Books

Minnesota Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 156 books.


  1. Friends

    True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships

    by Catherine Thimmesh

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Literature
    Finalist
  2. The Last Day of Kindergarten

    by Nancy Loewen

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Literature
    Finalist
  3. Swirl by Swirl

    Spirals in Nature

    by Joyce Sidman

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Literature
    Finalist
  4. BookSpeak!: Poems About Books

    by Josée Bisaillon

    Year: 2012
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  5. Trout caviar : recipes from a northern forager

    by Brett Laidlaw

    Year: 2012
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  6. Vikings in the attic : in search of Nordic America

    by Eric Dregni

    Year: 2012
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  7. Fool Me Twice

    Fighting the Assault on Science in America

    by Shawn Lawrence Otto

    Year: 2012
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  8. The Bone House

    by Brian Freeman

    Year: 2012
    Category: Genre Fiction
    Finalist
  9. Detective Kubu: Book 3

    Death of the Mantis

    by Michael Stanley

    Year: 2012
    Category: Genre Fiction
    Finalist
  10. Cork O'Connor: Book 11

    Northwest Angle

    by William Kent Krueger

    Year: 2012
    Category: Genre Fiction
    Finalist
  11. Big Wheat

    A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood

    by Richard A. Thompson

    Year: 2012
    Category: Genre Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  12. Sheepish

    Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet

    by Catherine Friend

    Year: 2012
    Category: Memior & Creative Nonfiction
    Finalist
  13. For love of lakes

    by Darby Nelson

    Year: 2012
    Category: Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
    Finalist
  14. The Last Deployment

    How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq

    by Bronson Lemer

    Year: 2012
    Category: Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
    Finalist
  15. A Song at Twilight - Of Alzheimer's and Love

    by Nancy Paddock

    Year: 2012
    Category: Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  16. Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View from the Rez

    by Jim Northrup

    Year: 2012
    Category: Minnesota
    Finalist
  17. The Pillsburys of Minnesota

    by Lori Sturdevant

    Year: 2012
    Category: Minnesota
    Finalist
  18. Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam

    by Kim Heikkila

    Year: 2012
    Category: Minnesota
    Finalist
  19. In Caddis Wood: A Novel

    by Rachel Hosler

    Year: 2012
    Category: Novel & Short Story
    Finalist
  20. The Long-Shining Waters

    by Danielle Sosin

    Year: 2012
    Category: Novel & Short Story
    Finalist
  21. Merit Badges

    by Kevin Fenton

    Year: 2012
    Category: Novel & Short Story
    Finalist
  22. The Law of Miracles (Juniper Prize for Fiction)

    by Gregory Blake Smith

    Year: 2012
    Category: Novel & Short Story
    Rank: Winner
  23. Bodies of Light

    by Athena Kildegaard

    Year: 2012
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  24. Whorled : poems

    by Ed-Bok Lee

    Year: 2012
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Winner
  25. Invisible Strings

    Poems

    by Jim Moore

    Year: 2012
    Category: Poety
    Finalist
  26. With or Without You

    by Brian Farrey

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Peoples Literature
    Rank: Winner
  27. The Big Crunch

    by Pete Hautman

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  28. Books of Elsewhere: Book 2

    Spellbound

    by Jacqueline West

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  29. The Tanglewood Terror

    by Kurtis Scaletta

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young People's Literature
  30. My Heart Is Like a Zoo

    by Michael Hall

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  31. The opposite of cold : the Northwoods Finnish sauna tradition

    by Michael Nordskog

    Year: 2011
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  32. The Tale of Halcyon Crane

    by Wendy Webb

    Year: 2011
    Category: Genre Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  33. Carrier : untangling the danger in my DNA

    by Bonnie J. Rough

    Year: 2011
    Category: Memior & Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  34. North country : the making of Minnesota

    by Mary Lethert Wingerd

    Year: 2011
    Category: Minnesota
    Rank: Winner
  35. Vestments

    by John Reimringer

    Year: 2011
    Category: Novel & Short Story
    Rank: Winner
  36. Find the Girl

    by Lightsey Darst

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Winner
  37. News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist

    by Laurie Hertzel

    Year: 2011
    Category: Reader's Choice
    Rank: Winner
  38. Blank Confession

    by Pete Hautman

    Year: 2011
    Category: Youg Peoples' Literature
    Rank: Winner
  39. Split

    by Swati Avasthi

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young People's Literature
    Finalist
  40. Stampede! : poems to celebrate the wild side of school

    by Laura Purdie Salas

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Literature
    Finalist
  41. Red Sings from Treetops

    A Year in Colors

    by Joyce Sidman, Pamela Zagarenski

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  42. I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson

    by Joy K. Lintelman

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  43. The Wolf at Twilight

    An Indian Elder's Journey Through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows

    by Kent Nerburn

    Year: 2010
    Category: Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  44. Opening Goliath: Danger and Discovery in Caving

    by Cary J. Griffith

    Year: 2010
    Category: Minnesota
    Rank: Winner
  45. The Book of Night Women

    by Marlon James

    Year: 2010
    Category: Novel & Short Story
    Rank: Winner
  46. I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman

    by Jude Nutter

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Winner
  47. Honor Bright: A Century of Scouting in Northern Star Council

    by Dave Kenney

    Year: 2010
    Category: Readers' Choice Award
    Rank: Winner

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