Forty-seven textbooks have been awarded 2026 Textbook Awards by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Awards Committee. Twelve textbooks received William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Awards, 11 textbooks received Most Promising New Textbook Awards, and 24 textbooks received Textbook Excellence Awards. The McGuffey Longevity Award recognizes textbooks and learning materials whose excellence has been demonstrated over time. The Textbook Excellence Award recognizes excellence in current textbooks and learning materials. The Most Promising New Textbook Award recognizes excellence in 1st edition textbooks and learning materials.

McGuffey Longevity Award

Advocacy Practice for Social Justice, 5th edition
By Richard Hoefer
Published by Oxford University Press
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, 5th edition
By Sharon Plotkin, Robert R. Ogle
Published by Cognella Academic Publishing
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Daniels and Worthingham’s Muscle Testing, 11th edition
By Dale Avers, Donovan J. Lott, Marybeth Brown
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Exploring Medical Language, 12th edition
By Danielle LaFleur Brooks, Dale Levinsky, Myrna LaFleur Brooks
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Fordney’s Medical Insurance and Billing, 17th edition
By Linda M. Smith
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage, 8th edition
By Sandy Fritz, Luke Fritz
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

Generalist Social Work Practice: A Worktext, 13th edition
By Charles H. Zastrow, Sarah Hessenauer
Published by Cognella Academic Publishing
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Guyton & Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 15th edition
By John E. Hall, Michael E. Hall
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach, 9th edition
By Dee Unglaub Silverthorn
Published by Pearson
College/University
Life Sciences

 

Media Ethics: Issues and Cases, 11th edition
By Chad Painter, Erin Schauster, Lee Wilkins, Philip Patterson
Published by Bloomsbury
College/University
Communication, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

 

 

 

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 4th edition
By John Fleagle, Andrea Baden, Christopher C. Gilbert
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Textbook of Radiographic Positioning and Procedures, 11th edition
By John Lampignano, Leslie Kendrick
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

 

Most Promising New Textbook Award

Data Structures and Algorithms in Java: A Project Based Approach, 1st edition
By Dan S. Myers
Published by Cambridge University Press
College/University
Computer Science, Engineering

 

 

Earth History: Stories of Our Geological Past, 1st edition
By Peter Copeland, Janok P. Bhattacharya
Published by Cambridge University Press
College/University
Physical Sciences

 

 

Financial Social Work: Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Practice, 1st edition
By Reeta Wolfsohn, Matthew Schwartz
Published by Cognella Academic Publishing
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Green Building: An Engineering Approach to Sustainable Construction, 1st edition
By Christian M. Carrico
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Computer Science, Engineering

 

Interpersonal Communication: The Within and The Between, 1st edition
By Jody Koenig Kellas, Valerie Manusov
Published by Cognella Academic Publishing
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

Introduction to American Corrections, 1st edition
By Steven E. Barkan, Michael Rocque, Amber L. Beckley
Published by FlatWorld
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Introduction to Personal Finance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Financial Freedom, 1st edition
By Kristen Carioti
Published by Sage Publishing
College/University
Accounting, Business, Economics

 

Oregon, Our Home, 1st edition
By Jennifer Lee, Bart King
Published by Gibbs Smith Education
K-12
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Petrology and Plate Tectonics: An Earth Systems Approach, 1st edition
By Allen Glazner, Matthew J. Kohn
Published by Oxford University Press
College/University
Physical Sciences

 

 

Race and Inequality in American Politics: An Imperfect Union, 1st edition
By Zoltan L. Hajnal, Vincent L. Hutchings, Taeku Lee
Published by Cambridge University Press
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

The Social and Structural Determinants of Health: Educating Nurses to Advance Health Equity, 1st edition
By Terry A. Murray
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

Textbook Excellence Award

A First Course in Systems Biology, 3rd edition
By Eberhard O. Voit, Melissa Kemp
Published by Taylor & Francis / CRC Press
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

American Government in Black and White, 7th edition
By Paula D. McClain, Steven Tauber
Published by Oxford University Press
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Case-Smith’s Occupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents, 9th edition
By Jane Clifford O’Brien, Heather Miller Kuhaneck
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease, 9th edition
By Terry Des Jardins, George Burton
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Data Mining, 5th edition
By James Foulds, Eibe Frank
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Computer Science, Engineering

 

 

Dental Radiography: Principles and Techniques, 6th edition
By Joen M. Iannucci, Laura Jansen Howerton
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects, 3rd edition
By Rob Whitehead, Jason Alread, Tom Leslie
Published by Taylor & Francis
College/University
Physical Sciences

 

 

Immunology, 2nd edition
By Stephen J. Juris
Published by Oxford University Press
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

International Economics, International Trade, International Finance, 1st edition
By Menzie Chinn, Douglas Irwin
Published by Cambridge University Press
College/University
Accounting, Business, Economics

 

Introduction to Visual Optics: A Light Approach, 1st edition
By Samantha L. Strong
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, 3rd edition
By L. Ayu Saraswati, Barbara L. Shaw, Heather Rellihan
Published by Oxford University Press
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

Invitation to World Religions, 5th edition
By Jeffrey Brodd, Bradley Nystrom, Robert Platzner, Richard Shek, Erin Stiles
Published by Oxford University Press
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Laboratory Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, 8th edition
By Kristin Holtgrew-Bohling
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Lectures on Theoretical Physics (volume 1: Classical Mechanics, volume 2: Electromagnetism,
volume 3: Quantum Mechanics, volume 4: Fluid Mechanics), 1st edition
By David Tong
Published by Cambridge University Press
College/University
Physical Sciences

 

Little and Falace’s Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient, 10th edition
By Craig Miller, Nelson L. Rhodus, Nathaniel S Treister, Eric T. Stoopler, Alexander Ross Kerr
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

McCurnin’s Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses, 11th edition
By Oreta M. Samples and Paige Allen
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Medical Microbiology, 10th edition
By Patrick R. Murray, Ken S. Rosenthal, Michael A. Pfaller
Published by Elsevier
College/University
Life Sciences

 

 

Patterns of World History, 5th edition
By Peter Von Sivers, Charles Desnoyers
Published by Oxford University Press
College/University
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

Plate Tectonics, 1st edition
By Haakon Fossen, Christian Teyssier
Published by Cambridge University Press
College/University
Physical Sciences

 

 

Principles of Finance, 1st edition
By Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton, Richard T. Thakor
Published by Cambridge University Press
College/University
Accounting, Business, Economics

 

 

Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners: Beneath the Linguistic Surface, 1st edition
By Milica Savić, Anders Myrset, Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis
Published by Multilingual Matters
College/University
Languages, Literature

 

 

Social Media and Society: An Introduction to the Mass Media Landscape, 2nd edition
By Regina M. Luttrell, Adrienne A. Wallace
Published by Bloomsbury
College/University
Communication, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

 

 

Social Media: How to Engage, Share, and Connect, 5th edition
By Regina M. Luttrell
Published by Bloomsbury
College/University
Communication, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

 

 

The Ohio Adventure, 2nd edition
By Jennifer Lee, Bart King
Published by Gibbs Smith Education
K-12
Humanities, Education, Social Sciences

 

 

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