Reading the West Book Awards
Nominated Titles 2012

Listings are alphabetical by publisher name.

Please note that this is a preliminary list and may change. Reading the West Short List announcement will be made on March 31, 2013, and the winners will be announced on May 30, 2013.

Updated March 1, 2013

 

Bloomsbury_FindingCasey

Bloomsbury USA
FINDING CASEY: A Novel
by Jo-Ann Mapson
978-1-608-19763-7
Adult Fiction

 

Chronicle_BestShot

Chronicle Books
BEST SHOT IN THE WEST: The Adventures of Nat Love
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, Jr.
978-0-811-85749-9
Children’s

 

Counterpoint_Theft

Counterpoint Press
THEFT: A Novel
by BK Loren
978-1-582-43819-1
Adult Fiction

 

Cowgirl Peg Enterprises
COWGIRL PEG AND THE GREAT RACE
by Peggy Sundberg

978-0-615-59075-2
Children’s

 

GlobePequot_ItsHeadCameOff

Globe Pequot Press/Two Dot
ITS HEAD CAME OFF BY ACCIDENT: A Memoir
by Muffy Mead-Ferro
978-0-762-78064-8
Adult Nonfiction/Memoir

 

GraphicArts_ColoradoMountainCompanion

Graphic Arts Books
THE COLORADO MOUNTAIN COMPANION: A Potpourri of Useful Miscellany from the Highest Parts of the Highest State
by M John Fayhee
978-0-871-08960-1
Adult Nonfiction/Natural History

 

Graywolf_Boleto

Graywolf Press
BOLETO: A Novel
by Alyson Hagy
978-1-555-97612-5
Adult Fiction

 

Hachette_GhostDances

Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company
GHOST DANCES: Proving Up on the Great Plains
by Josh Garrett-Davis
978-0-316-19984-1
Adult Nonfiction/History

 

HarvardBelknap_BrighamYoung

Harvard University Press/Belknap Press
BRIGHAM YOUNG: Pioneer Prophet
by John G. Turner
978-0-674-84967-3
Adult Nonfiction/Biography

 

Houghton_ShortNightsShadowCatcher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan
978–0-618-96902-9
Adult Nonfiction/History

 

Johnson_HistoryStone

Johnson Books/Big Earth Publishing
HISTORY IN STONE: The Story of Red Rock Canyon
by Ruth Obee
978-1-555-66448-0
Adult Nonfiction/Western History

 

MacmillanSM_Fated

Macmillan Children’s/St. Martin’s Griffin
FATED: The Soul Seekers
by Alyson Noel
978-0-312-66485-5
Children’s

 

MacmillanFSG_Girlchild

Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
GIRLCHILD: A Novel
by Tupelo Hassman
978-0-374-16257-3.Adult Fiction

 

MacmillanFSG_HereLiesHughGlass

Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
HERE LIES HUGH GLASS: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
by Jon T. Coleman
Adult Nonfiction

 

MacmillanFSG_LittleCentury

Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
LITTLE CENTURY: A Novel
by Anna Keesey
978-0-374-19204-4
Adult Fiction

 

MacmillanFSG_LongestFight

Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
THE LONGEST FIGHT: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing’s First African American Champion
by William Gildea
978-0-374-28097-0
Adult Nonfiction

 

MacmillanFSG_Trinity

Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
TRINITY: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
978-0-809-09468-4
Adult Nonfiction

 

MacmillanFSG_WhenWomenWereBirds

Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux – Sarah Crichton Books
WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
by Terry Tempest Williams
978-0-374-28897-6
Adult Nonfiction/Biography/Women

 

MacmillanSMP_TrueSisters

Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press
TRUE SISTERS
by Sandra Dallas
978-1-250-00502-1
Adult Fiction

 

Papalote_ApricotYear

Papalote Press
AN APRICOT YEAR
by Martha Egan
978-0-975-58816-1
Adult Fiction

 

Pelican_VoicesDustBowl

Pelican Publishing Company
VOICES OF THE DUST BOWL
by Sherry Garland
978-1-589-80964-2
Children’s

 

PenguinBerkley_BuffaloBill

Penguin Group/Berkley Hardcover
BUFFALO BILL’S DEAD NOW: A Wind River Mystery
by Margaret Coel
978-0-425-25271-0
Adult Fiction.

 

PenguinBerkley_DeathWhereBadRocks

Penguin Group/Berkley Trade
DEATH WHERE THE BAD ROCKS LIVE
by C.M. Wendelboe
978-0-425-25611-4
Adult Fiction

 

PenguinBerkley_WideOpen

Penguin Group/Berkley Trade
WIDE OPEN
by Larry Bjornson
978-0-425-24748-8
Adult Fiction

 

PenguinPutnam_ForceNature

Penguin Group/G.P. Putnam’s Sons
FORCE OF NATURE: A Joe Pickett Novel
by C.J. Box
978-0-399-15826-1
Adult Fiction

 

PenguinRiverhead_BartendersTale

Penguin Group/Riverhead
THE BARTENDER’S TALE
by Ivan Doig
978-1-594-48735-4
Adult Fiction

 

PenguinRiverhead_Battleborn

Penguin Group/Riverhead
BATTLEBORN
by Claire Vaye Watkins
978-1-594-48825-2
Adult Fiction (Short Stories)

 

PenguinRiverhead_ManQuitMoney

Penguin Group/Riverhead-NAL
THE MAN WHO QUIT MONEY
by Mark Sundeen
978-1-594-48569-5
Adult Nonfiction/Biography

 

PenguinViking_AsCrowFlies

Penguin Group/Viking Adult
AS THE CROW FLIES: A Walt Longmire Mystery
by Craig Johnson
978-0-670-02351-6
Adult Fiction

 

PenguinBYR_KeplersDream

Penguin Young Readers Group/Putnam Juvenile
KEPLER’S DREAM
by Juliet Bell
978-0-399-25645-5
Children’s

 

PrincetonArch_LostChristmasGift

Princeton Architectural Press
THE LOST CHRISTMAS GIFT
by Andrew Beckham
978-1-616-89102-2
Adult Fiction/Art/Holiday

 

Pronghorn_Mariano_Small

Pronghorn Press
MARIANO’S CROSSING: A Novel
by David M. Jessup
978-1-932-63689-5.  Adult Fiction

 

Random_MormonPeople

Random House
THE MORMON PEOPLE: The Making of an American Faith
by Matthew Bowman
978-0-679-64490-3.Adult Nonfiction/Religion

 

RandomKnopf_DogStars

Random House/A.A. Knopf
THE DOG STARS
by Peter Heller
978-0-307-95994-2
Adult Fiction

 

RandomKnopf_Wild

Random House/A.A. Knopf
WILD: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
978-0-307-59273-6
Adult Nonfiction/Biography

 

RandomCrown_FullBodyBurden

Random House/Crown
FULL BODY BURDEN: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
by Kristen Iversen
978-0-307-95563-0
Adult Nonfiction/Memoir

 

RandomSpiegel_MeatEater

Random House/Spiegel + Grau
MEAT EATER: Adventures from the Life of An American Hunter
by Steven Rinella
978-0-385-52981-5
Adult Nonfiction/Sports & Recreation

 

RioGrande_HowHollyhocks

Rio Grande Books
HOW HOLLYHOCKS CAME TO NEW MEXICO
by Rudolfo Anaya
978-1-936-74412-1
Children’s

 

RoadRunner_BulldoggersClub

The RoadRunner Press
THE BULLDOGGER’S CLUB: The Tale of the Ill-Gotten Catfish
by Barbara Hay
978-1-937-05415-1
Children’s

 

Rhyolite_WhimWhamMan

Rhyolite Press
THE WHIM-WHAM MAN: A Coming of Age & Murder Mystery
by John Dwaine McKenna
978-0-983-99521-0
Adult Fiction

Rhyolite_Drift

Rhyolite Press
THE DRIFT: An Environmental Thriller
by Bert Entwistle
978-0-983-99522-7-0
Adult Fiction

 

Sarabande_Rise

Sarabande Books
RISE: Stories
by L. Annette Binder
978-1-936-74731-3
Adult Fiction (Short Stories)

 

SimonBYR_KaterinasWish

Simon & Schuster Children’s/Margaret K. McElderry Books
KATERINA’S WISH
by Jeannie Mobley
978-1-442-43343-4
Children’s

 

SimonBYR_PrairieThief

Simon & Schuster Children’s/Margaret K. McElderry Books
THE PRAIRIE THIEF
by Melissa Wiley and Erwin Madrid
978-1-442-44056-2
Children’s

 

SimonAtria_DistanceBetweenUs

Simon & Schuster/Atria Books
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US: A Memoir
by Reyna Grande
978-1-451-66177-4
Adult Memoir

 

SleepingBear_QuiltWalk

Sleeping Bear Press
THE QUILT WALK
by Sandra Dallas
978-1-585-36800-6
Children’s

 

TexasTech_LibertysChristmas

Texas Tech University Press
LIBERTY’S CHRISTMAS
by Randall Platt
978-0-896-72766-3
Children’s/Young Adult

 

TexasTech_Reckoning

Texas Tech University Press
THE RECKONING: The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier
by Peter R. Rose
978-0-896-72769-4
Adult Nonfiction/History

 

TorreyHouse_Grind

Torrey House Press
GRIND: Stories
by Mark Maynard
978-1-937-22603-9
Adult Fiction

 

TorreyHouse_OrdinaryTruth

Torrey House Press
THE ORDINARY TRUTH
by Jana Richman
978-1-937-22606-0
Adult Fiction

 

TorreyHouse_Recapture

Torrey House Press
RECAPTURE & Other Stories
by Erica Olsen
978-1-937-22605-3
Adult Fiction

 

TorreyHouse_Tributary

Torrey House Press
TRIBUTARY: A Novel
by Barbara K. Richardson
978-1-937-22604-6
Adult Fiction

 

Unbridled_BirdSaviors

Unbridled Books
THE BIRD SAVIORS
by William J. Cobb
978-1-60953-070-9.Adult Fiction

 

Unbridled_RocketCity

Unbridled Books
ROCKET CITY
by Cathryn Alpert
978-1-609-53077-8
Adult Fiction

 

UnivAZ_ArizonaHistory

University of Arizona Press
ARIZONA: A History, Revised Edition
by Thomas E. Sheridan
978-0-816-50693-4
Adult Nonfiction

 

UnivAZ_BloodInEyes

University of Arizona Press
WITH BLOOD IN THEIR EYES
by Thomas Cobb
978-0-816-52110-4
Adult Fiction

 

UnivNM_GrowingSeason

University of New Mexico Press
A GROWING SEASON
by Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl
978-0-826-35224-8
Adult Fiction

 

UnivNM_Soledad

University of New Mexico Press
THE SOLEDAD CRUCIFIXION
by Nancy Wood
978-0-826-35128-9
Adult Fiction

 

UnivUT_AvenuesSaltLake

The University of Utah Press
THE AVENUES OF SALT LAKE CITY: Second Edition
by Cevan J. LeSieur
978-1-607-81181-7
Adult Nonfiction/Guidebooks

 

UnivUT_PlainWholesome

The University of Utah Press
PLAIN BUT WHOLESOME: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers
by Brock Cheney
978-1-607-81208-1
Adult Nonfiction/History

 

UnivWashingtonFiege_RepublicNature

University of Washington Press
THE REPUBLIC OF NATURE
by Mark Fiege
978-0-295-99167-2
Adult Nonfiction

 

UnivPressColo_ColoradoWomen

University Press of Colorado
COLORADO WOMEN: A History
by Gail M. Beaton
978-1-607-32195-8
Adult Nonfiction

 

Norton_PrairieFever

W.W. Norton & Company
PRAIRIE FEVER: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890
by Peter Pagnamenta
978-0-393-07239-6
Adult Nonfiction/History

 

WorkmanAlgonquin_RevisedFundamentals

Workman/Algonquin Books
THE REVISED FUNDAMENTALS OF CAREGIVING
by Jonathan Evison
978-1-616-20039-8
Adult Fiction

 

YaleUniv_Geronimo

Yale University Press
GERONIMO
by Robert M. Utley
978-0-300-12638-9. Yale University Press
Adult Nonfiction/Biography