Christy Award Finalists, 2026
The top award in Christian fiction. Winners are announced November 6 in Nashville; here are finalists from across the categories.
Juniper's grief spiraled into addiction and cost her custody of her baby girl. Now sober and on probation, she returns to Sullivan's Island to rebuild her life and prove she can be the mother her daughter deserves.
After protecting her kindergarten class from a school shooter, Ana escapes to her great-aunt's Tennessee mountain town, where a ragtag birding club pulls her into a family feud that goes back sixty years.
In 1777 New Jersey, the American Revolution splits two sisters between Patriots and Loyalists. Mae falls for an American general while suspecting her sister of spying for the British.
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a Sorbonne professor and a German scholar forced into uniform form an unlikely bond as they fight to protect a library of books the Nazis banned.
In 1874, a woman with no memory wakes on a grave by Lake Superior. In the present day, an author retreats to the same lighthouse and uncovers secrets a superstitious town has kept buried.
In a poisoned kingdom, a sheltered princess hides magic awakening in her blood, while the guard assigned to her carries secrets of his own. A retelling of two Grimm fairy tales.
A retelling of the biblical story of Ruth, Naomi and Boaz, written for readers 8 and up.