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2025 Award Recipient —
Delivering Infinite Bookshelves
This award is given to an individual who provides leadership and service in the promotion of Nebraska literature. More...
2025 Award Recipient —
Ashley Olson
The Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book (NCB), recognizes and honors books that are written by Nebraska authors, illustrated by Nebraska artists, published by Nebraska publishers, set in Nebraska or concerning Nebraska. More...
2025 (26th annual) for books published in 2024
- Teen Novel
- Quagmire Tiarello Couldn’t Be Better by Mylisa Larsen
- Publisher: Clarion Books
- Cover/Illustration
- Animal Climate Heroes Alison Pearce Stevens
- Illustration: Jason Ford
- Publisher: Godwin Books
- Cover/Illustration Honor
- Do You Know the Value of You? by Isabelle Hall
- Illustration: Megan Earley
- Publisher: Joyful Page Press
- Design
- Creative Genius: The Art of the Nebraska Capitol by Susanne Shore, Kevin Moser, and Drew Davies
- Publisher: Bison Books
- Design Honor
- Rodeo Clown by Quentin Fortney
- Publisher: 777 Press
- Fiction
- Isamu’s American Dream by D. D. Davenport
- Publisher: Donald D. Davenport
- Fiction Honor
- Sacrificial Animals: A Novel by Kailee Pedersen
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
- Nonfiction Biography
- Most Honorable Son: A Forgotten Hero’s Fight Against Fascism and Hate During World War II by Gregg Jones
- Publisher: Citadel Press
- Nonfiction Conservation
- Into Whooperland: A Photographer’s Journey with Whooping Cranes by Michael Forsberg
- Publisher: Michael Forsberg Photography
- Nonfiction History
- Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory by Gail Shaffer Blankenau
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Nonfiction Memoir
- Running Naked: Surviving the Legacy of Family in Rural Nebraska by Colby Coash
- Publisher: Cahoy & Crook
- Nonfiction Nebraska as Place
- The Nebraska Sandhills edited by Monica M. Norby, Judy Diamond, Aaron Sutherlen, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Kim Hachiya, Douglas A. Norby, and Michael Forsberg
- Publisher: Bison Books
- Poetry
- The Watching Sky by Judy Brackett Crowe
- Publisher: Cornerstone Press
- Poetry Honor
- Those We Can No Longer See: New and Selected Poems by Bob Ross
- Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
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