Alabama Author Award Winners

Awards are based on literary merit. An honored author must be an Alabamian by birth or have lived in Alabama for at least five (5) years. The book for ...more

Winners

	That's Debatable by Jen Doll (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 200 ratings Alabama Author Award for Young Adult (2023)	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 Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines 4.35 avg rating — 2,068 ratings Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction (2023)	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
	Under the Bayou Moon by Valerie Fraser Luesse 4.06 avg rating — 1,737 ratings Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2023)	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
	Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch by Heidi Tyline King (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 335 ratings Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (2023)	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
	Reparations Now! by Ashley M. Jones 4.60 avg rating — 217 ratings Alabama Author Award for Poetry (2023)	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
	Known by Salt by Tina Mozelle Braziel 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings Alabama Author Award for Poetry (2022)	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
	Real Life by Brandon Taylor 3.82 avg rating — 31,245 ratings Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2022)	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 Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 1,600 ratings Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (2022)	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
	Girls Like Us by Randi Pink 4.02 avg rating — 1,027 ratings Alabama Author Award for Young Adult (2022)	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
	Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer 4.04 avg rating — 1,664 ratings Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction (2022)	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
	Bugs Don't Hug: Six-Legged Parents and Their Kids by Heather L. Montgomery (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 161 ratings Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (2021)	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 Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard 4.47 avg rating — 93 ratings Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction (2021)	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
	Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 139,395 ratings Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2021)	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
	House Repairs by Angela Jackson-Brown (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings Alabama Author Award for Poetry (2021)	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
	Kent State by Deborah Wiles (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 4,152 ratings Alabama Author Award for Young Adult (2021)	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
	Meet Miss Fancy by Irene Latham (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 367 ratings Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (2020)	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
	Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 535,352 ratings Alabama Author Award for Young Adult (2020)	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
	Magic City Gospel by Ashley M. Jones 4.51 avg rating — 174 ratings Alabama Author Award for Poetry (2020)	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 Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods by Emily Blejwas (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction (2020)	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
	Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Henry (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 38,899 ratings Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2020)	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
	Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace 3.53 avg rating — 1,074 ratings Alabama Author Award for Fiction (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 Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg 4.17 avg rating — 3,109 ratings Alabama Author 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
	Journey's End by Rachel Hawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 711 ratings Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (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
	Devils Within by S.F. Henson (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 1,408 ratings Alabama Author 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
	Catching a Storyfish by Janice N. Harrington 4.08 avg rating — 589 ratings Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (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 Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1) by S.J. Kincaid (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 24,778 ratings Alabama Author 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
	The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II by Winston Groom 4.31 avg rating — 1,429 ratings Alabama Author 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
	Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor 3.72 avg rating — 3,709 ratings Alabama Author 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
	Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 1,422 ratings Alabama Author Award for Juvenile (2017)	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
	Still Waters by Ash Parsons (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 601 ratings Alabama Author Award for Young Adult (2017)	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