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

2001 Winners & Finalists

Contemporary

Home to Harmony

by Philip Gulley (Multnomah Publishers)

The Trial

by Robert Whitlow (Word Publishing)

The Book of Hours

by T. Davis Bunn (Thomas Nelson Publishers)

Bookends

by Liz Curtis Higgs (Multnomah Publishers)

Futuristic

Transgression

by Randall Ingermanson (Harvest House Publishers)

The Mark

by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins (Tyndale House Publishers)

Eli

by Bill Myers (Zondervan)

 

International Historical

Unashamed

by Francine Rivers (Tyndale House Publishers)

The Black Rood

by Stephen R. Lawhead (HarperCollins/Zondervan)

Unveiled

by Francine Rivers (Tyndale House Publishers)

North American Historical

Edge of Honor

by Gilbert Morris (Zondervan)

Reaping the Whirlwind

by Rosey Dow (WinePress Publishing)

Passing by Samaria

by Sharon Ewell Foster (Multnomah Publishers)

Valley of the Shadow

by Stephanie Grace Whitson (Thomas Nelson Publishers)

Romance

A Touch of Betrayal

by Catherine Palmer (Tyndale House Publishers)

Awakening Mercy

by Angela Benson (Tyndale House Publishers)

True Devotion

by Dee Henderson (Multnomah Publishers)

Suspense

The Great Divide

by T. Davis Bunn (WaterBrook Press)

Blind Justice

by James Scott Bell (Broadman & Holman Publishers)

Lethal Harvest

by William Cutrer and Sandra Glahn (Kregel)

 

First Novel

Passing by Samaria

by Sharon Ewell Foster (Multnomah Publishers)

Refiner's Fire

by Sylvia Bambola (Multnomah Publishers)

Winter Passing

by Cindy McCormick Martinusen (Tyndale House Publishers)