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VABooks!

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities is pleased to present “VABooks!” -- a feature column that appears monthly in newspapers across the Commonwealth suggesting 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.

Past "VABooks!" columns are available for download below in PDF format. (If you don't already have Adobe's Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free from Adobe's website.)

March 2005	The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Caroline Kennedy recommended by Janet Cheeseman
February 2005	Brightwood by R. T. Smith recommended by Claudia Emerson
January 2005	Davita’s Harp by Chaim Potok recommended by Gretchen Moran Laskas
December 2004	Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction edited by Kate Wheeler recommended by Jeanne Larsen
November 2004	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov recommended by Sharon Leiter
October 2004	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers recommended by Beverly Van Hook
September 2004	Double Vision by George Garrett recommended by Kelly Cherry
August 2004	the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon recommended by Sophy Burnham
July 2004	How to Deal With Emotionally Explosive People by Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D. recommended by Éric L. Farrell
June 2004	Miracle Fruit by Aimee Nezhukumatathil recommended by Susan R. Williamson
May 2004	Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt recommended by Alan Cheuse
April 2004	Shadow of Heaven by Ellen Bryant Voigt recommended by Jon Pineda
March 2004	Saving Grace by Priscilla Cummings recommended by Kelly Mulquin
February 2004	**Just Us Women by Jeannette Caines; Castaways: Stories of Survival by Gerald Hausman; Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier** recommended by Susan Coleman
January 2004	Country of the Heart by Deborah Bird Rose, et al. recommended by Margaret Smith
December 2003	The Midwife's Tale by Gretchen Moran Laskas recommended by Janis Jaquith
November 2003	The Stories of Richard Bausch by Richard Bausch recommended by Ted Genoways
October 2003	Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen recommended by Brittany L. Dick
September 2003	The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis recommended by Pablo J. Davis
August 2003	Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove recommended by Steve White
July 2003	As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner recommended by R. T. Smith
June 2003	Waiting by Ha Jin recommended by Sarah Kennedy
May 2003	Seven Houses by Alev Lytle Croutier recommended by Katherine Neville
April 2003	The Land Between by Cathryn Hankla recommended by Julia Johnson
March 2003	Gorgeous Lies by Martha McPhee and Shelter from the Storm by Michael Mewshaw recommended by Avery Chenoweth
February 2003	Wild Thorn by William Hoffman recommended by Kathleen Hofman
January 2003	Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady recommended by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
December 2002	Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin recommended by Nancy Damon
November 2002	Going to See the Elephant by George Garrett recommended by Thorpe Moeckel
October 2002	*Winter Run* by Robert Ashcom recommended by George Garrett
September 2002	The Misfits by James Howe recommended by Alex Sanchez
August 2002	The novels of Iris Murdoch recommended by Carrie Brown
June 2002	Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer recommended by Amanda Cockrell
May 2002	William Hoffman's Tidewater Blood recommended by Andy Straka
April 2002	Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels recommended by Ronald Hoffman
March 2002	Joyce Allan's Because I Love You recommended by Roberta Culbertson
February 2002	Trisha R. Thomas' Nappily Ever After recommended by Teresa Dowell-Vest
January 2002	Charles Wright's Negative Blue recommended by Eric Pankey
December 2001	Holiday Childrens' Books recommended by Joan Kindig
November 2001	Gergory Orr's Orpheus and Eurydice recommended by Lisa Russ-Spaar
October 2001	Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden recommended by Stephen Cushman
July 2001	Alan Lomax's Folksongs of North America recommended by Susan Hitchcock
June 2001	Richard North Patterson's Protect and Defend recommended by Katherine McNamara
May 2001	William Steig's Amos and Boris recommended by Kathy L. May
February 2001	John Banville's The Untouchable recommended by Boyd Zenner
January 2001	Christopher Tilghman's Mason's Retreat recommended by Henry Wiencek
December 2000	Francis Hodgson Burnett's The Little Princess recommended by Phyllis Theroux
November 2000	William Styron's Sophie's Choice recommended by David Baldacci

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