Grateful American Book Prize

Grateful American Book Prize Winners

2023 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Mattie and the Machine

by Lynn Ng Quezon

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2023 Honorable Mention

Island of Spies

by Sheila Turnage

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I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

by Sara Latta

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2022 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Black Was the Ink

by Michelle Coles

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2022 Honorable Mention

Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

by Gail Jarrow

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Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm

by Tonya Bolden

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2021 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Ground Zero

by Alan Gratz

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2021 Honorable Mention

The Cannon of Courage

by Chris Stevenson

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View from Pagoda Hill

by Michaela MacColl

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2020 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963

by Sharon Robinson

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2020 Honorable Mention

Allies

by Alan Gratz

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Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice and the Fourteenth Amendment

by Alan Gratz

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2019 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor

by Sonia Sotomayor

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2019 Honorable Mention

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction And The Dawn Of Jim Crow

by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Tonya Bolden
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The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, And The Race To Light The World

by Mike Winchell
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2018 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Suspect Red

by L.M. Elliott

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2018 Honorable Mention

Hamilton and Peggy! A Revolutionary Friendship

by L.M. Elliott

The Making of America 'Andrew Jackson'

by Teri Kanefield

 

2017 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

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2017 Honorable Mention

Dreamland Burning

by Jennifer Latham

The Story of John Quincy Adams 250 Years After his Birth

by Edward Cody Huddleston

 

2016 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

The Drum of Destiny

by Chris Stevenson

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2016 Honorable Mention

Freedom’s Price

by Michaela MacColl and Rosemary Nichols

The Hired Girl

by Laura Amy Schlitz

 

2015 Grateful American Book Prize Winner (Inaugural Year)

Like a River: A Civil War Novel

by Kathy Cannon Wiechman

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