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VA Books! - Book Recommendations

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities is pleased to present "VABooks!" -- a feature column that appears monthly, available to newspapers across the Commonwealth. "VABooks!" suggests a book for Virginians to read in common to encourage dialogue and promote understanding of our heritage and our future. Every month, guest columnists will recommend an outstanding work of adult or children's literature.

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2008

October 2008 Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
recommended by Casey Clabough
September 2008 Things Will Never Be the Same
recommended by Stacy Hawkins Adams
August 2008 Amusing Ourselves to Death
recommended by Stephen J. Farnsworth
July 2008 Shamrock Tea
recommended by Brendan Wolfe
June 2008 Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments
recommended by Kevin McFadden
May 2008 The Virginian
recommended by Steve Watkins
April 2008 To Kill a Mockingbird
recommended by Ellen Crosby
March 2008 Blue Light, Futureland, This Year You Write Your Novel
recommended by James O. Born
February 2008 The John McPhee Reader
recommended by David Taylor
January 2008 A Star Called Henry
recommended by Donna Lucey

2007

December 2007 Freddy the Detective
recommended by Donna Andrews
November 2007 Letters from Rapunzel
recommended by Doris Gwaltney
October 2007 Famous All Over Town
recommended by Laura Browder
September 2007 The Martian Chronicles
recommended by Charles J. Shields
August 2007 Coal Black Horse
recommended by Sarah Collins Honenberger
July 2007 The Plague
recommended by James Heffernan
June 2007 Because I Was Flesh
recommended by Pablo J. Davis
May 2007 Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
recommended by M. Thomas Inge
April 2007 Lolita
recommended by Susann Cokal
March 2007 The Trial
recommended by Joe Jackson
February 2007 Tender is the Night
recommended by Sydney Blair
January 2007 The Autobiography of Malcolm X
recommended by Marc Leepson

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