Reading the West Book AwardNonfiction

Given by Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association

32 Works 0 Books
Reading the West Book Awards winners and shortlist titles exemplify the best in fiction and non-fiction writing, culinary writing, and illustration, whose subject matter is set in the MPIBA region show more (Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming) or invokes the spirit of the region. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (152), Finalist (2), Shortlist (1), Nominee (1)
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Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (2), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (4), 1991 (1), 1990 (1)

Winner 32

WorkYear
Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau by Craig Childs2023
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed2022
Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday by Julia Corbett2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann2017
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams2016
Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest by Lesley Poling-Kempes2015
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West by Bryce Andrews2014
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko2013
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen2012
Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors2011
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella2009
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall, III2008
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant2006
Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front by Hannah Hinchman2005
Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone by Gary Ferguson2004
Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt2003
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster2002
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams by Nasdijj2001
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean2000
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg2000
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West by Timothy Egan1999
Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest by Alex Shoumatoff1998
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose1997
The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey by Joe Starita1996
Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians by James Welch1995
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner1993
Land Circle: Writings Collected from the Land by Linda M. Hasselstrom1992
PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon1992
Songs of the Fluteplayer: Seasons of Life in the Southwest by Sharman Apt Russell1992
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams1992
Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron by Donna M. Lucey1991
Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706 (Journals of Don Diego De Vargos) by John L. Kessell1990

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