Announcement: Minnesota Book Awards finalists

The Friends of St Paul Public Library has just published this list of finalists for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards *********************************************** CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Sponsored by Books for Africa A Different Pond by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui (Capstone Young Readers/Capstone*) — Mighty Moby by Ed Young, text by Barbara DaCosta (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group) — Round by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Taeeun Yoo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) — The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by K. L. Going, illustrated by Lauren Stringer (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster)

 

 

GENERAL NONFICTION Sponsored by College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John’s University Alice in France:The World War I Letters of Alice M. O’Brien by Nancy O’Brien Wagner (Minnesota Historical Society Press*) — The First and Only Book of Sack: 36 Years of Cartoons for the Star Tribune by Steve Sack (Star Tribune Media Co.*) — Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy by Elaine Tyler May (Basic Books/Hachette Book Group) — Mountain Ranch by Michael Crouser (University of Texas Press)

 

 

GENRE FICTION Sponsored by Macalester College The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) — The End of Temperance Dare by Wendy Webb (Lake Union Publishing) — Nothing Stays Buried by P. J. Tracy (G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House) — Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)

 

 

MEMOIR & CREATIVE NONFICTION Sponsored by Faegre Baker Daniels Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen (Clarkson Potter/Crown Publishing) — It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching by Tom Rademacher (University of Minnesota Press*)    — Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate  by Carolyn Porter (Skyhorse Publishing) — Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year by Linda LeGarde Grover (University of Minnesota Press*)

 

 

MIDDLE GRADE LITERATURE Sponsored by Education Minnesota A Crack in the Sea by H. M. Bouwman (G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House) — The End of the Wild by Nicole Helget (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group) — Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal’d by Mary Losure (Candlewick Press) — Rooting for Rafael Rosales by Kurtis Scaletta (Albert Whitman & Company)

 

 

MINNESOTA NONFICTION Sponsored by Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag by Marcia G. Anderson (Minnesota Historical Society Press*) — Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound by Andrea Swensson (University of Minnesota Press*) — Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice by Roberta Walburn (University of Minnesota Press*) — Sights, Sounds, Soul: The Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis by Davu Seru, photography by Charles Chamblis (Minnesota Historical Society Press*)

 

 

NOVEL & SHORT STORY Sponsored by Fitzgerald in Saint Paul Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins Publishers) — Stories for a Lost Child by Carter Meland (Michigan State University Press) — The Through by A. Rafael Johnson (Jaded Ibis Press) — What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)

 

 

POETRY Sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc. Autopsy by Donte Collins (Button Poetry*) — Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich (Michigan State University Press) — Solve for Desire by Caitlin Bailey (Milkweed Editions*) — Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi (Coffee House Press*)

 

 

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Sponsored by Brainfuse The Exo Project by Andrew DeYoung (Boyds Mills Press/Highlights) — The Last Thing You Said by Sara Biren (Amulet Books/Abrams) — Thief’s Cunning by Sarah Ahiers (HarperTeen/HarperCollins Publishers) — Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni (Dial Books/Penguin Random House)