Congratulations 2025 Heartland Booksellers Award Winners!
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How the Birds Got Their Songs
Travis Zimmerman Illus. Sam Zimmerman 9781681342856 Minnesota Historical Society Press |
The Heartland Booksellers Award is a joint award given annually by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
Celebrate the winners by joining us at the Heartland Booksellers Award Ceremony on Tuesday, October 14th during Heartland Fall Forum in Indianapolis. And we are so excited to welcome back our host with the most, author and cool dude, Isaac Fitzgerald. Register for Heartland >>
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!
Celebrate the winners by joining us at the Heartland Booksellers Award Ceremony on Tuesday, October 14th during Heartland Fall Forum in Indianapolis. And we are so excited to welcome back our host with the most, author and cool dude, Isaac Fitzgerald. Register for Heartland >>
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!
Heartland Booksellers Award Ceremony
Hosted by Isaac Fitzgerald
Our favorite author and host Isaac Fitzgerald is back! Isaac is the NYT bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts and the children’s book How to Be a Pirate. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and more. He lives on Long Island and is working on his latest, American Dionysus, forthcoming from Knopf.
Our favorite author and host Isaac Fitzgerald is back! Isaac is the NYT bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts and the children’s book How to Be a Pirate. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and more. He lives on Long Island and is working on his latest, American Dionysus, forthcoming from Knopf.
Congratulations to this year's finalists! Titles were submitted by publishers and booksellers in our region. Your vote here will determine the winners of the 2025 Heartland Booksellers Award. Voting deadline was Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Fiction Finalists |
Nonfiction Finalists |
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The City in Glass
Nghi Vo 9781250348272 Tordotcom |
A Forty Year Kiss
Nickolas Butler 9781464221248 Sourcebooks Landmark |
A Lesser Light
Peter Geye 9781517916374 University of Minnesota Press |
Us Fools
Nora Lange 9781953387516 Two Dollar Radio |
Everything is Tuberculoses
John Green 9780525426059 Crash Course Books |
Original Sins
Eve L. Ewing 9780593243701 One World |
Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden
Teresa Peterson 9781517917029 University of Minnesota Press |
The Small and the Mighty
Sharon McMahon 9780593541678 Thesis |
Poetry Finalists |
YA / Middle Grade Finalists |
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Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium
Marcie R. Rendon 9781517917432 University of Minnesota Press |
Bluff
Danez Smith 9781644452981 Graywolf Press |
Good Dress
Brittany Rogers 9781959030836 Tin House |
We Live Here: Poems for an Ojibwe Calendar Year
Lois Beardslee 9780814351468 Wayne State University Press |
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights
Ashley Hope Pérez 9780823458301 Holiday House |
The Hotel Balzaar
Kate DiCamillo 9781536223316 Candlewick Press |
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
Jasmine Warga 9780062956705 HarperCollins |
Where Wolves Don't Die
Anton Treuer 9781646143818 Arthur A. Levine |
Picture Book Finalists
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How the Birds Got Their Songs
Travis Zimmerman Illus. Sam Zimmerman 9781681342856 Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Mermaids Are the Worst!
Alex Willan 9781665962599 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
So Tortoise Dug
Emmy Kastner 9781665931359 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
The Yellow Bus
Loren Long 9781250903136 Roaring Brook Press |
Criteria
• A book's relationship to the Midwest or Great Lakes region may consist of either the content of the book, the author's hometown, or the author's current residence.
• Books must be classifiable in one of five awarded genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, YA/Middle Grade, or Children's Picture Book.
• Books submitted for the 2025 book awards must have an on-sale date between 5/1/24 and 4/30/25
• The deadline to submit titles ends 6/30/25.
Instructions
GLIBA and MIBA accept nominations separately based on book and author location in relation to their respective regional states and then combine titles for the finalist vote. Publishers and booksellers can submit titles.
• It is free for booksellers to nominate titles.
• There is a $25 fee for publishers to nominate titles.
• A book's relationship to the Midwest or Great Lakes region may consist of either the content of the book, the author's hometown, or the author's current residence.
• Books must be classifiable in one of five awarded genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, YA/Middle Grade, or Children's Picture Book.
• Books submitted for the 2025 book awards must have an on-sale date between 5/1/24 and 4/30/25
• The deadline to submit titles ends 6/30/25.
Instructions
GLIBA and MIBA accept nominations separately based on book and author location in relation to their respective regional states and then combine titles for the finalist vote. Publishers and booksellers can submit titles.
• It is free for booksellers to nominate titles.
• There is a $25 fee for publishers to nominate titles.
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GLIBA Submissions: You can submit books by authors from the following states or books with content that pertains specifically to these states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
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MIBA Submissions: You can submit books by authors from the following states or books with content that pertains specifically to these states: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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