BOOKMANIA! 2024

The Martin County Library System and The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc. presented an in-person BookMania! festival at Jensen Beach High School for March 2, 2024.

Jensen Beach High School
2875 NW Goldenrod Rd.
Jensen Beach, FL 34957

This event was live streamed on the Library's Facebook Page and YouTube Channel.

Authors will participate in one of multiple panel discussions featuring emerging and prominent writers. Titles by guest authors will be available from the library’s regular, Martin’s Most Wanted, and downloadable collections. The event continues the successful evolution of “the most prestigious literary event on the Treasure Coast,” first taking place in 1995.

BookMania! has hosted over 450 emerging and best-selling authors since its inception, attracting participants from all over the United States. Here is our author selection criteria.

2024 SCHEDULE

Visit the pop-up Barnes & Noble book sale in the JBHS Nutrition Center throughout the day to purchase books for the authors to sign.

9:00am | Welcome from Sue Whittington

9:15 to 10:00am | Sea Stories - Fact & Fiction, moderated by Peggy Chittum

(followed by book signing)

Visit the Barnes & Noble Café in the courtyard to purchase drinks and snacks. Be sure to finish them before the next panel.

10:30 to 11:45am | Thriller & Suspense, moderated by Amanda Brack

(followed by book signing)

11:45am to 12:45pm | Lunch from the Martin County Sheriff's Grill Team

Choose either a burger, veggie burger, or hotdog with a side of chips and drink. $5 cash purchase

12:45 to 1:45pm | Love, Friendship, and Ever Afters, moderated by Linda Weiksnar

(followed by book signing)

2:15 to 3:15pm | Historical Fiction, moderated by Paula Hundt

(followed by book signing)

Florida Humanities logo showing state of Florida

BookMania! is sponsored and funded by The Library Foundation of Martin County Inc. Additional funding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this event do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Previous BookMania! Events

Previous BookMania! video recordings of each panel discussion are available on the Library's YouTube channel.

2023    Clay Henderson - Forces of Nature: A History of Florida Land Conservation
2023    James Clark - Florida Literary Luminaries
2023    Alex Finlay - What Have We Done
2023    Mary Kubica - Just the Nicest Couple
2023    Megan Miranda - The Only Survivors
2023    Ashley Poston - The Dead Romantics
2023    Elinor Lipman - Ms. Demeanor
2023    Jean Meltzer - Mr. Perfect on Paper
2023    Brendan Slocumb - The Violin Conspiracy
2023    Fiona Davis - The Magnolia Palace
2023    Madeline Martin - The Librarian Spy
2022    Virtual - Michael Tougias - A Storm Too Soon and The Waters Between Us
2022    Virtual - Wanda Morris - All Her Little Secrets
2022    Virtual - Spencer Quinn - Tender Is the Bite
2022    Virtual - John Searles - Her Last Affair
2022    Virtual - Kristin Harmel - The Forest of Vanishing Stars
2022    Virtual - Sheila Williams - Things Past Telling
2021    Virtual - Sadeqa Johnson - Yellow Wife
2021    Virtual - Sherianna Boyle - Emotional Detox For Anxiety 
2021    Virtual - Carey Davidson - The Five Archetypes
2021    Virtual - Madeleine Henry - The Love Proof
2021    Virtual - Susie Yang - White Ivy
2021    Virtual - Kristin Harmel - The Book of Lost Names
2021    Virtual - Kristy Woodson Harvey - Feels Like Falling, Under the Southern Sky
2021    Virtual - William Kent Kruger - This Tender Land
2020    Cancelled - Coronavirus Pandemic
2019    Emily Arsenault - The Last Thing I Told You
2019    JoAnn Chaney - As Long as We Both Shall Live
2019    Alison Gaylin - If I Die Tonight
2019    Lauren Doyle Owens - The Other Side of Everything
2019    Carol Goodman - The Other Mother
2019    Sophie Hannah - Next to Die
2019    Bryan Reardon - The Real Michael Swann
2019    Hank Phillippi Ryan - Trust Me
2019    Diane Chamberlain - The Dream Daughter
2019    Susan Wiggs - Between You and Me
2019    James Patterson - The Chef
2019    Sarah Bird - Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
2019    Alan Brennert - Daughter of Moloka'i
2019    Yangsze Choo - The Night Tiger
2018    Jamie Ford - Love and other Consolation Prizes
2018    Lisa Wingate - Before We Were Yours
2018    Kate Quinn - The Alice Network
2018    Larry Olmsted - Real Food, Fake Food
2018    James Hamblin - If Our Bodies Could Talk
2018    David Rosenfelt - Collared
2018    Maria Goodavage - Secret Service Dogs
2018    Charles Todd - The Gate Keeper
2018    Liv Constantine - The Last Mrs. Parrish
2018    Paul Kix - The Saboteur
2018    Rene Denfeld - The Child Finder
2018    AJ Finn - The Woman in the Window
2018    Anne Hillerman - Song of the Lion
2017    Dr. Steven Massey - Smart Fat
2017    Rumaan Alam - Rich and Pretty
2017    Jade Chang - The Wangs vs. the World
2017    Hirsh Sawhney - South Haven
2017    Jung Yun - Shelter
2017    Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why
2017    Paul Grifin - Burning Blue
2017    Martha Hall Kelly - Lilac Girls
2017    James Haley - The Shores of Tripoli
2017    Andrew Malan Milward - I Was a Revolutionary
2017    Helen Simonson - The Summer Before the War
2016    Les Standiford - Water to the Angels
2016    Kim van Alkemade - Orphan #8
2016    Meg Waite Clayton - The Race for Paris
2016    Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Balm
2016    Katy Simpson Smith - Free Men
2016    Alafair Burke - The Ex
2016    Tami Hoag - The Bitter Season
2016    Phillip Margolin - Violent Crimes
2016    Lisa Unger - Crazy Love You
2016    McLain - Circling the Sun
2015    Hampton Sides – in the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette
2015    Scott Cheshire – High as the Horses’ Bridles
2015    Patricia Harman – The Reluctant Midwife
2015    Mary Doria Russell – Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
2015    Cara Black – Murder on the Champ de Mars
2015    Lisa black – Close to the Bone
2015    Lis Wiehl – Lethal Beauty
2015    Marie-Helene Bertino – 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas
2015    Mira Jacob – The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing
2015    Jack Livings – The Dog: Stories
2015    Joseph Kanon – The Good German
2015    Laura Lippman – Every Secret Thing
2015    Peter Swanson – The Girl with a Clock for a Heart
2014    Carol Andersen - A Chance of Snow
2014    Laura Atchison - What Would a Wise Woman Do?
2014    Judith Barnes, Ph.D, - Kindness
2014    Claire Bidwell Smith - Rules of Inheritance
2014    Tom Clavin - The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream; The Heart of All that Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend
2014    Mary E. Dawson - The River Way Home: The Adventures of the Cowboy, the Indian and the Amazon Queen
2014    Jane Green - Tempting Fate
2014    Marjan Kamali - Together Tea
2014    Rick Kogan - A Life in Print: Reflections on Titans of the Typewriter
2014    Michelle Madow - The Secret Diamond Sisters
2014    Said Sayrafiezadeh - Brief Encounters with the Enemy
2014    Dani Shapiro - Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
2014    Sonia Taitz - The Watchmaker’s Daughter
2014    Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles
2013    Rilla Askew - Kind of Kin
2013    Wiley Cash - A Land More Kind Than Home
2013    Mary Jane Clark - Footprints in the Sand
2013    Debra Dean - The Mirrored World
2013    Karen Engelmann - The Stockholm Octavo
2013    Loren D. Estleman - Burning Midnight
2013    Anna Funder - All That I Am
2013    James Grippando - Blood Money
2013    Lt. Col. Dan Hampton - Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat
2013    Reeve Lindbergh - Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 (by Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
2013    Katherine Hall Page - The Body in the Boudoir
2013    Vaddey Ratner - In the Shadow of the Banyan
2013    Gene Allen Smith - The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
2013    Les Standiford - Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
2012    Nevada Barr - The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel
2012    Marisa de los Santos - Falling Together
2012    Paul Doiron - Trespasser
2012    Andre Dubus III - Townie
2012    Erin Duffy - Bond Girl
2012    Lauren Groff - The Monsters of Templeton
2012    Jennifer Haigh - Faith
2012    Gregg Hurwitz - You’re Next
2012    Jeffrey Kluger - The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us  
2012    Jim Lehrer - Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain
2012    Jeff Lindsay - Double Dexter
2012    Wendy McClure - The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
2012    Alicia Oltuski - Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life
2011    Jennifer Arnold - Through a Dog’s Eyes
2011    Robert Barclay - If Wishes Were Horses
2011    Ted Bell - Warlord: An Alex Hawke Novel 
2011    Elizabeth Berg - The Last Time I Saw You
2011    Roy Blount, Jr., Hail, Hail Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
2011    C. J. Box - Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
2011    Susannah Charleson - Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search and Rescue Dog
2011    Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville
2011    Scott Eyman - Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
2011    Joy Fielding - The Wild Zone
2011    Joe Finder - Vanished
2011    Connie May Fowler - How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly
2011    Jamie Freveletti - Running Dark
2011    Conor Grennan - Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
2011    S. C. Gwynne - Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History  
2011    Michael Harvey - The Third Rail
2011    Susan Henderson - Up From the Blue
2011    Karl Marlantes - Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
2011    Joyce Maynard - The Good Daughters
2011    Bonnie McEneaney - Messages: Signs, Visits and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11
2011    Martha McPhee - Dear Money
2011    Michael Morris - Slow Way Home; A Place Called Wiregrass 
2011    Sena Jeter Naslund - Adam & Eve
2011    Helen Simonson - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
2010    Ann Louise Bardach - Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington
2010    Allison Hoover Bartlett - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
2010    Steve Berry - The Paris Vendetta
2010    Lisa Black - Evidence of Murder
2010    Sheramy Bundrick - Sunflowers 
2010    Claire Cook - The Wildwater Walking Club
2010    Robert Goolrick - A Reliable Wife
2010    Masha Hamilton - 31 Hours 
2010    Katherine Howe - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane 
2010    Paulette Jiles - The Color of Lightning 
2010    Kaylie Jones - Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir
2010    Roberta Lee, M.D. - The Superstress Solution
2010    Julie Metz - Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
2010    Norman Ollestad - Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
2010    James O’Neal (aka James O. Born) - The Human Disguise
2010    Gerald Posner - Miami Babylon Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch From the Beach
2010    James Rollins - Altar of Eden
2010    Rakesh Satyal - Blue Boy
2010    Mark Seal - Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa
2010    Dani Shapiro - Devotion
2010    Doug Stanton - Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
2010    Elaine Viets - Killer Cuts
2010    Neil White - In the Sanctuary of Outcasts 
2010    Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Lunch Lady (graphic novel series)
2009    Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2009    Louis Bayard - The Black Tower
2009    Rick Bragg - The Prince of Frogtown
2009    Alafair Burke - Angel’s Tip
2009    Marisa de los Santos - Belong to Me
2009    David Ebershoff - The 19th Wife
2009    Hallie Ephron - Never Tell a Lie
2009    Diane Hammond - Hannah’s Dream 
2009    Julia Whorf Kelly - Feast or Famine: Growing Up Bohemian in Provincetown  
2009    Lily Koppel - The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal 
2009    Christopher (Kit) Lukas - Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival 
2009    Debbie Macomber - Twenty Wishes 
2009    Diane McKinney-Whetstone - Trading Dreams at Midnight 
2009    DeLauné Michel - The Safety of Secrets 
2009    Janis Owens - Cracker Kitchen 
2009    James Reese - The Dracula Dossier 
2009    Patricia Schultz - 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die 
2009    Deborah Sharp - Mama Does Time 
2009    Karin Slaughter - Fractured 
2009    Garth Stein - The Art of Racing in the Rain 
2009    James Swain - The Night Stalker 
2009    Dr. Nick Trout - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
2009    Lisa Unger - Black Out 
2009    Marianne Berkes - Over in the Jungle: A Rainforest Rhyme
2009    Jan Day - Kissimmee Pete and the Hurricane
2009    Donna Gephart - As If Being 12 ¾ Isn’t Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President!
2009    Janeen Mason - Ocean Commotion: Sea Turtles!
2009    Riley Roam - The Great Pizza Contest
2008    Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells
2008    Steve Alten - The Shell Game
2008    Jay Barbree - “Live from Cape Canaveral”: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
2008    Leslie Baumann, M.D. - The Skin Type Solution
2008    William Bernhardt - Strip Search
2008    Amy Bloom - Away
2008    Dale Brown - Strike Force
2008    Mary Jane Clark - When Day Breaks
2008    Brock Clarke - The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
2008    Suzy Cohen, R.Ph. - The 24-Hour Pharmacist: Advice, Options, and Amazing Cures from America’s Most Trusted Pharmacist
2008    Frank Delaney - Tipperary
2008    Timothy Hallinan - A Nail Through the Heart
2008    Ted Kerasote - Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
2008    Charles London - One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War
2008    Kim Ponders - The Last Blue Mile
2008    Kris Radish - The Sunday List of Dreams 
2008    Luanne Rice - Light of the Moon
2008    Carolyn See - There Will Never Be Another You
2008    Lisa See - Peony in Love
2008    Rob Sheffield - Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
2008    Michael C. White - Soul Catcher
2007    Manny Alvarez, M.D. - The Checklist: What You and Your Family Need to Know to Prevent Disease and Live a Long and Healthy Life
2007    Gail Caldwell - A Strong West Wind 
2007    Lynne Cox - Grayson
2007    Kim Edwards - The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2007    Nathaniel C. Fick - One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
2007    Whitney Gaskell - Testing Kate
2007    Tess Gerritsen - The Mephisto Club
2007    Uzodinma Iweala - Beasts of No Nation
2007    J. A. Jance - Web of Evil
2007    Sujata Massey - Girl in a Box
2007    Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D. - For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
2007    Candice Millard - The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
2007    Sy Montgomery - The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
2007    Katherine Hall Page - The Body in the Ivy: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
2007    P. J. Parrish - An Unquiet Grave (sister writing team: Kristy Montee/Florida and Kelly Montee/Tennessee)
2007    Jonathan D. Pond - You Can Do It!: The Boomer's Guide to a Great Retirement
2007    Sheri Reynolds - Firefly Cloak
2007    Jeff Shaara - The Rising Tide: A Novel of the Second World War
2007    Hampton Sides - Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
2007    Lisa Unger - Sliver of Truth
2006    Joseph Boyden - Three Day Road
2006    Susan Casey - The Devil's Teeth
2006    Frank Cerabino - Shady Palms I, II, III; Pelican Park: A Tale of Romance, Lies and Surging Home Prices
2006    Maureen Corrigan - Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
2006    Deborah Crombie - In a Dark House
2006    Katherine Eban - Dangerous Doses
2006    Carlos Eire - Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
2006    Scott Eyman - Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer
2006    Connie May Fowler - The Problem with Murmur Lee
2006    Steven Frey - The Protege
2006    John Grogan - Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
2006    Jilliane Hoffman - Last Witness
2006    Gregg Hurwitz - Troubleshooter
2006    River Jordan - The Messenger of Magnolia Street
2006    N.M. Kelby - Whale Season
2006    Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
2006    Michele Martinez - The Finishing School
2006    Steven Masley, M.D. - Ten Years Younger: The Amazing Ten-Week Plan to Look Better, Feel Better, and Turn Back the Clock
2006    Brad Meltzer - Identity Crisis
2006    J.R. Moehringer - The Tender Bar
2006    Steven Pratt M.D. - SuperFoods HealthStyle: Proven Strategies for Lifelong Health
2006    Jeanne Ray - Julie and Romeo Get Lucky 
2006    Joe Scarborough - Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day: The Real Deal on How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Other Washington Barbarians Are Bankrupting America 
2006    Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2006    Thrity Umrigar - The Space Between Us
2006    Koren Zailckas - Smashed: The Story of a Drunken Girlhood
2005    Steve Berry - The Romanov Prophecy
2005    James O. Born - Walking Money
2005    Ed Conlon - Blue Blood
2005    Tim Dorsey - Torpedo Juice
2005    Patricia Gaffney - The Goodbye Summer
2005    Andrew Sean Greer - The Confessions of Max Tivoli
2005    Rushworth M. Kidder - Moral Courage
2005    Cassandra King - The Same Sweet Girls: A Novel
2005    Jonathon King - Shadow Men
2005    Robert Kurson - Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
2005    David Liss - A Spectacle of Corruption
2005    Diane Scullion Littler and Mark Masterson Littler - Waterways & Byways of the Indian River Lagoon
2005    Sujata Massey - The Pearl Diver
2005    Bob Morris - Bahamarama
2005    Janis Owens - The Schooling of Claybird Catts
2005    T. Jefferson Parker - California Girl
2005    Kelly Reynolds - Henry Plant-Live! (performance)
2005    Arnold Scaasi - Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)
2005    Barry Sears - The Anti-Inflammation Zone: Reversing the Silent Epidemic That’s Destroying Our Health 
2005    Nancy Thayer - The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again
2005    Sandra Thurlow - Historic Jensen and Eden on Florida’s Indian River
2005    Adriana Trigiani - The Queen of the Big Time and Cooking with My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family Recipes, from Bari to Big Stone Gap 
2004    Howard Blum - The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War 
2004    Chris Bohjalian - Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town
2004    Debra J. Dickerson - The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners 
2004    Peter Duffy - The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, and Built a Village in the Forest  
2004    Leif Enger - Peace Like a River
2004    Joy Fielding - Lost
2004    Lisa Gardner - The Killing Hour
2004    James W. Hall - Off the Chart
2004    Laura Lippman - Every Secret Thing
2004    Yann Martel - Life of Pi 
2004    Sena Jeter Naslund - Four Spirits
2004    Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler’s Wife
2004    Kathy Reichs - Bare Bones
2004    Peter Salgo - The Heart of the Matter: A Revolutionary Program for Preventing Coronary Heart Disease
2004    Karin Slaughter - A Faint Cold Fear
2004    James Swain - Sucker Bet
2004    Anthony Swofford – Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
2004    Stuart Woods - Capital Crimes 
2003    Richard Bausch - Hello to the Cannibals  
2003    Jill Bialosky - House Under Snow
2003    Edna Buchanan - The Ice Maiden 
2003    Frank Cerabino - Shady Palms 3: Viagra Falls
2003    S.V. Daté - Black Sunshine 
2003    Loraine Despres - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc 
2003    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera - One Hot Summer
2003    James Grippando - Beyond Suspicion 
2003    Adam Haslett - You Are Not a Stranger Here 
2003    Stephen Horn - Law of Gravity 
2003    Cynthia Kaplan - Why I'm Like This: True Stories  
2003    Christine Kling - Surface Tension 
2003    Elmore Leonard - When the Women Come Out to Dance
2003    Gary Monroe - The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters  
2003    Nicholas Perricone - The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation
2003    Trisha Posner - No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey through Menopause 
2003    Bob Smith - Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir 
2003    Les Standiford - Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed the Ocean 
2003    Virginia Swift - Bad Company 
2003    Tim Zimmermann - The Race: The First Non-Stop, Round the World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition 
2002    Mary K. Andrews - Savannah Blues 
2002    A. Mannete Ansay - Limbo: A Memoir 
2002    Howard Blum - The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation and World War II 
2002    Rita Ciresi - Sometimes I Dream in Italian
2002    Jan Day author/Janeen Mason illustrator - The Pirate Pink
2002    Connie May Fowler - When Katie Wakes 
2002    Neil Gaiman - American Gods 
2002    Michael V. Gannon - Pearl Harbor Betrayed 
2002    Eileen Goudge (appearing with husband Sandy Kenyon) - Stranger in Paradise 
2002    Kelly James - Dancing With the Witchdoctor 
2002    Dennis Lehane - Mystic River 
2002    John Marchese - Renovations 
2002    Phillip Margolin - The Associate 
2002    Regina McBride - The Nature of Water and Air 
2002    Peter Robinson - Aftermath 
2002    Heather Sellers - Georgia Under Water 
2002    Sarah Stonich - These Granite Islands 
2002    Darin Strauss - Chang and Eng 
2002    Sandra Thurlow - Stuart on the St. Lucie 
2002    Alex Witchel - Me Times Three 
2001    Ace Atkins - Leavin' Trunk Blues 
2001    Karen E. Bender - Like Normal People 
2001    Mary Jane Clark - Let Me Whisper in Your Ear 
2001    Carmen Agra Deedy - The Library Dragon 
2001    Debra J. Dickerson - An American Story 
2001    Tim Dorsey - Hammerhead Ranch Motel 
2001    Naomi Eve - The Family Orchard 
2001    Beth Gutcheon - More Than You Know 
2001    Sheri Holman - The Dress Lodger 
2001    Laura Lippman - The Sugar House 
2001    Susan Loesser - A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life
2001    Malachy McCourt - Singing My Hymn Song 
2001    Janis Owens - My Brother Michael 
2001    Barbara Parker - Suspicion of Malice 
2001    James Patterson - Roses Are Red 
2001    John Sedgwick - The Dark House 
2001    Alan Watt - Diamond Dogs 
2001    Randy Wayne White - Ten Thousand Islands 
2000    Ace Atkins - Crossroad Blues 
2000    Elizabeth Berg - Until the Real Thing Comes Along 
2000    Amy Bloom - Come to Me 
2000    Barbara Bottner - Nana Hanna's Piano 
2000    R. Scott Brunner - Due South: Dispatches for Down Home 
2000    Mary Jane Clark - Do You Promise Not to Tell? 
2000    Tim Dorsey - Florida RoadKill 
2000    Lawrence and Nancy Goldston - Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore 
2000    Jane Hamilton - Map of the World 
2000    Stuart M. Kaminsky - Vengeance 
2000    Peter Post - The Etiquette Advantage in Business 
2000    Colby F. Rodowsky - The Turnabout Shop 
2000    Linda Shute - Rabbit Wishes 
2000    Ming Tsai - East Meets West with Ming Tsai 
2000    Mary Alice Williams - Quiet Triumphs 
1999    Lawrence Block - Everybody Dies 
1999    Mary Jane Clark - Do You Want to Know a Secret? 
1999    Beverly Coyle - Taken In 
1999    C.S. Godshalk - Kalimantaan 
1999    Jerry B. Jenkins - Left Behind 
1999    Eric A. Kimmel - Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins 
1999    Margaret Maron - Home Fires 
1999    Cokie Roberts - We Are Our Mother's Daughters 
1999    Patrick D. Smith - Forever Island 
1999    Patricia Sprinkle - But Why Did We Shoot the Magistrate? 
1998    Nancy Allen - Fair Seafarer 
1998    Rick Bragg - All Over But the Shoutin' 
1998    Susan Butler - East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart 
1998    Nora DeLoach - Mama Stalks the Past 
1998    Tomie dePaola - Strega Nona 
1998    Michael V. Gannon - Operation Drumbeat 
1998    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera - Bloody Shame 
1998    David A. Kaufelt - The Ruthless Realtor Murders 
1998    Dori Sanders - Clover and Dori Sanders Country Cooking 
1998    Patricia Sprinkle - When Did We Lose Harriet? 
1998    Clifton L. Taulbert - When We Were Colored 
1998    Stuart Woods - Dead in the Water 
1997    Lois Battle - Bed and Breakfast 
1997    John Cech - The Southernmost Cat 
1997    Michael D'Orso - Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood 
1997    John Dufresne - Love Warps the Mind a Little 
1997    Michael Grant - Retribution 
1997    James Grippando - The Informant 
1997    David Hagberg - Kilo Option 
1997    James W. Hall - Red Sky at Night 
1997    James Neal Harvey - Mental Case 
1997    Jane Heller - Princess Charming 
1997    Joyce LaFray - Cuba Cocina 
1997    Kevin McCarthy - Book Lovers Guide to Florida 
1997    Barbara Parker - Blood Relations 
1997    Roberta Sandler - Guide to Florida Historical Walking Tours 
1997    Les Standiford - Deal on Ice 
1996    Mary Barrett Brown - Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs 
1996    John Cech - The Southernmost Cat 
1996    John Dufresne - The Way Water Enters Stone 
1996    Michael V. Gannon - Secret Missions 
1996    Heather Graham - Runaway 
1996    Michael Grant - Retribution 
1996    James W. Hall - Gone Wild 
1996    Jane Heller - Infernal Affairs 
1996    Rob MacGregor - Prophecy Rock 
1996    T.J. MacGregor - Mistress of the Bones 
1996    Barbara Parker - Suspicion of Guilt 
1996    Nancy Pickard - Twilight 
1996    Harry Schwartz - Easygoing Entertaining 
1996    Bob Shacochis - Easy in the Islands 
1996    Laurence Shames - Tropical Depression 
1996    Linda Shute - Clever Tom and the Leprechaun 
1996    Les Standiford - Deal to Die For 
1996    Kathy Hogan Trocheck - Lickety Split
1995    Loren G. "Totch" Brown - Totch: a Life in the Everglades 
1995    Charles W. Cherry II - Excellence Without Excuse 
1995    John Dufresne - Louisiana Power & Light
1995    Connie May Fowler - Florida Humanities Essay: Making Florida Home
1995    Michael Grant - Officer Down 
1995    James Neal Harvey - Flesh and Blood 
1995    Jane Heller - Cha, Cha, Cha  
1995    John Holman - Florida Humanities Essay: Making Florida Home
1995    John Jakes - Homeland 
1995    David Kaufelt - The Winter Women Murders 
1995    Robert Lacey - Grace 
1995    Paul Levine - To Speak for the Dead 
1995    T.J. MacGregor - Blue Pearl 
1995    Padgett Powell - Florida Humanities Essay: Making Florida Home 
1995    Lucia St. Clair Robson - Light a Distant Fire 
1995    Laurence Shames - Sunburn 
1995    Enid Shomer - Florida Humanities Essay: Making Florida Home 
1995    Patrick D. Smith - Florida, A Land Remembered