The Christy Award^® Archives

VISIONARY

2020

Winner

Hidden Current

Sharon Hinck

Enclave Publishing

Finalist

Cry of the Raven

Morgan L. Busse

Bethany House

Finalist

The Story Raider

Lindsay A. Franklin

Enclave Publishing

2019

Winner

Shivering World

Kathy Tyers

Enclave Publishing

Finalist

Mark of the Raven

Morgan Busse

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

The Story Peddler

Lindsay A. Franklin

Enclave Publishing

Finalist

The Wounded Shadow

Patrick W. Carr

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

2018

Winner

The Man He Never Was

James Rubart

HarperCollins Christian Publishing

Finalist

Awakened

Morgan Busse

Enclave/ Gilead Publishing

Finalist

The Day the Angels Fell

Shawn Smucker

Revell/ Baker Publishing Group

2017

Winner

The Long Journey to Jake Palmer

James Rubart

Thomas Nelson

Finalist

The Alliance

Jolina Petersheim

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

King's Folly

Jill Williamson

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

2016

Winner

The Five Times I Met Myself

James L. Rubart

Thomas Nelson

Finalist

A Time to Speak

Nadine Brandes

Enclave Publishing

Finalist

Waking Beauty

Sarah E. Morin

Enclave Publishing

2015

Winner

Once Beyond a Time

Ann Tatlock

Heritage Beacon Fiction

Finalist

Shadow Hand

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

A Time to Die

Nadine Brandes

Enclave Publishing

2014

Winner

Dragonwitch

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

A Cast of Stones

Patrick W. Carr

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

Numb

John W. Otte

Marcher Lord Press

2013

Winner

Soul's Gate

James L. Rubart

Thomas Nelson, Harper Collins Christian Publishing

Finalist

Daughter of Light

Morgan L. Busse

Marcher Lord Press

Finalist

Starflower

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

2012

Winner

Veiled Rose

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

The Chair

James L. Rubart

B&H Publishing Group

Finalist

Forbidden

Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee

Center Street, a division of Hachette Book Group USA

2011

Winner

To Darkness Fled

Jill Williamson

Marcher Lord Press

Finalist

Konig's Fire

Marc Schooley

Marcher Lord Press

Finalist

The Last Christian

David Gregory

WaterBrook Press

2010

Winner

By Darkness Hid

Jill Williamson

Marcher Lord Press

Finalist

The Enclave

Karen Hancock

Bethany House/ Baker Publishing Group

Finalist

Valley of the Shadow

Tom Pawlik

Tyndale House Publishers

2009

Winner

Vanish 

Tom Pawlik

Tyndale House Publishers

Finalist

The Battle for Vast Dominion

George Bryan Polivka

Harvest House Publishers

Finalist

Shade

John B. Olson

B&H Publishing Group

2008

Winner

Scarlet

Stephen R. Lawhead

Thomas Nelson

Finalist

Auralia's Colors

Jeffrey Overstreet

WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group

Finalist

The Restorer

Sharon Hinck

NavPress Publishing Group

2006

Winner

Shadow Over Kiriath

Karen Hancock

Bethany House Publishers

Finalist

Legend of the Emerald Rose

Linda Wichman

Kregel Publications

Finalist

The Presence

Bill Myers

Zondervan

2005

Winner

The Shadow Within

Karen Hancock

Bethany House Publishers

Finalist

Beyond the Summerland

L.B. Graham

P&R Publishing

Finalist

Dragonspell

Donita K. Paul

WaterBrook Press