High Plains Book Award Winners

The High Plains Books Awards recognize regional authors and/or literary works which examine and reflect life on the High Plains. The High Plains regio ...more

Winners

	Sadia by Colleen Nelson (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 433 ratings High Plains Book Award for Young Adult (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 621 ratings High Plains Book Award for Short Stories (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cloudbursts: New and Collected Stories by Thomas McGuane 4.08 avg rating — 292 ratings High Plains Book Award for Short Stories (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	View from True North (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Sara Henning (Goodreads Author) 4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings High Plains Book Award for Poetry (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor by Danell Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 4,006 ratings High Plains Book Award for Medicine & Science AND Big Sky Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large by Chris LaTray (Goodreads Author) 4.65 avg rating — 116 ratings High Plains Book Award for First Book (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 1,290 ratings High Plains Book Award for Fiction AND Woman Writer (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Susan Devan Harness (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 271 ratings High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction AND Indigenous Writer (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Double! Not Half. (1) by Rodney Gottula 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings High Plains Book Award for Children's Book (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West (Volume 30) (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West) by Peter H. Hassrick (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings High Plains Book Award for Art & Photography (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival by Matthew P. Mayo (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 81 ratings High Plains Book Award for Young Adult (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Chance Ladies' Book Club, The by Marlis Wesseler 3.12 avg rating — 16 ratings High Plains Book Award for Woman Writer (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maple & Lead by Aaron Parrett really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings High Plains Book Award for Short Stories (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Throwing the Diamond Hitch (Brave & Brilliant, 2) by Emily Ursuliak 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings High Plains Book Award for Poetry (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonderlandscape by John Clayton (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 201 ratings High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands by Chris Turner 4.14 avg rating — 218 ratings High Plains Book Award for Medicine & Science (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strangers (The Reckoner, #1) by David Alexander Robertson (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 384 ratings High Plains Book Award for Indigenous Writer (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Kansas: Stories by Becky Mandelbaum (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 188 ratings High Plains Book Award for First Book (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Days Without End (Days Without End #1) by Sebastian Barry 3.97 avg rating — 23,355 ratings High Plains Book Award for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Darkness Lit by Heroes : The Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine disaster of 1917 by Doug Ammons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What I Saw in Glacier: A Kid's Guide to the National Park by Ellen Horowitz 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings High Plains Book Award for Children's Book (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Theodore Waddell: My Montana―Paintings and Sculpture, 1959–2016 by Rick Newby 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings High Plains Book Award for Art & Photography (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Actor by Beth Hunter McHugh (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings High Plains Book Award for Best First Book (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow Smalls by Jamie Lisa Forbes (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 42 ratings High Plains Book Award for Short Stories (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Pooped in the Cascades?: Scat and Tracks for Kids by Gary D. Robson (Goodreads Author) 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings High Plains Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure by Craig Lancaster (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 113 ratings High Plains Book Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horse Tracks: Poems by Henry Real Bird 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings High Plains Book Award for Poetry (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	600 Hours of Edward (Edward, #1) by Craig Lancaster (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 11,853 ratings High Plains Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Baseball Field at Night: Last Poems by Patricia Goedicke 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings High Plains Book Award for Poetry (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars