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)

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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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).