Annual Literature Award >> Winners and Nominees >> 2019 Nominees
Nominees for the 2019 Annual Literature Award are:
[Current list]
Abernethy Forest
by R. W. Summers, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2018.
ISBN 9781999988203
An Abundance of Flowers: More Great Flower Breeders of the Past
by Judith M. Taylor, Ohio University Press / Swallow Press (OUP’s trade imprint), 2018.
ISBN 9780804011938
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by Victoria Johnson, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
ISBN 9781631494192
Around the World in 80 Trees
by Jonathan Drori, ill. by Lucille Clerc, Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
ISBN 9781786271617
The Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
ed. by Paul Smith, University of Chicago Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780226362236
C. G. Pringle: Botanist, Traveler, and the “Flora of the Pacific Slope” (1881–1884)
by Kathryn Mauz, NYBG Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780893275563
Coffee Atlas of Ethiopia
by Aaron P. Davis, Tim Wilkinson, Zeleke Kebebew Challa, Jenny Williams, Susana Baena, Tadesse Woldemarium Gole and Justin Moat, Kew Publishing, 2018.
ISBN 9781842466605
Designing with Palms
by Jason Dewees, photogr. by Caitlin Atkinson, Timber Press, 2018.
ISBN 9781604695434
Dig In! 12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps
Kari Cornell, photogr. by Jennifer S. Larson, Lerner Publishing Group/Millbrook Press, 2018.
ISBN 9781512430653
Every Colour Soup
Jorey Hurley, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2018.
ISBN 9781481469999
Everything you Need for a Treehouse
by Carter Higgins and Emily Hughes, Chronicle Books, 2018.
ISBN 9781452142555
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
by Leah Penniman, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018.
ISBN 9781603587617
Flora of the Chicago Region: A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis
by Gerould Wilhelm and Laura Rericha, ill. by Mary Marguerite Lowther, Indiana Academy of Science, 2017.
ISBN 9781883362157
Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual, 2nd ed.
by C. Leo Hitchcock & Arthur Cronquist, ed. by David E. Giblin, Ben S. Legler, Peter F. Zika, and Richard G. Olmstead, University of Washington Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780295742885
Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs, 2nd edition
by Whitney Cranshaw and David Shetlar, Princeton University Press, 2017.
ISBN 9780691167442
Gardening under Lights: The complete Guide for Indoor Growers
by Leslie F. Halleck, Timber Press, 2018.
ISBN 9781604697957
Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens
by Christopher Woods, Timber Press, 2018.
ISBN 9781604697971
Gardens of the Roman Empire
ed. by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, and Amina-Aicha Malek, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
ISBN 97805218216122
The Girl who Drew Butterflies
by Joyce Sidman, HMH Books for Young Readers, 2018.
ISBN 9780544717138
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener’s Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History, new ed.
by William Woys Weaver, Voyageur Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780760359921
History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens
by Linda A. Chisholm, photogr. by Michael D. Garber, Timber Press, 2018.
ISBN 9781604695298
How Plants Work: Form, Diversity, Survival
by Stephen Blackmore, Princeton University Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780691177496
How to Survive as a Firefly
Written by Kristen Foote and ill. by Erica Salcedo, The Innovation Press, 2017.
ISBN 9781943147328
Identification of Trees and Shrubs in Winter using Buds and Twigs
by Bernd Schulz and Monica Shaffer-Fehre (Translator), Kew Publishing, 2018.
ISBN 9781842466506
[Originally published as: Gehölzbestimmung im Winter mit Knospen und Zweigen. Stuttgart, Germany: Eugen Ulmer KG, 2013]
In the Footsteps of Joseph Dalton Hooker
by Seamus O’Brien, Kew Publishing, 2018.
ISBN 9781842466568
Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage
Joseph Banks, with essays by Mel Gooding, David Mabberley, and Joseph Studholme, Thames & Hudson, 2017.
ISBN 9780500022870
The Mushroom Fan Club
by Elise Gravel, Enfant – Drawn & Quarterly, 2018
ISBN 9781770463226
Native Flora of Louisiana
Watercolor drawings by Margaret Stones [With Botanical Descriptions by Lowell E. Urbatsch], Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780807170236
Naturalists in the Field: Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century
ed. by Arthur MacGregor, Brill, 2018.
ISBN 9789004323834
Nature’s Friend
Written by Lindsay McDivitt, ill. by Eileen Ryan Ewen, Sleeping Bear Press, 2018.
ISBN 9781585364053
Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story
written by Suzanna Slade, ill. by Jessica Lanan, Sleeping Bear Press, 2017.
ISBN 9781585369867
The Overstory
by Richard Powers, W. W. Norton, 2018.
ISBN 9780393635522
Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants
by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase, Kew Publishing ; University of Chicago Press, 2017.
ISBN 9781842466346 / 9780226522920
Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World’s Most Poisonous Plants
by Elizabeth A. Dauncey and Sonny Larsson, Princeton University Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780691178769
Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens
by Staci Catron and Mary Ann Eaddy, University of Georgia Press, 2018.
ISBN 9780820353005
The Song of Trees
by David George Haskell, Penguin, 2017.
ISBN 9780143111306
The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redoute’s American Masterpiece
by David Allen Sibley, Marta McDowell, Gregory Long and Susan M. Fraser, Abbeville Press, 2017.
ISBN 9780789212764
Visionary Landscapes: Japanese Garden Design in North America, the Work of Five Contemporary Masters
by Kendall H. Brown, photogr. by David M. Cobb, Tuttle Publishing. 2017.
ISBN 9784805313862
The Wasp and the Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman
by Danielle Clode, Picador / Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018.
ISBN 9781760554286
Weird Plants
by Chris Thorogood, Kew Publishing, 2018.
ISBN 9781842466629
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Please note: Winners will be announced at the 2019 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, May 2019.