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Congratulations to the 35 authors and books selected for the 2020 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards shortlists. These books were selected as the best books written by Indiana authors over the past two years. Add them to your reading list today!
2020 Shortlists
Crystal Allen
Children’s
The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Mya in the Middle
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John David Anderson
Children’s
Granted
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Gabrielle Balkan
Children’s
Book of Flight
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Skila Brown
Children’s
Clackety Track: Poems about Trains
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Troy Cummings
Children’s
Can I Be Your Dog?
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Helen Frost
Children’s
Hello, I’m Here!
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Phillip Hoose
Children’s
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City
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Michael Homoya, Shane Gibson and Gillian Harris
Children’s
Wake Up, Woods
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Emerging
Katie Hesterman
Emerging
A Round of Robins
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Sofi Keren
Genre, Emerging
Painted Over
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Robin Lee Lovelace
Emerging
Savonne, Not Vonny
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Chantel Massey
Emerging
Bursting at the Seams: A Collection of Poetry
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Melissa Stephenson
Emerging
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
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Annie Sullivan
Emerging
Tiger Queen
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Fiction
Brian Allen Carr
Fiction
Opioid, Indiana
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Bryan Furuness
Fiction
Do Not Go On
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Brian Leung
Fiction
Ivy vs. Dogg: With a Cast of Thousands!
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Michael Martone
Fiction
The Moon Over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond
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Chris White
Fiction
The Life List of Adrian Mandrick
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Genre
Maurice Broaddus
Genre
Pimp My Airship
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Sofi Keren
Genre, Emerging
Painted Over
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Larry Sweazy
Genre
See Also Proof: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery
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Nonfiction
Axton Betz-Hamilton
Nonfiction
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
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Robert Blaemire
Nonfiction
Birch Bayh
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Ross Gay
Nonfiction
The Book of Delights
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Nancy Kriplen
Nonfiction
J. Irwin Miller
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Melissa Stephenson
Nonfiction
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
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Bill Sullivan
Nonfiction
Pleased to Meet Me
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Poetry
Lindsey Alexander
Poetry
Rodeo in Reverse
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Callista Buchen
Poetry
Look Look Look
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Debra Kang Dean
Poetry
Totem: America
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Eugene Gloria
Poetry
Sightseer in This Killing City
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Kevin McKelvey
Poetry
Dream Wilderness Poems
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Shari Wagner
Poetry
The Farm Wife’s Almanac
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Young Adult
Sharon Biggs Waller
Young Adult
Girls on the Verge
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Saundra Mitchell
Young Adult
All the Things We Do in the Dark
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