The Christy Award^® Archives

FIRST NOVEL

2023

Winner

The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

Sara Brunsvold

Revell/ Baker Publishing Group

Winner

The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon

Linda MacKillop

Kregel Publications

Finalist

Porch Music

Kathy Maresca

TouchPoint Press Faith

2022

Winner

All That Is Secret

Patricia Raybon

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

Recorder

Cathy McCrumb

Enclave Publishing, a division of Oasis Family Media

Finalist

Sugar Birds

Cheryl Grey Bostrom

She Writes Press

2021

Winner

The Edge of Belonging

Amanda Cox

Revell/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

A Noble Calling

Rhona Weaver

Two Oaks Press

Finalist

Rain

Dana McNeely

Mountain Brook Ink

Finalist

Roots of Wood and Stone

Amanda Wen

Kregel Publications

2020

Winner

A Long Time Comin'

Robin W. Pearson

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

The Means That Make Us Strangers

Christine Kindberg

Bellflower Press

Finalist

Whose Waves These Are

Amanda Dykes

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

2019

Winner

The Baggage Handler

David Rawlings

Thomas Nelson

Finalist

Engraved on the Heart

Tara Johnson

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

The Plum Blooms in Winter

Linda Thompson

Mountain Brook Ink

2018

Winner

Missing Isaac

Valerie Fraser Luesse

Revell/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

Freedom's Ring

Heidi Chiavaroli

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Finalist

The House on Foster Hill

Jaime Jo Wright

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

Turtles in the Road

Kaley Rhea and Rhonda Rhea

Bold Vision Books

2017

Winner

Stars in the Grass

Ann Marie Stewart

Barbour Publishing

Finalist

Counted with the Stars

Connilyn Cossette

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

Like a River from Its Course

Kelli Stuart

Kregel Publications

2016

Finalist

The Choosing

Rachelle Dekker

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

Irish Meadows

Susan Anne Mason

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

A Noble Masquerade

Kristi Ann Hunter

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

2015

Winner

Feast for Thieves

Marcus Brotherton

RiverNorth, an imprint of Moody Publishing

Finalist

For Such A Time

Kate Breslin

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

House of Living Stones

Kate Schuermann

Concordia Publishing House

2014

Winner

Burning Sky

Lori Benton

WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group

Finalist

A Cast of Stones

Patrick W. Carr

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

Dear Mr. Knightly

Katherine Reay

Thomas Nelson, Harper Collins Christian Publishing

2013

Winner

Into the Free

Julie Cantrell

David C Cook

Finalist

Tangled Ashes

Michèle Phoenix

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

Wedded to War

Jocelyn Green

RiverNorth, an imprint of Moody Publishing

2012

Winner

Words

Ginny Yttrup

B&H Publishing Group

Finalist

An Eye for Glory

Karl Bacon

Zondervan

Finalist

Southern Fried Sushi

Jennifer Rogers Spinola

Barbour Publishing

2011

Winner

Heartless

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

Crossing Oceans

Gina Holmes

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

A Season of Miracles

Rusty Whitener

Kregel Publications

2010

Winner

Fireflies in December

Jennifer Erin Valent

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

The Familiar Stranger

Christina Berry

Moody Publishers

Finalist

Scared

Tom Davis

David C Cook

2009

Winner

Blue Hole Back Home 

Joy Jordan-Lake

David C. Cook

Finalist

Rain Song

Alice J. Wisler

Bethany House Publishers

Finalist

Safe at Home

Richard Doster

David C. Cook

2008

Winner

The Stones Cry Out

Sibella Giorello

Revell, a division of Baker

Finalist

Auralia's Colors

Jeffrey Overstreet

WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group

Finalist

Demon: A Memoir

Tosca Lee

NavPress Publishing Group

2007

Winner

Where Mercy Flows by Karen Harter

Karen Harter

Center Street

Finalist

Watching the Tree Limbs

Mary DeMuth

NavPress

Finalist

William Henry Is a Fine Name

Cathy Gohlke

Moody Press

2006

Winner

This Heavy Silence

Nicole Mazzarella

Paraclete Press

Finalist

Like a Watered Garden

Patti Hill

Bethany House Publishers

Finalist

The Road Home

Vanessa Del Fabbro

Steeple Hill

2005

Winner

The Mending String by Cliff Coon

Moody Publishers

Finalist

The Dead Don't Dance

Charles Martin

Thomas Nelson

Finalist

There is a Wideness

Mark McAllister

RiverOak

2004

Winner

Welcome to Fred

Brad Whittington

Broadman & Holman Publishers

Finalist

Flabbergasted

Ray Blackston

Revell

Finalist

The Yada Yada Prayer Group

Neta Jackson

Integrity Publishers

2003

Winner

A Place Called Wiregrass

Michael Morris

RiverOak Publishing

Finalist

Daughter of China

C. Hope Flinchbaugh

Bethany House Publishers

Finalist

Yucatan Deep

Tom Morrisey

Zondervan

2002

Winner

Ezekiel’s Shadow

David Long

Bethany House Publishers

Finalist

Go Down to Silence

Greg Belliveau

Multnomah Publishers

Finalist

Sea of Glory

Ken Wales and David Poling

Broadman & Holman Publishers

2001

Winner

Passing by Samaria

Sharon Ewell Foster

Multnomah Publishers

Finalist

Refiner's Fire

Sylvia Bambola

Multnomah Publishers

Finalist

Winter Passing

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

Tyndale House Publishers