Winners of the 36th annual Reading the West Book Awards, sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association and chosen by booksellers and readers, have been named. Videos of each author accepting their award can be viewed here. This year's winners:
Fiction: Lone Dog Road by Kent Nerburn (New World Library)
Debut fiction: Penitence by Kristin Koval (Celadon Books)
Poetry: Dream of the Bird Tattoo: Poems and Sueñitos by Juan J. Morales (University of New Mexico Press)
General nonfiction: The Way Out: A True Story of Survival in the Heart of the Rockies by Devon O'Neil (HarperOne)
Memoir/biography: The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere by Nicholas Triolo (Milkweed Editions)
Picture book: Painting Wonder: How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien by Katie Wray Schon (Waxwing Books)
Young reader/middle grade: Three Blue Hearts by Lynne Kelly (Delacorte Press)
YA/teen: Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)