2026 Pacific Book Awards Winners & Finalists
Best Adventure
WINNER
Beyond Superhero School
By: Gracie Dix
FINALIST
The Goodflyers
By: John J Domina
Best Biography
WINNER
Masters of the Ocean Sea
By: Andrei Romanov
FINALIST
Journey and Deep Song
By: Joon Kim
Best Business
WINNER
The Doubt Loop
By: Adam Crawshaw
FINALIST
The Asia Code
By: Gadi Sznajder
Best Illustrated Children’s Book
WINNER
The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Adventures of Austin the Zookeeper
By: Tammy Gegel
FINALIST
Confessions of a Corgi Doodler
By: Nancy Kondos
Best Children’s Picture Book 5 and Younger
WINNER
Burly the Squirrel: The Counting Game
By: S.C. Burklund
FINALIST
Gigglet the Happy Little Piglet Goes to School
By: A.M. Berkowitz
Best Children’s Picture Book 6 and Older
WINNER
Time to Shine
By: Stephanie Vivit Lehmann
FINALIST
Wagon of Worries
By: Ruthie Godfrey
Best Children’s Fiction
WINNER
Pitty the Kitty – Pitty’s Big Adventure
By: Mary Nielsen
FINALIST
Yoey Does It Her Way
By: Mary Nielsen
Best Political & Current Events
WINNER
Voir Dire
By: Santiago Camarena
FINALIST
Chairman Biden and Dr. Fauci’s Monster
By: Ronald Alfred Weitzman
Best Education
WINNER
Greenback’s Book of Law
By: Ted Sutton, Esq.
FINALIST
Apricot Tree Academy Dyslexia Intention Curriculum
By: Sandra Dallon M.Ed & Cynthia Glänt M.Ed
Best Fantasy
WINNER
Fly Stone, Fly
By: Dust Kunkel
FINALIST
Quantum Mortality
By: Jenesis Prioleau
Best Epic Fantasy
WINNER
Escala’s Wish
By: David James
FINALIST
Stone and Flesh
By: Tamara S. Harker
Best Fiction
WINNER
We Chose Resistance
By: Margie Bucheit
FINALIST
Lots of Luck Noblesse Oblige Rentier
By: Marilynne McKenzie & Ron Matejka
Best New Fiction
WINNER
Freya the Deer
By: Meg Richman
FINALIST
John B. Peoples
By: Michael Cowan
Best Historical Fiction
WINNER
Red Anemones
By: Paula Dáil
FINALIST
Therein Lies the Pearl
By: Catherine Hughes
Best Health
WINNER
Become an Empowered Patient
By: Deane Waldman, MD MBA & Vance Ginn, PhD
FINALIST
I Can-Cer Vive
By: Monya Williams
Best History
WINNER
When the World Dies
By: D.E. Davis
FINALIST
Warrior, Queen, Scientist, Activist
By: Jan-Benedict Steenkamp
Best Humor
WINNER
Conniption Creek
By: Earl L Carlson
FINALIST
60 Dates in Six Months
By: Maureen Anne Meehan
Best Inspirational
WINNER
Reach Out with Acts of Kindness
By: Letitia E. Hart
FINALIST
The Grand Mother’s Journey
By: Marion Gertrud Mensing
Best Memoir
WINNER
Denver to Mumbai
By: Hemangi Sawant
FINALIST
Unreal
By: James Serven
Best Motivational
WINNER
Uncertainty Advantage
By: Gary S. Lynch
FINALIST
The Character Route Tree
By: Marc R. Schneider, OCD*
Best Mystery
WINNER
Losing Lenore
By: Joe Klingler
FINALIST
Inherited Death
By: Jeanne Rietzke
Best Non-Fiction
WINNER
Between Flights
By: Wendy Walker
FINALIST
Pain, Master of Life
By: Lourdes Ruan
Best Parenting & Family
WINNER
Unspoken Signals
By: Yarona Boster
FINALIST
A Parent’s Guide for Educational Success for their Children
By: Joann Falciani
Best Philosophy
WINNER
The History of the Future
By: Paul M. Steidl
FINALIST
Donahue Pass
By: Charles Weeden
Best Psychology
WINNER
Why Rampage Killers Emerge
By: S. Lee Funk, Ed.D
FINALIST
Human Moral Behavior
By: Marian Hillar
Best Reference
WINNER
From Mess to Message
By: Kim Wells Eley
FINALIST
A.W.A.R.E
By: S. Gale Bleth
Best Religion
WINNER
My Rosary
By: Jennifer Moorcroft
FINALIST
When Trumpets Ring The Battle
By: Gregory Hetzer
Best Romance
WINNER
Detective Lucian
By: Neri Lopez
FINALIST
A is for Amy
By: Steven Crandell
Best Science Fiction
WINNER
Beyond the Light of the Willow Tree
By: Daniel E. Chambrello
FINALIST
Ascendants
By: Don Schechter
Best Dystopian Science Fiction
WINNER
Magic in the Hub
By: Macintosh Steele
FINALIST
Abu Omar Ha’akeem
By: D L Davies
Best Self Help
WINNER
Unstuck Yourself
By: Laura Cardwell & Meghan O’Malley, M.S.
FINALIST
Answering the Hard Questions
By: Devin Fish
Best Short Stories
WINNER
Bad Americans – Part I
By: Tejas Desai
FINALIST
Signs of the Fall
By: Sean M. Price
Best Sociology
WINNER
Native Africans vs Blacks in Americans
By: Dr. Sylvester Caraway, Jr.
FINALIST
Politics, Gangs, and Vodou
By: Yvon Milien
Best Suspense
WINNER
Tread Lightly
By: Elizabeth Kemp
FINALIST
To Know Good and Evil
By: Daniel V. Meier, Jr.
Best Spirituality
WINNER
Looking Into the Mind of a Lost but Found Soul
By: Dwight McGarrah Sr
FINALIST
The Magic and Secrets of the Spiritual Realm
By: Moana Leanne Kirikino
Best Thriller
WINNER
Enemy at the Helm
By: Mark Dickson
FINALIST
Toxic Minds
By: Anthony Lee
Best Travel
WINNER
A Taste of Madagascar
By: Emmanuel Laroche
FINALIST
Chasing Legends
By: Aaron Pufal
Best Young Adult
WINNER
Sam and James the Missing Teen
By: AA Freda
FINALIST
Mercutio and Juliet
By: Michael Rossi
Best Westerns
WINNER
So, You Want to Be a Cowboy?
By: Pleze Raybon
