2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that eleven of our titles have been recognized as Finalists in the 27th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Finalists represent the best books published in 2024 from university and independent publishers.
“This year’s submissions have truly impressed me with their depth and diversity. Each finalist stands as a testament to the remarkable talent and vision within the independent publishing world. The INDIES not only celebrates these exceptional literary works but also plays a pivotal role in connecting them with librarians and booksellers, ensuring that a rich variety of voices continues to thrive in the world.” said Christopher Nesbit, INDIES Award Director.
Winners in each genre, along with Editor’s Choice Prize winners and Foreword’s Indie Publisher of the Year, will be announced in June 2025.
Notre Dame Press Finalists include:
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Fiction, Historical
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4 provides insight into the struggles and decisions made by the participants of the Russian Revolution. The book follows the agitation and changes in every part of Russian society from the army on the front lines, the countryside, the Volga merchants, the Don Cossacks, and the Orthodox Church. This concludes the four volume revolutionary saga March 1917 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Fiction, Religious
Prisms, Veils: A Book of Fables a collection of short stories from one of the most-read religious and philosophical scholars today. David Bentley Hart examines the nature of dreams and the power of mythologies. Hart engages with themes from the beauty of the physical natural world to the nature of consciousness and how these elements intertwine with religious and theological knowledge.
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Fiction, War & Military
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4 takes readers into the complex history of the Russian Revolution. Solzhenitsyn emphasizes the chaos that came from soldiers grappling with tension on the front lines and military power’s association with state power. This concludes the four volume revolutionary saga March 1917 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Adventure, Sports & Recreation
Ara: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend captures the personality, courage, and character of a great man who faced adversity on and off the field. Mark O. Hubbard explores the coach’s innovative philosophy, organization, strategy, tactics, and motivational techniques with details to satisfy even the most knowledgeable football aficionado.
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Adventure, Sports & Recreation
Fighting Irish Football: The Notre Dame Tradition in Photographs spans the history of college football’s most storied program, featuring many never-before-seen photos from the vaults of the University of Notre Dame Archives.
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Biography
Ara: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend captures the personality, courage, and character of a great man who faced adversity on and off the field. This biography explores the coach’s innovative philosophy, organization, strategy, tactics and motivational techniques. Follow the story that made Ara a legend in Notre Dame history and how he encapsulated the Fighting Irish Spirit during and after retiring as a coach.
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Health
The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to current disease. Schertz considers the virtue ethics and theological bioethics of precision medicine in a time when genetic technologies and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing the landscape of medical practice and patient care.
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Regional
City and Campus: An Architectural History of South Bend, Notre Dame, and Saint Mary’s tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the architecture that makes these places distinctive. John W. Stamper paints a narrative portrait of South Bend and the campuses of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College from their founding and earliest settlement in the 1830s through the boom of the Roaring Twenties. The book outlines a definitive history of how this urban and academic environment emerged and enriched one another.
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Religion
Tomáš Halík explores the crisis of faith Christians are confronting in a modern secularized and globalized world. The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change analyzes the crisis as a crossroads; one that produces division or one that provides the opportunity to develop a deeper and more mature form of church, theology and spirituality.
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Coffee Table Books
The expertly selected images in Fighting Irish Football: The Notre Dame Tradition in Photographs capture the history of Notre Dame football and of sports photography. The photos are remarkable not only as historic artifacts, but as art, chosen for their striking composition, creative use of light, and unique photographic techniques. From the sport’s humble origins on campus to legendary Fighting Irish victories, Lamb and Hogan reveal the stories behind the game through these rare images and engaging, informative commentary.
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Poetry
Santa Tarantula grants voice of the voiceless, explores ancient narrative, and investigates Cuban history and identity while its people confront trauma and violence. These poems weave together stories and draw out what it means to be vulnerable and the strength it takes to endure tragedy and trauma and to survive.
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The University of Notre Dame Press, the largest Catholic university press in the world, publishes academic and general interest books that engage the most enduring questions of our time. We believe in the power of research to advance knowledge and impact lives, and of our books to connect scholars, experts, students, and readers in order to encourage intellectual exploration and enrich conversations on campus, across the country, and around the world.
For more information, contact: Steffi Marchman, shoffma7@nd.edu, 574-631-4905.