2025 Heartland Booksellers Award Semi-Finalist Vote!
This is our Heartland Booksellers Award long list. Titles were submitted by publishers and booksellers in our region. Your vote here will help us determine our top finalists from each genre for the 2025 Heartland Booksellers Award.
Please select your top three choices in each category. If you did not read any titles in a category or choose not to vote in a category, you may leave that section blank. Semi-Finalist voting ends Friday, July 18, 2025.
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!
Please select your top three choices in each category. If you did not read any titles in a category or choose not to vote in a category, you may leave that section blank. Semi-Finalist voting ends Friday, July 18, 2025.
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!
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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