These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2018 GOETHE Book Awards LONG LIST (aka the Slush Pile Survivors). We incorporate the Long List when the judges request an additional round of judging to accommodate the number and/or quality of entries received.  These entries are now in competition for the 2018 GOETHE SHORT LIST. Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will compete for the coveted First  Place Category Winners of the 2018 GOETHE Book Awards in the final rounds of judging.  The First Place Category winners will automatically be entered into the Goethe GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition.  The 16 CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book and its $1,000 purse. First Place Category and Grand Prize Awards will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 27th, 2019, Bellingham, Washington.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2018 GOETHE Book Awards novel competition for post-1750s Post Historical Novels.

  • Peter Curtis – Cafe Budapest
  • Michelle Cox – A Promise Given
  • Bruce Joel Brittain – Brother Daniel’s Good News Revival
  • Patricia Suprenant – Behind the Scarlet Letter
  • Patricia Suprenant – Journey to the Isle of Devils
  • Harold Coyle – No Small Thing, A Novel of the American Revolution
  • John Hansen – Unfortunate Words
  • Trevor D’Silva – Fateful Decisions
  • K. M. Sandrick – The Pear Tree
  • John Thomas Everett – No Slave To Reason
  • Tom Edwards – Jane Sinclair 
  • Jackie Jobe Haines – Little Mill on Beaver Creek
  • Ruth Hull Chatlien – Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale
  • Richard Alan – American Journeys: From Ireland to the Pacific Northwest (1854-1900) Book 2
  • Richard Alan – A Female Doctor in the Civil War
  • J.P. Kenna – Allurement Westward
  • Jocelyn Cullity – Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons
  • J.L. Oakley – Mist-chi-mas: A Novel of Captivity
  • Ellen Notbohm – The River by Starlight
  • J. R. Collins – Living Where the Rabbits Dance
  • Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Honor
  • Carol M. Cram – The Muse of Fire 
  • Noelle Clark – Stone of Heaven and Earth
  • Rosalind Spitzer – Anna’s Home
  • Neal Katz – Scandalous, The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume II: Fame, Infamy, and Paradise Lost
  • Rita Dragonette – The Fourteenth of September
  • Sharon Hart-Green – Come Back for Me: A Novel
  • Meredith Pechta – The Prejudice That Divides Us
  • Jeffrey K. Walker – Truly Are the Free
  • Jeffrey K. Walker – None of Us the Same
  • Ronald E. Yates – The Lost Years of Billy Battles (Book 3, Finding Billy Battles Trilogy)
  • J. Victor Tomaszek – The Tatra Eagle
  • Pat Wahler – I am Mrs. Jesse James
  • R. S. Rowland – Portrait of a Bitter Spy
  • Kit Sergeant – 355: The Women of Washington’s Spy Ring