2015 Colorado Book Award Winners

Awards List

Children's Literature

Mama Built a Little Nest (Winner)
Jennifer Ward

Mar-2014
/ General Fiction

Mama Built a Little Nest (Finalist)
Jennifer Ward

Mar-2014
/ General Fiction

The Baby Sea Turtle (Finalist)
S.A. Mahan

Nov-2014
/ General Fiction

Historical Fiction

Song of the Jayhawk: Or, the Squatter Sovereign (Winner)
Jack Marshall Maness

Jun-2014
/ Historical

Song of the Jayhawk: Or, the Squatter Sovereign (Finalist)
Jack Marshall Maness

Jun-2014
/ Historical

The Circle of Na'mow (Finalist)
Anna McDermott; Gretchen Wiegand

Aug-2014
/ General Fiction

A Quilt for Christmas (Finalist)
Sandra Dallas

Oct-2014
/ Historical Romance

Juvenile Literature

Searching for Silverheels (Winner)
Jeannie Mobley

Sep-2014
/ Historical

Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky (Finalist)
Sandra Dallas

Sep-2014
/ Historical

Searching for Silverheels (Finalist)
Jeannie Mobley

Sep-2014
/ Historical

Literary Fiction

The Painter (Winner)
Peter Heller

May-2014
/ Historical

The Painter (Finalist)
Peter Heller

May-2014
/ Historical

Stars Go Blue (Finalist)
Laura Pritchett

Jun-2014
/ Literary

Cry Father (Finalist)
Benjamin Whitmer

Sep-2014
/ Suspense

Mystery

Trapline (Winner)
Mark Stevens

Nov-2014
/ Mystery

The Last Heir (Finalist)
Chuck Greaves

Jun-2014
/ Legal Thriller

Strangers, Lovers, and the Winds of Time (Finalist)
Dale Lovin

Sep-2014
/ Police Procedural

Trapline (Finalist)
Mark Stevens

Nov-2014
/ Mystery

Short Story Collection

The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic (Winner)
Christopher Merkner

Jan-2014
/ Gothic

The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic (Finalist)
Christopher Merkner

Jan-2014
/ Gothic

Sanctuary (Finalist)
Lucinda Stein

Mar-2014
/ General Fiction

The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories (Finalist)
Wendy J. Fox

Oct-2014
/ General Fiction

Thriller

The Intern's Handbook (Winner)
Shane Kuhn

Apr-2014
/ Thriller

House of Bathory (Finalist)
Linda Lafferty

Jan-2014
/ Historical

The Intern's Handbook (Finalist)
Shane Kuhn

Apr-2014
/ Thriller

Dead Wrong (Finalist)
Patricia Stoltey

Dec-2014
/ Thriller

Young Adult

Lost Girl Found (Winner)
Leah Bassoff; Laura DeLuca

Mar-2014
/ Action Adventure

Flame (Finalist)
Amy Kathleen Ryan

Jan-2014
/ Dystopian

Lost Girl Found (Finalist)
Leah Bassoff; Laura DeLuca

Mar-2014
/ Action Adventure

Award Categories

Anthology/Collection

Children's Literature

Short Story Collection

Thriller

Thriller/Suspense

Young Adult

Young Adult Literature

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

2015 Colorado Book Award

Awards List

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