Past Award Winners
Ohioana Book Award Winners
The tables below show Ohioana Book Award winners since 1942 in each of the categories in which Ohioana currently gives awards. You may change the number of rows viewable at one time (by selecting a different number in the box above each table), sort each table (by using the arrows at the top of each column), and search by keyword (including partial author names or titles). Since 2008, Ohioana has also announced the finalists for each book award. To see the list of all finalists by year, please click here.
Other Awards
Between 1942 and 2011 Ohioana presented a number of other awards. To view a list of these award winners, please click here.
Fiction
| Name | Year | Title | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| McBride, James | 2024 | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | Lorain |
| Ng, Celeste | 2023 | Our Missing Hearts | Cuyahoga |
| Doerr, Anthony | 2022 | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Cuyahoga |
| Sickels, Carter | 2021 | The Prettiest Star | Butler |
| Scibona, Salvatore | 2020 | The Volunteer | Cuyahoga |
| Rothman-Zecher, Moriel | 2019 | Sadness is a White Bird | Greene |
| Ng, Celeste | 2018 | Little Fires Everywhere | Cuyahoga |
| Sliver, Marisa | 2017 | Little Nothing | Cuyahoga |
| Russell, Mary Doria | 2016 | Epitaph | Cuyahoga |
| Doerr, Anthony | 2015 | All the Light We Cannot See | Cuyahoga |
Showing 1 to 10 of 97 entries
Nonfiction
| Name | Year | Title | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lohman, Sarah | 2024 | Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods | Medina |
| Gay, Ross | 2023 | Inciting Joy | Mahoning |
| Abdurraqib, Hanif | 2022 | A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance | Franklin |
| Nezhukumatathil, Aimee | 2021 | World of Wonders | Franklin |
| Vanasco, Jeannie | 2020 | Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was A Girl | Erie |
| Giffels, David | 2019 | Furnishing Eternity | Summit |
| Stillman, Deanne | 2018 | Blood Brothers | Cuyahoga |
| Brinkley, Douglas | 2017 | Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America | Wood |
| Haygood, Wil | 2016 | Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America | Franklin |
| Hagedorn, Ann | 2015 | The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security | Montgomery |
Showing 1 to 10 of 125 entries
Middle Grade & Young Adult Literature
| Name | Year | Title | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutphin, Joe | 2024 | Watership Down: The Graphic Novel | Fairfield |
| Warga, Jasmine | 2023 | A Rover's Story | Hamilton |
| Warga, Jasmine | 2022 | The Shape of Thunder | Hamilton |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | 2021 | Before the Ever After | Franklin |
| Warga, Jasmine | 2020 | Other Words for Home | Hamilton |
| Klages, Ellen | 2019 | Out of Left Field | Franklin |
| Bundy, Tamara | 2018 | Walking with Miss Millie | Hamilton |
| Derby, Sally | 2017 | Jump Back, Paul | Montgomery/Hamilton |
| Pearsall, Shelley | 2016 | The Seventh Most Important Thing | Cuyahoga |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | 2015 | Brown Girl Dreaming | Franklin |
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 entries
Juvenile Literature
| Name | Year | Title | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillenbrand, Will | 2024 | The Voice in the Hollow | Hamilton |
| Campbell, Marcy | 2023 | The More You Give | Wayne |
| Wang, Andrea | 2022 | Watercress | Greene |
| Umrigar, Thrity | 2021 | Sugar in Milk | Franklin |
| Mora, Oge | 2020 | Saturday | Franklin |
| Woodson, Jaqueline | 2019 | The Day You Begin | Franklin |
| Derby, Sally | 2018 | A New School Year | Montgomery/Hamilton |
| Payne, C. F. | 2017 | Miss Mary Reporting | Warren |
| Long, Loren | 2016 | Little Tree | Hamilton |
| Lewis, J. Patrick | 2015 | Harlem Hellfighters | Franklin |
Showing 1 to 10 of 89 entries
Poetry
| Name | Year | Title | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byas, Taylor | 2024 | I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times | Hamilton |
| Jones, Saeed | 2023 | Alive At the End of the World | Franklin |
| Zamora, Felicia | 2022 | I Always Carry My Bones | Hamilton |
| Chan, Marianne | 2021 | All Heathens | Hamilton |
| Abdurraqib, Hanif | 2020 | A Fortune for Your Disaster | Franklin |
| Jackson, Marcus | 2019 | Pardon My Heart | Franklin |
| Awad, Ruth | 2018 | Set to Music a Wildfire | Franklin |
| Davis, Teri Ellen Cross | 2017 | Haint | Cuyahoga |
| Andrews, Nin | 2016 | Why God Is a Woman | Mahoning |
| Friebert, Stuart | 2015 | Floating Heart | Lorain |
Showing 1 to 10 of 49 entries
About Ohio
| Name | Year | Title | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meckler, Laura | 2024 | Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity | Cuyahoga |
| Ervick, Kelcey | 2023 | The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives | Hamilton |
| Alexander, Brian | 2022 | The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town | Fairfield |
| Genshaft, Carole M. | 2021 | Raggin' On | Franklin |
| McCullough, David | 2020 | The Pioneers | - |
| Haygood, Wil | 2019 | Tigerland | Butler |
| Alexander, Brian | 2018 | Glass House | Fairfield |
| Vance, J. D. | 2017 | Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis | Butler |
| McCullough, David | 2016 | The Wright Brothers | not an Ohioan |
| Diemer, Tom | 2015 | James A. Rhodes: Ohio Colossus | Franklin |
Showing 1 to 10 of 109 entries
Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
| Name | Year | Award | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeilinger, Sienna | 2024 | Marvin Grant | Cuyahoga |
| Morrow, Kortney | 2023 | Marvin Grant | Cuyahoga |
| Edwards, Louise Ling | 2022 | Marvin Grant | Franklin |
| Whiteleather, Hagan Faye | 2021 | Marvin Grant | Stark |
| Curtinrich, Brendan | 2020 | Marvin Grant | Geauga |
| Grandouiller, David | 2019 | Marvin Grant | Greene/Franklin |
| Gellert, Christopher Alexander | 2018 | Marvin Grant | Franklin |
| Bethard, Ashley | 2017 | Marvin Grant | Montgomery |
| Goldbach, Eliese | 2016 | Marvin Grant | Cuyahoga |
| Kaudo, Negesti | 2015 | Marvin Grant | Franklin |
Showing 1 to 10 of 35 entries
Reader's Choice Award
| Name | Year | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lohman, Sarah | 2024 | Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods | Medina |
| Scalzi, John | 2023 | The Kaiju Preservation Society | Darke |
| Iris, Manuel | 2022 | The Parting Present / Lo que se irá | Hamilton |
| McDaniel, Tiffany | 2021 | Betty | Pickaway |
| Kaufman, Kenn | 2020 | A Season on the Wind | Ottawa |
| Wiley, Rachel | 2019 | Nothing is Okay | Franklin |
| Bundy, Tamara | 2018 | Walking with Miss Millie | Hamilton |
| McDaniel, Tiffany | 2017 | The Summer That Melted Everything | Pickaway |
| Russell, Mary Doria | 2016 | Epitaph: A Novel of the OK Corral | Cuyahoga |
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 entries