2025 – The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

2024 – A Land Remembered, Patrick Smith

2023 – Red Burning Sky, Tom Young

2022 – Incredible Winston Browne, Sean Dietrich

2021 – Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo

2020 – Stars of Alabama, Sean Dietrich

           Cracker Gothic, Wanda Duncan

           News of the World, Jeanette Iles

2019 – Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

2018 – Rocket Boys, Homer Hickman

2017 – City of Bones, Michael Connelly

2016 – Heart of Palm, Laura Lee Smith

2015 – The Creek, J.T. Glisson

2014 – Backcountry Lawman, Bob H. Lee

2013 – Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank

2012 – Wrapped in Rain, Charles Martin

2011 – Seasons of Real Florida, Jeff Klinkenberg

2010 – Barefoot Mailman, Theodore Pratt

2009 – Bleachers, John Grisholm

2008 – Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

2007 – To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

2006 – Call of the Wild, Jack London

2005 – A Land Remembered, Patrick Smith