2019 Winners
Fiction
Bunny by Mona Awad (Viking)
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (Ballantine Books)
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Mariner Books)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames (Ecco)
Nonfiction
Black is the Body by Emily Bernard (Knopf)
Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie (Grand Central Publishing)
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro (Knopf)
The Not Good Enough Mother by Sharon Lamb (Beacon Press)
Children's
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story by Susan Tan (Roaring Book Press)
New Kid by Jerry Craft (HarperCollins)
The Line Tender by Kate Allen (Dutton)
Stuff of Stars illustrated by Ekua Holmes (Candlewick)
Planting Stories by Anika Aldamuy Denise (HarperCollins)
YA
Attucks! by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Once & Future by Cori McCarthy & Amy Rose Capetta (jimmy patterson)
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix)
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells (Simon & Schuster)
Wilder Girls by Rory Power (Delacorte Press)
View the full Edelweiss collection here.
All books must be either written by a New England based author or be set in New England. Eligible books must be published between September 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019 in either hardcover or paperback.
A committee of NEIBA booksellers choose five finalists in each category and all NEIBA member booksellers may vote to choose the four award winners.
The New England Book Awards will be presented at the Annual Fall Conference. Winners will receive $250 for literacy to a charity of their choice.
2018 Winners
Fiction - Little Fires Everywhere By Celeste Ng (Penguin)
Non-Fiction - Vacationland By John Hodgman (Penguin)
Children's (Ages Birth-11) - Rescue And Jessica By Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, illust. Scott Magoon, (Candlewick)
Young Adult - The Cruel Prince By Holly Black (Little, Brown for Young Readers)
2017 Winners
Fiction - Women In The Castle By Jessica Shattuck (William Morrow)
Non-Fiction - Stranger In The Woods By Michael Finkel (Knopf)
Children's (Ages Birth-11) Some Writer By Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Young Adult - The Gentleman's Guide To Vice And Virtue By Mackenzi Lee (Katherine Tegen Books)
2016 Winners
Fiction - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Grand Central Publishing)
Non-Fiction -Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery (Simon & Schuster)
Children's - Wolf Hallow by Lauren Wolk (Dutton/Penguin Young Readers)
2015 Winners
Fiction - Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver (Penguin)
Non-Fiction - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan/Macmillan)
Children's - Baba Yaga's Assistant by Marika McColla, illust. Emily Carroll (Candlewick)
2014 Winners
Fiction - Euphoria by Lily King (Grove Atlantic)
Non-Fiction - Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury)
Children's - Firefly July by Paul Janeczko, illust. Melissa Sweet (Candlewick)
2013 Winners
Fiction - The Art Forger by Barbara A. Shapiro (Algonquin)
Non-Fiction - Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick (Penguin)
Children's - If I Built a House by Chris Van Dusen (Dial - Penguin)
2012 Winners
Fiction - The Flight Of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey (HarperCollins)
Non-fiction -Remembering the Music by Kate Whouley (Beacon Press)
Children's - More by I. C. Springman & illustrated by Brian Lies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2011 Winners
Fiction - Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
Non-fiction - Warmth Of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson ( Random House)
Children's - Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf)
2010 Winners
Fiction - Father of the Rain by Lily King (Grove Atlantic)
Non-fiction - Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell (Random House)
Children's - City Dog, Country Frog written by Mo Willems and illustrated by Jon J Muth (Hyperion)
For 20 years NEIBA recognized New England authors’ “body of work” with the New England Book Awards. Beginning in 2010 we are changing the focus to specific titles, in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s.
Fiction
2009 Geraldine Brooks
2008 Alice Hoffman
2007 Gregory Maguire
2006 Richard Ford
2005 William Martin
2004 Archer Mayor
2003 Jodi Picoult
2002 Chris Bohjalian
2001 Elinor Lipman
2000 Suzanne Strempek Shea
1999 Wally Lamb
1998 Anita Shreve
1997 Elizabeth Berg
1996 Jamaica Kincaid
1995 Howard Norman
1994 Richard Russo
1993 Jill McCorkle
1992 Cathie Pelletier
1991 Howard Frank Mosher
1990 May Sarton
Non-Fiction
2009 Sy Montgomery
2008 Nathaniel Philbrick
2007 Roy Blount, Jr.
2006 Kevin Phillips
2005 Jane Brox
2004 Linda Greenlaw
2003 Simon Winchester
2002 Howard Zinn
2001 Robert Finch
2000 John Hanson Mitchell
1999 Bill Bryson
1998 Bernd Heinrich
1997 James Carroll
1996 David Herbert Donald
1995 Doris Kearns Goodwin
1994 Tracy Kidder
1993 Donald Hall
1992 Jonathan Kozol
1991 Geoffrey Ward, Ric Burns, Ken Burns
Children's Books
2009 Andrew Clements
2008 Tomie dePaola
2007 Julius Lester
2006 Jane Yolen
2005 Marc Simont
2004 Molly Bang
2003 Lois Lowry
2002 Leonard Everett Fisher
2001 Joan Bauer
2000 Marcia Sewall
1999 Karen Hesse
1998 Susan Meddaugh
1997 Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
1996 Steven Kellogg
1995 Natalie Babbitt
1994 Ashley Bryan
1993 William Steig
1992 Katherine Paterson
1991 Barbara Cooney
1990 Jan Brett
Editorial Excellence
1997 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Literary Excellence
2001 John Edgar Wideman
1999 Mary Oliver
1995 Peter Davison
New England Publishing
2009 Tilbury House
2008 Down East Books
2007 Shambhala Publications
2006 Commonwealth Editions
2005 Chelsea Green
2004 Storey Publishing
2003 Candlewick Press
2002 University Press of New England
2000 Steerforth Publishing
1998 Houghton Mifflin
1996 Curbstone Press
1994 South End Press
1993 Alyson Publications
1992 Beacon Press
1991 University of Massachusetts Press
Presidential Award Winners
Given by the NEIBA Board President for lifetime achievement in arts and letters.
2018 Elizabeth McCracken
2017 John Irving
2016 Elizabeth Strout
2015 Lois Lowry
2014 Sy Montgomery
2013 Wendell & Florence Minor
2012 Wally Lamb
2011 Howard Frank Mosher
2010 Dahlov Ipcar
2009 Ward Just
2008 David Macaulay
2007 Richard Russo
2006 Richard Ford
2005 Tracy Kidder
2004 James Carroll
2003 Doris Kearns Goodwin
2002 Donald Hall
2001 David McCullough
2000 Seamus Heaney
1999 Arthur Miller
1998 Saul Bellow
1997 Cornel West
1996 Grace Paley
1995 Seymour Lawrence
1994 Dr. Robert Coles
1993 Doris Grumbach
1992 John Kenneth Galbraith
1991 Robert McCloskey