73
Reading Period Covered: December 2010 to November 1st 2011
Reading Period Starting For Next Year: November 1st 2011 to November 1st 2012
Jonathan Franzen - How To Be Alone
John Updike - Rabbit, Run
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak
Aaron Philip Clark – The Science Of Paul
Norman Mailer – An American Dream
Dave Eggers – Zeitoun
Richard Price – Clockers
Heath Lowrance – The Bastard Hand
William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair
Chuck Klosterman – Fargo Rock City:A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural Nörth Daköta
James Ellroy – White Jazz
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
David Foster Wallace – This Is Water
Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem
John Irving – A Prayer For Owen Meany
Allan Guthrie – Bye Bye Baby
Toni Morrison – Beloved
James Ellroy – My Dark Places
Allan Guthrie – Killing Mum
Henry Rollins – Broken Summers
Norman Mailer – The Executioner’s Song
Anthony Neil Smith – The Drummer
Raymond Carver – Cathedral
Layton Green – The Summoner
James Ellroy – American Tabloid
Chuck Klosterman – Killing Yourself To Live: 85% Of A True Story
Anthony Neil Smith – Yellow Medicine
Flannery O’Connor – A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories
Anthony Neil Smith – Hogdoggin’
Chuck Palahniuk – Diary
Bill Bryson – A Short History Of Nearly Everything
Jonathan Lethem – The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye
Jennifer Hillier - Creep
David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Jim Thompson – Roughneck
Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips – Criminal: Lawless
Matthew McBride – Frank Sinatra In A Blender
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips – Criminal: The Sinners
Robert Penn Warren – All The King’s Men
J.D Salinger – The Catcher In The Rye
Gregory Miller – The Uncanny Valley: Tales From A Lost Town
Jim Thompson – The Alcoholics
Dashiell Hammett – Red Harvest
Edward A. Grainger – The Adventures Of Cash Laramie & Gideon Miles
David Foster Wallace – Girl With Curious Hair
Josh Stallings – Beautiful, Naked & Dead
Daniel Woodrell – Winter’s Bone
Kurt Vonnegut – Mother Night
Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
Jim Thompson – The Getaway
Duane Swierczynski – Fun & Games
Elmore Leonard – Three-Ten To Yuma And Other Stories
John Hornor Jacobs – Southern Gods
Anthony Neil Smith & Victor Gischler – To The Devil, My Regards
David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
Megan Abbott – The End Of Everything
Daniel Woodrell – Tomato Red
Anthony Neil Smith – Choke On Your Lies
Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Frank Bill – Crimes In Southern Indiana
Harold Goldberg – All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips – Criminal: The Last Of The Innocent
Jesus Angel Garcia – Bad Bad Bad
Andrew Vachss – Flood
Francis Scott Fitzgerald – The Beautiful & Damned
George Pelecanos – Right As Rain
Various Authors – Pulp Ink
Josh Stallings – Out There Bad
Daniel Woodrell – The Outlaw Album
Ray Banks – Gun
James Wood – How Fiction Works