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Past Honorees
Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
Nonfiction
Daddy's Little Stranger
Nonfiction
Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders and the Dark Side of the American Heartland
Debut
Under the Neon Lights
Young Adult
The Continental Divide
Fiction
Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure
Nonfiction
Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds
Fiction
Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds
Debut
When the Earth Flies Into the Sun
Poetry
The Mighty Pollinators
Children's
Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin To Talk About
Debut
Architecture in Indianapolis: 1820–1920
Nonfiction
Over in the Garden
Children's
Every Time You Hear That Song
Young Adult
Say a Little Prayer
Young Adult
The Remarkable Life, Death, and Afterlife of an Ordinary Roman: A Social History
Nonfiction
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Nonfiction
That Girl Who Ran Off and Kissed a Vampire
Young Adult
Controlled Conversations
Debut
Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders and the Dark Side of the American Heartland
Debut
2026 Winner
Lifetime Achievement
Lucy, Uncensored
Young Adult
The Perils of Girlhood: A Memoir in Essays
Nonfiction
What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen
Nonfiction
What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen
Nonfiction
The Sweating Sickness
Poetry
Sex of the Midwest
Fiction
Freedom's Game
Middle Grade
Amina Banana and the Formula for Friendship
Middle Grade
Kareem Between
Middle Grade
When Once Destroyed: A Historical Memoir of the Life and Death of a Small Town
Nonfiction
Lucy, Uncensored
Young Adult
2026 Winner
Literary Champion
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
Debut
A Perilous Perspective
Genre
All I Should Not Tell
Fiction
Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways
Debut
Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways
Nonfiction
Stolen Dreams. The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War
Nonfiction
Doing Drive-bys on How to Love in the Midwest
Poetry
North of Middle Island
Poetry
Super Cities! Indianapolis
Middle Grade
Brave Miss Muffet
Children's
Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest
Nonfiction
Arab Indianapolis
Nonfiction
Vanished Indianapolis
Nonfiction
Meet the Megafauna! Get to Know 20 of the Largest Animals to Ever Roam the Earth
Middle Grade
To Sleep in the Horse’s Belly: My Greek Poets and the Aegean Inside Me
Poetry
Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir
Nonfiction
Legacy and Legend: The History and Mythology of Basketball in Indiana
Nonfiction
The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana
Nonfiction
Dear Park Ranger: Essays on Manhood, Restlessness, and the Geography of Hope
Debut
A Ballroom for Ghost Dancing
Fiction
The Minus-One Club
Young Adult
Ketanji: Justice Jackson’s Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court
Middle Grade
Mushroom Lullaby
Children's
Holding Hope: One Family’s Odyssey through Lyme Disease and Psychosis
Debut
Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana
Fiction
Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes
Middle Grade
Don’t Forget the Girl
Genre
Don’t Forget the Girl
Debut
Purple Carrot: A Garden Color Book
Children's
A Wild Region: Tales and Stories from the Heartland
Genre
What Stalks Among Us
Young Adult
Imagine Your Life Like This
Fiction
2024 Winner
Lifetime Achievement
Tell Me the Dream Again: Reflections on Family, Ethnicity & the Sacred Work of Belonging
Debut
2024 Winner
Literary Champion
Otto the Ornament
Children's
Somebody Else Sold the World
Poetry
When Stars Rain Down
Fiction
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
Debut
Before the Dream: Martin Luther King’s 1963 Speech, and Civil Rights Struggles in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Debut
Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
Nonfiction
Whose Bones? An Animal Guessing Game
Children's
Hillbilly Queer: A Memoir
Debut
2022 Winner
Lifetime Achievement
The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland
Nonfiction
2022 Winner
Literary Champion
One Last Shot
Middle Grade
Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
Genre
Hiding Baby Moses
Children's
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership, and Legacy
Children's
This Is a Book of Shapes
Children's
Winter Seeks Out the Lonely: A Sonny Burton Novel
Genre
You Should See Me in a Crown
Young Adult
The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne
Fiction
Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport
Nonfiction
Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Gualdalcanal to Vietnam
Nonfiction
One Tomato: A Garden Counting Book
Children's
Batpig: When Pigs Fly
Middle Grade
Blood and Steel: Ryan White, the AIDS Crisis and Deindustrialization in Kokomo, Indiana
Nonfiction
False Starts & Artichoke Hearts
Genre
We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and Resurrection in the American Heartland
Nonfiction
Seashell Virgin: A Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe Novel
Genre
The Town of Whispering Dolls
Fiction
Dear Black Girl
Young Adult
Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy During Jim Crow
Debut
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
Nonfiction
Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
Nonfiction
Ivy vs Dogg: With a Cast of Thousands!
Fiction
Bursting at the Seams: A Collection of Poetry
Emerging
The Life List of Adrian Mandrick
Fiction
The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Mya in the Middle
Children's
Sightseer in This Killing City
Poetry
Hello, I'm Here!
Children's
2020 Winner
Literary Champion
A Round of Robins
Emerging
Dream Wilderness Poems
Poetry
See Also Proof: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery
Genre
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Nonfiction
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Emerging
The Moon Over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond
Fiction
J. Irwin Miller: The Shaping of an American Town
Nonfiction
Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City
Children's
Birch Bayh: Making a Difference
Nonfiction
Savonne, Not Vonny
Emerging
The Book of Delights
Nonfiction
All the Things We Do in the Dark
Young Adult
The Farm Wife’s Almanac
Poetry
Girls on the Verge
Young Adult
Clackety Track: Poems About Trains
Children's
Can I Be Your Dog?
Children's
All These Beautiful Strangers
Emerging
2018 Winner
Lifetime Achievement
The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson
Emerging
2017 Genre Excellence Winner
Middle Grade
2016 Genre Excellence Winner
Children's
High School Runner: Freshman
Emerging
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
Emerging
What You Are Now Enjoying
Emerging
What the Zhang Boys Know
Emerging
Shakespeare Saved My Life
Emerging
2015 Winner
Lifetime Achievement
In An Uncharted Country
Emerging
Letters From Skye
Emerging
Where Am I Eating?
Emerging
Where Am I Wearing?
Emerging
2012 Winner
Lifetime Achievement
What This River Keeps
Emerging
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Emerging
What This River Keeps
Emerging
Dear Mrs. Lindbergh
Emerging
