Reading the West
Book Awards

Nominated Books 2010

THE WAKE OF FORGIVENESS
by Bruce Machart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
FINDERS KEEPERS: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
by Craig Childs
Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown & Company
DISCORD’S APPLE
by Carrie Vaughn
Macmillan/Tom Doherty Associates-Tor
THE WAY OF KINGS
by Brandon Sanderson
Macmillan/Tom Doherty Associates-Tor
THE SUMMIT: Faith Beyond Everest’s Death Zone
by Eric Alexander
New Leaf Publishing Group
A DEAD MAN’S TALE:
Charlie Moon Mysteries #15

by James D. Doss
Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press-Minotaur
HEROES OF OLYMPUS,
Book One: THE LOST HERO

by Rick Riordan
Disney Book Group
STARFISH: A Novel
by James Crowley
Disney Book Group
NO PASSENGERS BEYOND THIS POINT
by Gennifer Choldenko
Penguin Young Readers Group/Dial
THE REPLACEMENT
by Brenna Yovanoff
Penguin Young Readers Group/Razorbill
MATCHED
by Ally Condie
Penguin Young Readers Group/Dutton
SCUMBLE
by Ingrid Law
Penguin Young Readers Group/Dial
MERLIN’S DRAGON BOOK 3: Ultimate Magic
by T.A. Barron
Penguin Young Readers/Philomel
COLD WIND:
A Joe Pickett Novel

by C.J. Box
Penguin Group USA/G.P. Putnam’s Sons
THE SPIDER’S WEB:
Wind River Reservation Series #15

by Margaret Coel
Penguin Group USA/Berkley Prime Crime
THE WEIRD SISTERS: A Novel
by Eleanor Brown
Penguin Group USA/
G.P. Putnam’s Sons-Amy Einhorn Books
VOLT: Stories
by Alan Heathcock
Graywolf Press
ALL CLEAR
by Connie Willis
Random House Publishing Group/
Ballantine-Spectra
RIVAL RAILS: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad
by Walter R. Borneman
Random House Publishing Group
SAVING SKY
by Diane Stanley
HarperCollins Publishers/Harper
YOU ARE THE BEST MEDICINE
by Julie Aigner Clark; illustrated by Jana Christy
HarperCollins Publishers/Balzer + Bray
FAT VAMPIRE:
A Never Coming of Age Story

by Adam Rex
HarperCollins Publishers/Balzer + Bray
FIRELIGHT
by Sophie Jordan
HarperCollins Publishers/Harper
NEW MEXICO’S TASTY TRADITIONS: Recollections, Recipes and Photos
by Sharon Niederman
New Mexico Magazine
ENDANGERED:
Biodiversity on the Brink

by Mitch Tobin
Fulcrum Publishing

KINGS OF COLORADO
by David E. Hilton
Simon & Schuster Inc.
SOUTHERN PAIUTE: A Portrait
by William Logan Hebner;
photographs by Michael Plyler
Utah State University Press
FUR, FORTUNE, AND EMPIRE:
The Epic History of the Fur Trade
in America

by Eric Jay Dolin
W.W. Norton & Company
THE RINGER
by Jenny Shank
The Permanent Press
THE LIFE & TIMES OF VINCE KONTNY
Volume 1: The Early Years
by Vince Kontny
Double Shoe Publishing
THE LIFE & TIMES OF VINCE KONTNY
Volume 2: The Seabees
by Vince Kontny
Double Shoe Publishing
FINDING THE BAD INN:
Discovering My Family’s Hidden Past

by Christy Leskovar
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
PHANTOMS IN THE SNOW
by Kathleen Benner Duble
Scholastic Press
THE FALSE PRINCESS
by Eilis O’Neal
EgmontUSA
THE LOVESICK SKUNK
by Joe Hayes; illustrated
by Antonio L. Castro
Cinco Puntos Press
THE BLUES GO EXTREME BIRDING
by Carol L. Malnor and Sandy F. Fuller;
illustrated by Louise Schroeder
Dawn Publications


THE BLUES GO EXTREME BIRDING

by Carol L. Malnor and Sandy F. Fuller

illustrated by Louise Schroeder
Dawn Publications

THE REPLACEMENT
by Brenna Yovanoff
Penguin Young Readers Group