Annual Literature Award >> Winners and Nominees >> 2020 Nominees
Nominees for the 2020 Annual Literature Award are:
[Current list]
PLEASE NOTE: The CBHL’s 52nd Annual Meeting originally planned for May 19-23, 2020 in Washington, D.C. had been replaced with a virtual meeting (details to come). Winner(s) for the Annual Literature Award were announced in September 2021.
Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America: Ecology, Life History, and Systematics
by Donald H. Les. CRC Press, 2018.
ISBN | 9781482225020
Badger’s Perfect Garden
by Marsha Diane Arnold. Sleeping Bear Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781534110007
Bonsai | Penjing: The collections of the Montreal Botanical Garden
by Danielle Ouellet. Les Amis du Jardin botanique de Montréal, 2019.
ISBN | 9782980121852
The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
by Sophia Gholz. Sleeping Bear Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781534110243
Eden Revisited: A Garden in Northern Morocco
by Umberto Pasti and Ngoc Minh Ngo. Rizzoli, 2019.
ISBN | 9780847864805
Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants & Places that Inspired the Iconic Poet
by Marta McDowell. Timber Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781604698220
The Extraordinary Story of the Apple, 2nd ed.
by Barrie E. Juniper and David J. Mabberley. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press], 2019.
ISBN | 9781842466551
Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness
by Michael Foley. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019.
ISBN | 9781603588003
Field Guide to Grasses of the Mid-Atlantic
by Sarah Chamberlain. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.
ISBN | 9780271078694
Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon & Washington
by Cindy Talbott Roché, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson, Nick Otting and Robert Korfhage. Oregon State University Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9780870719592
A Five Year Plan for Geraniums: Growing Flowers Commercially in East Germany 1946-1989
by Judith M. Taylor. Xlibris, 2019.
ISBN | 9781984576170
Flora of The Mediterranean with California, Chile, Australia & South Africa
by Christopher Martin Gardner and Basak Guner Gardner. Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2019.
ISBN | 9781472970268
Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate
by Sara Levine. Lerner Publishing Group, 2019.
ISBN |9781541519282
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore
by Lawrence Millman. Princeton University Press, 2019.
ISBN | 978069119472
Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest, 3rd. ed.
by Arthur Kruckeberg and Linda Chalker-Scott. University of Washington Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9780295744155
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
by Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul. Lerner Publishing Group,
ISBN | 9781512449143
Just the Tonic: a Natural History of Tonic Water
by Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt. Kew Publishing, 2019.
ISBN | 9781842466896
Linnaeus, Natural History and the Circulation of Knowledge
ed. by Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nybert and Stéphane Van Damme. Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, 2018. (Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment)
ISBN | 9780729412056
Marfa Garden: The Wonders of Dry Desert Plants
by Jim Fissel, Martha Hughes, Jim Martinez and Mary Lou Saxon. Trinity University Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781595348890
Marianne North: the Kew Collection
by Marianne North; introduction by Christopher Mills. Kew Publishing, 2018.
ISBN | 9781842466650
Naturalistic Planting Design: The Essential Guide
by Nigel Dunnett. Filbert Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9780993389269
Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World
by Nancy Striniste. Timber Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781604698251
The Night Flower:The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus
by Lara Hawthorne. Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781536206166
Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders
by James Taylor. Adlard Coles, 2018.
ISBN | 9781472955432
Plantopedia: A Celebration of Nature’s Greatest Show-Offs
by Adrienne Barman. Wide Eyed Editions, 2018.
ISBN | 9781786031396
Rankafu: Orchid Print Album
by Stephen Kirby, Toshikazu Doi and Toru Otsuka. Kew Publishing, 2018.
ISBN | 9781842466681
Reaktion Books – Botanical Series
by multiple authors including Richard Milne, Elizabeth Lawson, Stephen A. Harris, Marcia Reiss, Laura Mason et al. Reaktion Books, 2018.
Books (3) included: Mulberry (Peter Coles) ; Cactus (Dan Torre) ; Rose (Catherine Horwood)
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms
by Naoko Abe. Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
ISBN | 9780525435389
A Seed is the Start
by Melissa Stewart. National Geographic Kids, 2018.
ISBN | 9781426329777
Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
by Sonja Dümpelmann. Yale University Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9780300225785
The Shirley Sherwood Collection: Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art
by Shirley Sherwood. Kew Publishing, 2019.
ISBN | 9781842466933
Soar High, Dragonfly
by Sheri M. Bestor. Sleeping Bear Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781585364107
The Sunflower Family: A Guide to the Family Asteraceae in the Contiguous United States
by Richard Spellenberg and Naida Zucker. Botanical Research Institute of Texas Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781889878652
The Tree Book: Superior selections for Landscapes, Streetscapes, and Gardens
by Michael Dirr and Keith Warren. Timber Press, 2019.
ISBN | 9781604697148
Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy
Edited by Ines Asceric-Todd, Sabina Knees, Janet Starkey, and Paul Starkey. Archaeopress Publishing, 2018.
ISBN | 9781784919153
Unraveling the Voynich Codex
by Jules Janick and Arthur O. Tucker. Springer, 2018.
ISBN | 9783319772936
What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing
by Karen Magnuson Beil. Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company.
ISBN | 9781324004684
Wisteria: The Complete Guide
by James Compton and Chris Lane. Royal Horticultural Society, 2019.
ISBN | 9781907057885
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