Reading Guides

Download reading guides for the 20th annual Minnesota Book Award Winners, 2008
(18 pages for the full set of guides, or individually, as a 2-page PDF).

Full set of reading guides for Minnesota Book Award winners, 2008 Lynne Jonell - Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Charles Baxter - The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
William Kent Krueger - Thunder Bay
Patricia Hampl - The Florist's Daughter
Doug Hoverson - Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota
Wang Ping - The Last Communist Virgin
Deborah Keenan - Willow Room, Green Door

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Will Weaver - Defect
Jill Kalz - Farmer Cap

Download reading guides for the 19th annual Minnesota Book Award Winners, 2007
(16 pages for the full set of guides, or individually, as a 2-page PDF).

Full set of reading guides for Minnesota Book Award winners, 2007
Diane Wilson - Spirit Car
Dianne E. Gray - Tomorrow, the River
Taner Akçam - A Shameful Act
William Kent Krueger - Copper River
Maureen Millea Smith - When Charlotte Comes Home
Jude Nutter - The Curator of Silence

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Julie Schumacher - The Book of One Hundred Truths

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).