2018 Medalists

1. Fine Art

GOLD

Ray Stanford Strong: West Coast Landscape Artist

By Mark Humpal

(University of Oklahoma Press)

SILVER

Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope

By Frauke V. Josenhans

(Yale University Art Gallery)

BRONZE

Manuel Neri & The Assertion of Modern Figurative Sculpture

Presented by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University

(Anderson Collection/Stanford University Press)

2. Performing Arts (Music/Dance/Cinema/Theater)

GOLD

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water: Creating a Fairy Tale for Troubled Times

By Gina McIntyre

(Insight Editions)

SILVER

Director's Cut: My Life in Film

By Ted Kotcheff

(ECW Press)

BRONZE

Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries

By Grant Lawrence

(Douglas & McIntyre)

3. Photography

GOLD

Tending the Fire: Native Voices & Portraits

By Christopher Felver

(University of New Mexico Press)

SILVER

Arthur Meyerson: The Journey

Photography by Arthur Meyerson

(A.M. Editions)

BRONZE

Forgotten Heritage

By Matthew Emmett

(Jonglez Publishing)

4. Architecture

GOLD

Aaron G. Green: Organic Architecture Beyond Frank Lloyd Wright

By Randolph C. Henning

(ORO Editions)

SILVER

The Fantastic Seashell of the Mind: The Architecture of Mark Mills

By Janey Bennett

(ORO Editions)

BRONZE

A White House of Stone: Building America’s First Ideal in Architecture

By William Seale

(The White House Historical Association)

5. Coffee Table Books

GOLD

The Art of Mondo

By Mondo

(Insight Editions)

SILVER

Cherokee National Treasures: In their Own Words

Edited by Shawna Morton Cain, PhD, Pamela Jumper Thurman, PhD, and Betty Christie Frogg; co-edited by Gayle Parnell Samuels

(Cherokee Nation)

BRONZE

Burners

By Nicholas King

(Laughing Coyote Press)

6. Popular Fiction

GOLD

The Cast

By Amy Blumenfeld

(SparkPress)

SILVER

Tangier

By Stephen Holgate

(Blank Slate Press)

BRONZE (tie)

A Handbook for Beautiful People

By Jennifer Spruit

(Inanna Publications)

A Life Unexpected

By Alison Ragsdale

(Self-Published)

7. Literary Fiction

GOLD

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

By Carole Giangrande

(Inanna Publications)

SILVER

Us & Them

By Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

(Redwood Press)

BRONZE (tie)

This Is How It Begins

By Joan Dempsey

(She Writes Press)

The Hemingway Files

By H.K. Bush

(Blank Slate Press)

8. Short Story Fiction

GOLD

The Truth About Me: Stories

By Louise Marburg; edited by Peg Alford Pursell

(WTAW Press)

SILVER

The Love Life of an Assistant Animator & Other Stories

By Katherine Vaz

(Tailwinds Press)

BRONZE

Subcortical

By Lee Conell

(Johns Hopkins University Press)

9. Poetry

GOLD

Good Bones

By Maggie Smith

(Tupelo Press)

SILVER

Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision

By Sebastian Matthews

(Red Hen Press)

BRONZE

Scar On / Scar Off

By Jennifer Maritza McCauley

(Stalking Horse Press)

10. Anthologies

GOLD

Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust

Edited by Myrna Goldenberg

(The Azrieli Foundation)

SILVER

Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When to Just Show Up

Edited by Shelly Fisher & Jennifer Jones

(She Writes Press)

BRONZE

Unmasked: Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty

Edited by Marcia Meier and Kathleen A. Barry, PhD.

(Weeping Willow Books)

11. Juvenile Fiction

GOLD

The Phantom of New York: Vol I, Peter and the Crown

By A.L. Janney

(Self-Published)

SILVER

The Tower

By Lynn Yvonne Moon

(Köehler Books)

BRONZE (tie)

Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

By Richard Due; Illustrations by Carolyn Arcabascio

(Gibbering Gnome Press)

Bigfoot: Mysterious Monsters Book One

By David Michael Slater; Illustrated by Mauro Sorghienti

(Corgi Bits)

12. Young Adult Fiction

GOLD

Rings of Time

By Renée Veillet

(Tellwell)

SILVER

Losing Adam

By Adrienne Clarke

(Self-Published)

BRONZE (tie)

The Frontman

By Ron Bahar

(SparkPress)

Cold Summer

By Gwen Cole

(Sky Pony Press)

13. Fantasy

GOLD

Beforelife

By Randal Graham

(ECW Press)

SILVER

Littlest Death: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel

By Eric Witchey

(ShadowSpinners Press)

BRONZE (tie)

Tarbin’s True Heir: The Recharging: Book One

By Kelly Lynn Colby

(Inklings Publishing)

Above the Star: The 8th Island Trilogy: Book One

By Alexis Marie Chute

(SparkPress)

14. Science Fiction

GOLD

The Riven Stars

By Stephen Renneberg

(Self-Published)

SILVER

Specimen 959

By Robert Davies

(BHC Press/Indigo)

BRONZE

Solar Reboot

By Matthew D. Hunt

(Self-Published)

15. LGBT+ Fiction

GOLD

The Clothesline Swing

By Ahmad Danny Ramadan

(Nightwood Editions)

SILVER

Marriage of a Thousand Lies

By S.J. Sindu

(Soho Press, Inc.)

BRONZE

Postcards from the Canyon

By Lisa Gitlin

(Bywater Books)

16. Erotica

GOLD

Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink

Edited by D.L. King

(Cleis Press)

SILVER

Beyond the Rules

By Anna del Mar

(Self Published)

BRONZE

Behind the Door

By A. Gavazzoni

(Self Published)

17. Historical Fiction

GOLD

The Murderer’s Maid

By Erika Mailman

(Bonhomie Press)

SILVER (tie)

What is Forgiven

By C.F. Yetmen

(Ypsilon & Co Press)

Madam of My Heart

By Gini Grossenbacher

(JGKS Press)

BRONZE

The Muse of Fire

By Carol M. Cram

(New Arcadia Publishing)

18. Military/Wartime Fiction

GOLD

The Last Innocent Hour

By Margot Abbott

(Sand Hill Review Press)

SILVER

The Trumpets of Jericho

By J. Michael Dolan

(Monochrome Books)

BRONZE

Shifting Sands: Tradecraft Phase One

By Michael Shusko

(Self-Published)

19. Horror

GOLD

Dante’s Town of Terror

By Patrick R. Delaney

(Self-Published)

SILVER

Knuckle Balled

By Drew Stepek

(Blood Bound Books)

BRONZE

Antitheus

By G.A. Minton

(World Castle Publishing)

20. Multicultural Fiction

GOLD

Outside People and Other Stories

By Mariam Pirbhai

(Inanna Publications)

SILVER

China Girl and Other Stories

By Ho Lin

(Regent Press)

BRONZE

Dream of Another America

By Tyler McMahon

(Gival Press)

21. Multicultural Fiction – Juv-Young Adult

GOLD

The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball

By Dori Jones Yang

(SparkPress)

SILVER

Choose Your Path: Adventures in American Jewish History

By Shoshana Hantman

(Sidney Books)

BRONZE

On a LARP (A Sid Rubin Silicon Alley Adventure)

By Stefani Deoul

(Bywater Books)

22. Mystery/Cozy/Noir

GOLD

A Sticky Inheritance

By Emily James

(Stronghold Books)

SILVER(tie)

Uncorking a Lie

By Nadine Nettmann

(Midnight Ink)

The Last Train: A Tokyo Mystery

By Michael Pronko

(Raked Gravel Press)

BRONZE

A Song for Desmond

By B.R. Laue

(Brandy Hill Publishing)

23. Suspense/Thriller

GOLD

Hard Dog to Kill

By Craig Holt

(Wildblue Press)

SILVER

The Fourth Pularchek

By Samuel Marquis

(Mount Sopris Publishing)

BRONZE (tie)

Azrael

By M.T. Ellis

(Self-Published)

Vacant Eyes

By Christine Mager Wevik

(Self-Published)

24. Religious Fiction

GOLD

The Shepherd's Calculus

By C. S. Farrelly

(Cavan Bridge Press)

SILVER

Judah's Scepter and the Sacred Stone

By D. A. Brittain

(First Edition Design Publishing)

BRONZE (tie)

Anchored By Death

By Catherine Finger

(Elk Lake Publishing)

The Transmigrant

By Kristi Saare Duarte

(Self-Published)

25. Romance

GOLD

London, Can You Wait? 

By Jacquelyn Middleton

(Kirkwall Books)

SILVER (tie)

The Demon Duke: Put Up Your Dukes Book 1

By Margaret Locke

(Locked On Love Publishing)

The Many Lives of Fitzwilliam Darcy

By Beau North & Brooke West

(Self-Published)

BRONZE

Snapdragon

By Kilby Blades

(Luxe Press)

26. True Crime

GOLD

Famous Crimes the World Forgot Volume II: More Vintage True Crimes Rescued from Obscurity

By Jason Lucky Morrow

(Historical Crime Detective Publishing)

SILVER

Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York

By Richard H. Underwood

(Shadelandhouse Modern Press)

BRONZE

Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee

By Ann Marie Ackermann

(Kent State University Press)

27. Urban Fiction

GOLD

The Boss

By Aya de León

(Dafina Books)

SILVER

Ruined

By D.E. Eliot

(Write On Publishing)

BRONZE

Heated: An Urban Dramedy

By JC Gardner

(Perfect Publishing)

28. Visionary/New Age Fiction

GOLD

Fire: Book Three of the Elemental Journey Series

By Caroline Allen

(Art of Storytelling)

SILVER

Grip of the Hawk

By Brenda Schaeffer

(Balboa Press)

BRONZE

The Mystical Village that Rewired Reality

By Justin Nathan

(Self-Published)

29. Graphic Novel/Drawn Book - General

GOLD

Quince

By Kit Steinkellner; art by Emma Steinkellner; created by Sebastian Kadlecik

(Fanbase Press)

SILVER

ELEMENTS: Fire - A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color

Edited by Taneka Stotts

(Beyond Press)

BRONZE

Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking

By Brad Evans and Sean Michael Wilson; Illustrated by Inko, Carl Thompson, Robert Brown, Chris Mackenzie, Michiru Morikawa & Yen Quach

(New Internationalist)

30. Graphic Novel/Drawn Book- Drama/Documentary

GOLD

Renegade: Martin Luther, the Graphic Biography 

By Andrea Grosso Ciponte and Dacia Palmerino

(Plough Publishing House)

SILVER

Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts

By Tony Miller

(The Porcupine’s Quill)

BRONZE

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Vol 2

By Various Authors

(Alternate History Comics Inc)

31. Humor

GOLD

Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic

By Doogie Horner; Illustrated by JJ Harrison

(Insight Editions)

SILVER

Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares

By Sherry Stanfa-Stanley

(She Writes Press)

BRONZE

A Brief History of Oversharing: One Ginger’s Anthology of Humiliation

By Shawn Hitchins

(ECW Press)

32. Children’s Picture Books ( 7 & Under)

GOLD (tie)

I See You

By Michael Genhart; Illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

(Magination Press)

If You Look Up to the Sky

By Angela Dalton; Illustrations by Margarita Sikorskaia

(Beaver’s Pond Press)

SILVER

Trees

By Lemniscates

(Candlewick Studio)

BRONZE

Quiet! 

By Kate Alizadeh

(Child’s Play)

33. Children’s Picture Books ( All ages)

GOLD (tie)

The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon

By Frances Poletti & Kristina Yee; Illustrated by Susanna Chapman

(Compendium)

What Do You Do With a Chance? 

By Kobi Yamada; Illustrated by Mae Besom

(Compendium)

SILVER (tie)

The Silly Parade and Other Topsy-Turvy Poems

By Anne Dwyer; Illustrations by Nikolai Popov

(Rovakada Publishing)

Yokki and the Parno Gry

By Richard O’Neill & Katharine Quarmby; Illustrated by Marieke Nelissen

(Childs Play)

BRONZE

The Lonely Mailman

By Susanna Isern; Illustrations by Daniel Montero Galán

(Cuento de Luz)

34. Children’s Interactive

GOLD

Superpowers! A Great Big Collection of Awesome Activities, Quirky Questions, and Wonderful Ways to See Just How Super You Already Are

By M.H. Clark; illustrated by Michael Byers

(Compendium)

SILVER

Mindful Kids: 50 Mindfulness Activities for Kindness, Focus, and Calm

By Whitney Stewart and Mina Braun

(Barefoot Books)

BRONZE

BigFoot Goes on Vacation: A Spectacular Seek and Find Challenge for All Ages! 

By D.L. Miller

(Happy Fox Books)

35. Juvenile-Young Adult Non-Fiction

GOLD

Feminism From A to Z

By Gayle E. Pitman, PhD

(Magination Press)

SILVER

In A Relationship: Avoid the Worst & Experience the Best in Your Social Life & Relationships

By Aaron Boe

(Smith Knutson Publishing)

BRONZE (tie)

The Sword and The Broom: The Exceptional Career and Accomplishments of John Mercer Langston

By Linda Salisbury

(Tabby House)

What I Can Learn from the Incredible and Fantastic Life of Steve Jobs

By Fredrik Colting and Melissa Medina; Illustrations by Natsuko Yoneyama

(Moppet Books)

36. Multicultural N-F Juv- Young Adult

GOLD (tie)

Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees

By Mary Beth Leatherdale; Art by Eleanor Shakespeare

(Annick Press)

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

Edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

(Annick Press)

SILVER

Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis

By Amanda E. Doyle and Melanie A. Adams

(Missouri History Museum)

BRONZE

Come Sunday: A Young Reader’s History of Congo Square

By Freddi Williams Evans

(University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press)

37. Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult

GOLD

Piominko: Chickasaw Leader

By Mitch Caver and Thomas W. Cowger

(Chickasaw Press)

SILVER

Judith F. Baca

By Anna Indych-López

(UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press)

BRONZE

Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents: Flash Memoir, Personal Essays & Poetry

Edited by Tina Schumann

(Red Hen Press)

38. Essay/Creative Non-Fiction

GOLD

And There Was Evening and There Was Morning

By Mike Smith; edited by Peg Alford Pursell

(WTAW Press)

SILVER

I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays & Aphorisms

By David Lazar

(University of Nebraska Press)

BRONZE (tie)

Flight Path: A Search for Roots Beneath the World’s Busiest Airport

By Hannah Palmer

(Hub City Press)

The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You (Fifth Edition)

By Samuel Hazo; Photography by Paige Crawley

(Word Association Publishers)

39. Autobiography/Memoir I (Celebrity/Political/Romance)

GOLD

As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey

By Marvin Scott

(Beaufort Books)

SILVER

My Tour Through the Asylum: A Southern Integrationist’s Memoir

By William E. Dufford with Aïda Rogers and Salley McInerney

(University of South Carolina Press)

BRONZE

Disqualified: Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics

By Eddie Hart with Dave Newhouse

(Black Squirrel Books)

40. Autobiography/Memoir II (Coming of Age/Family Legacy/Travel)

GOLD

Just One Question: A Road Trip Memoir

By Ty Sassaman

(MCP Books)

SILVER

Self-Portrait with Dogwood

By Christopher Merrill

(Trinity University Press)

BRONZE (tie)

This African-American Life

By Hugh B. Price

(John F. Blair Publishing)

Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa

By Stephanie J. Urdang

(Monthly Review Press)

41. Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle/Health Issues)

GOLD (tie)

The Chicken Who Saved Us: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful

By Kristin Jarvis Adams

(Behler Publications)

The Vale of Tears

By Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung

(The Azrieli Foundation)

SILVER (tie)

A Few Minor Adjustments: A Memoir of Healing

By Cherie Kephart

(Bazi Publishing)

Guts: A Memoir

By Janet Buttenwieser

(Vine Leaves Press)

BRONZE

To Play Again: A Memoir

By Carol Rosenberger

(She Writes Press)

42. Biography

GOLD

Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Early Years, 1926-1966)

By Kenneth Womack

(Chicago Review Press)

SILVER

Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women He Knew

By Eleanor Fitzsimons

(Duckworth Overlook)

BRONZE

The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis

By Richard Schwartz

(RSB Books)

43. Aging/Death & Dying

GOLD

Heart Guide: True Stories of Grief and Healing

By Diana J. Ensign, JD

(SpiritHawk Life Publications)

SILVER

A Friend Indeed: Help Those You Love When They Grieve

by Amy Florian; with Ken Florian

(Corgenius)

BRONZE (tie)

While They’re Still Here: A Memoir

By Patricia Williams

(She Writes Press)

Holding the Net: Caring for my Mother on the Tightrope of Aging

By Melanie P. Merriman

(Green Writers Press)

44. Animals/Pets

GOLD

The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills

By Leslie T. Sharpe

(The Overlook Press)

SILVER (tie)

The Pet Healer Project: Stories of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Animals

By Sandy Johnson

(Top Reads Publishing, Inc.)

Welcome Home: An Animal Rights Perspective on Living with Dogs & Cats

By Nathan & Jennifer Winograd

(Almaden Books)

BRONZE

Wild & Furry Animals of the Southern Appalachian Mountains

By Lee James Pantas

(R. Brent & Co.)

45. Business/Careers/Sales

GOLD

You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side

By Orly Lobel

(W.W. Norton & Co.)

SILVER

Non Obvious: How to Predict Trends and Win the Future

By Rohit Bhargava

(IdeaPress Publishing)

BRONZE (tie)

Capitalists ARISE!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation

By Peter Georgescu with David Dorsey

(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)

Seeing Around Corners: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data

By Graham Hogg

(LID Publishing)

46. Cookbooks - General

GOLD

Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes

By Ami Bouhassane

(Grapefrukt Forlag & Penrose Film Productions Ltd)

SILVER

The Elote Cafe Notebook

By Jeff Smedstad; photography by Janise Witt and Jeff Smedstad; edited, designed and produced by Carol Haralson

(Self Published)

BRONZE (tie)

Bubbe and Me in the Kitchen: A Kosher Cookbook of Beloved Recipes and Modern Twists

By Miri Rotkovitz; photography by Evi Abeler

(Sonoma Press)

Cooking with the Wolfman: Indigenous Fusion

By David Wolfman and Marlene Finn

(Douglas & McIntyre)

47. Cookbooks - Nutritional/Vegetarian

GOLD

Earth Eats: Real Food Green Living

By Annie Corrigan with Daniel Orr

(Indiana University Press)

SILVER

Healthy Baking: Cakes, Cookies + Raw

By Teresa Cutter; photography by Paul Cutter ACS

(The Healthy Chef Pty Ltd)

BRONZE

Canning Full Circle: From Garden to Jar to Table

By Diane Devereaux; photography by Jeff Hage

(Devereaux Cyber Inc.)

48. Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs)

GOLD

China’s Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation

By Bradley M. Gardner

(Independent Institute)

SILVER

Reimagining Journalism in a Post-Truth World; How Late-Night Comedians, Internet trolls, and Savvy Reporters are Transforming News

By Ed Madison and Ben DeJarnette

(Praeger)

BRONZE (tie)

Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America

By David Clary

(Rutgers University Press)

Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country

By Francesco Duina

(Stanford University Press)

49. Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)

GOLD

Meeting in the Margins: An Invitation to Encounter Society’s Invisible People

By Cynthia Trenshaw

(She Writes Press)

SILVER (tie)

Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo

By Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir

(Redwood Press)

Ten Cultures, Twenty Lives: Refugee Life Stories

By Daina Jurika-Owen

(Amaya Books)

BRONZE

Hidden in Plain Sight: America’s Slaves of the New Millennium

By Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, PhD

(Praeger)

50. Education I (Workbook/Resources)

GOLD

HEART!: Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader

By Timothy D. Kanold

(Solution Tree Press)

SILVER

The New Art and Science of Teaching

By Robert J. Marzano

(Solution Tree Press)

BRONZE

Research-Based Strategies: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Under-Resourced Students

By Ruby K.Payne, PhD, and Bethanie H. Tucker, Ed.D

(Aha! Process, Inc.)

51. Education II (Commentary/Theory)

GOLD

What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher

Edited by Lee Gutkind

(In Fact Books)

SILVER (tie)

Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By Joseph E. Aoun

(MIT Press)

The Conscious Classroom: The Inner Strength System™ for Transforming the Teenage Mind

By Amy Edelstein

(Emergence Education Press)

BRONZE

Mr Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter, Tears, and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room

By Meredith O’Brien

(Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing)

52. Environment/Ecology/Nature

GOLD 

Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration into our Conflicted Relationship with Insects

By David Waltner-Toews

(ECW Press)

SILVER

Yellowstone Migrations

By Joe Riis

(Braided River)

BRONZE

Sage Grouse: Icon of the West

By Noppadol Paothong and Kathy Love

(Self-Published)

53. Finance/Investment/Economics

GOLD

Wealth by Virtue

By Chad Gordon

(GreenStar Press)

SILVER

The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty

By Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider

(Princeton University Press)

BRONZE

Financial Nutrition for Young Women: How (and Why) to Teach Girls about Money

By Melissa Donohue, Ed.D.

(Praeger)

54. LGBT+ Non-Fiction

GOLD

¡Cuéntamelo!: Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants 

By Juliana Delgado Lopera

(Aunt Lute Books)

SILVER

The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir

By Peter Gajdics

(Brown Paper Press)

BRONZE

The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life

By Kate Carroll de Gutes

(Two Sylvias Press)

55. Gift/Specialty/Journal

GOLD

The Historical Heroines Coloring Book: Pioneering Women in Science from the 18th and 19th Centuries

By Elizabeth Lorayne; Illustrated by Kendra Shedenhelm

(White Wave Press)

SILVER

I Will Always Love You

By Melissa Lyons; Illustrated by Mary Cindrich

(Choose to Choose Inc.)

BRONZE

Losing My Reflection: A Coloring Book Journal to Record Your Personal Grief Experience

By Kim Owen Mazur

(Beaver’s Pond Press)

56. Holiday

GOLD

The Santa Thief

By Alane Adams; Illustrated by Lauren Gallegos

(SparkPress)

SILVER

Fog Valley Winter: Pioneer Heritage, Backroad Rambles, & Vintage Recipes

By Frances Rivetti

(Fog Valley Press)

BRONZE

Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik

By Scott Hilton Davis; Illustrations by Amy F. Levine

(Jewish Storyteller Press)

57. Health/Medicine/Nutrition

GOLD

The Secret Life of Your Microbiome: Why Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness

By Susan L. Prescott, MD, PhD and Alan C. Logan, ND

(New Society Publishers)

SILVER

Back to Balance: The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine

By Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright

(Disruption Books)

BRONZE

Food Truths From Farm to Table: 25 Surprising Ways to Shop & Eat Without Guilt

By Michele Payn

(Praeger)

58. History (U.S.)

GOLD

The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote

By Brooke Kroeger

(SUNY Press)

SILVER

Music at the White House from the 18th to the 21st Centuries

By Elise K. Kirk

(The White House Historical Association)

BRONZE (tie)

Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror

By Angela D. Sims

(Baylor University Press)

Forgotten Under a Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913

By Joseph P. McCallus

(Kent State University Press)

59. History (World)

GOLD

World War II and the Caribbean

Edited by Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin

(University of the West Indies Press)

SILVER

The Blue Shirts: Adrien Arcand and Fascist Anti-Semitism in Canada

By Hugues Théorêt

(University of Ottawa Press)

BRONZE (tie)

The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of he Tsar’s Chief of Security and his Wife

By Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva

(SUNY Press)

The World Turns to War

By Jay Wertz; foreword by Gerhard Weinberg, PhD

(Monroe Publications)

60. Home & Garden

GOLD

The Holistic Home: Feng Shui for Mind, Body, Spirit, Space

By Laura Benko

(Helios Press)

SILVER

Boathouses of Lake Minnetonka

Photography by Karen Melvin and Written by Melinda Nelson

(Big Picture Press)

BRONZE

Garden Wisdom: 365 Days

By Cheryl Wilfong

(Heart Path Press)

61. How-To (Crafts/Hobby/Industrial Arts)

GOLD

Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts, & Conversations

By Rebecca Crowell & Jerry McLaughlin

(Squeegee Press)

SILVER

Dollface Vintage: An Everyday Gal’s Guide to a Vintage Lifestyle

By Cherry Dollface

(Working Class Publishing)

BRONZE

The Crochet Wildlife Guide: Amigurumi Techniques, Tips, and Patterns

By Phillip Ha and Jeff Wiehler

(Self-Published)

62. Inspirational/Spiritual

GOLD

To Be Soul Do Soul: Adventures in Creative Consciousness

By Hiro Boga

(Deva Publishing)

SILVER

Garden in the East: The Spiritual Life of the Body

By Angela Doll Carlson

(Ancient Faith Publishing)

BRONZE

Walking With Dogs: A Spiritual Journey

By Marti Healy; illustrated by Mimi Durand Caroe

(The Design Group Press)

63. New Age/Mind-Body-Spirit

GOLD

Embracing the End of Life: A Journey Into Dying & Awakening

By Patt Lind-Kyle, MA

(Llewellyn Publications)

SILVER

The Year of Drinking Magic: Twelve Ceremonies With the Vine of Souls

By Guy Crittenden

(Apocryphile Press)

BRONZE

Change the Story of Your Health: Using Shamanic and Jungian Techniques for Healing

By Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD

(Findhorn Press)

64. Parenting

GOLD

18 Master Values: Be the Parent You Wish You’d Had

By Christine Crockett Smith

(Kekuatan Satu Publishing)

SILVER

Born to Eat: Whole, Healthy Foods from Baby’s First Bite

By Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN & Wendy Jo Peterson, MS, RDN

(Skyhorse Publishing)

BRONZE

Stepparenting the Grieving Child: Cultivating Past and Present Connections with Children Who Have Lost a Parent

By Diane Ingram Fromme

(Merry Dissonance Press)

65. Popular Culture

GOLD

Marvel’s Black Panther: The Illustrated History of a King: The Complete Comics Chronology

By Dennis Culver

(Insight Editions)

SILVER

Playboy Laughs: The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy

By Patty Farmer

(Beaufort Books)

BRONZE

Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956

By Michael Windover and Anne F. MacLennan

(Dalhousie Architectural Press)

66. Psychology/Mental Health

GOLD

Uniquely Normal: Tapping the Reservoir of Normalcy to Treat Autism

By Robert J. Bernstein with Robin Cantor-Cooke

(Future Horizons)

SILVER

Baffled by Love: Stories of the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma Inflicted by Loved Ones

By Laurie Kahn

(She Writes Press)

BRONZE

A to Z Healing Toolbox: A Practical Guide for Navigating Grief and Trauma with Intention

By Susan Hannifin-MacNab

(Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

67. Sports/Fitness/Recreation

GOLD

Legendary Lumber: The Top 100 Player Bats in Baseball History

By Joe Orlando with Tom Zappala and Ellen Zappala

(Peter E. Randall Publisher)

SILVER

Rockne & Jones: Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties

By Thomas Rupp

(Kent State University Press)

BRONZE

Downhills Don’t Come Free: One Man’s Bike Ride From Alaska to Mexico

By Jerry Holl

(Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

68. Reference

GOLD

The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods: Vol 6 - Provisions of the Fur Trade

By James A. Hanson

(Museum of the Fur Trade)

SILVER

American Academy of Pediatrics Quick Reference Guide to Pediatric Care

By Deepak M. Kamat, MD, PhD, FAAP

(American Academy of Pediatrics)

BRONZE

The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty

Edited by Robert S. Rycroft

(Greenwood)

69. Religion (Eastern/Western)

GOLD (tie)

The Last Christians: Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East

By Andreas Knapp

(Plough Publishing House)

Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place: From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture

By Todd LeVasseur

(SUNY Press)

SILVER

Truth and Illusion: The Politics of Spirituality and How One Person's Lie Is Another One's Truth

By Carol E. Richardson

(Highest Harmony Healing & Coaching)

BRONZE

Who Cut God's Hair

By Garrett Glass

(Self-Published)

70. Science

GOLD

UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says

By Donald R. Prothero and Timothy D. Callahan

(Indiana University Press)

SILVER 

Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century

By John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins

(Indiana University Press)

BRONZE

North Dakota’s Geologic Legacy

By John P. Bluemle

(North Dakota State University Press)

71. Self Help

GOLD

Living Happy to Be Me!: Dancing Your Soul Lightstyle

By Valerie René Sheppard

(The Heart of Living Vibrantly)

SILVER

Swing for the Fences: Show Up. Dig In. Suck Less

By Gregory Bancroft

(Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

BRONZE

Mind To Mouth: A Busy Chick’s Guide to Mindful Mealtime Moments

By Heather Sears

(Kensho Press)

72. Sexuality/Relationships

GOLD

Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist

By Lynsey G.

(The Overlook Press)

SILVER

Vegan Love: Dating and Partnering for the Cruelty-Free Gal, with Fashion, Makeup & Wedding Tips

By Maya Gottfried; illustrated by Dame Darcy

(Skyhorse Publishing)

BRONZE

Evolution of Loving

By Carl Studna

(Motivational Press)

73. Transportation (Auto/Aviation/Railroad, etc.)

GOLD

Red 4WD Tractors 1957-2017: High-Horsepower Four-Wheel-Drive Tractors from International Harvester, Steiger, J.I. Case & Case IH

By Lee Klancher

(Octane Press)

SILVER

Book of Gow

By Mr. Bones, Ken Schmidt and Jon Suckling

(Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop)

BRONZE

Big History in Flight: From Drifting and Soaring to Flying and Deep Space Exploration

By Wendy Curtis and Evan Penn Serio

(GeoBook Studio)

74. Travel – Essay

GOLD

The World’s Most Travelled Man: A Twenty-Three-Year Odyssey to and Through Every Country on the Planet

By Mike Spencer Bown

(Douglas & McIntyre)

SILVER

Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community

By Lily Gontard; photography by Mark Kelly

(Lost Moose)

BRONZE

Four Seasons in a Day: Travel, Transitions, and Letting Go of the Place We Call Home

By Deborah L. Jacobs

(DJWorking Unlimited Inc.)

75. Travel – Guidebook

GOLD

Hiking Acadia National Park: A Guide to the Park’s Greatest Hiking Adventures

By Dolores Kong and Dan Ring

(FalconGuides)

SILVER

Base Camp Las Vegas: 101 Hikes in the Southwest

By Deborah Wall

(Imbrifex Books)

BRONZE

Secret New Orleans

By Chris Champagne

(Jonglez Publishing)

76. Women's Issues

GOLD

Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust

Edited by Myrna Goldenberg

(The Azrieli Foundation)

SILVER

Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote

By Johanna Neuman

(Washington Mews Books/NYU Press)

BRONZE (tie)

Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

By Anne Michaud

(Ogunquit-NY Press)

#Me Too: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What it Means, and How to Make Sure it Never Happens Again

Edited by Lori Perkins

(Riverdale Avenue Books)

77. Writing/Publishing

GOLD

Write Like a Pro: Ten Techniques for Getting Your Point Across at Work (and in Life)

By Carl Hausman

(Praeger)

SILVER

How to Create a Successful Children’s Picture Book

By Bobbie Hinman

(Best Fairy Books)

BRONZE

Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer & Living an Awakened Life

By Albert Flynn DeSilver

(Sounds True)

78. Book/Author/Publisher Website

GOLD

www.Robot-Proof.com

Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By Joseph E. Aoun; web developer Derrick Henry

(MIT Press)

SILVER

www.PonyDreams.com

The Smallest Horse

By Lorie List & Amanda Holbo

(Pony Tales, LLC)

BRONZE

www.FortyGavels.com

Forty Gavels: The Life of Reuben Soderstrom and the Illinois AFL-CIO

By Carl Soderstrom, Robert Soderstrom, Chris Stevens, and Andrew Burt

(CWS Publishing)

79. Cover Design – Fiction

GOLD

Jasper Wild: Book Three in the Dyed in the Green Series

By George Mercer; cover design by Dan Stiles

(Write Nature)

SILVER

The Atheist and the Parrotfish

By Richard Barager; cover design by D. Robert Pease

(Evolved Publishing)

BRONZE

Wild, Wild Voices: Everyday Rhymes for the Untamed Minds

By Amy Lou Miller; Illustrations by Melinda Moen; Cover design by Sally Frances Lee

(Second Swan Press)

80. Cover Design – Non-Fiction

GOLD

Derby Girl: A Memoir

By Sammi Jones; cover designed by Jamie Hohnadel Trosen

(North Dakota State University Press)

SILVER (tie)

Things that Join the Sea and the Sky: Field Notes on Living

By Mark Nepo; cover design by Jennifer Miles

(Sounds True)

It’s Nice to Meet Me Too: The Laughter and Lessons Learned from Raising Randy, a Young Man with Tuberous Sclerosis

By Cynthia Rust; cover design by Amy Ashford

(Beaver’s Pond Press)

BRONZE

Can Everybody Swim? A Survival Story from Katrina’s Superdome

By Bruce S. Snow; cover designed by Amy Ashford

(Et Alia Press)

81. Cover Design - Non-Fiction Oversize

GOLD

Perfectly Aged: 40 Years of Stories from the Taste of Texas

Designed by Limb Design - Elise DeSilva, Linda Limb, Kara Forage, Guillermo Cubillos; photography & styling by Debora Smail

(Taste of Texas)

SILVER

Kanban: Traditional Shop Signs of Japan

By Alan Scott Pate; design by Jeff Wincapaw; principal photography by Steve Oliver and iocolor, Seattle

(Mingei International Museum / Princeton University Press)

BRONZE

Spring is Here

By Nancy Jo Shaw; illustrated by Andrea Larson; design by Laura Drew

(Beaver’s Pond Press)

82. Best First Book - Fiction

GOLD (tie)

Hollywood Homicide

By Kellye Garrett

(Midnight Ink)

Alphonse

By Carl Sever

(SparkPress)

SILVER

Clown William

By Robin Elno

(IngramElliott Publishing)

BRONZE

In the Shadow of Light

By Tracy Causley

(The Amethyst Press)

83. Best First Book - Non-Fiction

GOLD (tie)

Armand Merizon: His Life and Art 1920-2010

By Muriel Zandstra with Jan Keessen and Randall VanderMey

(ArtBookPrinting)

Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate

By Carolyn Porter

(Skyhorse Publishing)

SILVER

Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique

By Rowan Moore Gerety

(The New Press)

BRONZE

Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let’s Talk Tarot

By Melissa Cynova

(Llewellyn Publications)