Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association



Reading the West
2015 Book Awards

Shortlist Selections
Press Release
Winners to be announced: 
May 30, 2016
For Immediate Release:
March 31, 2016
   
Adult Fiction

 
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
   
BLACK RIVER:
A Novel
by S.M. Hulse

 
978-0-544-30987-6
Hardcover $24.00


  




PGW/
Counterpoint Press 

RED LIGHTNING: A Novel
by Laura Pritchett


978-1-619-02533-2
Hardcover $25.00  
 
 
 


  
Penguin Random House/Knopf
OUR SOULS AT NIGHT: A Novel
by Kent Haruf


978-1-101-87589-9
Hardcover $24.00


 
 
 




Penguin Random House/Pantheon
INTO THE SAVAGE COUNTRY:
A Novel
by Shannon Burke


978-0-307-90892-6
Hardcover $24.95
 


 




W.W. Norton
& Company
NIGHT AT THE FIESTAS: Stories
by Kirstin
Valdez Quade


978-0-393-24298-0
Hardcover $25.95


 


Adult Nonfiction

 
Leaf Storm Press
 
THE MAVERICK COOKBOOK: Iconic Recipes & Tales from New Mexico
by Lynn Cline


978-0-991-41057-6
Hardcover $26.00
 
 




Macmillan/
St. Martin's Press
 
THE LAST DAYS OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER: The True Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
by Thom Hatch


978-1-250-05102-8
Hardcover $29.99
 


 
Simon & Schuster
 
THE OREGON TRAIL: A New American Journey
by Rinker Buck


978-1-451-65916-0
Hardcover $28.00


 




University of
Arizona Press
LADIES OF THE CANYONS: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
by Lesley
Poling-Kempes


978-0-816-52494-5
Paperback $24.95






W.W. Norton
& Company
ALL THE WILD THAT REMAINS: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
by David Gessner


978-0-393-08999-8
Hardcover $26.95
 


Children's


 
Abrams Books for Young Readers
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CRAZY HORSE
by Joseph Marshall
illustrated by James Mark Yellowhawk


978-1-419-70785-8
Hardcover $16.95






Albert Whitman/
AW Teen
BURN GIRL
by Mandy Mikulencak


978-0-807-52217-2
Hardcover $16.99

 



Candlewick Press
LOOK BOTH WAYS IN THE BARRIO BLANCO
by Judith
Robbins Rose


978-076-367235-5
Hardcover $16.99

 
 


Ooligan Press at Portland State University
A SERIES OF SMALL MANEUVERS
by Eliot Treichel


978-1-932-01079-4
Paperback $14.95

 




Simon & Schuster/
Beach Lane Books
IN THE CANYON
by Liz Garton Scanlon
illustrated by
Ashley Wolff


978-1-481-40348-1
Hardcover $17.99
 
Visit the Reading the West Book Awards Shortlist page on our website.

To view all of the nominated titles in the 2015 Reading
the West Book Awards program, please click here.

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Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association

Laura Ayrey Burnett
Executive Director