Best First Novel

2018 - Tie:  A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman; Curses Boiled Again by Shari Randall

Best Contemporary Novel

2018 - Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron

​Best Historical Novel

2018 - The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

Best Nonfiction

2018 - Mastering Plot Twists: How to Use Suspense.  Targeted Storytelling Strategies and Structure to Captivate Your Readers by Jane Cleland

​Best Short Story

2018 - Tie:  "All God's Sparrows" by Leslie Budewitz; "The Case of the Vanishing Professor" by Tara Laskowski

 

 

 

Novel

2018 - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

First Novel

2018 - The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste

Young Adult Novel

2018 - The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

Graphic Novel

2018 - Victor LaValle's Destroyer by Victor LaValle

Long Fiction

2018 - The Devil's Throat (Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror) by Rena Mason

Short Fiction

2018 - "Mutter" (Fantastic Tales of Terror) by Jess Landry 

Anthology

2018 - The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea by Ellen Datlow

Fiction Collection

2018 - That Which Grows Wild by Gemma Files

Non-Fiction

2018 - It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson

Poetry Collection

2018 - The Devil's Dreamland by Sara Tantlinger

 

2017

August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones

2016

The White Devil by Domenic Stansberry

2015

The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin

2014

Winner: Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, by Stephen King

2013

Winner: Angel Baby, by Richard Lange

2012

Winner: Oregon Hill, by Howard Owen

2011

Winner: The Killer is Dying: A Novel, by James Sallis

2010

WINNER: The Nearest Exit, by Olen Steinhauer

2009

WINNER: The Manual of Detection: A Novel, by Jedediah Berry

2008

WINNER: The Turnaround, by George Pelecanos

2007

WINNER: The Outlander, by Gil Adamson

2006

WINNER: The Prisoner of Guantánamo, by Dan Fesperman

2005

WINNER: Alibi: A Novel, by Joseph Kanon

2004

WINNER: Prince of Thieves: A Novel by Chuck Hogan

2003

WINNER: The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman

2002

WINNER: Honor's Kingdom by Owen Parry

2001

WINNER: Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst

2000

WINNER: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

1999

WINNER: Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smtih

1998

WINNER: Tidewater Blood by William Hoffman

1997

WINNER: Trial of Passion by William Deverell

1996

WINNER: Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

1995

WINNER: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker

1994

WINNER: Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke

1993

WINNER: The Mexican Tree Druck by James Crumley

1992

WINNER: Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman

1991

WINNER: Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard

 

2018 - The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

2017 - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

2016 - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison

2015 - The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu

2014 - Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie

2013 - Reshirts: A Novel With Three Cadas, John Scalzi

2012 - Among Others, Jo Walton

2011 - Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis

2010 - The City & The City, China Miéville
           - The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

2009 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

2008 - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

2007 - Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

2006 - Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

2004 - Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

2003 - Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer

2002 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

2001 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

2000 - A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

1999 - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

1998 - Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

1997  - Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

1996 - The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

1995 - Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

1994 - Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
          - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

1992 - Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

1991 - The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

1990 - Hyperion by Dan Simmons

1989 - Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh

1988 - The Uplift War by David Brin

1987 - Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

1986 - Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

1985 - Neuromancer by William Gibson

1984 - Startide Rising by David Brin

1983 - Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov

1982 - Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh

1981 - The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

1980 - The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

1979 - Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

1978 - Gateway by Frederik Pohl

1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm

1976 - The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

1975 - The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

1974 - Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

1973 - The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

1971 - Ringworld by Larry Niven

1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

1969 - Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

1968 - Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

1967 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

1966 - Dune by Frank Herbert
          - And Call Me Conrad (alt: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny

2019 - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

2018 - Milkman by Anna Burns

2017 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

2016 - The Sellout by Paul Beatty

2015 - A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

2014 - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

2013 - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

2012 - Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

2011 - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

2010 - The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

2009 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

2008 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

2007 - The Gathering by Anne Enright

2006 - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

2005 - The Sea by John Banville

2004 - The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

2003 - Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

2002 - Life of Pi by Yann Martel

2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

2000 - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

1999 - Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

1998 - Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

1997 - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

1996 - Last Orders by Graham Swift

1995 - The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

1994 - How late it was, how late by James Kelman

1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

1992 - The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

1991 - The Famished Road by Ben Okri

1990 - Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt

1989 - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

1988 - Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

1987 - Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

1986 - The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

1985 - The Bone People by Keri Hulme

1984 - Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

1983 - Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee

1982 - Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

1981 - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

1980 - Rites of Passage by William Golding

1979 - Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

1978 - The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

1977 - Staying On by Paul Scott

1976 - Saville by David Storey

1975 - Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1974 - The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer and Holiday by Stanley Middleton

1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell

1972 - G. by John Berger

1971 - In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul

1970 - (Lost Man Booker; awarded in 2010) - Troubles by J. G. Farrell

1970 - The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

1969 - Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby

2019 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

2018 - Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

2017 - All the Birds In the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

2016 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

2015 - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

2014 - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

2013 - 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

2012 - Among Others by Jo Walton

2011 - Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis

2010 - The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

2009 - Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin

2008 - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

2007 – Seeker by Jack McDevitt

2006 – Camouflage by Joe Haldeman

2005 - Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

2004 - The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

2003 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

2002 - The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro

2001 - Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

2000 - Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

1999 - Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

1998 - The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre

1997 - Slow River by Nicola Griffith

1996 - The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

1995 - Moving Mars by Greg Bear

1994 - Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

1993 - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

1992 - Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

1991 - Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

1990 - The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

1989 - Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

1988 - The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

1987 - Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

1986 - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

1985 - Neuromancer by William Gibson

1984 - Startide Rising by David Brin

1983 - No Enemy but Time by Michael Bishop

1982 - The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

1981 - Timescape by Gregory Benford

1980 - The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

1979 - Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

1978 - Gateway by Frederik Pohl

1977 - Man Plus by Frederik Pohl

1976 – The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

1975 - The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

1974 - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

1973 - The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov

1972 - A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg

1971 - Ringworld by Larry Niven

1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

1969 - Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin

1968 - The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany

1967 (tie)- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
1967 (tie)- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

1966 - Dune by Frank Herbert

 

2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro​ "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

2016 - Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

2015 - Svetlana Alexievich​ "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"

2014 - Patrick Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation"

2013 - Alice Munro "master of the contemporary short story"

2012 - Mo Yan who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.

2011 - Tomas Transtromer because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.

2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.

2009 - Heria Muller who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.

2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.

2007 -  Doris Lessing that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.

2006 - Orhan Pamuk who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.

2005 - Harold Pinter who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.

2004 - Elfriede Jelinek for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clich s and their subjugating power.

2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider.

2002 - Imre Kertesz for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.

2001 - V. S. Naipaul for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.

2000 - Gao Xingjian for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama.

1999 - Gunter Grass whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history.

1998 - Jose Saramago who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.

1997 - Dario Fo who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.

1996 - Wislawa Szymborska for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.

1995 - Seamus Heaney for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.

1994 - Kenzaburo Oe who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.

1993 - Toni Morrison who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.

1992 - Derek Walcott for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment. 

1991 - Nadine Gordimer who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.

1990 - Octavio Paz  for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.

1989 - Camilo Jose Cela for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.

1988 - Naguib Mahfouz who, through works rich in nuance-now clearsightedly realistic, now evocatively ambigous-has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.

1987 - Joseph Brodsky for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity.

1986 - Wole Soyinka who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.

 1985 - Claude Simon who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition.

1984 - Jaroslaw Seifert for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man.

1983 - Sir William Golding for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.

1982 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts.

1981 - Elias Canetti for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power.

1980 - Czeslaw Milosz who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts. 

1979 - Odysseus Elytis (pen-name of Odysseus Alepoudhelis), for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness.

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.

1977 - Vicente Aleixandre for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry beween the wars.

1976 - Saul Bellow for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.

1975 - Eugenio Montale for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions.

1974 - The prize was divided between:  Eyvind Johnson for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom & Harry Martinson for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos.

1973 - Patrick White for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.

1972 - Heinrich Boll for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature.

1971 - Pablo Neruda for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams.

1970 - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.

1969 - Samuel Beckett for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.

1968 - Yasunari Kawabata for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.

1967 - Miguel Angel Asturias for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America.

1966 - The prize was divided equally between:  Shmuel Yosef Agnon for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people & Nelly Sachs for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength.

1965 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people.

1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a farreaching influence on our age. (Declined the prize.)

1963 - Giorgos Seferis (pen-name of Giorgos Seferiadis), for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture.

1962 - John Steinbeck for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.

1961 - Ivo Andri'c for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country.

1960 - Saint-John Perse (pen-name of Alexis Leger), for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time. 

1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times.

1958 - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. (Accepted first, later caused by the authorities of his country to decline the prize.)

1957 - Albert Camus for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.

1956 - Juan Ramon Jimenez for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity.

1955 - Halldor Kiljan Laxness for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland.

1954 - Ernest Miller Hemingway for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea ,and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.

1953 - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.

1952 - Francois Mauriac for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life.

1951 - Par Fabian Lagerkvist for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind.

1950 - Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.

1949 - William Faulker for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.

1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.

1947 - Andre Paul Guillaume Gide for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight.

1946 - Hermann Hesse for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humaitarian ideals and high qualities of style.

1945 - Gabriela Mistral (pen-name of Lucila Godoy Y Alca-Yaga), for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world.

1944 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style.

1943-1940 - The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.

1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpaa for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature.

1938 - Pearl Buck (pen-name of Pearl Walsh née SYDENSTRICKER ), for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.

1937 - Roger Martin Du Gard for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novelcycle Les Thibault.

1936 - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy.

1935 - The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.

1934 - Luigi Pirandello for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art.

1933 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing.

1932 - John Galsworthy for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsythe Saga.

1931 - Erik Alex Karlfeldt The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt.

1930 - Sinclair Lewis for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.

1929 - Thomas Mann principially for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature.

1928 - Sigrid Undset principially for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages.

1927 - Henri Gergson in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brillant skill with which they have been presented.

1926 - Grazia Deledda (pen-name of Grazia Madesani née Deledda), for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general.

1925 - George Bernard Shaw for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.

1924 - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (pen-name of Reyment), for his great national epic, The Peasants.

1923 - William Butler Yeats for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.

1922 - Jacinto Benavente for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama.

1921 - Anatole France (pen-name of Jaques Anatole Thibault), in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament.

1920 - Knut Pedersen Hamsun for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil.

1919 - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring.

1918 - The prize money for 1918 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1917 - The prize was divided equally between: Karl Adolph Gjefferup for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals & Henrik Pontoppidan for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark.

1916 - Carl Gustaf Vernier Von Heidenstam in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature.

1915 - Romain Rolland as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings.

1914 - The prize money for 1914 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1913 - Rabindranath Tagore because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with comsummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.

1912 - Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art.

1911 - Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, in appreciation of his manysided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations.

1910 - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories.

1909 - Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings.

1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life.

1907 - Rudyard Kipling in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.

1906 - Giosue Carducci not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces.

1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer.

1904 - The prize was divided equally between: Frederic Mistral in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist & Jose Echegaray Y Eizaguirre in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama.

1903 - Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit.

1902 - Christian Mattias Theodor Mommsen the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome.

1901 - Sully Prudhomme (pen-name of Rene Francois Armand), in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualitites of both heart and intellect.

 

Fiction

Finalists have been announced since 1980. The Novel category was re-named Fiction in 1947.

2019 The Overstory by Richard Powers

2018 Less by Andrew Sean Greer

2017 Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2013 The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

2012 (No Award)

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John updike

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication)

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

2019

The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson, for Best Western Contemporary Novel

River of Porcupines by G.K. Aalborg, for Best Western Historical Novel

The Return of Kid Cooper by Brad Smith, for Best Western Traditional Novel

The River by Starlight by Ellen Notbohm, for Best First Novel

Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands by Brenden W. Rensink, for Best Western Historical Nonfiction

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu, for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark by Mark J. Nelson, for Best Western Biography

"Buck's Last Ride" by Therese Greenwood, for Best Western Short Fiction

"Art, Agency, and Conservation: A Fresh Look at Albert Bierstadt's Vision of the West" by Peter H. Hassrick, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

2018

Double Wide by Leo W. Banks, for Best Western Contemporary Novel

The Coming by David Osborne, for Best Western Historical Novel

Silver City:  A Novel of the American West by Jeff Guinn, for Traditional Novel

Double Wide by Leo W. Banks, for Best First Western Novel

Killers of the Flower Moon:  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, for Best Western Historical Nonfiction

A Land Apart:  The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century by Flannery Burke, for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Frank Little and the IWW:  The Blood That Stained an American Family by Jane Little Botkin, for Best Western Biography

"Lost and Found:  A Short Story" by Rod Miller, for Best Western Short Fiction

"States of Decay:  A Journey Through America's Nuclear Heartland" by Ben Mauk, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

2017

Off the Grid: A Joe Pickett Novel by C.J. Box, for Best Western Contemporary Novel

Best Western Historical Novel - No award given

The Mustanger and the Lady by Dusty Richards, for Best Western Traditional Novel

Jasper Spring by James T. Hughes, for Best First Novel

The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, The Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton, for Best Western Historical Nonfiction

New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy by Michael Duchemin, for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson, for Best Western Biography

"Odell's Bones" by Troy D. Smith, for Best Western Short Fiction

"Master of Ceremonies': The World of Peter Biggs in Civil War-Era Los Angeles" by Kendra Field and Daniel Lynch, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

2016

Crazy Mountain Kiss:  A Sean Stranahan Mystery by Keith McCafferty, for Best Western Contemporary Novel

Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale, for Best Western Historical Novel

The Last Midwife by Sandra Dallas, for Best Western Traditional Novel

American Copper by Shann Ray, for Best First Novel

William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest by William Heath, for Best Western Historical Nonfiction

The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin by Leisl Carr Childers, for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles, for Best Western Biography

The Scalper by Richard Prosch, for Best Western Short Fiction Story

"Cowboys and Capitalist: The XIT Ranch in Texas and Montana, 1885-1912" by Michael M. Miller, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

2015

Bad Country by Craig Johnson, for Best Western Contemporary Novel

Wild Ran the Rivers by James D. Crownover, for Best Western Historical Novel

The Big Drift by Patrick Dearen, for Best Western Traditional Novel

Wild Ran the Rivers by James D. Crownover, for Best First Novel

American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 by Jerome A. Greene, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster by Angela Day, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of Little Bighorn by Philip Burnham, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

"Fingers" by Andrew Geyer, for Best Western Short Fiction

"Calamity Jane: A Life and Legends" by Richard W. Etulain, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

2014

Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke, for Best Western Contemporary Novel

Silent We Stood by Henry Chappell, for Best Western Historical Novel

Crossing Purgatory by Gary Schanbacher, for Best Western Traditional Novel

Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman, for Best First Novel

Shot all to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape by Mark Lee Gardner, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country by William Philpott, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

"Cabin Fever" by Brett Cogburn, for Best Western Short Fiction

"The Other James Brother" by Mark Lee Gardner, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

2013

With Blood in Their Eyes by Thomas Cobb, for Best Western Long Novel

Tucker's Reckoning by Matthew Mayo, for Best Western Short Novel

The Coyote Tracker by Larry Sweazy, for Best Original Mass Market Paperback

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, A Mojave Hermit and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History by Deanne Stillman, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Geronimo by Robert M. Utley, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

"The Hog Whisperer" by John Mort, for Best Western Short Fiction Story

"Marathoner Louis Tewanima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908-1912" by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

2012

Remember Ben Clayton by Stephen Harrigan, for Best Western Long Novel

Legacy of a Lawman by Johnny D. Boggs, for Best Western Short Novel

West Texas Kill by Johnny D. Boggs, for Best Original Mass Market Paperback

The Mormon Rebellion by David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

The Bitter and MR. Brandborg by Frederick H. Swanson, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

George Crook by Paul Magid, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

The Death of Delgado by Rod Miller and The Deacon's Horse by Clay Reynolds, for Best Western Short Fiction Story

The Alamo, Well Remembered by Paul Andrew Hutton, for Best Western Short Nonfiction

Birdie by Candace Simar, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Migrant Mother by Don Nardo, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Tornado Slim and the Magic Cowboy Hat by Bryan Langdo, for Best Western Storyteller

2011

•Last Train from Cuernavaca by Lucia St. Clair Robson, for Best Western Long Novel

•Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler, for Best Western Short Novel

•Damnation Road by Max McCoy, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•The Frontier of Leisure by Lawrence Culver, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Hayley, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

• "Bonnie and Clyde in the Backyard" in Glimmer Train by K.L. Cook, for Best Western Short Fiction

• "The N Bar N Ranch" in Montana: The Magazine of Western History by Roger Di Silvestro, for Best western Short Nonficition

•Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Buffalo Bill Cody (Legends of the Wild West) by Ronald A. Reis, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•A Night on the Range by Aaron Frisch and Chris Sheban, for Best Western Storyteller

2010

•Echoes of Glory by Robert Flynn, for Best Western Long Novel

•Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead, for Best Western Short Novel

•Stranger in Thunder Basin by John D. Nesbitt, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains by Douglas C. McChristian and Paul L. Hedren, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•The Secret War in El Paso by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Peg Leg by David C. Humphrey, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

• "At the End of the Orchard" in Hardboiled Magazine by John D. Nesbitt, for Best Western Short Fiction

• "Teddy's Ride to Recovery" in Wild West Magazine by Roger Di Silvestro, for Best western Short Nonficition

•Hard Winter: A Western Story by Johnny D. Boggs, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•One Sky Above Us by Nancy Plain, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Finding Susie by Sandra Day O'Connor and Tom Pohrt, for Best Western Storyteller

2009

•Shavetail: A Novel by Thomas Cobb, for Best Western Long Novel

•Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson, for Best Western Short Novel

•Trouble at the Redstone by John D. Nesbitt, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana by Carol Buchanan, for Best First Novel

•Hunting the American West by Richard Rattenbury, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Full-Court Quest by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

• "Cornflower Blue" in Untamed Ink by Susan K. Salzer, for Best Western Short Fiction

• "Owen Winster's Paladin of the Plains: The Virginian as a Cultural Hero" by David A. Smith, for Best western Short Nonficition

•I Am Apache by Tanya Landman, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•The Trial of Standing Bear by Frank Keating, Gini Moore Campbell and Mike Wimmer, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•The Wheat Doll by Alison Randall and Bill Farnsworth, for Best Western Storyteller

2008

•The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle, for Best Western Long Novel

•Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas, for Best Western Short Novel

•Hellfire Canyon by Max McCoy, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Night Birds by Thomas Maltman, for Best First Novel

•Creating Minnesota by Anette Atkins, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Lone Star Lawmen by Robert Marshall Utley, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Gall: Lakota War Chief by Robert W. Larson, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Crucifixion River by Marcia Muller, for Best Western Short Fiction

• “Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth" in Kansas History by Joseph B. Herring, for Best western Short Nonficition

•Doubtful Canon: A Western Story by Johnny D. Boggs, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Sagebrush and Paintbrush by Nancy Plain, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

2007

•The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook, for Best Western Long Novel

•The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman, for Best Western Short Novel

•The Horse Creek Incident by Dusty Richards, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Broken Trail by Alan Geoffrion, for Best First Novel

•Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Copper Chorus by Denis Swibold, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Crazy Horse by Kingsley M. Bray, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Commanche Moon by Dusty Richards, for Best Western Short Fiction

•Geronimo by Joseph Bruchac, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Bleeding Kansas and the Violent Clash Over Slavery in the Heartland by Jeff C. Young, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Tatanka and the Lakota People by Donald Montileaux, for Best Western Storyteller

•Across the High Divide by Laurie Wagner Buyer, for Best Western Poetry

2006

•High Country by Willard Wyman, for Best Novel of the West

•High Country by Willard Wyman, for Best First Novel

•Camp Ford by Johnny Boggs, for Best Western Novel

•Dakota by Matt Braun, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Ringside Seat to a Revolution by David Romo, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Buffalo Bill's America by Louis S. Warren, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Chief Joseph by Candy Moulton, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Klondike Gold by Alice Provensen, for Best Western Storyteller

•The First Americans by Anthony Aveni, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Black Storm Comin' by Diane Lee Wilson, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Voice of the Borderlands by Drum Hadley, for Best Western Poetry

2005

•Buy the Chief a Cadillac by Rick Steber, for Best Western Novel

•People of the Raven by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, for Best Novel of the West

•Vengeance Valley by Richard S. Wheeler, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Field of Honor by D.L. Birchfield, for Best First Novel

•Black Kettle by Thom Hatch, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Beasts of the Field by Richard Street, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution by Charles Harris, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Fire in the Hole by Mary Farrell, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Rattlesnake Mesa by Edna Weber, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•A Thousand Miles of Stars by Walt McDonald, for Best Western Poetry

•Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson, for Best Western Storyteller

2004

•On A Silver Desert by Ernest Haycox, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•One Vast Winter Count by Colin Galloway, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Company by Brian Hall, for Best Western Novel

•So Wild A Dream by Win Blevins, for Best Novel of the West

•The Sergeant's Lady by Miles Swarthout, for Best First Novel

•Plain Language by Barbara Wright, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Words West by Ginger Wadsworth, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•In The Eye of the Storm by E. Kimmel, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•The Star People by S.D. Nelson, for Best Western Storyteller

•Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Matt by Paul Zarzyski, for Best Western Poetry

2003

•The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas, for Best Western Novel

•Perma Red by Debra Earling, for Best Novel of the West

•Oblivion's Altar by David Wilkinson, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Sam Houston by James Haley, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Blood of the Prophets by Will Bagley, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Dine: A History of the Navajos by Peter Iverson, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•The Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Raising La Belle by Mark Mitchell, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Will Rogers by Frank Keating, for Best Western Storyteller

2002

•The Way of the Coyote by Elmer Kelton, for Best Western Novel

•The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall, for Best Novel of the West

•Drum's Ring by Richard Wheeler, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•American Character by Mark Thompson, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars by Robert Remini, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Bone Wars by Tom Rea, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Rockbuster by Gloria Skurzynski, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•In the Days of the Vaqueros by Russell Freedman, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•The Legend of Strap Buckner by Connie Nordhielm, for Best Western Storyteller

•Blood Sister, I am To These Fields by Linda Hussa, for Best Western Poetry

2001

•Summer of Pearls by Mike Blakely, for Best Western Novel

•The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan, for Best Novel of the West

•Bound for the Promise Land by Troy Smith, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•A River Running West by Donald Worcester, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Pacific Destiny by Dale Walker, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•What You See In Clear Water by Geoffrey O'Gara, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•The Midnight Train Home by Erika Tamar, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Stories of Young Pioneers in Their Own Words by Violet Kimball, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Cindy Ellen by Susan Lowell, for Best Western Storyteller

•Western Settings by Red Shuttleworth, for Best Western Poetry

2000

•Masterson by Richard Wheeler, for Best Western Novel

•Prophet Annie by Ellen Recknor, for Best Novel of the West

•Mine Work by Jim Davidson, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•A Knight Without Armor by Felix Almaraz, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Rush for Riches by J.S. Holliday, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•The Real Wild West by Michael Wallis, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Wrango by Brian Burks, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•The Wild Colorado by Richard Maurer, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Prairie Train by Antoine O'Flatharta, for Best Western Storyteller

1999

•Journey of the Dead by Loren D. Estleman, for Best Western Novel

•The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley, for Best Novel of the West

•Dark Trail by Hiram King, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Duke by Ronald Davis, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•The Contested Plains by Elliott West, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Devil's Bargains by Hal Rothman, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Petey by Ben Mikaelson, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Cowboy With a Camera by Don Worcester, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Slim and Miss Prim by Robert Kinerk, for Best Western Storyteller

1998

•The Kiowa Verdict by Cynthia Haselhoff, for Best Western Novel

•Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry, for Best Novel of the West

•Leaving Missouri by Ellen Recknor, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Death's Deceivers by Lynn Bridgers, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•El Lano Estacado by John Morris, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Danger Along the Ohio by Patricia Willis, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Rattlesnake Dance by Jennifer Dewey, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Bootmaker and Elves by Susan Lowell, for Best Western Storyteller

1996

•Blood of Texas by Preston Lewis, for Best Western Novel

•Sierra by Richard Wheeler, for Best Novel of the West

•Potter's Fields by Frank Roderus, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•John Wesley Hardin by Leon Metz, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•New Westers by Michael Johnson, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Far North by Will Hobbs, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•The Life and Death of Crazyhorse by Richard Freedman, Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•The Worry Stone by Marianna Dengler, for Best Western Storyteller

1995

•The Dark Island by Robert Conley, for Best Western Novel

•Stone Song by Win Blevins, for Best Novel of the West

•Thunder in the Valley by Jim woolard, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•General M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans by Alan Rosenus, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Seeking Pleasure in the Old West by David Dary, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•We are a People in This World by Conger Beasley, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Indio by Sherry Garland, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Camels for Uncle Sam by Diane Yancey, Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Dandelions by Eve Bunting, for Best Western Storyteller

1994

•St. Agnes' Stand by Tom Edison, for Best Western Novel

•The Far Canyon by Elmer Kelton, for Best Novel of the West

•Survival by K.C. McKenna, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Hero of Beecher Island by David Dixon, for Best Western Nonfiction Biography

•Precious Dust by Paula Marks, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Raven's Exile by Ellen Meloy, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•A Trail of Tears by David Fremon, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1993

•Friends by Charles Hackenberry, for Best Western Novel

•Empire of Bones by Jeff Long, for Best Novel of the West

•The Gila River by Gary McCarthy, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•The Lance and the Shield by Robert Utley, for Best Western Nonfiction Historical

•Rivers in the Desert by Margaret Davis, for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

•Leaving Eldorado by JoAnn Mazzio, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Cowboys, Indians, and Gunfighters by Albert Marrin, Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1992

•Nickajack by Robert J. Conley, for Best Western Novel

•Slaughter by Elmer Kelton, for Best Novel of the West

•The Golden Chance by T.V. Olsen, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Let Me Be Free by David Lavender, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Hay Meadow by Gary Paulsen, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley, Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1991

•Journal of Gun Years by Richard Matheson, for Best Western Novel

•The Medicine Horn by Jory Sherman, for Best Novel of the West

•Rage in Chupadera by Norman Zollinger, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Custer's Last Campaign by John S. Gray, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Mikaelsen, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1990

•Sanctuary by Gary Svee, for Best Western Novel

•Home Mountain by Jeanne Williams, for Best Novel of the West

•The Changing Wind by Don Coldsmith, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•Helen Hunt Jackson by Valerie S. Mathes, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Honey Girl by Madge Harrah, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Woodsong by Gary Paulsen, Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1989

•Fool's Coach by Richard Wheeler, for Best Western Novel

•Panther in the Sky by James Alexander, for Best Novel of the West

•Among the Eagles by G. Clifton Wisler, for Best Original Paperback Novel

•The Great Plains by Ian Frazier, for Best Western Nonfiction

•My Daniel by Pam Conrad, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1988

•Mattie by Judy Alter, for Best Western Novel

•The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout, for Best Novel of the West

•Hoover Dam by Joseph Stevens, for Best Western Nonfiction

•In the Face of Danger by Joan Lowry Nixon, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1987

•Skinwalker by Tony Hillerman, for Best Western Novel

•Wanderer Springs by Robert Flynn, for Best Novel of the West

•Jessie Benton Fremont by Pamela Herr, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Orphan Train by Joan Lowry Nixon, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1986

•The Blind Corral by Ralph Robert Beer, for Best Western Novel

•Roman by Douglas C. Jones, for Best Novel of the West

•Paper Medicine Man by Joseph C. Porter, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Make Way For Sam Houston by Jean Fritz, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1985

•Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, for Best Western Novel

•The Snowblind Moon by John Byrne Cooke, for Best Novel of the West

•Phil Sheridan and His Army by Paul Hutton, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1984

•Gone the Dreams and Dancing by Douglas C. Jones, for Best Western Novel

•Hashknife Cowboy Recollections of Mach Hughes by Stella Hughes, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Trapped in Slickrock Canyon by Gloria Skurzynski, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1983

•Leaving Kansas by Frank Roderus, for Best Western Novel

•Sam Bass by Bryan Woolley, for Best Novel of the West

•Quarterdeck and Saddlehorn by Carl Briggs, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Thunder on the Tennessee by Gary Clifton, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1982

•Match Race by Fred Grove, for Best Western Novel

•Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair, for Best Novel of the West

•Albuquerque: A Narrative History by Marc Simmons, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Before the Lark by Irene Brown, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1981

•Eye of the Hawk by Elmer Kelton, for Best Western Novel

•Aces and Eights by Loren D. Estleman, for Best Novel of the West

•Cowboy Culture by David Dary, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Last Run by Mark Harris, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1980

•The Valiant Woman by Jeanne Williams, for Best Western Novel

•Getting There by Susan Hilton, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1979

•The Holdouts by William Decker, for Best Western Novel

•The Apaches by Don Worcester, for Best Western Nonfiction

1978

•Riders to Cibola by Norman Zollinger, for Best Western Novel

•Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn by Janet LeCompte, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The No Return Trail by Sonia Levitin, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1977

•The Great Horse Race by Fred Grove, for Best Western Novel

•Swimming Man Burning by Terrence Kilpatrick, for Best Novel of the West

•The Cowgirls by Joyce Roach, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Shepherd Watches, the Shepherd Sings by Louis Irigaray, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1976

•The Spirit Horses by Lou Cameron, for Best Western Novel

•The Kincaids by Matt Braun, for Best Novel of the West

•The Vanishing Whiteman by Stan Steiner, for Best Western Nonfiction

1975

•The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout, for Best Western Novel

•Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan, for Best Novel of the West

•Dust of the Earth by Vera Cleaver, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Ride 'em Cowgirl by Lynn Haney, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1974

•A Hanging in Sweetwater by Stephen Overholser, for Best Western Novel

•Colonel Green and the Copper Skyrocket by C.L. Sonnichsen, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Susy's Scoundrel by Harold Keith, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1973

•The Time it Never Rained by Elmer Kelton, for Best Western Novel

•Burnout Fires by Richard Dillon, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Freedom Trail by Jeanne Williams, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Red Power on the Rio Grande by Franklin Folsom, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1972

•A Killing in Kiowa by Lewis Patten, for Best Western Novel

•The Time of the Buffalo by Tom McHugh, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Only Earth & Sky Last Forever by Nathaniel Benchley, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•The Tiguas by Stan Steiner, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1971

•The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton, for Best Western Novel

•Western Life and Adventures by Elliot Barker, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Black Mustanger by Richard Wormser, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Lords of the Earth by Jules Loh, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1970

•The Last Days of Wolf Garnett by Clifton Adams, for Best Western Novel

•The Buffalo by Francis Haines, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Cayuse Courage by Evelyn Lampman, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Retreat to the Bear Paw by Marion Place, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1969

•Tragg's Choice by Clifton Adams, for Best Western Novel

•The White Man's Road by Benjamin Capps, for Best Novel of the West

•Boss Cowman by Nellie Yost, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Meeker Massacre by Wayne Overholser, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•Conquistadores and Pueblos by Olga Hall-Quest, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

•Big With Vengeance by Cecil Snyder, for Best First Novel

1968

•Down the Long Hills by Louis L'Amour, for Best Western Novel

•The Red Sabbath by Lewis Patten, for Best Novel of the West

•Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West by Vardis Fisher, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Middl'un by Elizabeth Burleson, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1967

•The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman, for Best Western Novel

•The Wolf is My Brother by Chad Oliver, for Best Novel of the West

•America's Western Frontiers by John Hawgood, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Half Breed by Evelyn Lampman, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

•To the Pacific with Lewis and Clark by Ralph Andrist, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1966

•My Brother John by Herbert Purdum, for Best Western Novel

•Hellfire Jackson by Garland Roarke, for Best Novel of the West

•America's Frontier Heritage by Ray Billington, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Valley of the Smallest by Aileen Fisher, for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

1965

•Sam Chance by Benjamin Capps, for Best Western Novel

•Gold in California by Todhunter Ballard, for Best Novel of the West

•The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest by Alvin Josephy, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Stubborn One by Rutherford Montgomery, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1964

•The Trail to Ogallala by Benjamin Capps, for Best Western Novel

•Indian Fighter by E.E. Halleran, for Best Novel of the West

•Ride a Northbound Horse by Richard Wormser, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1963

•Follow the Free Wind by Leigh Brackett, for Best Western Novel

•Gates of the Mountains by Will Henry, for Best Novel of the West

•The Bonanza West by William S. Greever, for Best Western Nonfiction

1962

•Comanche Captives by Fred Groves, for Best Western Novel

•Great Surveys of the American West by R.A. Bartlett, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Western Horse by Natlee Kenoyer, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1961

•The Honyocker by Giles Lutz, for Best Western Novel

•The Winter War by William Haines, for Best Novel of the West

•The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill by Don Russell, for Best Western Nonfiction

1960

•The Nameless Breed by Will Brown, for Best Western Novel

•From Where the Sun Now Stands by Will Henry, for Best Novel of the West

•South Pass 1868 by Lola Homsher, for Best Western Nonfiction

•The Horse Talker by Jeanne Williams, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1959

•The Long Run by Nelson Nye, for Best Western Novel

•The Buffalo Soldiers by John Prebble, for Best Novel of the West

•Day of San Jacinto by Frank Tolbert, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Their Shining Hour by Ramona Weeks, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1958

•Shortcut to Red River by Noel Loomis, for Best Western Novel

•The Fancher Train by Amelia Bean, for Best Novel of the West

•Cripple Creek Days by Mabel Lee, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Steamboat Up the Missouri by Dale White, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1957

•Buffalo Wagons by Elmer Kelton, for Best Western Novel

•Silver Mountain by Dan Cushman, for Best Novel of the West

•This is the West by Robert Howard, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Wolf Brother by Jim Kjelgaard, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1956

•High Gun by Leslie Ernenwein, for Best Western Novel

•Generations of Men by John Hunt, for Best Novel of the West

•Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Trapping the Silver Beaver by Charles Niehuis, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1955

•Somewhere They Die by L.P. Holmes, for Best Western Novel

1954

•The Violent Land by Wayne Overholser, for Best Western Novel

•Journey by the River by John Prescott, for Best Novel of the West

•Bent's Fort by David Lavender, for Best Western Nonfiction

•Young Hero of the Range by Stephen Payne, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

1953

•Lawman by Lee Leighton, for Best Western Novel

•The Wheel and the Hearth by Lucia Moore, for Best Novel of the West

•Sagebrush Sorrel by Frank C. Robertson, for Best Western Juvenile Fiction