Borders has announced the finalists for its 2005 Original Voices
awards; winners will be announced January 19. For the first time,
categories include music. Employees at Borders stores and at
headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich., made the nominations:
Fiction
Nonfiction
Children's Picture Books
Intermediate/Young Adult Books
Music
Fiction
- The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
- Kung Fu High School by Ryan Gattis
- The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories by Davy Rothbart
- The Memory of Running: A Novel by Ron McLarty
- The Mercy of Thin Air: A Novel by Ronlyn Domingue
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel by Marina Lewycka
Nonfiction
- Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
- Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
- Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
- Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World by Holley Bishop
- The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
Children's Picture Books
- Flight of the Dodo by Peter Brown
- The Flower Man by Mark Ludy
- A Froggy Fable by John Lechner
- Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel, illustrated by David Catrow
- Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton
- There's a Frog Trapped in the Bathroom by Susan Snyder, edited by Susan McCabe, illustrated by Anna Johanson
Intermediate/Young Adult Books
- Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
- Funny Little Monkey by Andrew Auseon
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives-Book #1 by Michael Buckley
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber
Music
- Amos Lee by Amos Lee
- Careless Love by Madeleine Peyroux
- Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
- Martha Wainwright by Martha Wainwright
- Picaresque by the Decemberists
- Un Viaje by Cafe Tacuba