Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 2000
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*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
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).
