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)

1995 Biography

 Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years as a Farm Wife
Marjorie Myers Douglas
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Hellroaring: The Life and Times of a Fire Bum
Peter M. Leschak
North Star Press of Saint Cloud

Gratia Countryman: Her Life, Her Loves and Her Library
Jane Pejsa
Nodin Press

1995 Children's Non-Fiction

 Sovietrek: A Journey by Bicycle Across Russia
Dan Buettner
Lerner Publications

Kerry, A Teenage Mother
Maggi Aitkens
Lerner Publications

Wings of Magic, 2nd ed.
Sandy Ehlers
McCartney

A Beekeeper's Year
Sylvia A. Johnson
Nick Von Ohlen, photographer
Little, Brown and Company

Jackie Joyner Kersee: Superwoman
Jennifer Larson
Lerner Publications

Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust
Karen Ritz, illustrator
David A. Adler, author
Holiday House

1995 Fantasy & Science Fiction

 A College of Magics
Caroline Stevermer
TOR

Five Hundred Years After
Steven Brust
TOR

Double Feature
Emma Bull
Will Shetterly
NESFA Press

The Dubious Hills
Pamela Dean
TOR

1995 Fiction (Novel & Stories)

 Seventeen Grams of Soul
Emilio DeGrazia
Lone Oak Press

 Losing Absalom: A Novel
Alexs D. Pate
Coffee House Press

The Peace Terrorist: Stories
Carol Masters
New Rivers Press

Hitting Into the Wind
William Meissner
Random House

A Walking Fire: A Novel
Valerie Miner
State University of New York Press

Rainy Lake: A Novel
Mary Francois Rockcastle
Graywolf Press

1995 Help & Guidance

 Suicide: Why? 85 Questions and Answers About Suicide. 2nd ed.
Adina Wrobleski
Afterwords Publishing

Roughing it Elegantly: A Practical Guide to Canoe Camping. 2nd ed.
Linda Oliver Isakson, author
Patricia J. Bell, illustrator
Cat's Paw Press

Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey
Michael Winer
Karen Ray
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation

Mediasmart: How to Handle a Reporter, By a Reporter
Dennis Stauffer
MinneApplePress

The Six Steps to Excellence in Selling: The Step-by-Step Guide to Effective Selling
Warren M. Wechsler
Better Books

1995 History

 As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
Karal Ann Marling
Harvard University Press

Material Culture and People's Art Among the Norwegians in America
Marion J. Nelson, editor
Norwegian-American Historical Association

Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret that Destroyed Nazi Germany
Louis C. Kilzer
Simon & Schuster

North Star Statehouse: An Armchair Guide to the Minnesota State Capitol
Thomas O'Sullivan
Pogo Press

1995 Illustrated Book

 The Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques
Patricia Condon Johnston
Live Oak Press and Afton Historical Society Press

Gooseberry
Craig Blacklock
Nadine Blacklock
Pfeifer-Hamilton

Saint John's in Pictures
Michael Crouser
The Veronica Press

The Twin Cities Naturally: A Pictorial Tour of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area
Greg Ryan
Sally Beyer
Voyageur Press

1995 Information

 Minnesota Job Seeker's Sourcebook: The Complete Statewide Guide to Job-Seeking Support Services. 2nd ed.
Pati Gelfman, editor
Resource Publishing Group

Where the Waters Gather and the Rivers Meet: An Atlas of the Eastern Sioux
Paul Durand
Paul C. Durand

A Rustling of Wings: An Angelic Guide to the Twin Cities
Joan Nyberg
Richard Nyberg, photographer
Wingtip Press

Fishing Lake Superior: A Complete Guide to Stream, Shoreline, and Open-Water Angling
Shawn Perich
Pfeifer-Hamilton

1995 Mystery & Detective

 A Small Sacrifice: A Jane Lawless Mystery
Ellen Hart
Seal Press

A Way with Widows: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
Harold Adams
Walker

The Bishop's Tale
Margaret Frazer, pseud.
Mary Monica Kuhfeld
Gail Frazer
Berkley Prime Crime

Red Trance
R. D. Zimmerman
Morrow

1995 Nature

 Amphibians and Reptiles Native to Minnesota
John J. Moriarty
University of Minnesota Press

Wild Minnesota
Greg Breining
NorthWord Press

Sky Spirit: The American Bald Eagle
Michael Furtman
NorthWord Press

Wilderness Visionaries: Leopold, Thoreau, Muir, Olson, Murie, Service, Marshall, Rutstrum
Jim Dale Vickery
NorthWord Press

1995 Non-Fiction

 Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering
Martha Roth, editor
Amy Sheldon, editor
Spinster's Ink

Rebel Baseball: The Summer the Game was Returned to the Fans
Steve Perlstein
Onion Press

Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?
Jack Weatherford
Crown

1995 Older Children

 Am I Blue: Coming Out from the Silence
Marion Dane Bauer, editor
HarperCollins

A Question of Trust
Marion Dane Bauer
Scholastic

Writing to Richie
Patricia Calvert
Scribners

A Place to Belong
Emily Crofford
Carolrhoda Books

A Bride for Anna's Papa
Isabel R. Marvin
Kay Sather, illustrator
Milkweed Editions

Come in From the Cold
Marsha Qualey
Houghton-Mifflin

1995 Personal Voices

 Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
New World Library

Seeing the Raven: A Narrative of Renewal
Peter M. Leschak
University of Minnesota Press

Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love
Kent Nerburn
New World Library

1995 Poetry

 Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems
Louis Jenkins
Holy Cow! Press

Handmade Paper: Poems
Patricia Barone
New Rivers Press

Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems
Robert Bly
HarperCollins

The Physicist at the Mall
Janet Holmes
Anhinga Press

Ungodliness: Poems
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Carnegie Mellon University Press

Horse of Earth: Poems
Thomas R. Smith
Holy Cow! Press

1995 Younger Children (author & illustrator)

 Imani in the Belly
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Alex Boies, illustrator
BridgeWater Books

Eve and Smithy: An Iowa Tale
Michelle Edwards
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

The Masked Maverick
Jacqueline K. Ogburn
Nancy Carlson, illustrator
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard

The Great Buffalo Race: How the Buffalo Got Its Hump; A Seneca Tale Retold
Barbara Juster Esbensen
Little, Brown and Company

My Head is Full of Colors
Catherine Friend
Hyperion Books for Children

Clouds of Terror
Laurie K. Johnson, illustrator
Carolrhoda Books

Sam, Who Was Swallowed by a Shark
Phyllis Root
Candlewick Press

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