The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Post 1750 Historical Fiction. The Goethe Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Victorian, Georgian, Regency, International History, 20th Century, and all the possible historical topics that an authors imagination can dream up for the Goethe Book Awards division. Our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 Goethe Late Historical Fiction entries to the 2024 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Goethe Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Late Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

Tessa Floreano – Murder & Matrimony in the Castello
Nancy Burkhalter – Mesmer: The Tale of a Medical Maverick
Nancy Burkhalter – The Education of Delhomme: Chopin, Sand, and La France
Benjamin Kwakye – Seasons of Four Faces
Janis Robinson Daly – The Path Beneath Her Feet
Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
Jeanne Gehret – Secrets to the Wind
Donna Russo – Vincent’s Women: The Untold Story of the Loves of Vincent van Gogh
William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
Louis Trubiano – What Once Was Promised
Katherine Koch – The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
Sandra Wagner-Wright – Sea Tigers & Merchants: A New American Generation
Mark Kraver – Janszoon: In the Pursuit of Love, Family, and an Enduring Legacy
Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
Robert Brighton – The Phantom of Forest Lawn: Romance and Redemption in the City of the Dead
J.R. Holland – Vigilante Love Song
Teri M Brown – Daughters of Green Mountain Gap
Susan Higginbotham – The Queen of the Platform: A Novel of Women’s Rights Activist Ernestine Rose
Brook Allen – West of Santillane
James Conroyd Martin – Napoleon’s Shadow Wife: A Novel of Countess Marie Walewska
Don Jacobson – In Westminster’s Halls: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
Sean James – The Vengeful Kind
Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
Linda Ulleseit – Innocents at Home
Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams, A Novel
Paula Butterfield – Missing Mr. Moonlight
Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
Carolyn Summer Quinn – Until the Stars Align
Diana Lee – The Breaking Room
Leo Daughtry – Talmadge Farm
Susan McGuirk – Missing Friends
Jeza Belle – Blood Rouge
John David Graham – Running As Fast As I Can
Jude Berman – The Vow: A Novel
R. W. Meek – The Dream Collector, Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh”
Annette Gagliardi – Ponderosa Pines: Days of the – Deadwood Forest Fire
DL Fowler – Lincoln’s Angel: the Rebecca Pomroy Story
Florence Reiss Kraut – Street Corner Dreams
Sherry V. Ostroff – The Wall at the Sugar Factory
Alina Rubin – A Girl with a Knife
Alina Rubin – Abigail’s Song
M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
João Cerqueira – Perestroika
Adrienne Stevenson – Mirrors & Smoke
Gail Ward Olmsted – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip
C.M. Huddleston – Esther
Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
Diane Byington – Louise and Vincent
Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
Janice Sebring – Fearful Breakers
Jerry Madden – Steel Valley: Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s
Vicky Oliver – Firebrands

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Goethe Grand Prize Winner

If Someday Comes

By David Calloway

Click here to see the full list of 2023 GOETHE Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Goethe Book Awards for Late Historical Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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