Christy Award - First Novel

Awards List

2022

All That Is Secret
(Winner)
Patricia Raybon

Sugar Birds
(Finalist)
Cheryl Grey Bostrom

Recorder
(Finalist)
Cathy McCrumb

2021

The Edge of Belonging
(Winner)
Amanda Cox

A Noble Calling
(Finalist)
Rhona Weaver

Rain
(Finalist)
Dana McNeely

Roots of Wood and Stone
(Finalist)
Amanda Wen

2020

A Long Time Comin'
(Winner)
Robin W. Pearson

Whose Waves These Are
(Finalist)
Amanda Dykes

The Means That Make Us Strangers
(Finalist)
Christine Kindberg

2019

The Baggage Handler
(Winner)
David Rawlings

Engraved on the Heart
(Finalist)
Tara Johnson

The Plum Blooms in Winter
(Finalist)
Linda Thompson

2018

Missing Isaac
(Winner)
Valerie Fraser Luesse

Turtles in the Road
(Finalist)
Rhonda Rhea; Kaley Rhea

Freedom's Ring
(Finalist)
Heidi Chiavaroli

The House on Foster Hill
(Finalist)
Jaime Jo Wright

2017

Stars in the Grass
(Winner)
Ann Marie Stewart

Counted with the Stars
(Finalist)
Connilyn Cossette

Like a River from Its Course
(Finalist)
Kelli Stuart

2016

The Choosing
(Winner)
Rachelle Dekker

Irish Meadows
(Finalist)
Susan Anne Mason

A Noble Masquerade
(Finalist)
Kristi Ann Hunter

2015

Feast for Thieves
(Winner)
Marcus Brotherton

For Such a Time
(Finalist)
Kate Breslin

House of Living Stones
(Finalist)
Katie Schuermann

2014

Burning Sky
(Winner)
Lori Benton

A Cast of Stones
(Finalist)
Patrick W. Carr

Dear Mr. Knightley
(Finalist)
Katherine Reay

2013

Into the Free
(Winner)
Julie Cantrell

Wedded to War
(Finalist)
Jocelyn Green

Tangled Ashes
(Finalist)
Michele Phoenix

2012

Words
(Winner)
Ginny L. Yttrup

An Eye for Glory
(Finalist)
Karl A. Bacon

Southern Fried Sushi
(Finalist)
Jennifer Rogers Spinola

2011

Heartless
(Winner)
Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Crossing Oceans
(Finalist)
Gina Holmes

A Season of Miracles
(Finalist)
Rusty Whitener

2010

Fireflies in December
(Winner)
Jennifer Erin Valent

Scared: A Novel on the Edge of the World
(Finalist)
Tom Davis

The Familiar Stranger
(Finalist)
Christina Berry

2009

Blue Hole Back Home
(Winner)
Joy Jordan-Lake

Safe At Home
(Finalist)
Richard Doster

Rain Song
(Finalist)
Alice J. Wisler

2008

The Stones Cry Out
(Winner)
Sibella Giorello

Demon
(Finalist)
Tosca Lee

Auralia's Colors
(Finalist)
Jeffrey Overstreet

2007

Where Mercy Flows
(Winner)
Karen Harter
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

William Henry Is a Fine Name
(Finalist)
Cathy Gohlke

Watching the Tree Limbs
(Finalist)
Mary Demuth

2006

This Heavy Silence
(Winner)
Nicole Mazzarella

Like a Watered Garden
(Finalist)
Patti Hill

The Road to Home
(Finalist)
Vanessa Del Fabbro

2005

Mending String
(Winner)
Cliff Coon

The Dead Don't Dance
(Finalist)
Charles Martin

There is a Wideness
(Finalist)
Mark McAllister

2004

Welcome To Fred
(Winner)
Brad Whittington
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Flabbergasted
(Finalist)
Ray Blackston

The Yada Yada Prayer Group
(Finalist)
Neta Jackson

2003

A Place Called Wiregrass
(Winner)
Michael Morris

Daughter of China
(Finalist)
C. Hope Flinchbaugh

Yucatan Deep
(Finalist)
Tom Morrisey

2002

Ezekiel's Shadow
(Winner)
David Ryan Long

Go Down to Silence
(Finalist)
G.K. Belliveau

Sea of Glory
(Finalist)
Ken Wales; David Poling

2001

Passing by Samaria
(Winner)
Sharon Ewell Foster

Refiner's Fire
(Finalist)
Sylvia Bambola

Winter Passing
(Finalist)
Cindy Martinusen

Award Categories

Allegory/Fantasy

Amplify Award

Book of the Year

Contemporary

Contemporary Romance

First Novel

Futuristic

General Fiction

Historical

Historical Romance

International Historical

Lits

North American Historical

Romance

Series

Short Form

Speculative

Suspense

Western

Young Adult

Award Years

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