2022 IPPY General Categories 1-58
1. Fine Art
GOLD
Spring Cannot Be Canceled: David Hockney in Normandy
by Martin Gayford and David Hockney
(Thames & Hudson)
SILVER
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism
edited by Anne Gray and Angela Hesson
(National Gallery of Victoria)
BRONZE
Ichimatsu: Japanese Play Dolls
by Alan Scott Pate
(Alan Scott Pate Antique Japanese Dolls)
2. Performing Arts (Music/Dance/Cinema/Theater)
GOLD
Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures
edited by Kristin Juarez, Rebecca Peabody, & Glenn Phillips
(X Artists' Books)
SILVER
This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me
by Samuel Antek & Lucy Antek Johnson
(Brown Books Publishing Group)
BRONZE
We Never Knew Just What it Was ... the Story of the Chad Mitchell Trio
by Mike Murphey
(Mike Murphey Books, LLC)
John Guillermin: The Man, The Myth, The Movies
by Mary Guillermin
(Precocity Press)
3. Photography
GOLD
Manifest International Photography Annual 8
edited by Jason Franz
(Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center)
SILVER (tie)
Sacred Nature 2 - Reconnecting People to Our Planet
by Angela Scott & Jonathan Scott
(HPH Publishing)
Behind Glass by Anne Berry (Shock Design Books)
BRONZE
Instrumenthead Revealed
by Michael Weintrob
(Magnet Bound Press)
4. Architecture
GOLD
At Home in Chicago: A Living History of Domestic Architecture
by Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield
(CityFiles Press)
SILVER
After The Australian Ugliness
by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin & Megan Patty
(National Gallery of Victoria)
BRONZE(tie)
The Art Museum in Modern Times
by Charles Saumarez Smith
(Thames & Hudson)
James Hoban: Designer and Builder of the White House
by Stewart D. McLaurin
(White House Historical Society)
5. Coffee Table Books
GOLD
Winter Wild: a feast of dark delights
by Janice Sutton
(Janice Sutton Communications)
SILVER
The Rolling Stones: Unzipped
by The Rolling Stones
(Thames & Hudson)
BRONZE
Grimm Gestalt
by Travis Lovell, Howard Fullmer, Brandon Truscott
(Utah Valley University)
6. Popular Fiction
GOLD
The Liability of Love
by Susan Schoenberger
(She Writes Press)
SILVER
The Long-Lost Jules
by Jane Elizabeth Hughes
(SparkPress)
BRONZE
Silver Beach
by Claire Cox
(University of Massachusetts Press)
7. Literary Fiction
GOLD
Day for Night
by Jean McNeil
(ECW Press)
SILVER
The Artist & The Assassin
by Mark Frutkin
(The Porcupine’s Quill)
BRONZE
Last Hummingbird West of Chile
by Nicholas Ruddock
(Breakwater Books Ltd.)
8. Short Story Fiction
GOLD
Big Bad
by Whitney Collins
(Sarabande Books)
SILVER
Erase and Rewind
by Meghan Bell
(Book*hug Press)
BRONZE (tie)
Sustainable Living
by Elsa Nekola
(Willow Springs Books)
Urban Disturbances
by Bruce McDougall
(The Porcupine's Quill)
9. Poetry - Standard
GOLD (tie)
You Better Be Lightning
by Andrea Gibson
(Button Poetry)
How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children
by Quincy Scott Jones
(C&R Press)
SILVER (tie)
September 12
by Andrea Carter Brown
(The Word Works)
Her Kind
by Cindy Veach
(CavanKerry Press)
BRONZE
Problematica
by George Murray
(ECW Press)
10. Poetry - Specialty
GOLD
Bramah and the Beggar Boy by Renee Sarojini Saklikar (Nightwood Editions)
SILVER (tie)
TNTRK: A Tantric Journey Through Poetry and Art
by Blair Fillingham; illustrations by Johanna Porter
(Self-Published)
Putting the World Back Together by N. Allison Nist, M.D. (Shock Design Books)
BRONZE (tie)
Clouds: Love Poems from Above the Fray Poems and Photographs
by Jon Meyer
(Joshua Tree Interactive)
A Pilgrimage of Churches Poems and Photographs
by Ron Starbuck
(Saint Julian Press)
11. Anthology
GOLD
Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language
edited by Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti, and Leonarda Carranza
(Book*hug Press)
SILVER
Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness
edited by Anjanette Delgado
(University of Florida Press)
BRONZE
Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora
edited by Christopher Nelson
(Green Linden Press)
12. Juvenile Fiction
GOLD
Rea and the Blood of the Nectar
by Payal Doshi
(Mango and Marigold Press)
SILVER
The Art of Running Away
by Sabrina Kleckner
(Jolly Fish Press)
BRONZE
Zombie, Or Not to Be
by Kyle Sullivan, Art by Derek Sullivan
13. Young Adult Fiction- General
GOLD
Before We Were Blue
by E.J. Schwartz
(Flux)
SILVER
Call Me Athena: Girl From Detroit
by Colby Cedar Smith
(Andrews McMeel Publishing)
BRONZE
How It Happens
by Jean Alicia Elster
(Wayne State University Press)
14. Young Adult Fiction - Fantasy
GOLD
Dragonbird in the Fern
by Laura Rueckert
(Flux)
SILVER
Siege of the Seven Sins
by Emily Colin
(Blue Crow Books)
BRONZE (tie)
Foretold
by Violet Lumani
(Uproar Books)
Trine Fallacy
by C.K. Donnelly
(Kibbe Creative Media, LLC)
15. Fantasy
GOLD
Faeries of the Faultlines
by Iris Compiet
(Eye of Newt Books)
SILVER
The Ancient Ones
by Cassandra L. Thompson
(Quill & Crow Publishing House)
BRONZE
All the Blue Come Through
by Metra Farrari
(Wise Ink)
The Warrior With Broken Wings
by Thorsten Brandl
(Cat's Eye Publishing)
16. Science Fiction
GOLD
KRILL: When the Good Choices are Gone
by Susan Hasler
SILVER
War Bunny
by Christopher St. John
(Harvest Oak Press)
Transference
by B.T. Keaton
(Ingleside Avenue Press)
BRONZE
Sanctuary
by Grace J Agnew
(Woodhall Press)
17. LGBT+ Fiction
GOLD
My Good Son
by Yang Huang
(University of New Orleans Press)
SILVER
Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck
by Joe Okonkwo
(Amble Press)
BRONZE
Nazaré
by JJ Amaworo Wilson
(PM Press)
18. Erotica
GOLD
The Golden Girl
by Sara Wetmore
(Self-Published)
SILVER
Disintegration
by Thea Landen
(Self-Published)
BRONZE
The Mirror’s Touch
by Markus Taylor - pen name Jackie Notter
(Climate Publishing)
19. Historical Fiction
GOLD
That Which Remains
by C. F. Yetmen
(Ypsilon & Co Press)
SILVER
88 Straight
by Stanley Nelson
(Chickasaw Press)
BRONZE
The Lives of Diamond Bessie
by Jody Hadlock
(SparkPress)
20. Military/Wartime Fiction
GOLD
Silence
by William Carpenter
(Islandport Press)
SILVER
A Stream to Follow
by Jess Wright
(Books Forward)
BRONZE
The Commodore and the Powder Monkey
by Mark Barie
(Barringer Publishing)
21. Horror
GOLD
The Despicable Fantasies of Quentin Sergenov
by Preston Fassel
(Encyclopocalypse Publications)
SILVER
Hotel Chelsea
by Jeremy Bates
(Self-Published)
BRONZE
The Jewish Book of Horror
by Josh Schlossberg
(Denver Horror Collective)
22. Multicultural Fiction
GOLD
The Cine Star Salon
by Leah Ranada
(NeWest Press)
SILVER
This Fierce Blood
by Malia Márquez
(Acre Books)
BRONZE
Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories
by Rummana Chowdhury
(Inanna Publications)
23. Multicultural Fiction- Juv/YA
GOLD
Unbelonging
by Gayatri Sethi
(Mango and Marigold Press)
SILVER
My Indian
by Saqamaw Mi'sel Joe & Sheila O'Neill
(Breakwater Books Ltd.)
BRONZE
Tia Lugo Speaks No Evil
by Danette Vigilante
(North Star Editions)
24. Mystery
GOLD
The Artist Colony
by Joanna FitzPatrick
(She Writes Press)
SILVER
The Blackwater
by Paul Smith
(Matador)
BRONZE
Lies with Man
by Michael Nava
(Amble Press)
Match
by Amy S. Peele
(She Writes Press)
25. Suspense/Thriller
GOLD
Shadow Music
by Helaine Mario
(Oceanview Publishing)
SILVER
Beneath the Marigolds
by Emily C. Whitson
(CamCat Books)
BRONZE
Crude Ambition
by Patricia Hunt Holmes
(Greenleaf Book Group)
26. Religious Fiction
GOLD
Daughter of the King
by Kerry Chaput
(Black Rose Writing)
SILVER
Falik and His House
by Jacob Dinezon, translated by Mindy Liberman
(Jewish Storyteller Press)
BRONZE
Wonders in the Deep: A Tale of Healing
by Chuck Carr
27. Romance
GOLD
Take Your Charming Somewhere Else
by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
(Blue Crow Books)
SILVER
Night Tide
by Anna Burke
(Bywater Books)
BRONZE
Thrust
by Rachel Spangler
(Brisk Press)
28. Urban Fiction
Category Cancelled
29. Visionary/New Age Fiction
GOLD
Sunnyside Up
by Rea Nolan Martin
(WiaWaka Press)
SILVER
My Famous Brain
by Diane Wald
(She Writes Press)
BRONZE
Wild Mushrooms
by E. Piotrowicz
(Resource Publications)
30. True Crime
GOLD
Murder Maps USA: Crime Scenes Revisited. Bloodstains to Ballistics. 1865-1939
by Adam Selzer
(Thames & Hudson)
SILVER
Dragged into the Light
by Tony Russo
(Secant Publishing)
BRONZE (tie)
Defending a Serial Killer: The Right to Counsel
by Jim Potts
(Vesuvian Books)
Summary Judgment
by Donald Cameron Clark, Jr.
(Girl Friday Productions)
31. Graphic Novel/Drawn Book
GOLD
Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility
by Myriam Steinberg, illustrated by Christache
(Page Two Books)
SILVER
Nuclear Power
by Desirée Proctor and Erica Harrell, illustrated by Lynne Yoshii
(Fanbase Press)
BRONZE
Wonder Drug: LSD in the Land of Living Skies
by Hugh D.A. Goldring, illustrated by nicole marie burton
(Between the Lines)
32. Humor
GOLD
Here We Go Loop de Loop
by William Sibley
(ATMOSPHERE PRESS)
SILVER
Running Through the Swinging Door
by Tony Di Lembo
(THE TROPICALE)
BRONZE
Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor’s Guide to Motherhood
by Dallas Louis
(Sandra Jonas Publishing)
33. Children’s Picture Books (7 & Under)
GOLD
The Library Book
by Gabby Dawnay, illustrated by Ian Morris
(Thames & Hudson)
SILVER
How to Fold a Taco
by Naibe Reynoso
(Con Todo Press)
BRONZE
Don't Call Me Fuzzybutt!
by Robin Newman, illustrated by Susan Batori
(Sleeping Bear Press)
34. Children’s Picture Books (All Ages)
GOLD
Nour's Secret Library
by Wafa' Tarnowska, illustrated by Vali Mintzi
(Barefoot Books)
SILVER
Bindiya in India
by Monique Chheda
(Mango and Marigold Press)
BRONZE
Big Bear Was Not the Same
by Joanna Rowland
(Beaming Books)
35. Children’s Interactive
GOLD
Alien Baby!
by Elias Barks
(Hazy Dell Press)
SILVER
THE GLOBAL KID: World's First VR/AR Political Comic Book
by Dr Maha Hosain Aziz
(Self-Published)
BRONZE
Lulu the Unstoppable Dancing Dog
by Marie Dimitrova
(Hello World Publishing)
36. Juvenile-Young Adult Non-Fiction
GOLD (tie)
Anxiety Elephants for Tween Girls
by Caris Snider (End Game Press)
Anxiety Elephants for Tween Boys
by Caris Snider (End Game Press)
SILVER
Earth Will Survive* *but we may not
by Katie Coppens
(Tumblehome, Inc.)
BRONZE
The Social Black Belt
by Dr. Christopher Cortman & Michael Keelen
(The Social Black Belt, Inc.)
37. Multicultural Non-Fiction Juvenile-Young Adult
GOLD
That They Lived
by Rochelle Riley and Cristi Smith-Jones
(Wayne State University Press)
SILVER
peepeekisis ātayōhkēwina: Sacred Stories of Peepeekisis Cree Nation by Eleanor Brass, illustrated by Aleigha Agecoutay (Your Nickel's Worth Publishing)
BRONZE
Parenting and Child Development: Across Ethnicity and Culture
by Abdul Khaleque
(Praeger)
38. Multicultural Non-Fiction
GOLD
To Drink From the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation's Oldest Public University
by Geeta N. Kapur
(Blair)
SILVER
The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity
by Andrew G. Farrand
(New Degree Press)
BRONZE
Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging
by Anne Liu Kellor
(She Writes Press)
39. Essay
GOLD
I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction
by Brock Clarke
(Acre Books)
SILVER
Stargazing in the Atomic Age
by Anne Goldman
(University of Georgia Press)
BRONZE
Night Rooms
by Gina Nutt
(Two Dollar Radio)
40. Creative Non-Fiction
GOLD
Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father
by Aparecida Vilaça
(Stanford University Press)
SILVER
Lilia: A True Story of Love, Courage, and Survival in the Shadow of War
by Linda Ganzini
(Self-Published)
BRONZE
America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility
by Rajika Bhandari
(She Writes Press)
41. Autobiography/Memoir I (Celebrity/Political/Romance)
GOLD
The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago
by Judy Chicago
(Thames & Hudson)
SILVER
60: A Year of Sports, Race and Politics
by Robert Khayat
(The Nautilus Publishing Company)
BRONZE
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate
by Carl Levin
(Wayne State University Press)
42. Autobiography II (Coming of Age/Family)
GOLD
Brown Skin Girl
by Mytrae Meliana
(Blue Leopard Media)
SILVER
When the Red Gates Opened: A Memoir of China’s Reawakening
by Dori Jones Yang
(She Writes Press)
BRONZE
Seeing Eye Girl: A Memoir of Madness, Resilience, and Hope
by Beverly J. Armento
(She Writes Press)
43. Autobiography III (Personal Struggle/Health Issues)
GOLD
Off Our Chests
by John Marshall and Liza Marshall
(Ideapress)
SILVER
You’ll Never Find Us
by Jeanne Baker Guy
(She Writes Press)
BRONZE
The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
by David Poses
(Sandra Jonas Publishing House)
44. Biography
GOLD
Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door
by Molly Peacock
(ECW Press)
SILVER
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamiton
by Andrew Porwancher
(Princeton)
BRONZE
Find a Trail or Blaze One: A Biography of Dr. Reatha Clark King
as told to Kate Leibfried
(Beaver’s Pond Press, Inc)
45. Aging/Death & Dying
GOLD
The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story
by Laura Davis
(Girl Friday Books)
SILVER
Widow’s Moon: A Memoir Of Healing, Hope, & Self-Discovery Through Grief and Loss
by Cara Hope Clark
(Self-Published)
BRONZE
The Actual Dance: Love’s Ultimate Journey Through Breast Cancer
by Samuel A. Simon
(The Actual Dance, LLC)
46. Animals/Pets
GOLD
Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement
by Gina G. Warren
(University of Washington Press)
SILVER (tie)
Terriers the Jungle - A Novel
by Georja Umano
(Atmosphere Press)
The Year's Best Dog Stories 2021
edited by Ron Sauder
(Secant Publishing)
BRONZE
Pet Poems (also not just pets)
by Sean Petrie
(Burlwood Books)
47. Business/Career/Sales
GOLD
Empathy In Action: How to Deliver Great Customer Experiences at Scale
by Tony Bates and Natalie Petouhoff
(Ideapress Publishing)
SILVER
Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma, Second Edition
by Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman
(Stanford University Press)
BRONZE
Competing on Thought Leadership
by Robert Buday
(Ideapress Publishing)
48. Cookbooks - General
GOLD
J’Adore
by Todd Leonard, Travis Lovell, Gareth Fry, John Rees, Melissa Barrett
(Utah Valley University)
SILVER
How Good Food Works From Seed to Plate
by Laura Moore
(Don Sanders)
BRONZE
Winter Wild: a feast of dark delights
by Janice Sutton
(Janice Sutton Communications)
49. Cookbooks- Specialty
GOLD
Dining with the Dead: A Feast for the Souls on Day of the Dead
by Mariana Nuño-Ruiz McEnroe and Ian McEnroe
(Rio Nuevo Publishers)
SILVER
Amalia's Mesoamerican Table: Ancient Culinary Traditions with Gourmet Infusions
by Amalia Moreno-Damgaard
(Amalia LLC)
BRONZE
My Cookbook Passion
by Pamela Kure Grogan
(Gaudium Publishing)
50. Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs)
GOLD
Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism
by Abigail R. Esman
(University of Nebraska Press)
SILVER
The Heartbeat of Iran
by Tara Kangarlou
(Ig Publishing)
BRONZE
Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon
by Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko
(Stanford University Press)
51. Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)
GOLD
A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America
by Michael Carolan
(Stanford University Press)
SILVER (tie)
What's Up with White Women? Unpacking Sexism and White Privilege in Pursuit of Racial Justice
by Ilsa Govan and Tilman Smith
(New Society Publishers)
The Black Butterfly
by Lawrence T. Brown
(Johns Hopkins University Press)
BRONZE
Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences
edited by Robert S. Rycroft and Kimberley L. Kinsley
(ABC-CLIO)
52. Education I (Workbook/Resources)
GOLD
The Metacognitive Student: How to Teach Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence in Every Content Area
by Richard K. Cohen, Deanne Kildare Opatosky, James Savage, Susan Olsen Stevens, and Edward P. Darrah
(Solution Tree Press)
SILVER (tie)
Finding Your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching
by Hedreich Nichols
(Solution Tree Press)
Mindsets and Skill Sets for Learning: A Framework for Building Student Agency
by Bill Zima
(Marzano Resources)
BRONZE
The School Wellness Wheel: A Framework Addressing Trauma, Culture, and Mastery to Raise Student Achievement
by Mike Ruyle, Libby Child, & Nancy Dome
(Marzano Resources)
53. Education II (Commentary/Theory)
GOLD
Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School
by Joanne W. Golann
(Princeton University Press)
SILVER
Autobiography without Apology: The Personal Essay in Chicanx and Latinx Studies
edited by Chon Noriega, Wendy Laura Belcher & Charlene Villaseñor Black
(UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press)
BRONZE
Education and Development: Policy Imperatives for Jamaica and the Caribbean
by Canute S. Thompson
(The University of the West Indies Press)
54. Nature
GOLD
Remembering Cheetahs
by Margot Raggett
(Remembering Wildlife)
SILVER
This Fragile Planet: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Environment
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
(The Sumeru Press Inc.)
BRONZE
A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon
by Krista Elrick
(George F. Thompson Publishing)
55. Environment/Ecology
GOLD
Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
(University of Nebraska Press)
SILVER
Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades
by Fritjof Capra
(High Road Books)
BRONZE
Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World
by Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson
(Heyday Books)
56. Finance/Investments/Economics
GOLD
Nothing is Too Big to Fail: How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today
by Kerry and Linda Killinger
(RosettaBooks)
SILVER:
Exposed: The Financial Matrix
by Orrin Woodward
(Obstacles Press)
BRONZE (tie)
Private Money Lending: Learn How to Consistently Generate a Passive Income Stream 2nd Edition
by Gustavo J. Gomez, Ph.D.
(Halo Publishing International)
Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition
by Edgar Villanueva
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
57. LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction
GOLD
Bullied: The Story of an Abuse
by Jonathan Alexander
(Punctum Books)
SILVER
Alabama Grandson: A Black, Gay Minister’s Passage Out of Hiding
by Cedrick D. Bridgeforth
(Precocity Press)
BRONZE
The Life and Times of the Legendary Larry Townsend
by Jack Fritscher
(Palm Drive Publishing)
58. Gift/Specialty/Journal
GOLD
All the Good: Doing Life After the Diploma
by Dexterity
(Dexterity)
SILVER
The Last Legacy of E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
by Tamar Springer
(Tamir Music)
BRONZE
five seven five - American Rhyming Haiku
by Barton Johnson
(Syzygy Entreprises, Inc.)
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