Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners
by Award Year, 1988-2007

1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997
1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

*Note: No awards were held in 1990. 

Please also note that the award winners listed for each year were awarded in the year following publication (i.e. winners published in 2006 were announced in 2007 at the 19th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).

(Winners indicated by the icon; all others are Finalists)

 The High Price of Everything: Stories
Kathleen Coskran
New Rivers Press

 The Star Maiden: An Ojibway Tale Retold
Barbara Juster Esbensen
Helen K. Davie, illustrator
Little, Brown

 Spillville
Patricia Hampl
Steven Sorman, engravings
Milkweed Editions

 Leaving Home
Garrison Keillor
Viking

 Selected Poems, 1938-1988
Thomas McGrath
Sam Hamill, editor

 Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Viking Penguin: Puffin Books

1988 Book Design & Execution

 Border Country: The Quetico-Superior Wilderness
Craig Blacklock, photographer
Nadine Blacklock, photographer
Tom Klein, author
Gaylord Nelson, introduction
NorthWord Press

1988 Finalists

Touch the Moon
Marion Dane Bauer
Alix Berenzy, illustrator
Clarion Books

Stranger, You & I
Patricia Calvert
Scribner

Arnie Goes to Camp
Nancy Carlson
Viking Kestrel

Airmail To the Moon
Tom Birdseye
Stephen Gammell, illustrator
Holiday House

In a Sheep's Eye, Darling
Margaret Hasse
Milkweed Editions

Grand Opening
Jon Hassler
Morrow

American Beauty
C.J.Hribal
Simon & Schuster

Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth; A Novel
Brett Laidlaw
Norton

Red Lake of the Heart
Mary Logue
Dell

Prime Fathers
Frederick Feikema Manfred
Howe Brothers

A Long Way to See: Images and Voices of North Dakota
Michael Moos,
Wayne Gudmundson, photographer
North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies

Cover Me: Short Stories
Lon Otto
Coffee House Press

The Crossing
Gary Paulsen
Orchard Books: A Richard Jackson Book

The Island
Gary Paulsen
Orchard Books: A Richard Jackson Book

The Transparency of Skin: Poems
Catherine Stearns
New Rivers Press

On to Nicollet: The Glory and Fame of the Minneapolis Millers
Stew Thornley
Dave Moore, foreword
Nodin Press

How to Prepare for Your High School Reunion, and Other Midlife Musings
Susan Allen Toth
Little, Brown

The Superior North Shore
Thomas F. Waters
Carol Yonker Waters, illustrator
University of Minnesota Press

Dying Old and Dying Young: Poems
Susan Williams
Sharon Scapple, photographer
Garret Williams photographer
New Rivers Press

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The Minnesota Book Awards is a Capital City project, led by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library,
in consortium with the Saint Paul Public Library and the Mayor’s office in the City of Saint Paul. 
Outreach partners for the Book Awards include the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA)
and the Minnesota Library Association (MLA).