Ohioana Book AwardFinalist

Given by Ohioana Library

446 Works 0 Books
First given in 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards are the second oldest, and among the most prestigious, state literary prizes in the nation. Nearly every major writer from Ohio in the past 80 years show more has been honored, from James Thurber to Toni Morrison.

Each year, juried awards are given to books in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, About Ohio/an Ohioan, Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature, and Juvenile Literature. Fans have the opportunity to make their voices heard by selecting the Readers’ Choice Book Award from among all thirty finalists in an online poll. Finally, we present a special prize for emerging writers, the Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant.
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Stages:
All, Winner (397), Finalist (446), Honorable Mention (19)
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Years:
All, 2023 (32), 2022 (26), 2021 (29), 2020 (29), 2019 (29), 2018 (30), 2017 (30), 2016 (30), 2015 (28), 2014 (26), 2013 (25), 2012 (28), 2011 (27), 2010 (24), 2009 (26), 2008 (27)

Finalist 446

WorkCategoryYear
The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey ErvickAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2023
In the Heart of It All: An Unvarnished Account of My Life in Public Service by Richard F. CelesteAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2023
Pursuing John Brown: On the Trail of a Radical Abolitionist (Ohio History and Culture) by Joyce DyerAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2023
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew JarrettAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2023
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn SchulzAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2023
Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland by Nancy SchwartzmanAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2023
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste NgFiction2023
Eleutheria by Allegra HydeFiction2023
Noor by Nnedi OkoraforFiction2023
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziFiction2023
Honor by Thrity UmrigarFiction2023
The More You Give by Marcy CampbellJuvenile Literature2023
This Book Is Not for You! by Shannon HaleJuvenile Literature2023
Courage Hats by Kate HoeflerJuvenile Literature2023
Luli and the Language of Tea by Andrea WangJuvenile Literature2023
The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline WoodsonJuvenile Literature2023
A Rover's Story by Jasmine WargaMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2023
The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League Odyssey by Echo BrownMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2023
The School for Whatnots by Margaret Peterson HaddixMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2023
Man o' War by Cory McCarthyMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2023
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life by Marilyn NelsonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2023
Nothing Is Little by Carmella Van VleetMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2023
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross GayNonfiction2023
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas BrinkleyNonfiction2023
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth MacyNonfiction2023
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice MillardNonfiction2023
Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children by Luma MuflehNonfiction2023
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed JonesPoetry2023
Bad Hobby by Kathy FaganPoetry2023
Urbanshee (Button Poetry) by Siaara FreemanPoetry2023
Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor HindiPoetry2023
Swan Wife by Sara Moore WagnerPoetry2023
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian AlexanderAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2022
Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture by Anneliese AbbottAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2022
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 by Bret BaierAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2022
Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir by Brian BroomeAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2022
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War by Jeff ShesolAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2022
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrFiction2022
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve GornichecFiction2022
Trashlands by Alison StineFiction2022
Body of Stars by Laura Maylene WalterFiction2022
Watercress by Andrea WangJuvenile Literature2022
Something Good by Marcy CampbellJuvenile Literature2022
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book by Keila V. DawsonJuvenile Literature2022
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem by Amanda GormanJuvenile Literature2022
Everybody in the Red Brick Building by Anne WynterJuvenile Literature2022
The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine WargaMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2022
Any Sign of Life by Rae CarsonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2022
Out of My Heart by Sharon M. DraperMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2022
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan KielyMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2022
The Many Meanings of Meilan by Andrea WangMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif AbdurraqibNonfiction2022
Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America by Amy ButcherNonfiction2022
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil HaygoodNonfiction2022
On Animals by Susan OrleanNonfiction2022
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul by Brandy SchillaceNonfiction2022
I Always Carry My Bones (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Felicia ZamoraPoetry2022
The Parting Present: Lo Que Seira (English and Spanish Edition) by Manuel IrisPoetry2022
Raggin' on: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's House and Journals by Carole M GenshaftAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2021
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf BackderfAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2021
Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America by David GiffelsAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2021
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette GoldbachAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2021
The Planter of Modern Life by Stephen HeymanAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2021
The Prettiest Star by Carter SickelsFiction2021
Yours, Jean by Lee MartinFiction2021
Betty by Tiffany McDanielFiction2021
Beheld by TaraShea NesbitFiction2021
The Daughters of Erietown by Connie SchultzFiction2021
Sugar in Milk by Thrity UmrigarJuvenile Literature2021
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine HubbardJuvenile Literature2021
No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History by Lindsay H. MetcalfJuvenile Literature2021
Addy's Cup of Sugar: (Based on a Buddhist story of healing) by Jon J. MuthJuvenile Literature2021
On Account of the Gum by Adam RexJuvenile Literature2021
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline WoodsonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2021
One Time by Sharon CreechMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2021
Early Departures by Justin A. ReynoldsMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2021
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. TaylorMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2021
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee NezhukumatathilNonfiction2021
Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetime by Maggie DownsNonfiction2021
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed JonesNonfiction2021
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey to the Heart of Africa by Brad RiccaNonfiction2021
How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena by Paul M. SutterNonfiction2021
All Heathens by Marianne ChanPoetry2021
If It Heals At All by Ali BlackPoetry2021
Be Holding: A Poem by Ross GayPoetry2021
How to See the World (Harmony) by Paula J. LambertPoetry2021
What He Did in Solitary: Poems by Amit MajmudarPoetry2021
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCulloughAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2020
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen AbbottAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2020
Moon Mission: The Epic 400-Year Journey to Apollo 11 by Sigmund BrouwerAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2020
Reading Behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill GrunenwaldAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2020
Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970 by Howard RuffnerAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2020
The Volunteer: A Novel by Salvatore ScibonaFiction2020
All City: A Novel by Alex DiFrancescoFiction2020
The Light Brigade by Kameron HurleyFiction2020
The Widows by Jess MontgomeryFiction2020
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonFiction2020
Saturday by Oge MoraJuvenile Literature2020
Leila in Saffron by Rukhsanna GuidrozJuvenile Literature2020
Rabbit and the Motorbike by Kate HoeflerJuvenile Literature2020
Sea Glass Summer by Michelle HoutsJuvenile Literature2020
In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House by Laura Purdie SalasJuvenile Literature2020
Other Words for Home by Jasmine WargaMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2020
Code Cracking for Kids: Secret Communications Throughout History, with 21 Codes and Ciphers (For Kids series) by Jean DaigneauMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2020
When the Stars Lead to You by Ronni DavisMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2020
Heroine by Mindy McGinnisMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2020
They Called Us Enemy by George TakeiMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2020
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie VanascoNonfiction2020
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif AbdurraqibNonfiction2020
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas BrinkleyNonfiction2020
An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer by Julie SalamonNonfiction2020
A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif AbdurraqibPoetry2020
World'd Too Much: The Poetry of Russell Atkins (Imagination) by Russell AtkinsPoetry2020
Sun Cycle by Anne Lesley SelcerPoetry2020
Dear Delinquent by Ann TownsendPoetry2020
On the Shores of Welcome Home (American Poets Continuum) by Bruce WeiglPoetry2020
Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil HaygoodAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2019
Berenice Abbott by Berenice AbbottAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2019
How the WILD EFFECT Turned Me into a Hiker at 69: An Appalachian Trail Adventure by Jane CongdonAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2019
Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight by William HazelgroveAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2019
Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. JacksonAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2019
Sadness Is a White Bird: A Novel by Moriel Rothman-ZecherFiction2019
The Dogs of Detroit: Stories (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Brad FelverFiction2019
Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage by Jeffrey FordFiction2019
Ohio by Stephen MarkleyFiction2019
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis SittenfeldFiction2019
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity UmrigarFiction2019
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline WoodsonJuvenile Literature2019
Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse by Marcy CampbellJuvenile Literature2019
This Is the Nest That Robin Built by Denise FlemingJuvenile Literature2019
Thank You, Omu! by Oge MoraJuvenile Literature2019
Out of Left Field by Ellen KlagesMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2019
The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik by David ArnoldMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2019
Blended by Sharon M. DraperMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2019
Count the Wings: The Life and Art of Charley Harper (Biographies for Young Readers) by Michelle HoutsMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2019
Harbor Me by Jacqueline WoodsonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2019
Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life by David GiffelsNonfiction2019
I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 by Wil HaygoodNonfiction2019
Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey by Stephen KuusistoNonfiction2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth MacyNonfiction2019
The Library Book by Susan OrleanNonfiction2019
Pardon My Heart: Poems by Marcus JacksonPoetry2019
Brazen Creature (Akron Series in Poetry) by Anne BarngroverPoetry2019
Walking with Eve in the loved city by Roy BentleyPoetry2019
Oceanic by Aimee NezhukumatathilPoetry2019
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town by Brian AlexanderAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2018
James Wright: A Life in Poetry by Jonathan BlunkAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2018
Grant by Ron ChernowAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2018
President McKinley: Architect of the American Century by Robert W. MerryAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2018
A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial by James Reston Jr.About Ohio or an Ohioan2018
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgFiction2018
A Natural History of Hell: Stories by Jeffrey FordFiction2018
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance: A Novel by Ruth Emmie LangFiction2018
Savage Country: A Novel by Robert OlmsteadFiction2018
Everybody's Son by Thrity UmrigarFiction2018
A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices by Sally DerbyJuvenile Literature2018
Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt by Mary Kay CarsonJuvenile Literature2018
The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew DaywaltJuvenile Literature2018
Wake by Shawn DoughertyJuvenile Literature2018
Life by Cynthia RylantJuvenile Literature2018
Walking with Miss Millie by Tamara BundyMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2018
The Lake Effect by Erin McCahanMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2018
An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret RogersonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2018
Virginia Hamilton: America’s Storyteller (Biographies for Young Readers) by Julie K. RubiniMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2018
Cody and the Rules of Life by Tricia SpringstubbMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2018
Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill by Deanne StillmanNonfiction2018
Betrayer's Waltz: The Unlikely Bond Between Marie Valerie of Austria and Hitler's Princess-Spy by Jennifer Bowers BahneyNonfiction2018
Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel by Bob BatchelorNonfiction2018
Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm by Gene LogsdonNonfiction2018
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad RiccaNonfiction2018
Set to Music a Wildfire by Ruth AwadPoetry2018
Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Red Ochre) by Allison Pitinii DavisPoetry2018
Sycamore: Poems by Kathy FaganPoetry2018
Darwin's mother by Sarah Rose NordgrenPoetry2018
Good bones by Maggie SmithPoetry2018
Little Nothing by Marisa SilverFiction2017
You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy GustineFiction2017
The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDanielFiction2017
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray PollockFiction2017
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonFiction2017
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue MacyJuvenile Literature2017
Notable Notebooks - Scientists and Their Writings PB415X by Jessica Fries-GaitherJuvenile Literature2017
The Navajo Code Talkers by J. Patrick LewisJuvenile Literature2017
Otis and The Kittens by Loren LongJuvenile Literature2017
Once Upon an Elephant by Linda StanekJuvenile Literature2017
Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Sally DerbyMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2017
Moo by Sharon CreechMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2017
Saving Wonder by Mary KnightMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2017
Mutt's Promise by Julie SalamonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2017
Empty Places by Kathy Cannon WiechmanMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2017
Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America by Douglas BrinkleyNonfiction2017
Truevine by Beth MacyNonfiction2017
For their own cause : the 27th United States Colored Troops by Kelly D. MezurekNonfiction2017
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice MillardNonfiction2017
The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border by Christopher PhillipsNonfiction2017
Haint: poems by Teri Ellen Cross DavisPoetry2017
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality by Debbie CenziperPoetry2017
Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pitt Poetry Series) by Martha CollinsPoetry2017
I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her by Joanna ConnorsPoetry2017
Bed of Impatiens: Poems by Katie HartsockPoetry2017
Complayntes for Doctor Neuro & Other Poems by John MatthiasPoetry2017
William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life by James L. McDonoughPoetry2017
How Ghosts Travel by James J. SiegelPoetry2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. VancePoetry2017
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. WhitePoetry2017
The Wright Brothers by David McCulloughAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2016
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest by Prof. William Heath Ph.D.About Ohio or an Ohioan2016
The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl RoveAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2016
My Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2016
The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Tribes by Mary StockwellAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2016
Epitaph by Mary Doria RussellFiction2016
Roses in December: A Story of Love and Alzheimer’s by Tom BatiukFiction2016
Circling the Sun by Paula McLainFiction2016
This Earth You'll Come Back To by Barbara RoetherFiction2016
The New Neighbor by Leah StewartFiction2016
Little Tree by Loren LongJuvenile Literature2016
One Today by Richard BlancoJuvenile Literature2016
Kindergarten Luck by Louise BordenJuvenile Literature2016
Click! by Jeffrey EbbelerJuvenile Literature2016
Crow Made a Friend: An I Like to Read® Book by Margaret PeotJuvenile Literature2016
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley PearsallMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2016
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. DraperMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2016
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnisMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2016
The Tale of Rescue by Michael J. RosenMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2016
Like a River: A Civil War Novel by Kathy Cannon WiechmanMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2016
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil HaygoodNonfiction2016
Stealing Sisi's Star: How a Master Thief Nearly Got Away With Austria's Most Famous Jewel by Jennifer Bowers BahneyNonfiction2016
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books by Michael DirdaNonfiction2016
Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War by Marilyn S. GreenwaldNonfiction2016
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary NorrisNonfiction2016
Why God Is a Woman (American Poets Continuum) by Nin AndrewsPoetry2016
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross GayPoetry2016
Once You Had Hands by Tasha GoldenPoetry2016
William Greenway: Selected Poems by William GreenwayPoetry2016
Abandoned Homeland: Poems by Jeff GundyPoetry2016
James A. Rhodes, Ohio Colossus by Tom DiemerAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2015
Beyond Trochenbrod: The Betty Gold Story by betty goldAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2015
The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession by Rick HuhnAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2015
Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever by Gene LogsdonAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2015
American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague--Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal by John OllerAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrFiction2015
Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer ChiaveriniFiction2015
Bright Shards of Someplace Else: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.) by Monica McFawnFiction2015
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NgFiction2015
The Story Hour by Thrity UmrigarFiction2015
Harlem Hellfighters by J. Patrick LewisJuvenile Literature2015
The Farmer's Away! Baa! Neigh! by Anne Vittur KennedyJuvenile Literature2015
Otis and the Scarecrow by Loren LongJuvenile Literature2015
The Forever Flowers by Michael J. RosenJuvenile Literature2015
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline WoodsonJuvenile Literature2015
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2015
Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America's Own Backyard by Mary Kay CarsonMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2015
The Boy on the Porch by Sharon CreechMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2015
Winterfrost by Michelle HoutsMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2015
Voices from the March on Washington by J. Patrick LewisMiddle Grade & Young Adult Literature2015
The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security by Ann HagedornNonfiction2015
Shepherd: A Memoir by Richard GilbertNonfiction2015
Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color Line by Christopher PramukNonfiction2015
After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan by Ted RallNonfiction2015
We called him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, a documentary history by Gary Phillip ZolaNonfiction2015
Floating Heart by Stuart FriebertPoetry2015
Hearsay by Christopher AnkneyPoetry2015
Imperial (Pitt Poetry Series) by George BilgerePoetry2015
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns GoodwinAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2014
Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Melanie R. AndersonAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2014
Ida McKinley: The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability by Carl Sferrazza AnthonyAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2014
Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer by Thom HatchAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2014
When Core Values Are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter & Gamble Transformed Leadership at Fortune 500 Companies by Rick TocquignyAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2014
Looking for Me by Beth HoffmanFiction2014
Sandcastle and Other Stories by Justin BogFiction2014
Julia & Rodrigo by Mark BrazaitisFiction2014
Middle C by William H. GassFiction2014
The History of Us by Leah StewartFiction2014
The Promise by Ann WeisgarberFiction2014
Fat Angie by e.E. Charlton-TrujilloJuvenile Literature2014
Washashore by Suzanne GoldsmithJuvenile Literature2014
Love Disguised by Lisa KleinJuvenile Literature2014
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders by J. Patrick LewisJuvenile Literature2014
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnisJuvenile Literature2014
Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster---the Creators of Superman by Brad RiccaNonfiction2014
MR. JOE: Tales from a Haunted Life by Joseph BarnettNonfiction2014
Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution by Will BashorNonfiction2014
Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology by Edward H. Burtt, Jr.Nonfiction2014
Cleveland's West Side Market: 100 Years and Still Cooking by Laura TaxelNonfiction2014
Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever by Geoff WilliamsNonfiction2014
Sky Ward (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Kazim AliPoetry2014
Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet by Andrea ChengPoetry2014
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki GiovanniPoetry2014
Hemming the Water (Stahlecker Selections) by Yona HarveyPoetry2014
America's Other Audubon by Joy M. KiserAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2013
Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took On Big Oil and Won by Perry BushAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2013
Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music (Music in American Life) by John CapsAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2013
Ohio Jazz: A History of Jazz in the Buckeye State (The History Press) by David MeyersAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2013
Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing Landscape by Katherine ZiffAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2013
The Last Runaway by Tracy ChevalierBook Set In Ohio2013
Clara and Mr Tiffany by Susan VreelandBook Set In Ohio2013
The Coldest Night by Robert OlmsteadFiction2013
Stay Awake by Dan ChaonFiction2013
Home by Toni MorrisonFiction2013
The World We Found by Thrity UmrigarFiction2013
What Happens Next by Colleen ClaytonJuvenile Literature2013
Kite Day: A Bear and Mole Story by Will HillenbrandJuvenile Literature2013
Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs by J. Patrick LewisJuvenile Literature2013
Each Kindness by Jacqueline WoodsonJuvenile Literature2013
The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds by Julie ZickefooseNonfiction2013
Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood by Joanne S. FryeNonfiction2013
The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy GibbsNonfiction2013
A Sanctuary of Trees: Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions by Gene LogsdonNonfiction2013
Such a Life by Lee MartinNonfiction2013
Earth Works: Selected Essays by Scott Russell SandersNonfiction2013
White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series) by Martha CollinsPoetry2013
A Map of the Lost World (Pitt Poetry Series) by Rick HillesPoetry2013
Monks Beginning to Waltz (New Odyssey) by George LooneyPoetry2013
After the Point of No Return by David WagonerPoetry2013
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice MillardAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2012
Literary Cincinnati : the missing chapter by Dale Patrick BrownAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2012
George Szell: A Life of Music by Michael CharryAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2012
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony HorwitzAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2012
Over-the-Rhine tour guide : Cincinnati's historic German district, Over-the-Rhine, and environs by Don Heinrich TolzmannAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2012
The Paris Wife by Paula McLainFiction2012
Breaking Silence by Linda CastilloFiction2012
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineFiction2012
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockFiction2012
Doc by Mary Doria RussellFiction2012
Ziggy by Tom WilsonFiction2012
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae CarsonJuvenile Literature2012
Where Do You Stay? by Andrea ChengJuvenile Literature2012
Roots and Blues: A Celebration by Arnold AdoffJuvenile Literature2012
Mary Mae and the Gospel Truth by Sandra DuttonJuvenile Literature2012
Butterfly Tree by Sandra MarkleJuvenile Literature2012
So Shelly by Ty RothJuvenile Literature2012
Cousins of Clouds: Elephant Poems by Tracie Vaughn ZimmerJuvenile Literature2012
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan OrleanNonfiction2012
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life by Jill BialoskyNonfiction2012
Toward a better life : America's new immigrants in their own words : from Ellis Island to the present by Peter Morton CoanNonfiction2012
Dance Anatomy (Sports Anatomy) by Jacqui Greene HaasNonfiction2012
The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture by Gene KritskyNonfiction2012
Weather (The VQR Poetry Series) by Dave LucasPoetry2012
Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (American Poets Continuum) by John GallaherPoetry2012
Hotel Utopia (Many Voices Project) by Robert MiltnerPoetry2012
Mechanical Fireflies by Doug RamspeckPoetry2012
Wait (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Alison StinePoetry2012
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, and Conversations by Virginia HamiltonAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2011
Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood (Ohio History and Culture) by Joyce DyerAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2011
Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King by Michael D. MorganAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2011
Beauty in the Grove: Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum by Phil NuxhallAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2011
The Last Stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel PhilbrickAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2011
Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony DoerrFiction2011
The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla BuckleyFiction2011
By Nightfall by Michael CunninghamFiction2011
Bill Warrington's Last Chance by James KingFiction2011
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann WeisgarberFiction2011
What Happened on Fox Street by Tricia SpringstubbJuvenile Literature2011
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. DraperJuvenile Literature2011
Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa KleinJuvenile Literature2011
Hip-Pocket Papa by Sandra MarkleJuvenile Literature2011
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C. M. MillenJuvenile Literature2011
Snook Alone by Marilyn NelsonJuvenile Literature2011
A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness—and a Trove of Letters—Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted GupNonfiction2011
Trail of Blood by Lisa BlackNonfiction2011
Out of Step by Jane HeimlichNonfiction2011
A Sea without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region (Life of the Past) by David L. MeyerNonfiction2011
Wright Panorama by Scott W. PerkinsNonfiction2011
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn SchulzNonfiction2011
Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems by David YoungPoetry2011
The White Museum by George BilgerePoetry2011
How to Catch a Falling Knife by Daniel JohnsonPoetry2011
The Casanova Chronicles by Myrna StonePoetry2011
Traveler: Poems by Lou SuarezPoetry2011
Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage by James S. McCormacAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2010
Canal Fever: The Ohio & Erie Canal, from Waterway to Canalway by Lynn MetzgerAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2010
A Passion for the Land: John F. Seiberling and the Environment Movement by Daniel NelsonAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2010
The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage during the Great War by James David RobenaltAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2010
Await Your Reply by Dan ChaonFiction2010
All the Living by C. E. MorganFiction2010
Far Bright Star by Robert OlmsteadFiction2010
The Spire: A Novel by Richard North PattersonFiction2010
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity UmrigarFiction2010
The Cuckoo's Haiku: and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. RosenJuvenile Literature2010
The Unfinished Angel by Sharon CreechJuvenile Literature2010
Imperfections by Lynda DurrantJuvenile Literature2010
Say the Word by Jeannine GarseeJuvenile Literature2010
Sweethearts of Rhythm by Marilyn NelsonJuvenile Literature2010
Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff SmithJuvenile Literature2010
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail CollinsNonfiction2010
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas BrinkleyNonfiction2010
Sweet Thunder: the Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson by Wil HaygoodNonfiction2010
A Conservationist Manifesto by Scott Russell SandersNonfiction2010
The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer's by John ThorndikeNonfiction2010
Sonata Mulattica: Poems by Rita DovePoetry2010
Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities by Kazim AliPoetry2010
Never-Ending Birds: Poems by David BakerPoetry2010
Evidence: Poems by Mary OliverPoetry2010
All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House by David GiffelsAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2009
Clyde Singer's America by Mark AlbaceteAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2009
Cleveland: The Flats, the Mill, and the Hills by Andrew BorowiecAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2009
The University of Cincinnati: Architectural Tranformation Tradition and Innovation by Kevin; Flischel Grace, Robert A.About Ohio or an Ohioan2009
Politician Extraordinaire: The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey by Frank P. VazzanoAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2009
Gone Tomorrow by P.F. KlugeFiction2009
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock ClarkeFiction2009
The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard by Erin McGrawFiction2009
A Mercy by Toni MorrisonFiction2009
The End by Salvatore ScibonaFiction2009
American Wife by Curtis SittenfeldFiction2009
Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed QamarJuvenile Literature2009
The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime AdoffJuvenile Literature2009
Where the Steps Were by Andrea ChengJuvenile Literature2009
Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Family's Farm by Michael J. RosenJuvenile Literature2009
The Floating Circus by Tracie Vaughn ZimmerJuvenile Literature2009
Baghdad at Sunrise: a Brigade Commander's War in Iraq by Peter R. MansoorNonfiction2009
Pure Goldwater by John W. DeanNonfiction2009
In the Mind's Eye: Essays across the Animate World by Elizabeth DoddNonfiction2009
The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore by Patrick B MullenNonfiction2009
Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids by Julie SalamonNonfiction2009
Everywhere at Once by William GreenwayPoetry2009
The Roswell Poems by Rane ArroyoPoetry2009
Without Saying by Richard HowardPoetry2009
The Wave-Maker: Poems by Elizabeth SpiresPoetry2009
An Unmistakable Shade of Red, and the Obama Chronicles: Poems by Mary E. WeemsPoetry2009
George Bellows: An Artist in Action by Mary Sayre HaverstockAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2008
Out of the Woods: A Bird Watcher's Year by Ora E. AndersonAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2008
House of Happy Endings: A Memoir by Leslie GarisAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2008
Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman by Lee LowenfishAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2008
Berenice Abbott, Photographer: An Independent Vision by George SullivanAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2008
Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio by Lisa WattsAbout Ohio or an Ohioan2008
Coal Black Horse by Robert OlmsteadFiction2008
Blood of Paradise by David CorbettFiction2008
Devotion by Howard NormanFiction2008
Hotel de Dream by Edmund WhiteFiction2008
Ohio River Dialogues by William ZinkFiction2008
Uprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixJuvenile Literature2008
Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie BabbittJuvenile Literature2008
Fire from the Rock by Sharon DraperJuvenile Literature2008
Vinnie and Abraham by Dawn FitzGeraldJuvenile Literature2008
Wind Flyers by Angela JohnsonJuvenile Literature2008
Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 by Ann HagedornNonfiction2008
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches by John W. DeanNonfiction2008
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony DoerrNonfiction2008
. . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man by Connie SchultzNonfiction2008
The Wet Collection by Joni TevisNonfiction2008
Sleeping with Houdini (American Poets Continuum) by Nin AndrewsPoetry2008
The Little Book of Guesses by John GallaherPoetry2008
Acolytes: Poems by Nikki GiovanniPoetry2008
Inscribing My Name: Selected Poems New, Used, And Repossessed by Herbert Woodward MartinPoetry2008
Embryos & Idiots by Larissa SzporlukPoetry2008
Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems by Paul ZimmerPoetry2008

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First given in 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards are the second oldest, and among the most prestigious, state literary prizes in the nation. Nearly every major writer from Ohio in the past 80 years has been honored, from James Thurber to Toni Morrison.

Each year, juried awards are given to books in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, About Ohio/an Ohioan, Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature, and Juvenile Literature. Fans have the opportunity to make their voices heard by selecting the Readers’ Choice Book Award from among all thirty finalists in an online poll. Finally, we present a special prize for emerging writers, the Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant.

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