MIBA 2024 Heartland Booksellers Award Semi-Finalist Voting Ballot
This is our Heartland Booksellers Award long list. Titles were submitted by publishers and booksellers in our region. Your vote here will help us determine our top finalists from each genre for the 2024 Heartland Booksellers Award. Please select your top three choices in each category. If you did not read any titles in a category or choose not to vote in a category, you may leave that section blank. Semi-Finalist voting ends Monday, August 5. The Heartland Booksellers Award is a reflection of handselling at its best, as all the books are selected directly by independent booksellers, and celebrate literature in the Great Lakes and Midwest, with content about the region, or an author from our region. The Heartland Booksellers Award is a joint award given annually by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and Midwest Independent Booksellers Association at Heartland Fall Forum in October. Thank you for voting!
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Please Vote for 3 Fiction Titles
- Awakening the Dark Throne, Jessica Ann Disciacca, Austurian House Press
- Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia, Christi Furnas, Street Noise Books
- Firebrand: A Corporate Elements Mystery, Megan Preston Meyer, Entropy Cottage
- The First Bright Thing, J.R. Dawson, Tor Books
- Fish Out of Water, Katie Ruggle, Sourcebooks Casablanca
- Godfall, Van Jensen, University of Nebraska Press
- Home is Where The Bodies Are, Jeneva Rose, Blackstone Publishing
- I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger, Grove Press
- In Universes, Emet North, Harper
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Torzs, William Morrow
- James, Percival Everett, Doubleday
- Killingly, Katharine Beutner, Soho Crime
- A Kind of Madness, Uche Okonkwo, Tin House
- The Long March Home: A WWII Novel of the Pacific, Tosca Lee, Laura Klynstra, Revell
- The Long Way Back, Nicole Baart, Atria Books
- The Luminescence Manual, Lisabeth Lange, Wrong Speak Publishing
- Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo, Tordotcom
- MARTYR!, Kaveh Akbar, Knopf
- Mary Not Broken, Deborah L. King, Streetlight Graphics, Red Adept Publishing
- Northwoods, Amy Pease, Emily Bestler Books
- Ours, Phillip B. Williams, Viking
- The River We Remember, William Kent Krueger, Atria Books
- A Song over Miskwaa Rapids: A Novel, Linda LeGarde Grover, University of Minnesota Press
- The St. Louis Enlows, L. P. Arnold, Sweetheart 129
- Thorn City: A Novel, Pamela Statz, Ooligan Press
- To Catch a Storm, Mindy Mejia, Atlantic Monthly Press
- True North, Andrew J. Graff, Ecco
- Whalefall, Daniel Kraus, Atria Books/MTV Books
- Wild Spaces, S.L. Coney, Tordotcom
- Wine People, Michelle Wildgen, Malte Müller, Zibby Books
Please Vote for 3 Nonfiction Titles
- 100 Morning Treats: With Muffins, Rolls, Biscuits, Sweet and Savory Breakfast Breads, and More, Sarah Kieffer, Chronicle Books
- A Wild Path, Douglas Wood, University of Minnesota Press
- Alithia Ramirez Was an Artist, Violet Lemay, Violet Lemay with art included from Alithia Ramirez, Brown Books Publishing Group, Michael Sampson Books
- Author and Travel Photographer, Autumn Carolynn, Autumn Carolynn Photography
- Beer Hiking Chicago: The Tastiest Way to Discover the Windy City, Jessica Sedgwick and Dan Ochwat, Helvetiq
- Birding to Change the World, Trish O'Kane, Harper Collins, Ecco
- The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic, Daniel de Visé, Grove Atlantic
- The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa, Jonathan B. Losos, Viking
- Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather, Benjamin Taylor, Viking
- Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments, David Shih, Grove Atlantic, Atlantic Monthly Press
- For Times Such as These, Jessica Rosenberg, Wayne State University Press
- Gray Areas, Adia Harvey Wingfield, Amistad
- Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters, Cary J. Griffith, University of Minnesota Press
- How to Draw Kawaii Manga Characters, Misako Rocks, The Quarto Group
- The Last Supper Club: A Waiter’s Requiem, Matthew Batt, University of Minnesota Press
- Maybe It’s Your Medications, Hedva Barenholtz Levy, Skyhorse Publishing, Skyhorse Publishing
- Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children's Love for Everything Wild, Laurel Giordano, Stephanie Hathaway, and Laura Stroup, Quarry Books
- Oh My Mother: A Memoir in Nine Adventures, Connie Wang, Viking
- On Farms and Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic for the Future, Jerry Apps, Fulcrum Publishing
- Owner of a Lonely Heart, Beth Nguyen, Scribner
- Puerto Rico: A National History, Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, Princeton University Press
- The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided, Sean Patrick Cooper, Penguin Books
- Sunken, Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan, Kathy Groth, Loon Calling Press
- Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response, Jeremy Norton, University of Minnesota Press
- Where Rivers Part, Kao Kalia Yang, Atria Books
- Wildfire: The Culture, Science, and Future of Fire, Ferin Davis Anderson, Stephanie Sammartino McPherson, Twenty-First Century Books
- Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas, Jim Minick, Bison Books
- Words With My Father, Lowell Klessig & Lukas Klessig, Susan Hoberg, Medley Park Press
Please Vote for 3 Poetry Titles
- A Duration, Richard Meier, Wave Books
- A Film In Which I Play Everyone, Mary Jo Bang, Graywolf Press
- Organs of Little Importance, Adrienne Chung, Penguin Books
- Skies of Blur, Elijah Burrell, EastOver Press
Please Vote for 3 YA / Middle Grade Titles
- The Absinthe Underground, Jamie Pacton, Peachtree Teen
- Ariwel Crashes a Train, Olivia A. Cole, Random House Children's Books, Labyrinth Road
- Back to the Bright Before, Katherin Nolte, Jen Bricking, Random House Books for Young Readers
- The Breakup Lists, Adib Khorram, Dial
- The Dark Lord's Daughter, Patricia C. Wrede, Random House Books for Young Readers
- King & Kayla and the Case of the Downstairs Ghost, Nancy Meyers, Peachtree
- Life Lessons from a UFO Catcher: An Autobiographical Manga, Kenny Loui, UFO Comics
- The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry, Anna Rose Johnson, Holiday House
- Magma Cup, Eric Gapstur, Aladdin
- Mexikid, Pedro Martín, Penguin Young Readers, Dial
- The Mystery of Locked Rooms, Lindsay Currie, Sourcebooks Young Readers
- The Presidents Decoded: A Guide to the Leaders Who Shaped Our Nation, Katie Kennedy, Workman Kids
- Ready or Not, Laura Segal Stegman, Young Dragons Press
- There is No Shrimp... And Other Lies My Mother Told Me, Kenny Loui, UFO Comics
Please Vote for 3 Picture Book Titles
- 365, Miranda Paul, Beach Lane
- Adi's Animal Adventures, Julie Schanke Lyford, Mariia Luzina, Wise Ink Creative Publishing
- Baby Be, Allison McGhee, Atheneum
- Can You Dance Like a Peacock?, Rekha S. Rajan, Hannah Abbo, Sourcebooks Explore
- The Digger and the Butterfly, Joseph Kuefler, Balzer + Bray
- Ethan and the Strays, John Sullivan, Paula Wiseman
- Fraser the Forest Ranger, Matthew Schufman, Random House Studio
- If You Get Lost, Nikki Loftin, Deborah Marcero, Anne Schwartz Books
- J is for Juneteenth, Jamariah Cross, Kimani Prince, and Ariyah Webster, Reyhana Ismail, Planting People Growing Justice Press
- No Cats in the Library, Lauren Emmons, Paula Wiseman
- Oliver and the Night Giants, Kitty O'Meara, Anna Pirolli, Tra Publishing
- Plus One, John Hare, Margaret Ferguson Books
- Prak Fills the House, Lauren Emmons, Peachtree
- Ready to Soar, Cori Doerrfield, Dial
- The Red Jacket, Bob Holt, HarperCollins
- The Rock in My Throat, Kao Kalia Yang, Jiemei Lin, Carolrhoda Books
- Sasquatch and Squirrel, Chris Monroe, Carolrhoda Books
- Small-Girl Toni and the Quest, Giselle Anatol, Raissa Figueroa, Viking Books for Young Readers
- Stella's Brave Voice, Marissa Bader, Arlene Soto, M. Bader Media
- Ted Kooser: More than a Local Wonder, Carla Ketner, Paula Wallace, University of Nebraska Press
- Touch the Sky, Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic, Chris Park, Carolrhoda Books
- Waverly Braves the Breeze: The Story of a Galapagos Albatross, Samantha Cora , Rosie Eve, Tra Publishing
- Winter, Kelsey E. Gross, Paula Wiseman
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