Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association



Reading the West
2014 Book Awards

Shortlist Selections
Press Release
Winners to be announced: 
May 30, 2015
For Immediate Release:
March 31, 2015

   
Adult Fiction

 

Counterpoint Press

     

STARS GO BLUE

by Laura Pritchett

 

978-1-619002-308-6

Hardcover $25.00   





HarperCollins/Ecco  

     

FOURTH OF JULY CREEK: A Novel

by Smith Henderson

 

978-0-062-28644-4

Hardcover $26.99

 

 

 



  

Macmillan/ 
Henry Holt 

THE PLOUGHMEN:  
A Novel

by Kim Zupan  

 

978-0-805-09951-5

Hardcover $26.00

 

 

 





Penguin Random House/Knopf   

 

THE PAINTER:
A Novel

by Peter Heller   

 

978-0-385-35209-3

Hardcover $24.95

 





Workman  
Publishing/ 
Algonquin Books

THE HIGH DIVIDE: 
A Novel 

by Lin Enger  

 

978-1-616-20375-7

Hardcover $24.95

 



Adult Nonfiction

 

HarperCollins/Ecco   

 

ASTORIA: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire-A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival

by Peter Stark  

 

978-0-062-21829-2

Hardcover $27.99

 





Penguin Random House/The Penguin Press   

 

GONE FERAL: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild

by Novella Carpenter

 

978-1-594-20443-2

Hardcover $26.95

 



 

Penguin Random House/Viking   

 

THE OGALLALA ROAD: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

by Julene Bair  

 

978-0-670-78604-6

Hardcover $26.95

 





Simon & Schuster/
Atria Books    

 

BADLUCK WAY:
A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West

by Bryce Andrews  

 

978-1-476-71084-6

Trade Paperback $15.00

 





University of North Carolina Press    

 

RELICTS OF A BEAUTIFUL SEA: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World

by Christopher Norment  

 

978-1-469-61866-1

Hardcover $28.00

 



Children's


 

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt /HMH Books for Young Readers   

 

DIRT BIKES, DRONES, AND OTHER WAYS TO FLY

by Conrad Wesselhoeft  

 

978-0-544-23269-3

Hardcover $17.99

 





Macmillan Children's/Farrar, Straus and Giroux  
(BYR)

SKIES LIKE THESE

by Tess Hilmo  

 

978-0-374-36998-9

Hardcover $16.99

 




Macmillan Chldren's/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
(BYR)      

 

EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN

by Lindsey Lane

 

978-0-374-30060-9

Hardcover $17.99

 

 


Penguin Random House/Penguin Young Readers/ Putnam Juvenile     

   

P.K. PINKERTON AND THE PISTOL-PACKING WIDOWS

by Caroline Lawrence

 

978-0-399-25635-6

Hardcover $16.99

 





Simon & Schuster/
Simon Pulse      

 

BEAUTY OF THE BROKEN

by Tawni Waters  

 

978-1-481-40709-0

Hardcover $17.99

 



To view all the nominated titles from this year's Reading the West Book Awards program, please click here.

 
 
Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association

Laura Ayrey

Executive Director

  
   

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