2005  AML Awards

Biography
Richard Lyman Bushman for Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

Criticism
Film
Greg Whiteley for New York Doll

Marilyn Brown Novel Award
Arianne B. Cope for The Coming of Elijah

Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention
Donald Marshall for Seeker

Novel
Brandon Sanderson for Elantris

Novel Honorable Mention
Orson Scott Card for Magic Street
Roger Terry for God's Executioner

Poetry
Lance Larsen for In All Their Animal Brilliance

Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
Dean Hughes for Children of the Promise

Special Award
Michael and Laura Allred for The Golden Plates

Young Adult Literature
Shannon Hale for Princess Academy
Patricia Wiles for Funeral Home Evenings

Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
Dean Hughes for Search and Destroy
David Farland for Of Mice and Magic, Ravenspell Book One