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Award Winning Titles
The following UNT Press books have received awards and honors:
* denotes National Award
- The Next Settlement Michael Robins
 Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2006. The annual Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry is awarded to a previously unpublished collection of poetry. The winner receives $1,000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press.
- Body Language Kelly Magee
Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.
- Let's Do Rebecca Meacham
The Anne Powers Book-length Fiction Award sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers, 2005
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program Selection, Winter 2005 *
Bronze Award Winner for the Book of the Year, Short Stories, from Foreword Magazine for 2004
Outstanding Achievement recognition by the Wisconsin Library Association's Literary Awards Committee, 2005
Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize from the Poetry Center, 2005
- Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas William T. Harper
Violet Crown Book Award for best nonfiction, from the Writers' League of Texas, 2005
- Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story Chuck Gross
Military Book Club selection, 2004 *
Gold Cover Award and Distinguished Book Award from the Military Writers Society of America/American Authors Association, 2004
- Life in Laredo: A Documentary History from the Laredo Archives Robert D. Wood, S.M.
The Webb County Heritage Foundation Jim Parish Award, 2004
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 2004
- Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau W. Dale Nelson
Wyoming State Historical Society's Publications Award for Biography, 2004
- Reflections on the Neches: A Naturalist's Odyssey along the Big Thicket's Snow River Geraldine Ellis Watson
Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award, runner-up, 2004
- The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 1: November 20, 1872, to July 28, 1876
Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2003 *
- Behind Every Choice Is a Story Gloria Feldt with Carol Trickett Jennings
Amelia Bloomer Project Selection, 2004 *
- Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis
Texas State Historical Association Liz Carpenter Award, runner up, 2003
- The Twenty-five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon Lam Quang Thi
Military Book Club selection, 2002 *
- A Protocol for Touch Constance Merritt
Poetry Society of America William Carlos Williams Book Award, runner-up, 2001 *
- The Pepper Trail: History & Recipes from Around the World Jean Andrews
International Association of Culinary Professionals, Jane Grigson Award, 2001 *
- Through Animals' Eyes: True Stories from a Wildlife Sanctuary Lynn Marie Cuny
Book of The Month Club Selection, 1999 *
Quality Paperback Book Club Selection, 1999 *
Spirit Club Selection, 1999 *
- Boardin' in the Thicket: Recipes and Reminiscences of Early Big Thicket Boarding Houses Wanda A. Landrey
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1989
- Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream Joyce Glover Lee
Association of College and Research Libraries, Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1997 *
- Hecho en Tejas:Texas-Mexican Folk Arts and Crafts
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1992
- At Belleau Wood Robert B. Asprey
Military Book Club selection, 1996 *
- Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore
The San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1996
- D. H. Lawrence: Future Primitive Dolores LaChapelle
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Educator's Award, Honorable Mention, 1997 *
- The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume I: 1839-1845.
East Texas Advertising Federation Bronze Award for Book Cover, 1996
The Texas Historical Commission T. R. Fehrenbach Award, 1996
- The Death of Tarpons Leslie H. Edgerton
Austin Writers' League Special Citation, 1996
- My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression Eddie Stimpson, Jr.
Special Violet Crown Award Citation 1996
- Delirium Barbara Hamby
Claremont Graduate School Kate Tufts Award, 1996 *
Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award, 1995 *
- Death is Lighter than a Feather David Westheimer
Military Book Club Selection, 1995 *
- From Slave to Statesman:The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston Patricia Smith Prather and Jane Clements Monday
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1994
Austin Writers' League Violet Crown Nonfiction Award, 1994
East Texas Historical Association Ottis Lock Award for Best Book on East Texas History, 1995
- 900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail A. C. Greene
The Texas Historical Commission T. R. Fehrenbach Award, 1994
Western Writers Spur Awards, Honorable Mention, 1994 *
- El Rancho in South Texas: Continuity and Change from 1750 Joe S. Graham
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1994
Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio La Bahia Award, 2nd place, 1994
- FOO: A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun - The Secret Prison Diary of Frank "FOO" Fujita. Frank Fujita
American Library Association Notable Books List, 1993 *
New York Public Library Book to Remember, 1994 *
- Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston Madge Thornall Roberts
East Texas Historical Association Ottis Lock Award for the Best Book Published on East Texas History, 1994
East Texas Addy Federation Silver Award for Cover Design, 1992
- The Texas Folklore Society, 1909-1943: Volume I Francis Edward Abernethy
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1993
- American Wildflower Florilegium Jean Andrews
Outstanding Academic Book List for Book-of-the-Month Club Dividend Selection, 1994 *
- A Promise to Catie Judd Holt
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 1994 *
- They Are Coming: The Conquest of Mexico Jose Lopez Portillo y Pacheco
New York Public Library Books to Remember, 1992 *
- This Place of Memory: A Texas Perspective
National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award for Short Fiction, 1992 *
- Gilbert Onderdonk: The Nurseryman of Mission Valley, Pioneer Horticulturist Evelyn Oppenheimer
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1991
- The LH7 Ranch in Houston's Shadow: The E. H. Marks' Legacy from Longhorns to the Salt Grass Trail Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore
San Antonio Conservation Society Award, 1991
- Rafting the Brazos Walter McDonald
National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award for Poetry, 1989 *
- Some Still Do: Essays on Texas Customs
6 x 9. 153 pp.
- Texian Stomping Grounds
6 x 9 , 172 pp.
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Theoria 15
John Ringo, King of the Cowboys: His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone, Second Edition
See Sam Run
A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt 
Mister Martini
Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II
Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger
Folklore in Motion: Texas Travel Lore
Wonderful Girl