2026 NAUTILUS WINNERS
Categories 11-20
11 - Death & Dying / Grief & Loss
GOLD WINNER
11 - Death & Dying / Grief & Loss​
SILVER WINNERS
Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor's Soul
Robert Macauley
Chehalem Press
12 - Health, Healing & Wellness
GOLD WINNERS
Lessons in Meditation: Practices, Scripts and Inspiration for Yoga Teachers
Gabrielle Harris
Luminary Press
12 - Health, Healing & Wellness
​SILVER WINNERS
Floral Absolutes: Aromatic Healing for the Physical, Emotional, and Energy Body
Candice Covington
Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being
Marc Berman, PhD
Simon and Schuster
Greg Hammer, MD; Eric Wentworth; John P. Rettger, PhD
Bloomsbury Academic
13 - Heroic Journeys
GOLD WINNERS
Rebecca K. Reynolds (Author), Justin Gerard (Illustrator)
Sky Turtle Press
13 - Heroic Journeys​
SILVER WINNERS
14 - Inner Prosperity & Right Livelihood
GOLD WINNER
Soul Medicine for a Fractured World: Healing, Justice, and the Path of Wholeness
Liza J. Rankow
Orbis Books
14 - Inner Prosperity & Right Livelihood​
SILVER WINNERS
15 - Journalism & Investigative Reporting
GOLD WINNERS
15 - Journalism & Investigative Reporting​
SILVER WINNERS
Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
Mona Gable
Atria Books/Simon & Schuster
Gianna Toboni
Atria Books/Simon & Schuster
16A- Memoir & Personal Journey (Self-Published/Small Press)
GOLD WINNERS
I, Sean/a: The Story of A Homeless Intersex Woman Who Inspired A Community
Dr. Kirsten Viola Harrison and Sean/a Smith
Soul Wise Solutions
Transient Anchors: From Refugee Tents to Research Towers: A Memoir
Libère J. Ndacayisaba
Tetradenia, LLC
16A- Memoir & Personal Journey (Self-published/Small Press)
SILVER WINNERS
Keep Breathing: A Psychologist’s Intimate Journey Through Loss, Trauma, and Rediscovering Life
Dr. Kate Truitt
Bridge City Books
Blackinese: Reflections on Race and Ethnicity from a Biracial Millennial
Patricia Bradby Moore
804 Press
16 B - Memoir & Personal Journey (Large Publisher/Large Hybrid)
GOLD WINNERS
Lootie's World Run: The Extraordinary True Story of the Fastest Woman to Have Run Around the World
Marie Leautey
Mascot Books
16 B - Memoir & Personal Journey (Large Publisher/Large Hybrid)
SILVER WINNERS
17 - Multicultural & Indigenous
GOLD WINNER
Love Letter to Ramah: Living Beside New Mexico's Trail of the Ancients
Tim Amsden
University of New Mexico Press
17 - Multicultural & Indigenous​
SILVER WINNERS
18 - Parenting & Family
GOLD WINNER
18 - Parenting & Family​
SILVER WINNERS
Simone Davies and Junnifa Uzodike
Workman Publishing
19 A - Personal Growth & Self-Help (Self-Publisher/Small Press)
GOLD WINNER
Go Within to Change Your Life: A Hidden Wisdom Workbook for Personal Transformation
Carl Greer
Chiron Publications
19 A - Personal Growth & Self-Help (Self-Publisher/Small Press)
SILVER WINNERS
Wild Joy: Ecospiritual Encounters with Nature as Teacher, Healer, and Lover
Larry Glover
Seshat Press
M. Victoria Kennedy
Gem Like Media LLC
19 B - Personal Growth & Self-Help (Large Publisher/Large Hybrid)
GOLD WINNER
19 B - Personal Growth & Self-Help (Large Publisher/Large Hybrid)
SILVER WINNERS
Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace
Stephen G. Post
Church Publishing Incorporated
Surviving Climate Anxiety: A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving
Thomas Doherty
Little, Brown Spark
20 - Psychology /Mental & Emotional Well-Being
GOLD WINNERS
Tapping: Self-Healing with the Transformative Power of Energy Psychology
David Feinstein and Donna Eden
Sounds True
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein
One Signal Publishers, Atria Books/Simon & Schuster
20 - Psychology /Mental & Emotional Well-Being​
SILVER WINNERS
The Joy Reset: Six Ways Trauma Steals Happiness and How to Win it Back
MaryCatherine McDonald
Hachette
Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do About It
Matthew Facciani
Columbia University Press
