Finch on ALA RUSA 2011 Reading List
Jeff VanderMeer • January 10th, 2011 @ 1:02 pm • News
Rather happy to note that the ALA has honored my novel Finch by placing it on the short list in the fantasy category. Here’s the full list in that section:
Winner: “Under Heaven†by Guy Gavriel Kay
Shortlist:
“Finch†by Jeff VanderMeer, Underland Press
“The Half-Made World†by Felix Gilman, Tor Books
“The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms†by N.K. Jemisin, Orbit
“Nights of Villjamur†by Mark Charan Newton, Spectra
January 10, 2011 at 3:24 pm
[...] Hat-tip to Jeff VanderMeer for pointing this out (he was on the list too). So I’m on the American Library Associations’s RUSA Reading List for 2011, which I am reliably informed (by several people very quickly on Twitter) that it’s actually a pretty big deal, and for that reason it gets a blog post. Here’s the list of fantasy novels in full. [...]
January 10, 2011 at 4:01 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jeff VanderMeer, Mark Charan Newton. Mark Charan Newton said: http://bit.ly/gdFH3A Cool, I made it onto the ALA RUSA 2011 Reading List shortlist (whatever the hell that is – hat-tip to Jeff V) [...]
January 17, 2011 at 11:46 am
Congratulations! It is well-deserved. Finch was my first experience with your work last year (yes, I broke my long-standing rule and didn’t read the books in order) and I was well and truly impressed. Best of luck!