Book Gifts: 2022 Colorado Book Awards finalists
Looking for a gift for the book lover this holiday season? Consider choosing from this 2022 Colorado Book Awards list of finalist books from Colorado’s best writers, editors, and illustrators.
Anthology
All the Lives We Ever Lived, Volume 2 edited by Manuel Aragon and Roxanne Banks Malia Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas edited by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Joshua Viola and illustrated by Aaron Lovett
Tell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Writers from Colorado’s Prisons edited by Elijah Null, Julie Rada, and Suzie Q. Smith
Biography
The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver by Jane Little Botkin
Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy Seals by David Philipps
Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by Jennifer Koshatka Seman
Children’s Literature
Read Island by Nicole Magistro and illustrated by Alice Feagan
The Beak Book by Robin Page
Hugsby by Dow Phumiruk
Creative Nonfiction
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again by Jim Davidson
Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying by Susan J. Tweit
Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West by Kathryn Wilder
General Fiction
The Night of Many Endings by Melissa Payne
Mixed Company by Jenny Shank
The Boundaries of Their Dwelling by Blake Sanz
General Nonfiction
The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors by Dave Jilk and Brad Feld
Breakthrough: How to Overcome Doubt, Fear, and Resistance to Be Your Ultimate Creative Self by Todd Mitchell
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Julian Rubinstein
Historical Fiction
Luther, Wyoming by Tomas Alamilla and Mario Acevedo
Chloe’s Mistigri by Thomas L. Hall
The Cape Doctor by E.J. Levy
History
Queen City: A Brief History and Illustrated Architecture New and Old of Denver, Colorado by Karl Christian Krumpholz
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue by Adrian Miller
Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads by Martin J. Smith
Juvenile Literature
Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost by Martha Freeman
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
Bats, Bandits, and Buggies: A Ruby and Maude Adventure by Nancy Oswald
Literary Fiction
Site Fidelity: Stories by Claire Boyles
What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy J. Fox
Jeremy Bannister, or The Ups and Downs of an Aspiring Novelist by Gary Reilly (posthumously by Mark Stevens)
Mystery
Red Rabbit on the Run by Jodi Bowersox
Canyonlands Carnage: A National Park Mystery by Scott Graham
Break Bone Fever: A Finnerty and Liccione Mystery by Wanda Venters and Mary Rae
Poetry
Barefoot and Running by Morgan Liphart
We the Jury by Wayne Miller
Convergences by Ruth Obee
White Lung by Kimberly O’Connor
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Khyven the Unkillable by Todd Fahnestock
The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz
Magic and Misrule by KM Merritt
Thriller
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Secret Next Door: A Novel by Rebecca Taylor
The Dead Husband: A Novel by Carter Wilson
Young Adult Literature
To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames
Rise of the Red Hand by Olivia Chadha
Girl on the Ferris Wheel by Julie Halpern and Len Vlahos
To learn more about these titles, visit coloradohumanities.org.
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About the Colorado Book Awards
The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers. Volunteer selectors and judges from across Colorado read submissions to choose finalists and winners. Colorado Humanities is the only Colorado organization exclusively dedicated to supporting humanities education for adults and children statewide. Celebrating its 48th year and its 18th year as host for the Colorado Center for the Book, Colorado Humanities, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, partners with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress Center for the Book, the Smithsonian Institution, and the national award-winning educational nonprofit Helps Education Fund. To learn more, visit coloradohumanities.org or call 303.894.7951.
