2026 James Beard Book Awards Hall of Fame
Sallie Ann Robinson’s Kitchen: Food and Family Lore from the Lowcountry
Sallie Ann Robinson
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, Bronze Medal for Regional Adult Nonfiction
Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award
Kirkus Best Indie Books of the Year 2025
Kirkus Best Indie Books About America 2025
On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories from Florida’s Space Coast
Dan Reiter
North American Society for Oceanic History John R. Lyman Book Award for Maritime and Nautical Archaeology, Winner
Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: Terminology, Theory, and Infrastructure
Jennifer E. Jones, Della A. Scott-Ireton, and Jason T. Raupp
North American Society for Oceanic History John R. Lyman Book Award for Maritime and Nautical Archaeology, Honorable Mention
Intertidal Shipwrecks: Management of a Historic Resource in an Unmanageable Environment
Jennifer E. Jones, Calvin H. Mires, and Daniel Zwick
Finalist, Environmental Humanities Category, ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award
Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire
Mauro José Caraccioli
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME and the generous support of Virginia Tech.
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Visual Arts
Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence
Elisa Turner
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction
Just Freedom: Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
Daniel Rivero
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction
Crafting Constitutions in Florida, 1810–1968
Robert Cassanello
Florida Book Awards, Honorable Mention for Florida Nonfiction
Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award
Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
Andrew Furman
Florida Historical Society Rembert Patrick Award
Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution
Richard Brust
Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award
A Town Without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South
Jason Vuic
Southern Anthropological Society, James Mooney Award,
Honorable Mention
An Archaeology of Woodland Transformation: Social Movements, Identities, and Pottery Production on the Gulf Coast
Jessica A. Jenkins
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction
American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
Florida Springs: From Geography to Politics and Restoration
Christopher F. Meindl
Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction
Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People
Evan P. Bennett
Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award
Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction
Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now
Leslie Kemp Poole
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Cooking
The Florida Vegetarian Cookbook
Dalia Colón
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Cooking
Modern Cuban: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Recipes
Ana Quincoces
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Visual Arts
Dry Tortugas: Stronghold of Nature
Ian Wilson-Navarro
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Visual Arts
Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida’s Mobile Home Communities
Diego Alejandro Waisman
Florida Authors and Publishers Association, Sunshine State Award
Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Book Awards, Gold Medal for Science/Nature
Wild Florida: An Animal Odyssey
Kirsten Hines
Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award
Below Baltimore: An Archaeology of Charm City
Adam D. Fracchia and Patricia M. Samford
Florida Historical Society Harry T. And Harriette V. Moore Award
James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights
Larry Omar Rivers
Dances for a Variable Population, the dance company founded and directed by Naomi Goldberg Haas, author of Moving through Life: Essential Lessons of Dance, received the Outstanding Dance Organization Award from the National Dance Education Organization.
Clay Henderson, author of Forces of Nature: A History of Florida Land Conservation, received a Suncoast Emmy Award for his role as consulting environmental historian for Conservation Florida’s groundbreaking docuseries “Protect Our Paradise.”
Silvia Pedraza, coauthor of Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities, was awarded the Premio a la Excelencia en los Estudios Cubanos for a distinguished career in Cuban studies from the Latin American Studies Association Cuba Section.