#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart
#2 (tie) Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones
#2 (tie) The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart
#3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert
#4 Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
#5 Raft Tide and Railroad – How We Lived and Died: Collected Memories and Stories of an Appalachian Family and its Seventh Son, Edwina Pendarvis