The most popular
form of art among evangelicals may be
the story…stories really do locate us in the human condition, and stories bind our families to each other and to the earth.

—Calvin Miller

2000 Winners & Finalists

Contemporary

A New Song

by Jan Karon (Viking)

By the Light of a Thousand Stars

by Jamie Langston Turner (Bethany House Publishers)

Romey's Place

by James Calvin Schapp (Baker Books)

Futuristic

By Dawn's Early Light

by Grant R. Jeffrey and Angela Hunt (Word Publishing)

Apollyon

by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins (Tyndale House Publishers)

Assassins

by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins (Tyndale House Publishers)

International Historical

Out of the Red Shadow

by Anne de Graaf (Bethany House Publishers)

The Power and the Glory

by Clint Kelly (Bethany House Publishers)

Triumph of the Soul

by Michael R. Joens (Revell)

North American Historical

The Meeting Place

by Janette Oke & T. Davis Bunn (Bethany House Publishers)

The Dark Sun Rises

by Denise Williamson (Bethany House Publishers)

For Whom the Stars Shine

by Linda Chaikin (Bethany House Publishers)

Romance

Whispers from Yesterday

by Robin Lee Hatcher (WaterBrook Press)

Blue Mist on the Danube

by Doris Elaine Fell (Revell)

Surrender of the Heart

by Sally John (Crossway Books)

Suspense

Final Witness

by James Scott Bell (Broadman & Holman Publishers)

The Chairman

by Harry Lee Karus, Jr. (Crossway Books)

A Ship Possessed

by Alton Gansky (Zondervan)