Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 2006
1988
| 1989
| 1991*
| 1992
| 1993
| 1994
| 1995
| 1996
| 1997
| 1998
| 1999 | 2000
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
*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 2005 were announced in 2006 at the 18th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).
(Winners indicated by the 
icon; all others are Finalists)
2006 Anthology & Collection
- Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint
Paul’s Historic Black Community
- Kate Cavett, editor
- Syren Book Company
- Christmas in Minnesota
- Marilyn Ziebarth, editor
- Brian Horrigan, editor
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Kiss Me Goodnight: Stories and Poems by Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died
- Ann O’Fallon, editor
- Margaret Vaillancourt, editor
- Syren Book Company (New Voice)
- Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past
- Minnesota Quilt Project, text
- Greg Winter, photography
- Lee Sandberg, photography
- Voyageur Press
2006 Autobiography, Memoir, & Creative Nonfiction
- Left for Dead: A Second Life After
Vietnam
- Jon Hovde
- Maureen Anderson
- University of Minnesota Press (New Voice)
- Crossing Three Wilderness
- U Sam Oeur
- Ken McCullough
- Coffee House Press
- Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust
- Anne Dimock
- Andrews McMeel Publishing (New Voice)
- On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood & Holiness
- Elizabeth J. Andrew
- Westview Press/Perseus Books
- The Summer of Ordinary Ways
- Nicole Lea Helget
- Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press (New Voice)
2006 Children’s and Young Adult Nonfiction
- Wanda Gág: Storybook Artist
- Gwenyth Swain
- Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
- Robert Kraske
- Robert Andrew Parker, illustrator
- Clarion Books
- Minnesota’s Capitol: A Centennial Story
- Leigh Roethke
- Afton Historical Society Press
- Muhammad Ali: Genius
- Nick Healy
- Creative Education
2006 Children’s Fiction
- The Counterfeit Princess
- Jane Resh Thomas
- Clarion Books
- A Bear Named Trouble
- Marion Dane Bauer
- Clarion Books
- Bridge to America
- Linda Glaser
- Houghton Mifflin
- Stinky Stern Forever
- Michelle Edwards
- Harcourt Children’s Books
2006 Children’s Picture Book
- Fold Me a Poem
- Kristine O’Connell George
- Lauren Stringer, illustrator
- Harcourt Children’s Books
- Dear Big, Mean, Ugly Monster
- Ruth Marie Berglin
- Carl Sirocco, illustrator
- Child & Family Press (New Voice)
- If Frogs Made Weather
- Marion Dane Bauer
- Dorothy Donahue, illustrator
- Holiday House
- Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems
- Joyce Sidman
- Beckie Prange, illustrator
- Houghton Mifflin
2006 Fine Press
- Ghost Poems for the Living: 13 Sonnets by
Shakespeare with Distillations
- William Shakespeare, text
- Paulette Myers-Rich, text
- Traffic Street Press
- Mayflies of the Driftless Region
- Gaylord Schanilec, wood engravings
- Clarke Garry, identifications
- Midnight Paper Sales
- Putting Tomatoes By
- Paul Gruchow, text
- C. B. Sherlock, producer
- Regula Russelle, producer
- Jenny Eisenman Anderson, assistant
- Jennifer Bolanos, assistant
- Wendy Fernstrum, assistant
- Fred J. Larson, assistant
- Candida Pagan, assistant
- Stephen Pittelkow, assistant
- Jana Pullman, assistant
- Accordion Productions
- There Is No Other Way to Speak
- Bill Holm, editor
- Wendy Fernstrum, printer
- Robyn Stoller, printer
- Regular Russelle, binder
- C. B. Sherlock, binder
- Jeff Rathermel, project director
- Minnesota Center for Book Arts
2006 General Nonfiction
- Recovering the Sacred: The Power of
Naming and Claiming
- Winona LaDuke
- South End Press
- The Ambivalent Arts of Katherine Anne Porter
- Mary Titus
- University of Georgia Press
- Barns of Minnesota
- Will Weaver
- Doug Ohman, photography
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues
- Wellstone Action
- Bill Lofy, editor
- University of Minnesota Press
- Roads Less Traveled: Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth
- Catherine Watson
- Syren Book Company
2006 History & Biography
- The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius
and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- Jack El-Hai
- John Wiley & Sons
- Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota
- Sally J. Southwick
- Ohio University Press
- Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
- Kent Nerburn
- HarperSanFranciso
- The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner and Lincoln
- Michael William Pfau
- Michigan State University Press
- Rudy! The People’s Governor
- Betty Wilson
- Nodin Press
2006 Novel and Short Story
- The Painted Drum
- Louise Erdrich
- HarperCollins
- Beautiful Inez
- Bart Schneider
- Shaye Areheart Books/Crown Publishing
- Gardenias
- Faith Sullivan
- Milkwood Editions
- Somebody’s Daughter
- Marie Myung-Ok Lee
- Beacon Press
2006 Poetry
- Lightning at Dinner
- Jim Moore
- Graywolf Press
- Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems 1986-2005
- Ray Gonzalez
- BOA Editions
- The Mother’s Tongue
- Heid E. Erdrich
- Salt Publishing
- Polar
- Dobby Gibson
- Alice James Books (New Voice)
- Real Karaoke People
- Ed-Bok Lee
- New Rivers Press
2006 Popular Fiction
- The Iron Girl
- Ellen Hart
- St. Martin’s Minotaur
- Dead Run
- P.J. Tracy
- G. P. Putnam’s Sons
- Mercy Falls
- William Kent Krueger
- Atria Books
- Poison Heart
- Mary Logue
- Ballantine Books
- Tin City
- David Housewright
- St. Martin’s Minotaur
2006 Science & Nature
- A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays
- John Hildebrand
- Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
- Calvin R. Fremling
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota
- Lynn M. Steiner, writer and photographer
- Voyageur Press
2006 Young Adult Fiction
- All Rivers Flow to the Sea
- Alison McGhee
- Candlewick Press
- Full Service
- Will Weaver
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Invisible
- Peter Hautman
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Just Like That
- Marsha Qualey
- Dial Books
- Residence
- Janet Graber
- Marshall Cavendish
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).
