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)

1989 Book Design & Execution

 The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack
L. David Mech
Roger Caras, foreword
Voyageur Press

Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota
Willard B. Moore and others.
Published for the Minnesota Museum of Art by the Minnesota Historical Society Press

Minnesota's Endangered Flora and Fauna
Barbara Coffin, editor
Lee Pfannmuller, editor
Jan A. Janssens, illustrator
University of Minnesota Press

Village Without Mirrors
Patricia Weaver Francisco
Timothy Francisco, photographer
Milkweed Editions

1989 Children's

 Going the Moose Way Home
Jim Latimer
Donald Carrick, illustrator
Scribner

I Like Me!
Nancy Carlson
Viking Kestrel

Song and Danceman
Karen Ackerman
Stephen Gammell, illustrator
Knopf

Porkchop's Halloween
Susan Pearson
Rick Brown, illustrator
Simon & Schuster

Saying Goodbye to Grandma
Jane Resh Thomas
Clarion Books

1989 Fiction

 A Gravestone Made of Wheat: Stories
Will Weaver
Simon & Schuster

Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories
Paulette Bates Alden
Graywolf Press

This Coffin Has No Handles
Thomas McGrath
Thunder's Mouth Press

The Finer Grain
Denise Ohio
Naiad Press

The Madonna Stories
Gary Paulsen
Van Vliet & Company

Wheat that Springeth Green
J.F. (James Farl) Powers
Knopf

1989 Genres

 Morning Glory
LaVyrle Spencer
Putnam's

Island of Steel
Stephen Paul Cohen
William Morrow

Family Closets
Marjorie Dorner
McGraw-Hill

Snow White and Rose Red
Patricia C. Wrede
Tom Doherty Associates (A TOR Book)

Mindscream
R.D. Zimmerman
Donald I. Fine

1989 Minnesota

 Meant to Be Read Out Loud
Susan Hauser
Woodcuts by Barbara Orfield Loken
Loonfeather Press

Quiet Magic
Sam Cook
Bob Cary, illustrator
Pfeifer-Hamilton

The Necessity of Empty Places
Paul Gruchow
St. Martin's (A Thomas Dunne Book)

No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor's War at Hormel
Dave Hage
Paul Klauda
William Morrow

1989 Non-Fiction

 Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford
Crown

Rethinking the Cold War
Eric Black
Paradigm Press

Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut
John Camp
Henry Holt

Courage and Love
Gisela Konopka
Burgess Printing for the Author

Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Karen Thompson
Julie Andrzejewski
Spinsters/Aunt Lute

The Service Edge: 101 Companies that Profit from Customer Care
Ron Zemke
Dick Schaff
New American Library

1989 Poetry

 Freedom of History: Poems
James Moore
Milkweed Editions

1989 Younger Children

 The Sun, the Wind and the Rain
Lisa Westberg Peters
Ted Rand, illustrator
Henry Holt

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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).