Minnesota Book Awards
2013
Children's Literature
Winner
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:
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
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Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
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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
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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:
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
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
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Finalists
2012
Children's Literature
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General Nonfiction
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Genre Fiction
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Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
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Minnesota
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Novel & Short Story
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Poetry
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Young Adult Literature
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2011
Children's Literature
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General Nonfiction
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Genre Fiction
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Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
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Minnesota
Winner
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Novel & Short Story
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Poetry
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Young Adult Literature
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2010
Children's Literature
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General Nonfiction
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Genre Fiction
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Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
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Minnesota
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Novel & Short Story
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Poetry
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Young Adult Literature
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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:
DB 67775
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
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
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:
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
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
Young Adult Literature
Winner
Finalists
2008
Children's Literature
Winner
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
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
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Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
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Minnesota
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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
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Poetry
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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
Young Adult Literature
Winner
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
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Children's Literature
Winner
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
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General Nonfiction
Winner
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by
Taner Akçam - Available Formats:
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
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Novel & Short Story
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Poetry
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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:
DB 72233
Young Adult Literature
Winner
Finalists