2025 Pacific Book Award Winners & Finalists
Best Adventure
1. Winner – O JERUSALEM – By: R. P. Hanna
2. Finalist – Hide – By: Linda Arena
Best Biography
1.Winner – The 1929 Kelsey Quilters – By: Beverly Burnett Hamberlin
2.Finalist – The Memories and Ponderings – By: Melvin E. West
Best Business
1. Winner – Radicle Growth: Transform into an Unstoppable Leader through Mastering the Art of Questions – By: Dave Reynolds
2. Finalist – How to Become Wealthy and How to Grow That Wealth – By: Dr. Abdoulaye Keita
Best Children’s Book
1. Winner – Hedgehog’s Winter – By: Raven Howell
2. Finalist – The Adventures of Copper the Dog – By: Shirley Baustian
Best Children’s Picture Book 5 and Younger
1. Winner – Alpaca Ranch Fun! – By: Jack Rotifer
2. Finalist – Jungle Buddies – By: Deb Annie
Best Children’s Picture book 6 and older
1.Winner – The Santastical World of Traveling Santa: A Journey to Christmas Treasures – By: Lara Simone
2.Finalist – One Grain of Sand – By: Ruthie Godfrey
Best Current Events & Politics
1. Winner – Trump, Tamales and the American Family – By: Margaret Donnelly
2. Finalist – Once Upon A Time, Human Rights – By: Liliane Masengo Mwamba Kabamba
Best Education
1.Winner – Consciousness Influences Epigenetics in the Development of Disease – By: Ingrid Fredriksson, PhD
2.Finalist – Delaware from Freeways to E-Ways: First State, Solid-State – By: Dave Tabler
Best Fantasy
1. Winner – Iseris: House of Power – By: A.A. Smith
2. Finalist – Goddess from the Machine – By: Daniel Rodrigues-Martin
Best Fiction
1. Winner – Mit Out Sound – By: Rick Lenz
2.Finalist – All That Is Hidden – By: Laura DeNooyer-Moore
Best New Fiction
1. Winner – Return to the Lion’s Den– By: Gregory S. Treakle
2.Finalist – Class Dismissed – By: Bonnie Hardy
Best Women’s Fiction
1. Winner – Something Better – By: Diane Parrish
2.Finalist – Broken Chances – By: Eve Koguce
Best Health
1. Winner – Why Dieting & Exercise Really Suck: What you can do instead, it’s not what you think– By: V.J. Espejo
2. Finalist – Eccrine Power – By: Giacomo Fasano
Best Historical Fiction
1. Winner – Wages of Empire – By: Michael J. Cooper
2.Finalist – The Wound Closest to the Sun Novel – By: Karl Berger
Best History
1. Winner – Pope Paul VI and His Quest for Peace: 1963-1978: Volume One: “Never Again War!” – By: John F. Tuohey, PhD.
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Best Horror
1. Winner – Diablo Canyon – By: C. Flemish
2. Finalist – Something in the Blood – By: H.H. Mika
Best Humor
1. Winner – Why Is My Bra Still On? by: Kristen Wasyliszyn
2. Finalist – Humor All The Way: You’re Kidding, I’m a SENIOR? – By: Renee’ Servello
Best Inspirational
1.Winner – The Karma Sequence – By: A.O. Wagner
2.Finalist – Between One and Many More– By: Stephen Clark
Best Memoir
1. Winner – Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino: A Memoir – By: Shoshana D. Kerewsky
2. Finalist – Piccolo Santino, My Calabrian Childhood in the 50s, Then to New York Italian Style – By: Sal Mallimo
Best Family Memoir
1. Winner – Falling from Disgrace – By: Tammy Dietz
2. Finalist – Ultimate Love: A Life of Soul and Searching – By: Kitty Caley
Best Mystery
1. Winner – Deceitful Intentions: A Revenge Mystery – By: Carlo Armenise
2. Finalist – Seventeen Parcels (The Moorhouse Trilogy) – By: Mic Lowther
Best Motivational
1. Winner – Confidence Constellations, Insights and Action for Changing Humans: An Action Guide for Men, Women and Everyone Navigating Life Transitions (Confidence Constellations Series) – By: Lois van Waardenberg
2. Finalist – Unbreakable You: Create, Revise, Repair Your Life – By: Jon Deam, MD
Best Non-Fiction
1 Winner – Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis– By: Renee Knake Jefferson
2.Finalist – Little Boy, I know your Name– By: Mitchell Raff
Best New Non-Fiction
1 Winner – We All Want to Be Happy, Vol 2: A Book of Thoughts (Volume 2) – By: Ann Mullen
2.Finalist – Surgeon Across the Miles from Bombay to Boston -By: S. Asif Razvi, MBA, FACS, M.D.
Best Paranormal
1 Winner – A God’s Game: Tiebreaker Part 2 – By: Andrew Whyte
2.Finalist – The Monarchs – By: Mark Sabbas
Best Parenting & Family
1 Winner – Every Other Weekend: Coming of Age With Two Different Dads– By: Anthony J. Mohr
2.Finalist – Will My Haircut Hurt? By: Martha Goldner
Best Philosophy
1.Winner – Demystifying God – By: Shahid Islam
2.Finalist – Forgiveness: Another Philosophy Novel – By: Douglas Thiel
Best Psychology
1.Winner – Brave New You: Strategies, Tools, and Neurohacks to Live More Courageously Every Day – By: Mary Poffenroth, PhD
2.Finalist – The Nature and Nurturing of Collaboration – By: Richard L. Hayes
Best Poetry
1. Winner – Exits – By: Stephen C. Pollock
2. Finalist – Love, Light & Other Beautiful Lies: A Poetic Memoir of Spiritual Materialism – By: Sean Russell
Best Reference
1. Winner – Vademecum of English: A Complete Reference Guide for Teachers and Learners– By: Ana María López Jimeno
2. Finalist – A New Look at Vietnamese Grammar in American – By: Hoang-Long Le
Best Religious
1. Winner – Hidden in Plain Sight – By: Kevin Overbeck
2. Finalist – Blessed Memorial: Imaginings from Lectio Divina – By: Paul Martin
Best Spirituality
1. Winner – Jews, Gentiles and the Church Age – By: Kenneth G. Symes
2. Finalist – When Penguins Fly: An Ascension Enhancement Project – By: Andrew Patrick Michael Craig
Best Spiritual Growth
1. Winner – Religion & Science: Thoughts of a Common Jim – By: James Hillman
2. Finalist – Life As I Know It: A Biologist’s View of the World – By: Richard Penner
Best Romance
1. Winner – Love and Other Cures for the Recently Undead– By: HJ Ramsay
2. Finalist – Lightning and Thunder– By: Albert Clark
Best Contemporary Romance
1. Winner – The Last First Date – By: Jay Hall
2. Finalist – AMISS2 – By: L.L. McCall
Best Science Fiction
1. Winner – Project Mind River: Techs Future Promise and Peril – By Dave Spacer
2. Finalist – Sentience Hazard– By: Alexandru Czimbor
Best Science Fiction – Alien Encounters
1. Winner – The Journey – By Kathy Porter
2. Finalist – The RAL: Raltrepatile Allaurian Lepidon – By: Mark Buhler
Best Science Fiction – Galactic Empires
1. Winner – Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny By: Jeremy Clift
2. Finalist – First Elite: Foundra Series – By: Emmanuel M Arriaga
Best Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1. Winner – The Sapien Empire – By: Nathan Ogloff
2. Finalist – The Infernal Age: Demon Gate – By: Anson Joaquin
Best Self-Help
1. Winner – The Energetic Investor: Nurturing Mind, Body & Investment Mastery for Lasting Prosperity– By: Kevin Bambrough
2. Finalist – – By: J.R. Perroni
Best Self-Improvement
1. Winner – The Ho‘oponopono Way of Life: A Model for Awakening and Embracing the Human Soul’s True Identity– By: Donna Marie Vida, B.A.
2. Finalist – Girl Grit: Savage Not Average – Alexandra Elinsky, PhD
Best Short Stories
1. Winner – The Adventures of Holly the Hamster and Her Friends
2. Finalist – Amanda the Angel Series – By: Patricia Goskowski Kubus
Best Suspense
1. Winner – The Karma Sequence: The Karma Kantata – By: A.O. Wagner
2. Finalist – The Cure, The Killer, and Russ Burton – By: Jake Cayman
Best Thriller
1. Winner – Muddy the Water
2. Finalist – Bottled Lightning – By: L.M. Weeks
Best Travel
1. Winner – Exploring Wine Regions – Mexico– By: Michael C. Higgins, PhD
2. Finalist – Random Acts of Traveling- By: Rebecca Holmes
Best Young Adult
1. Winner – Losing Austin – By: Michael J. Bowler
2. Finalist – The Silent Witness Mystery: A Case Twins Adventure – By: Dorian Rockwood
Best Westerns
1. Winner – Blessed Are the Peacemakers: The Redemption – By: Russell M. Chace
2. Finalist – A Siren Called Truth: A Bone Wars Novel (The Bone Wars Trilogy) – By: Patricia Roberts Wright