Christy Award - Speculative

Awards List

2022

Windward Shore
(Winner)
Sharon Hinck

A Time to Seek
(Finalist)
T.L. Higley / Tracy L. Higley

Dark Intercept
(Finalist)
Jeffrey Wilson; Brian Andrews

Recorder
(Finalist)
Cathy McCrumb

2021

Forsaken Island
(Winner)
Sharon Hinck

The Story Hunter
(Finalist)
Lindsay A. Franklin

Extinction Island
(Finalist)
Janice Boekhoff

2020

Hidden Current
(Winner)
Sharon Hinck

The Story Raider
(Finalist)
Lindsay A. Franklin

Cry of the Raven
(Finalist)
Morgan L. Busse

2019

Shivering World
(Winner)
Kathy Tyers

The Wounded Shadow
(Finalist)
Patrick W. Carr

The Story Peddler
(Finalist)
Lindsay A. Franklin

Mark of the Raven
(Finalist)
Morgan L. Busse

2018

The Man He Never Was
(Winner)
James L. Rubart

The Day the Angels Fell
(Finalist)
Shawn Smucker

Awakened
(Finalist)
Morgan L. Busse

2017

The Long Journey to Jake Palmer
(Winner)
James L. Rubart

King's Folly
(Finalist)
Jill Williamson

The Alliance
(Finalist)
Jolina Petersheim

2016

The Five Times I Met Myself
(Winner)
James L. Rubart

Waking Beauty
(Finalist)
Sarah E. Morin

A Time To Speak
(Finalist)
Nadine Brandes

2015

Once Beyond a Time
(Winner)
Ann Tatlock

Shadow Hand
(Finalist)
Anne Elisabeth Stengl

A Time to Die
(Finalist)
Nadine Brandes

2014

Dragonwitch
(Winner)
Anne Elisabeth Stengl

A Cast of Stones
(Finalist)
Patrick W. Carr

Numb
(Finalist)
John W. Otte

2013

Soul's Gate
(Winner)
James L. Rubart

Daughter of Light
(Finalist)
Morgan L. Busse

Starflower
(Finalist)
Anne Elisabeth Stengl

2012

Veiled Rose
(Winner)
Anne Elisabeth Stengl

The Chair
(Finalist)
James L. Rubart

Forbidden
(Finalist)
Ted Dekker; Tosca Lee

2011

To Darkness Fled
(Winner)
Jill Williamson

The Last Christian
(Finalist)
David Gregory

Konig's Fire
(Finalist)
Marc Schooley

2010

By Darkness Hid
(Winner)
Jill Williamson

Valley of the Shadow
(Finalist)
Tom Pawlik

The Enclave
(Finalist)
Karen Hancock

2009

Vanish
(Winner)
Tom Pawlik

The Battle for Vast Dominion
(Finalist)
George Bryan Polivka

Shade
(Finalist)
John B. Olson

2008

Scarlet
(Winner)
Stephen R. Lawhead

The Restorer
(Finalist)
Sharon Hinck

Auralia's Colors
(Finalist)
Jeffrey Overstreet

2006

Shadow Over Kiriath
(Winner)
Karen Hancock

Legend of the Emerald Rose
(Finalist)
Linda Wichman

The Presence
(Finalist)
Bill Myers

2005

The Shadow Within
(Winner)
Karen Hancock

Beyond the Summerland
(Finalist)
L.B. Graham

Dragonspell
(Finalist)
Donita K. Paul

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

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000