Irish Book Awards 2011 Shortlist

The shortlist for the 2011 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards has been announced!

Hundreds of titles were submitted and here are the final shortlist titles that have made it through to the shortlist voting process. The winners will be announced at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards taking place in the RDS on 17th November 2011.

If you love books as much as we do you'll want to make sure you make your voice is heard and give your favourite book a chance to be in the running to win an award.

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  • Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke (Liberties Press)
  • Adam's World of Wonders by Benji Bennett (Adams Printing Press)
  • All For You by Sheila O'Flanagan (Headline)
  • And For Your Information….by Denise Deegan (Hachette)
  • Anglo Republic by Simon Carswell (Penguin Ireland)
  • My Autobiography by AP McCoy (Orion)
  • A Parish Far from Home by Philip O'Connor (Gill & Macmillan)
  • A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
  • Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Faber)
  • The Bloody Meadow by William Ryan (Mantle)
  • Catherine's Family Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio (Gill & Macmillan)
  • Circles Around the Sun by Molly McCloskey (Penguin Ireland)
  • City of Bohane by Kevin Barry (Random House)
  • The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey (Atlantic)
  • Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom by Tim Robinson (Penguin Ireland)
  • A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black (Mantle)
  • Easy Meals by Rachel Allen (Collins)
  • Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage (Simon & Schuster)
  • Gorgeous to Go by Aisling McDermott (Gill & Macmillan)
  • How Ireland Really Went Bust by Matt Cooper (Penguin Ireland)
  • How the Light Gets in by Mary McEvoy (Hachette)
  • How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury)
  • Inside the Peloton by Nicolas Roche (Transworld Ireland)
  • Joking Apart: My Autobiography by Donncha O'Callaghan (Transworld Ireland)
  • Just Joe: My Autobiography by Joe Duffy (Transworld Ireland)
  • Love and Marriage by Patricia Scanlan (Transworld Ireland)
  • Make Bake Love by Lilly Higgins (Gill & Macmillan)
  • Marco Moves In by Gerry Boland (O'Brien Press)
  • Me and My Sisters by Sinead Moriarty (Penguin Ireland)
  • Mistaken by Neil Jordan (John Murray)
  • Moscow, December 25, 1991 by Conor O'Clery (Transworld Ireland)
  • My Dad was nearly James Bond by Des Bishop (Penguin Ireland)
  • NAMA Mia! by Ross O'Carroll Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
  • On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry (Faber)
  • Revolution by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Mercier)
  • Walk On: My Life in Red by Ronnie Whelan and Tommy Conlon (Simon & Schuster)
  • Sally Go Round the Stars by Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy with Claire Ranson (O'Brien Press)
  • The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan (Harper Collins Childrens)
  • Salty Baby by Orla Tinsley (Hachette)
  • Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer by Derek Landy (Harper Collins Childrens)
  • Solace by Belinda McKeon (Picador)
  • Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (Harper Collins Childrens)
  • Taboo by Casey Hill (Simon & Schuster)
  • The Tenderloin by John Butler (Picador)
  • The Better Half by Sarah Harte (Penguin Ireland)
  • The Club by Christy O'Connor (Penguin Ireland)
  • The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Random House)
  • he Lingerie Designer by Siobhan McKenna (Poolbeg Press)
  • The Other Ireland by Mary Jones (Gill & Macmillan)
  • he Pink Ladies Club by Emma Hannigan (Poolbeg Press)
  • The Reckoning by Jane Casey (Ebury)
  • The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (Granta)
  • The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge (Andersen Press)
  • The Real Rebecca by Anna Carey (O'Brien)
  • The Time of my Life by Cecilia Ahern (Harper Collins)
  • Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent by Alan Early (Mercier)

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