Book Awards: RoNA; YA; Ben Franklin; Christian Book

Shelf Awarenesss

Joss Stirling won the Romantic Novelists' Association's £5,000 (about $7,390) Romantic Novel of the Year award for Struck, which became the first YA title to be honored with RNA's overall prize. This year's category winners are:

Contemporary romantic: A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon
Epic: Pieces of You by Ella Harper
Historical: The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
Romantic comedy: Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy by Lucy-Anne Holmes
Young adult: Struck (formerly Storm & Stone) by Joss Stirling
RoNA Rose: Scandal's Virgin by Louise Allen
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Louise O'Neill won the inaugural YA Book Prize for her debut novel, Only Ever Yours. Launched by the Bookseller and supported by World Book Day and the Reading Agency, the prize has a £2,000 ($3,000) award. O'Neill received the award in a ceremony on the flagship Foyles store in London.
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Nearly 160 finalists in the 55 categories of the Benjamin Franklin Awards, sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association, have been selected and can be seen here. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony during IBPA's Publishing University in Austin, Tex., April 10.
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The 37 finalists for the 2015 Christian Book Awards, honoring Christian publishing's best book and Bible releases of the year and sponsored by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, have been released. A winner in each category and the Christian Book of the Year will be announced on May 5 during the ECPA Awards Banquet in Nashville, Tenn.