2025 Top Shelf Winners
Bibles
NIV Lectio Bible
Designer: Ryan Wesley Peterson
Senior Art Director: Rob Jelsema
Publisher: Zondervan
CSB Explorer Bible for Kids
Art Director: Jeff Godby
Design and Illustration: Nate Farro
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
The Message Women’s Devotional Bible, SERIES
Designer: Eva M. Winters
Art Director: Dean H. Renninger
Publisher: The Navigators, Tyndale House Publishers
CSB Jesus Daily Bible
Art Director: Jeff Godby
Design and illustration: Stephen Crotts
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
NKJV Kingdom Life Bible
Designer: Derek Thornton
Art Director: Kate Armstrong
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Children's
The Dream Keeper Saga Set (5 Volumes), SERIES
Designer: Studio Muti
Art Director: Erik M. Peterson
Publisher: Crossway
Little Christmas Carol
Designer: Joe Sutphin
Art Director: Erik M. Peterson
Publisher: Moody Publishers
The Outsider
Designer: André Parker
Cover Illustration: Megan Parker
Publisher: The Good Book Company
The Storyteller's Bible
Designer: Diana Lawrence
Cover illustration: Alida Massari and Diana Lawrence
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
The Unlikely Intrusion of Adams Klein
Designer: Aedan Peterson
Art Director: Kaylee Lockenour Dunn
Publisher: Moody Publishers
When You Find a Hope
Art Director: Eve DeGrie
Illustrator: Anne Lambelet
Publisher: WorthyKids, Hachette Nashville
Fiction
The Collector of Burned Books
Designer: Sarah Susan Richardson
Art Director: Dean H. Renninger
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House
Designer: Laura Klynstra
Publisher: Revell/ Baker Publishing Group
Nonfiction
Chicken-Fried Women
Designer: Whitney J. Hicks, Art Director
Publisher: Worthy Books, Hachette Nashville
The Man the Moment Demands
Designer: Studio Gearbox
Art Director: Meg Schmidt
Publisher: Thomas Nelson














