Best Christian Fiction 2005
 

Best Christian Fiction 2006


Christy Award - Allegory/Fantasy/Visionary
Shadow Within by Karen Hancock

Christy Award - Contemporary/General
Bad Ground by W. Dale Cramer

Christy Award - Best First Novel
The Mending String by Cliff Coon

Christy Award - Historical
King's Ransom by Jan and Thom Lemmons Beazely*

Christy Award - Romance
Secrets by Kristen Heitzmann

Christy Award - Suspense
Tiger in the Shadows by Debbie Wilson*

Gold Medallion
Oceans Apart by Karen Kingsbury

Christian Science Monitor
The Ha-Ha by Dave King
My Jim by Nancy Rawles*
Pearl by Mary Gordon
March by Geraldine Brooks
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Christian Fiction Review Best of 2005
Leave it to Claire by Tracey Bateman*
Web of Lies by Brandilyn Collins*
Showdown by Ted Dekker
Saving Alice by David Lewis*

Christianity Today Book Award
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

 


Christy Award - Contemporary/General

Levi's Will by W. Dale Cramer
The Road to Home by Vanessa Del Fabbro*

Christy Award - Best First Novel
This Heavy Silence by Nicole Mazzarella

Christy Award - Historical
Whence Came a Prince by Liz Curtis Higgs

Christy Award - Romance
A Bride Most Begrudging by Deeanne Gist

Christy Award - Suspense
River Rising by Athol Dickinson

Christy Award - Visionary
Shadow Over Kiriath by Karen Hancock*

ECPA Christian Book Award
(formerly the Gold Medallion Book Award)

The Ezekiel Option by Joel Rosenberg

Library Journal's
Best Christian Fiction 2006

Rekindled by Tamera Alexander
Grace in Thine Eyes by Liz Curtis Higgins
Waking Lazarus by T.L. Hines
The Brethren by Beverly Lewis
Things We Once Held Dear by Ann Tatlock

Christianity Today Book Award
This Heavy Silence by Nicole Mazzarella

 

*We do not own these titles.  Please ask at or call the Adult Services Reference Desk about our interlibrary loan service.

 

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Compiled 12/05, 1/07