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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 2000
1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
*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 2007 were announced in 2008 at the 20th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).
(Winners indicated by the 
icon; all others are Finalists)
2000 Biography and Memoir
Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery
Patricia Weaver Francisco
HarperCollins (Cliff Street Books)
My Lesbian Husband
Barrie Jean Borich
Graywolf Press
Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers
Freya Manfred
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Grand Canyon Celebration: A Father-Son Journey of Discovery
Michael Quinn Patton
Prometheus Books
2000 Children
The Troll with No Heart in His Body and Other Tales of Trolls from Norway
Lise Lunge-Larsen
Betsy Bowen, illustrator
Houghton Mifflin
The Quiltmaker's Gift
Jeff Brambeau
Gail de Marcken, illustrator
Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers
Grandmother Winter
Phyllis Root
Beth Krommes, illustrator
Houghton Mifflin
2000 Fine Press
Broder
Anna Reckin
Paulette Myers-Rich, photographs and bookwork
Traffic Street Press
In the Rocks
Anonymous
Ampersand Club
Saturday Nights in Marietta
Robert Bly
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
2 for 5
Michael Dennis Browne
Patricia Hampl
Wilber Schilling, book artist
Weisman Art Museum
2000 History
Minnesota's Twentieth Century: Stories of Extraordinary Everyday People
D.J. Tice
University of Minnesota Press
Minnesota Politics and Government
Daniel J. Elazar
Virginia Gray
Wyman Spano
University of Nebraska Press
Cass Gilbert, Architect: Modern Traditionalist
Sharon Irish
Monacelli Press
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Winona LaDuke
South End Press
2000 Nature and Minnesota
Worlds within a World
Paul Gruchow
Richel Burkey, author of field notes
Minnesota's Bookstore and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Finding the Forest
Peter P. Bundy
Masconomo Forestry
Southwest Minnesota: The Land and the People
David R. Pichaske, ed.
Joseph Amato, ed.
Crossings Press
Talking Rocks: Geology and 10,000 Years of Native American Tradition in the Lake Superior Region
Ron Morton
Carl Gawboy
Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers
Rock Picker's Guide to Lake Superior's North Shore
Mark Sparky Stensaas
Rick Kollath, illustrator
Kollath-Stensaas Publishing
2000 Novel
The Multicultiboho Sideshow Vol. 1
Alexs D. Pate
Avon
Seasons of Sun and Rain
Marjorie Dorner
Milkweed Editions
The Tall Pine Polka
Lorna Landvik
Ballantine
The Hiawatha
David Treuer
Picador
2000 Poetry
Tug
G.E. Patterson
Graywolf Press
The Deathbed Playboy
Philip Dacey
EWU Press
Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours
Diane Glancy, ed.
Mark Nowak, ed.
Coffee House Press
Cabato Sentora
Ray Gonzalez
Boa Editions, Ltd.
An Alchemy in the Bones
William Reichard
New Rivers Press
2000 Popular Fiction
Mrs. Million
Pete Hautman
Simon and Schuster
A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
Baen Books
The Reeves Tale
Margaret Frazer
Berkley Prime Crime Publishing
Boundary Waters
William Kent Krueger
Pocket Books
Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery
Larry Millett
Viking Press
2000 Short Story
Dating Miss Universe
Steven Polansky
Ohio State University Press
Taking the Wall
Jonis Agee
Coffee House Press
Keepsakes and Other Stories
Jon Hassler
Afton Historical Society Press
Music of the Inner Lakes
Roger Sheffer
New Rivers Press
2000 Young Adult
Dove Song
Kristine L. Franklin
Candlewick Press
An Early Winter
Marion Dane Bauer
Clarion Books
Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun
Arvella Whitmore
Dial Books for Young Readers
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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).