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2020 Book Award Winners

Congratulations 2020 Book Award Winners & Finalists

General Fiction

WINNER

We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin

FINALISTS

Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

Trust Me by Richard Santos

The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward

DISCOVERY PRIZE WINNER

Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi

Nonfiction

WINNER

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore

FINALISTS

After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau

The Museum of Whales You Will Never See by A. Kendra Greene

Perilous Bounty by Tom Philpott

Phallacy by Emily Willingham

DISCOVERY PRIZE WINNER

Pain Studies by Lisa Olstein

Poetry

WINNER

Year of the Dog by Deborah Paredez

FINALISTS

Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era by Chad Bennett

Simple Machines by Jehanne Dubrow

Anyone’s Son by David Meischen

Pandemia & Other Poems by Edward Vidaurre

DISCOVERY PRIZE WINNER

Maps of Injury by Chera Hammons

Middle Grade / Young Adult

WINNER

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

FINALISTS

BenBee and the Teacher Griefer by K.A. Holt

Dragon Ops by Mari Mancusi

The Second-Best Haunted Hotel on Mercer Street by Cory Putnam Oakes

A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat

DISCOVERY PRIZE WINNER

Mary and the Trail of Tears by Andrea L. Rogers

Picture Book

WINNER

William Still and His Freedom Stories by Don Tate

FINALISTS

All of a Sudden and Forever by Chris Barton

Hard Work, but It’s Worth It by Bethany Hegedus

Huddle Up! Cuddle Up! by Bethany Hegedus

The Blunders by Christina Soontornvat

DISCOVERY PRIZE WINNER

Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World by Michael W. Waters