32nd Annual Voting Ballot – Reading the West

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Fiction
- Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
- The Removed, Brandon Hobson
- My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
- Reprieve, James Han Mattson
- The Five Wounds, Kirstin Valdez Quade
Debut Fiction
- Site Fidelity, Claire Boyles
- No Heaven For Good Boys, Keisha Bush
- Damnation Spring, Ash Davidson
- Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer, Jamie Figueroa
- You Belong Here Now, Diana Rostad
Poetry
- The Perserverance, Raymond Antrobus
- Welcome to Midland, Logen Cure
- Stay Safe, Emma Hine
- Desert Apocrypha, Zach Hively
- A Gospel of Bones, Suzi Q. Smith
Nonfiction
- Wildcat, Jon Boessenecker
- On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed
- Bison, Audrey Hall & Chase Reynolds Ewald
- After One Hundred Winters, Margaret Jacobs
- The Redemption of Wolf 302, Rick McIntyre
Memoir/Biography
- The Lady and the Mountain Man, Chris Enss
- Powder Days, Heather Hansman
- Poet Warrior, Jo Harjo
- Fox & I, Catherine Raven
- The Farmer's Lawyer, Sarah Vogel
Eating the West
- Spectacular Spreads, Maegan Brown
- High-Altitude Breakfast, Nicole Hampton
- Mexican Food - The Ultimate Cookbook, Luis Robles et.al.
- Earth Medicines, Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz
- Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook, Joshua Weissman
Picture Book
- Slow Down Tumbleweed, Haven Iverson, illustrated by Robert Sayegh Jr.
- A Dinosaur Named Ruth, Julia Lyon, illustrated by Alexandra Bye
- Read Island, Nicole Magistro, illustrated by Alice Feagan
- B is for Bison, Greg Paprocki
- Watercress, Andrea Wang, illustrated by Jason Chin
Young Readers
- Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, Alda P. Dobbs
- Carry Me Home, Janet Fox
- Alone, Megan E. Freeman
- Salt Magic, Hope Larson, illustrated by Rebecca Mock
- Ancestor Approved, Cyntitha Leitich Smith
Young Adult
- This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron
- Yolk, Mary H. K. Choi
- How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe, Raquel Vasquez
- A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger
- Bad Girls Never Say Die, Jennifer Mathieu

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