2024 Nominees
Biography
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker by Mark Beaver
Fortune and Folly by Sara A. H Butler
Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan by Johnny Smith
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love
Through Her Eyes - One Family's Journey From Enslavement To The Great Migration by Arthur Vaughn
Unstoppable: A Story of Love, Faith, and the Power Couple Who Ignited the College Sports Broadcasting Boom by George Hirthler
Children’s Book
Bentley's Fantabulous Idea by Miki Taylor and Illustrated by Eunhye Shin
Danny Doesn't Quit by Dana Reid and Illustrated by Mike Motz
Elodie Meets Guber the Ghost by P. E. Waring and Illustrated by Matea Anic
When a Monster Dreams Written and Illustrated by Catherine Gayle
You So Black by Theresa Tha Songbird
Detective/Mystery & Science Fiction
Always Agnes by Michael Dubrow
Crypto: A John Wesley O'Toole Novel by William Rawlings
Double Trouble by Paul Sinor
False Claims by Katherine Nichols
LeAnn and the Clean Man by Jeff Shaw
Murder at the Book Fair by Lily Charles
Murder in Drury Lane by Vanessa Riley
Never Back Down by Christopher Swann
Pawprints, Prose & Murder by Kathy Manos Penn
Saint Simons Island: A Stella Bankwell Mystery by Ronda Rich
Self Rescue by Phillip Price
Skeleton in the Art Closet by Gail Karwoski
Trust the Terrier: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery by DL Mitchell
First Novel
Abounding Hope by Cindy Kay Stewart
All Is Now Lost by Laura Smith
Beneath the Smiling Moon by Devon Valdes
Breach of Trust by Helen Bradley
The Bystanders by Dawn Major
Even A Shepherd by Ronnie Jowers
Islands of Women by Eileen O'Hara
Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery by Kate Hallock
Red Clay Suzie by Jeffrey Dale Lofton
School of Sleuths by Matt Aiken
SECRETS OF ASH by Josh Green
Songs of Lost Things: Sonata for the Sun by Monica Gibbs Marsh
South of Happily by Gaby Anderson
Through the Veneer of Time by Vera Bell
History
Dynamic Design by Virginia Gardener Troy
Georgia Covered Bridges by Lisa Russell
The Georgia's Farmer's Strike by Lee Lancaster
The Last Laird of Sapelo by Mike Brown
Milledgeville's Sesquicentennial Murders by Susan Lindsley
Oconaluftee: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley by Elizabeth Giddens
Poor Atlanta: Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development by LeeAnn Lands
Inspirational
A Generous Beckoning: Accepting God's Invitation to a More Fulfilling Life by Peter Wallace
Captured by Love: Inspiring True Romance Stories of Vietnam POWs by Lee Ellis
Don't Look, Ethel! by Nicholas Doster
Hello Anxiety My Old Friend: Harness Your Invisible Superpower by Natalie Kohlhaas
Keep Moving Forward: An Interactive Survival Guide for Overcoming & Thriving by Melony Brown
Loving Me: After Abuse by Angela Williams
Moving Beyond: Journeying Through Life's Changes by Millicent Flake
Literary Fiction & Short Story Collection
A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney by Mark Warren
Apparitions by Sybil Baker
The Art of Her Life by Cynthia Newberry Martin
Bengal Hound by Rahad Abir, Edited by Kimberley Lim
Broken Things by Lori Duff
End Times by John Williams
Idioms by John Doriot
Legacy of Honor-The Air Warrior by Larry Freeland
Look Away No More by Carol Owens Campbell
Love Like This by Cynthia Newberry Martin
The Middle Daughter by Chika Unigwe
One Blood by Denene Millner
Queen of Exiles by Vanessa Riley
Romance World by Tamar Cantwell
The Say So by Julia Franks
Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee: River Stories by Gordon Johnston
So Long, Bobby by Lillah Lawson
Through the Dark by Brandon Daily
Until We Meet Again: The Life of Jennie Raffield Williams by Gillian Grable
Memoir
Be Prepared, We Are All Going To Die by B Jane Jones
The Book I Always Promised by Barbara Gomes Serafino
From Sorrows to Sapphires: Freedom from the Shame of Child Sexual Abuse by Angela Williams
How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key
The Killing Closet by V.L. Brunskill
More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew by John Blake
Swimming for Our Lives: A Naval Academy Graduate's Stories of an Adventurous Life by Jim Paulk
The Unfettered Urologist by Martha Boone
The Way from Me to Us by Mike Coleman
Who Turned Up the Silence by Andy Turner
The Wisdom of Winter: Reflections from the Journey by Jackie K. Cooper
Poetry Chapbook
AmerAsian: My Journey to Becoming Whole as a Mixed Korean-American by Kimberly McAfee
Celine: An Elegy by C.W. Bryan
Cold Remembered: and other poems by David R. Altman
Come Back for a Little Bit by Elle Warren
LIFE OF THE MIND by Julia Knowlton
The Miriam Poems by Eleanor Wolfe Hoomes
Poetry Full-Length Collection
The Anxiety Workbook by Christina Olson
Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen
Mountain Amnesia by Gale Thompson
Old Gods: Poems by Clifford Brooks
One Thousand Sheets of Rice Paper: Poems by Kevin Cantwell
The Savior and the Shadow Queen: A Fantastical Tale Told Through Sequential Poems by Kimberly McAfee
Slowly, I Grow by John Doriot
Tender Headed by Olatunde Osinaike
Unusually Grand Ideas by James May
Where "Here" Is Hard to Say: Poems by Gordon Johnston
With Access to Tools by Dana Wildsmith
Romance
A Laird without a Past by Jeanine Englert
A Tryst in Paris by Anne Armistead
The Case of the Forgotten Fragonard by Marilyn Baron
Christmas with a Cowboy by Pam Mantovani
Letter Late Than Never by Lauren Connolly
Once Upon A Christmas Family by Susan May
Reunited with the Children's Doc by Susan Carlisle
Second Chance for the Heart Doctor by Susan Carlisle
Sight Beyond the Sun by Melody Johnson
Wedding Date with Her Best Friend by Susan Carlisle
Specialty Book
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
Celebrating Backyard Birds by Robert Meyers
Egg Rolls & Sweet Tea: Asian Inspired, Southern Style by Natalie Keng
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology by Julie E. Bloemeke
WHITETAIL SECRETS: Bachelor Life by Susan Lindsley
Why I Wrote This Poem by William Walsh
Zucchini Love by Cynthia Graubart
Young Adult
The 19 of Greene by Tony Barnhart
Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Blueberrians at the Gate by Duane Sohl
In Search of the Painted Bunting by Beverly Varnado
WINNER: Into the Light by Mark Oshiro
Just Gus by McCall Hoyle
Sabotage by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Underdog City by Chris Negron
