Members' Choice Award

Vote for the 2008 Members' Choice Award!

Members, here's your chance to voice your opinion! Please select your one (1) favorite Asian American title published during 2007. The title that receives the most votes will be awarded the Nineth Members' Choice Workshop Award at The Eleventh Annual Asian American Literary Awards ceremony on December 8, 2008.

Voting begins Wednesday, November 12, 2008 and ends Wednesday, November 26 at 7pm. Your member voting code will be emailed to you; if you did not receive your code number by Early December please call 212-494-0061 immediately. Voting is only open to current Members of the Workshop. To sign up or for more information, click here.

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Bastard of Istanbul, The, Elif Shafak, Fiction
Bed, Tao Lin, Fiction
China Doll, Michelle Yu And Blossom Kan, Fiction
Eeeee Eee Eeee, Tao Lin, Fiction
February Flowers, Fan Wu, Fiction
Firewife: A Story of Fire and Water, Tinling Choong, Fiction
Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee, Fiction
Free Life, A, Ha Jin, Fiction
Gutted, Justin Chin, Fiction
Last Chinese Chef, The, Nicole Mones, Fiction
Last Communist Virgin, The, Wang Ping, Fiction
Last Empress, The, Anchee Min, Fiction
Lost Men, Brian Leung, Fiction
Ocean in the Closet, The, Yuko Taniguchi, Fiction
Peony in Love, Lisa See, Fiction
Red Mandarin Dress,Qiu Xiaolong, Fiction
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The, Mohsin Hamid, Fiction
Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine, Fiction
Talking to the Moon, Noel Alumit, Fiction
This is A Bust, Ed Lin, Fiction
Ticket to the Moon, Uthaya Kumar, Fiction
Welsh Girl, The, Peter Ho Davies, Fiction
Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War, The, Judy Yung, Nonfiction
Authentic Confucius, The: A Life of Thought and Politics, Annping Chin, Nonfiction
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande, Nonfiction
Book of Beginnings and Endings, The, Jenny Boully, Nonfiction
Climbing the Mango Trees : A Memoir of a Childhood in India, Madhur Jaffrey, Nonfiction
Darker Nations, The, Vijay Prashad, Nonfiction
Eating India, Chitrita Banerji, Nonfiction
Final Exam; A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality, Pauline W. Chen, Nonfiction
Hapa Girl, May Lee Chai, Nonfiction
Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters, Annie Choi, Nonfiction
Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer, David Mas Masumoto, Nonfiction
Planet India, Mira Kamdar, Nonfiction
Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir, Bich Minh Nguyen, Nonfiction
At the Drive-In Volcano, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Poetry
Body is No Machine, The, Jennifer Perrine, Poetry
Cloud Moving Hands, Cathy Song, Poetry
Corpse Watching, Sarith Peou, Poetry
Dance Dance Revolution, Cathy Park Hong, Poetry
Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, Roger Sedarat, Poetry
Forage, Rita Wong, Poetry
Histories of Bodies, Mariko Nagai, Poetry
Imago, Joseph O. Legaspi, Poetry
Infamous Landscapes, Prageeta Sharma, Poetry
Invention of the Kaleidoscope, The, Paisley Rekdal, Poetry
Mine, Tung-Hui Hu, Poetry
Mouth, Lisa Chen, Poetry
Paper Pavillion, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Poetry
Sightings: Collected Works [2000-2005], Shin-Yu Pai, Poetry
Skirt Full of Black, Sun Yung Shin, Poetry
This Many Miles from Desire, Lee Herrick, Poetry
View From Zero Bridge, The, Lynn Aarti Chandhok, Poetry

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