Annual Literature Award >> Winners and Nominees >> 2024 Nominees
Nominees for the 2024 Annual Literature Award are:
[Current list after deadline]
The attention of a traveler: Essays on William Bartram’s travels and legacy
Braund, Kathryn H.
University of Alabama Press, 2022. 400 p.
ISBN 9780817321291
Big Tree
Selznick, Brian
Scholastic Press, 2023. 528 p.
ISBN 9781338180633
Botanical gardens and their role in plant conservation. Vol. 1: General topics, African and Australian botanical gardens; Vol. 2: Asian botanical gardens; Vol 3: European and American botanical gardens
Pullaiah, T. and David A. Galbraith, editors
CRC Press, 2023. 3 vols.: 816 p.
ISBN 9781032252148
Botany and gardens in early modern Ireland
Boran, Elizabethanne, E. Charles Nelson & Emer Lawlor, editors
Trustees of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin by Four Courts Press, 2022. 336 p.
ISBN 9781801510233
Brave the Wild River: The untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
Sevigny, Melissa L.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. 304 p.
ISBN 9780393868234
Captivity’s collections: Science, natural history, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Murphy, Kathleen S.
Unviversity of North Carolina Press, 2023. 256 p.
ISBN 9781469675909
Chanteloup, the Renaissance garden of the Villeroys: An initiation to humanism
Dejean, Matthieu and Perrine Galand-Willemen
Librairie Droz, 2022. 352 p.
ISBN 9782600062305
A curious herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s pioneering masterpiece of botanical art
Blackwell, Elizabeth, Marta McDowell, editor and Janet Stiles Tyson, essayist.
Abbeville Press Publishers, 2023. 576 p.
ISBN 9780789214539
Darwin and the art of botany: Observations on the curious world of plants
Costa, James T. and Bobbi Angell
Timber Press, 2023. 380 p.
ISBN 9781643260792
Dead wood: The afterlife of trees
Wohl, Ellen
Oregon State University Press, 2022. 176 p.
ISBN 9780870715273
du Pont gardens of the Brandywine Valley
McDowell, Marta (text) and Larry Lederman (photos)
Monacelli, 2023. 240 p.
ISBN 9781580936033
Elderflora: A modern history of ancient trees
Farmer, Jared. Basic Books,
Hachette Book Group, 2022. vii, 432 p.
ISBN 9780465097845.
Flora’s fieldworkers: Women and botany in nineteenth-century Canada
Shteir, Ann, editor.
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. 488 p.
ISBN 9780228011125.
Garden: Exploring the horticultural world
Phaidon Editors, with introduction by Matthew Biggs
Phaidon Press, 2023. 351 p.
ISBN 9781838665975
A gardener’s guide to botany: The biology behind the pants you love, how they grow, and what they need
Zona, Scott
Cool Springs Press, 2023. 255 p.
ISBN 9780760374450
Gardening can be murder: How poisonous poppies, sinister shovels, and grim gardens have inspired mystery writers
McDowell, Marta; Yolanda V. Fundora (illustrator)
Timber Press, 2023. 216 p.
ISBN 9781643261126
Gardening in a changing world: Plants, people and the climate crisis
Moore, Darryl
Pimpernel Press, 2022. 256 p.
ISBN 9781910258286
The Grove: A nature odyssey in 19-1/2 front gardens
Dark, Ben
Mitchell Beazley, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group LTD, 2022. 336 p.
ISBN 9781784727383
Grow
Reyes, Riz; Sara Boccaccini Meadows, illustrator.
Magic Cat Publishing, 2022. 61 p.
ISBN 9781419756658.
The herbarium handbook. 4th ed.
Davies, Nina, Clare Drinkell and Tim Utteridge
Kew Publishing, 2024. 256 p.
ISBN 9781842467695
In the herbarium: The hidden world of collecting and preserving plants
Flannery, Maura C.
Yale University Press, 2023. 325 p.
ISBN 9780300247916
Kimberley Bush Food: Edible plants of the Kimberley region of Western Australia
King, Madison and John Horsfall
UWA Publishing, 2023. 600 p.
ISBN 9781760802202
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the senses, and natural knowledge on an Asian borderland
Rogaski, Ruth
University of Chicago Press, 2022. 464 p.
ISBN 9780226809656
The lives of fungi: A natural history of our planet’s decomposers
Bunyard, Britt A.
Princeton University Press, 2022. 288 p.
ISBN 9780691229843
Maria Sibylla Merian: Changing the nature of art and science
Van de Roemer, Bert, Florence Pieters, Hans Mulder, Kay Etheridge, and Marieke van Delft
Lannoo, 2022. 304 p.
ISBN 9789401485333
Marianne North’s travel writing: Every step a fresh picture
Payne, Michelle
Kew Publishing, 2023. 256 p.
ISBN 9781842467954
The milkweed lands: An epic story of one plant, its nature and ecology
Lee-Mäder, Eric and Beverly Duncan (illustrator)
Storey Publishing, 2023. 120 p.
ISBN 9781635864366
My indigo world : a true story of the color blue
Chang, Rosa
minedition, 2023. n.p. (40 p.)
ISBN 9781662650659
A pandemic gardening journal
Puchalski, Matt
Conover Lane, 2023. 92 p.
ISBN 9798987899403
Plant: Explore the extraordinary world of plants and flowers
Griffin, Annabel
Beetle Books, 2023. 64 p.
ISBN 9781915461186
Planting clues: How plants solve crimes
Gibson, David J.
Oxford University Press, 2022. 256 p.
ISBN 9780198868606
Plants of the Pineywoods of East Texas & West Louisiana Part 1: Herbaceous Eudicotyledon, herbaceous Magnoliids & Nymphaeiids
Van Kley, James E. (text) and Bruce Lyndon Cunningham (artwork)
(Forester-Artist), 2022. 454 p.
ISBN 9780934115186
Plants of the Qur’an: History & culture
Ghazanfar, Shahina and Sue Wickison
Kew Publishing, 2023. 208 p.
ISBN 9781842467176
Prairie up: An introduction to natural garden design
Vogt, Benjamin
University of Illinois Press, 2023. 208 p.
ISBN 9780252086779
Putting down roots: Foundations of botany at Carolina, with a concluding chapter on the history of the Department of Botany
Burk, William R.
BRIT Press, 2023. 616 p.
ISBN 9781889878713
Soil: The story of a Black mother’s garden
Dungy, Camille T.
Simon & Schuster, 2023. 336 p.
ISBN 9781982195304
What Gardeners Grow: 600 plants chosen by the world’s greatest plantspeople
Gandyra, Melanie (Illustrator)
Frances Lincoln, 2023. 336 p. (Bloom)
ISBN 9780711272903
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