====== Minnesota Book Awards ====== [[welcome|Home]] >> [[readers_advisory|Readers Advisory]] >> [[bibliographies_state_regional_interests|Bibliographies with State or Regional Interests]] >> [[mn_book_awards_mn1a|Minnesota Book Awards]]\\ \\ **REFERENCES:**\\ * [[http://www.thefriends.org/events/mnba/winners-and-finalists/]] * [[http://www.thefriends.org/events/mnba/winners-and-finalists/past-winners-and-finalists/]] ===== 2013 ===== ==== Children's Literature ==== === Winner === * **It's a Tiger!** by **David LaRochelle** (Illustrated by Jeremy Tankard) - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **A Leaf Can Be** by **Laura Purdie Salas** (Illustrated by Violeta Dabija) - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Tell Me About Your Day Today** by **Mem Fox** (Illustrated by Lauren Stringer) - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Waking Dragons** by **Jane Yolen** (Illustrated by Derek Anderson) - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== General Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **Rez Life: An Indian an Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life** by **David Treuer** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/74432|DB 74432]] === Finalists === * **Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life** by **David W. Noble** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Forward: The First American Unsupported Expedition to the North Pole** by **John Huston** and **Tyler Fish** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community** by **Brenda J. Child** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Genre Fiction ==== === Winner === * **Curse the Jade Lily** by **David Housewright** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **The Devil and the Diva** by **David Housewright** and **Renee Valois** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Ruth 3:5** by **Michael Fridgen** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Tutor's Daughter** by **Julie Klassen** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/76584|DB 76584]] ---- ==== Memoir & Creative Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works** by **Atina Diffley** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Letters to a Young Madman** by **Paul Gruchow** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Life on Ice: 25 Years of Arctic Exploration** by **Lonnie Dupre** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **My Mother Is Now Earth** by **Mark Anthony Rolo** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Minnesota ==== === Winner === * **Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota** by **Gwen Westerman** and **Bruce White** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Every Man Did His Duty: Pictures & Stories of the Men of the First Minnesota** by **Wayne D. Jorgenson** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Lost Duluth: Landmarks, Industries, Buildings, Homes, and the Neighborhoods in Which They Stood** by **Tony Dierckins** and **Maryanne C. Norton** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Minnesota Book of Skills: Your Guide to Smoking Whitefish, Sauna Etiquette, Tick Extraction, and More** by **Chris Niskanen** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Novel & Short Story ==== === Winner === * **The Round House** by **Louis Erdrich** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/75641|DB 75641]] === Finalists === * **The Healing** by **Jonathan Odell** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **It Takes You Over** by **Nick Healy** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Vladimir's Mustache and Other Stories** by **Stephan Eirik Clark** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Poetry ==== === Winner === * **Odessa** by **Patricia Kirkpatrick** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **The First Day of Spring in Northern Minnesota** by **Jim Johnson** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Pitch** by **Todd Boss** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Salt Pier** by **Dore Kiesselbach** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Young Adult Literature ==== === Winner === * **Nothing Special** by **Geoff Herbach** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Goblin Secrets** by **William Alexander** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/75781|DB 75781]] | [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/19663|BR 19663]] * **Shadow on the Mountain** by **Margi Preus** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Silhouette of a Sparrow** by **Molly Beth Griffin** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2012 ===== ==== Children's Literature ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== General Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Genre Fiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Memoir & Creative Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Minnesota ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Novel & Short Story ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Poetry ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Young Adult Literature ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ===== 2011 ===== ==== Children's Literature ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== General Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Genre Fiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Memoir & Creative Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Minnesota ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Novel & Short Story ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Poetry ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Young Adult Literature ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ===== 2010 ===== ==== Children's Literature ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== General Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Genre Fiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Memoir & Creative Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Minnesota ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Novel & Short Story ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Poetry ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ==== Young Adult Literature ==== === Winner === * === Finalists === * ---- ===== 2009 ===== ==== Children's Literature ==== === Winner === * **The House in the Night** by **Susan Marie Swanson** (Illustrated by Beth Krommes) - Available Formats: [[BR 18041]] === Finalists === * **Henry's Amazing Imagination** by **Nancy Carlson** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Monkey with a Tool Belt** by **Chris Monroe** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **My Friend, the Starfinder** by **George Ella Lyon** (Illustrated by Stephen Gammel) - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== General Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **The Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald’s Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat** by **Catherine Friend** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It** by **Greg Breining** (Photography by Layne Kennedy) - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Potluck Paradise: Favorite Fare from Church and Community Cookbooks** by **Rae Katherine Eighmey** and **Debbie Miller** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **You Have Been Kind Enough to Assist Me: Herman Stern and the Jewish Refugee Crisis** by **Terry Shoptaugh** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Genre Fiction ==== === Winner === * **Stalking Susan** by **Julie Kramer** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/67775|DB 67775]] === Finalists === * **A Carrion Death** by **Michael Stanley** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Phantom Prey** by **John Sandford** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/66825|DB 66825]] | [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/17791|BR 17791]] * **Red Knife** by **William Kent Krueger** - Available Formats: **MDB01943** (Non-NLS; Minnesota DB recording) ---- ==== Memoir & Creative Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir** by **Kao Kalia Yang** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Madness: A Bipolar Life** by **Marya Hornbacher** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays** by **Ray Gonzalez** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Swallow the Ocean** by **Laura M. Flynn** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Minnesota ==== === Winner === * **Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota** by **Barbara W. Sommer** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated History of Duluth's Aerial Bridge** by **Tony Dierckins** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Landscapes of Minnesota: A Geography** by **John Fraser Hart** and **Susy Svatek Ziegler** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Minnesota on the Map: A Historical Atlas** by **David A. Lanegran** with **Carol Urness** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Novel & Short Story ==== === Winner === * **The Plague of Doves** by **Louise Erdrich** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/66886|DB 66886]] === Finalists === * **Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire** by **David Mura** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Shelter Half** by **Carol Bly** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Soul Thief** by **Charles Baxter** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Poetry ==== === Winner === * **National Monuments** by **Heid E. Erdrich** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Milk and Tides** by **Margaret Hasse** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Sound of It** by **Tim Nolan** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Yellowrocket** by **Todd Boss** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Readers' Choice Award ==== //Selected by online voters from across the state.// === Winner === * **The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir** by **Kao Kalia Yang** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Young Adult Literature ==== === Winner === * **Twelve Long Months** by **Brian Malloy** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Black Box** by **Julie Schumacher** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing)** by **Alison McGhee** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/18206|BR 18206]] * **Saturday Night Dirt: A Motor Novel** by **Will Weaver** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/67940|DB 67940]] | [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/18211|BR 18211]] ---- ===== 2008 ===== ==== Children's Literature ==== === Winner === * **Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat** by **Lynne Jonell** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **The Perfect Nest** by **Catherine Friend** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Farmer Cap** by **Jill Kalz** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg** by **Mia Posada** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== General Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot** by **Charles Baxter** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity** by **James Dawes** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour** by **Wing Young Huie** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting – An Oral History** by **Jim Walsh** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Genre Fiction ==== === Winner === * **Thunder Bay** by **William Kent Krueger** - Available Formats: **MDB01944** (Non-NLS; Minnesota DB recording) === Finalists === * **Code Black** by **Philip Donlay** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Maiden Rock** by **Mary Logue** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Protect and Defend** by **Vince Flynn** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/65530|DB 65530]] ---- ==== Memoir & Creative Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **The Florist's Daughter** by **Patricia Hampl** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **The Dog Says How** by **Kevin Kling** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/71552|DB 71552]] | [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/19072|BR 19072]] * **Home on the Road: Further Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth** by **Catherine Watson** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Wet Collection** by **Joni Tevis** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Minnesota ==== === Winner === * **Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota** by **Doug Hoverson** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out** by **Annette Atkins** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Mike Lynch's Minnesota Weatherwatch: A Complete Guide for Weather-Obsessed Minnesotans** by **Mike Lynch** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People** by **Bruce White** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Novel & Short Story ==== === Winner === * **The Last Communist Virgin** by **Wang Ping** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Pontoon** by **Garrison Keillor** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/65397|DB 65397]] | [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/17350|BR 17350]] * **Pretty Little Mistakes** by **Heather McElhatton** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The View from Mount Joy** by **Lorna Landvik** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/64974|DB 64974]] ---- ==== Poetry ==== === Winner === * **Willow Room, Green Door** by **Deborah Keenan** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Music for Landing Planes By** by **Éireann Lorsung** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Resurrection Trade** by **Leslie Adrienne Miller** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **This Brightness** by **William Reichard** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Readers' Choice Award ==== //Selected by online voters from across the state.// === Winner === * **Farmer Cap** by **Jill Kalz** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Young Adult Literature ==== === Winner === * **Defect** by **Will Weaver** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Billie Standish Was Here** by **Nancy Crocker** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Chasing Tail Lights** by **Patrick Jones** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Falling Boy** by **Alison McGhee** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2007 ===== ==== Autobiography, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past** by **Diane Wilson** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat** by **Caroline Burau** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology** by **Mary Rose O'Reilley** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence** by **Matthew Sanford** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/72233|DB 72233]] ---- ==== Children's Literature ==== === Winner === * **Tomorrow, the River** by **Dianne E. Gray** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow** by **Joyce Sidman** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry** by **Joyce Sidman** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Winter Is the Warmest Season** by **Lauren Stringer** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **The Cronus Chronicles, Book One: The Shadow Thieves** by **Anne Ursu** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Fine Press ==== === Winner === * **What It's Like Here** by **Jim Moore**, **Regula Russelle** and **CB Sherlock** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **The Grammarian's Five Daughters** by **Eleanor Arnason** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Promises Vague yet Certain** by **Donald Dass** and **Cecilia Lieder** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== General Nonfiction ==== === Winner === * **A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility** by **Taner Akçam** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/64787|DB 64787]] === Finalists === * **West Bank Boogie: Forty Years of Music, Mayhem and Memories** by **Cyn Collins** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Minnesota on Paper: Collecting Our Printed History** by **Moira F. Harris and Leo J. Harris** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club: Recipes, Tips and Stories** by **Kim Ode** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson** by **William Swanson** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Genre Fiction ==== === Winner === * **Copper River** by **William Kent Krueger** - Available Formats: **MDB01905** (Non-NLS; Minnesota DB recording) === Finalists === * **Stripped** by **Brian Freeman** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/64161|DB 64161]] * **The St. Paul Conspiracy** by **Roger Stelljes** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Novel & Short Story ==== === Winner === * **When Charlotte Comes Home** by **Maureen Millea Smith** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Lives of Mapmakers** by **Alicia L. Conroy** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Cirkus** by **Patti Frazee** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Poetry ==== === Winner === * **The Curator of Silence** by **Jude Nutter** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **Coven** by **Susan Deborah King** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Response: Poetry and Prints from the Lake Superior Writers and the Northern Printmakers Alliance** by **Cecilia Lieder** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Yahweh's Other Shoe** by **Kilian McDonnell** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Trust the Wild Heart** by **Nancy Paddock** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Readers' Choice Award ==== //Selected by online voters from across the state.// === Winner === * **Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence** by **Matthew Sanford** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/72233|DB 72233]] ---- ==== Young Adult Literature ==== === Winner === * **The Book of One Hundred Truths** by **Julie Schumacher** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Finalists === * **El Lector** by **William Durbin** - **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** * **Rash** by **Pete Hautman** - Available Formats: [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/65447|DB 65447]] | [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/16729|BR 16729]] ----