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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)
2007 Autobiography, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past
Diane Wilson
(Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
Caroline Burau
(Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press)
The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology
Mary Rose O’Reilley
(Milkweed Editions)
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
Matthew Sanford
(Rodale)
2007 Children’s Literature
Tomorrow, the River
Dianne E. Gray
(Houghton Mifflin Company)
Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow
Joyce Sidman
(Houghton Mifflin Company)
Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry
Joyce Sidman
(Houghton Mifflin Company)
Winter Is the Warmest Season
Lauren Stringer
(Harcourt Books)
The Cronus Chronicles, Book One: The Shadow Thieves
Anne Ursu
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2007 Fine Press
What it’s like here:
Jim Moore, Regula Russelle and CB Sherlock
(Accordion Productions)
The Grammarian’s Five Daughters
Eleanor Arnason
(Minnesota Center for Book Arts)
Promises Vague yet Certain
Donald Dass and Cecilia Lieder
(Calyx Productions Duluth)
2007 General Nonfiction
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Taner Akçam
(Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company)
West Bank Boogie: Forty Years of Music, Mayhem and Memories
Cyn Collins
(Triangle Park Creative)
Minnesota on Paper: Collecting Our Printed History
Moira F. Harris and Leo J. Harris
(University of Minnesota Press)
Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club: Recipes, Tips and Stories
Kim Ode
(Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson
William Swanson
(Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press)
2007 Genre Fiction
Copper River
William Kent Krueger
(Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
Stripped
Brian Freeman
(St. Martin’s Press)
The St. Paul Conspiracy
Roger Stelljes
(North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.)
2007 Novel & Short Story
When Charlotte Comes Home
Maureen Millea Smith
(Alyson Books)
Lives of Mapmakers
Alicia L. Conroy
(Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Cirkus
Patti Frazee
(Alyson Books)
2007 Poetry
The Curator of Silence
Jude Nutter
(University of Notre Dame Press)
Coven
Susan Deborah King
(Folio Bookworks)
Response: Poetry and Prints from the Lake Superior Writers and the
Northern Printmakers Alliance
Cecilia Lieder
(Calyx Press Duluth)
Yahweh’s Other Shoe
Kilian McDonnell
(Saint John’s University Press)
Trust the Wild Heart
Nancy Paddock
(Red Dragonfly Press)
2007 Young Adult Literature
The Book of One Hundred Truths
Julie Schumacher
(Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books)
El Lector
William Durbin
(Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Children’s Books)
Rash
Pete Hautman
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
2007 Readers' Choice Award (selected by online voters from across the state)
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence
Matthew Sanford
(Rodale)
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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)
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