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Ohioana Book Award

Presented by: Jury; Readers' Choice Award chosen by voters in a public online poll

For: Literature by writers from Ohio and about Ohio

Winner The Shape of Thunder Jasmine Warga

Winner I Always Carry My Bones Felicia Zamora

Winner Before the Ever After Jacqueline Woodson

Winner Betty Tiffany McDaniel

Winner Other Words for Home Jasmine Warga

Winner Out of Left Field Ellen Klages

Winner The Day You Begin Jacqueline Woodson

Winner Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng

Winner Miss Mary Reporting C. F. Payne

Winner The Summer That Melted Everything Tiffany McDaniel

Winner Epitaph Mary Doria Russell

Winner Little Tree Loren Long (artist)

Winner Why God Is a Woman Nin Andrews

Winner All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr

Winner Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson

Winner Harlem Hellfighters J. Patrick Lewis

Winner The Coldest Night Robert Olmstead

Winner The Girl of Fire and Thorns Rae Carson

Winner Memory Wall Anthony Doerr

Winner untitled Laura Maylene Walter

Winner Await Your Reply Dan Chaon

Winner Sonata Mulattica: Poems Rita Dove

Winner Everywhere at Once William Greenway

Winner Coal Black Horse Robert Olmstead

Winner Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix

Winner untitled Sharon Creech

Winner untitled James Cross Giblin

Winner untitled Lois McMaster Bujold

Winner Specimen Days Michael Cunningham

Winner Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth James Cross Giblin

Winner untitled Jacqueline Woodson

Winner About Grace Anthony Doerr

Winner untitled Jan Wahl

Winner untitled Jack Matthews

Winner Love Toni Morrison

Winner An Open Book Michael Dirda

Winner East Edith Pattou

Winner Ascending Order William Greenway

Winner untitled J. Patrick Lewis

Winner The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr

Winner Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems Elizabeth Spires

Winner untitled Rita Dove

Winner untitled John Jakes

Winner Among the Missing Dan Chaon

Winner The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin James Cross Giblin

Winner In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner Elizabeth George

Winner Glass Hearts Terri Paul

Winner John Glenn: A Memoir John Glenn

Winner The Mouse of Amherst Elizabeth Spires

Winner On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems Rita Dove

Winner untitled Pat Mora

Winner Paradise Toni Morrison

Winner Truth about Small Towns: Poems David Baker

Winner untitled Angela Johnson

Winner untitled R. L. Stine

Winner untitled Nikki Giovanni
Winner untitled Virginia Hamilton
Winner untitled Toni Morrison
Winner untitled James Thurber

Winner Beloved Toni Morrison

Winner Hope Mills Constance Pierce

Winner The Song of the Dodo David Quammen

Winner Walt Whitman Bathing David Wagoner

Winner untitled Herbert Gold

Winner Family Ian Frazier

Winner Jericho Janet Hickman

Winner Like Most Revelations Richard Howard (poet & translator)

Winner untitled Bonnie Pryor

Winner Staying Put Scott Russell Sanders

Winner Selected Poems Rita Dove

Winner untitled Natalie Babbitt

Winner New and Selected Poems Mary Oliver

Winner untitled Cynthia Rylant

Winner Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds Cynthia Rylant

Winner untitled Virginia Hamilton

Winner A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Geoffrey C. Ward

Winner untitled Virginia Hamilton

Winner But I'll Be Back Again Cynthia Rylant

Winner Grace Notes Rita Dove

Winner The Tsar & the Amazing Cow J. Patrick Lewis

Winner Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles Nikki Giovanni

Winner untitled Toni Morrison

Winner The Lotus Cup Jane Louise Curry

Winner The Tree of Life Hugh Nissenson

Winner untitled Virginia Hamilton

Winner Reinhart's Women Thomas Berger (1924-2014)

Winner Another Heaven, Another Earth H. M. Hoover

Winner The Liberation of Tansy Warner Stephanie S. Tolan

Winner Hanta Yo Ruth Beebe Hill
Winner The Hanging Garden David Wagoner

Winner untitled Andre Norton

Winner The American Bicentennial Series John Jakes

Winner Poor Tom's Ghost Jane Louise Curry

Winner Island Time Brinton Turkle
Winner Deep in the Forest Brinton Turkle

Winner Witch of the Cumberlands Mary Jo Stephens

Winner Sula Toni Morrison

Winner Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children Kenneth Koch

Winner untitled Orville Prescott

Winner The UFO experience: A Scientific Inquiry J. Allen Hynek

Winner The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems Mary Oliver

Winner untitled John Glenn

Winner untitled Bergen Evans

Winner Dave's Song Robert McKay

Winner The Xavier Affair Robert L. Fish

Winner The Norman Rockwell Storybook Jan Wahl

Winner Crossroads James McConkey

Winner The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton

Winner Ambrose Bierce: A Biography Richard O'Connor

Winner Seven-Day Magic Edward Eager

Winner untitled Louis Kronenberger

Winner Night of Camp David Fletcher Knebel

Winner Bitter Knowledge Jack Matthews

Winner The Dark Traveler Josephine W. Johnson

Winner untitled John Crowe Ransom

Winner The Skylark & Other Poems Ralph Hodgson

Winner Happy Families Are All Alike Peter Taylor

Winner The Gammage Cup Carol Kendall

Winner Moonlight at Midday Sally Carrighar

Winner untitled David Dietz

Winner The Man Who Was Not With It Herbert Gold

Winner Knight's Castle Edward Eager

Winner untitled James Thurber

Winner untitled Russel Crouse

Winner untitled Howard Chandler Christy

Winner Island Summer Hazel Wilson
Winner Sword in Sheath Andre Norton

Winner The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe John Ward Ostrom

Winner Boom Town Boy Lois Lenski
Winner One Day at Teton Marsh Sally Carrighar

Winner untitled Ben Ames Williams

Winner untitled Conrad Richter

Winner A Durable Fire Dorothy James Roberts

Winner The White Deer James Thurber

Winner untitled Louis Bromfield

Nominee Selected Poems John Crowe Ransom

Winner Deep River Henrietta Buckmaster
Nominee The Bells of St. Ivan's Robert S. Carr

Winner The Great Quillow James Thurber

Winner Bayou Suzette Lois Lenski

Winner Cloth of the Tempest Kenneth Patchen

Nominee Time of Peace Ben Ames Williams