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C.J. Box C. J. Box is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum and the 2017 Spur Award from Western Writers of America for Best Contemporary Novel.

Novels by C.J. Box have been translated into 27 languages and have been optioned for film and television. Millions of copies of his novels have been sold in the U.S. alone. You can find author signed C.J. Box books below this bio.

Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he owned an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. In 2008, Box was awarded the "BIG WYO" Award from the state tourism industry. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo.

C.J. Box Book List and Awards
His website: www.cjbox.net
Similar authors: Linwood Barclay, Linda Castillo, Craig Johnson, Thomas Perry
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Treasure State
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Treasure State by C.J. Box

Shadows Reel
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Shadows Reel by C.J. Box

Dark Sky
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Dark Sky by C.J. Box

Long Range
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Long Range by C.J. Box

The Bitterroots
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The Bitterroots by C.J. Box

Wolf Pack
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Wolf Pack by C.J. Box

C.J. Box Bibliography


Joe Pickett Detective Series Books

  1. Open Season - 2001
  2. Savage Run - 2002
  3. Winterkill - 2003
  4. Trophy Hunt - 2004
  5. Out of Range - 2005
  6. In Plain Sight - 2006
  7. Free Fire - 2007
  8. Blood Trail - 2008
  9. Below Zero - 2009
  10. Nowhere to Run - 2010
  11. Cold Wind - 2011
  12. Force of Nature - 2012
  13. Breaking Point - 2013
  14. Stone Cold - 2014
  15. Endangered - 2015
  16. Off the Grid - 2016
  17. Vicious Circle - 2017
  18. The Disappeared - 2018
  19. Wolf Pack - 2019
  20. Long Range - 2020
  21. Dark Sky - 2021
  22. Shadows Reel - 2022

Cassie Dewell Series

  1. Back of Beyond - 2011
  2. The Highlands - 2013
  3. Badlands - 2015
  4. Paradise Valley - 2017
  5. The Bitterroots - 2019
  6. Treasure State - 2022

Stand Alone Novels

  • Blue Heaven - 2008
  • Three Weeks to Say Goodbye - 2009
  • Pronghorns of the Third Reich - 2014

Short Stories

  • Dull Knife / Intro By Ken Bruen -2005
  • The Master Falconer / Intro by T. Jefferson Parker - 2006
  • Le Sauvage Noble / Intro by James Crumley - 2007

Anthologies

  • Pirates of Yellowstone, Meeting Across The River - 2005
  • Pirates of Yellowstone, The Best American Mystery Stories - 2006
  • Perfectly Grimm, Once Upon A Crime - 2009
  • Every Day Is A Good Day On The River, Hook, Line, and Sinister - 2010
  • The End of Jim and Ezra, Damn Near Dead II / Geezer Noir - 2010
  • Pronghorns of the Third Reich - 2011
  • Shots Fired - 2014

Essays

  • Blame it on Rancho Deluxe, West of 98: Living and Writing in the New American West - 2011

C.J. Box Awards

  • Open Season - Anthony Award, the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, and the Barry Award, all in the Best First Novel Category
  • Blue Heaven (2009) - Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel
  • Anthony Award,
  • Prix Calibre 38 (France)
  • 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction
  • 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum
  • 2017 Spur Award from Western Writers of America for Best Contemporary Novel

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