2019 Finalists
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.