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from The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library

The finalists for the 30th anniversary of the Minnesota Book Awards were chosen on Saturday, January 27, by 27 judges from around the state - writers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and others from the literary community. The winners will be announced at the Book Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 21. Tickets for the event go on sale February 5.

Genre Fiction:

  • The Dark Net  by Benjamin Percy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • The End of Temperance Dare by Wendy Webb (Lake Union Publishing)
  • Nothing Stays Buried  by P. J. Tracy (G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House)
  • Sulfur Springs  by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)

Minnesota Nonfiction

  • A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag  by Marcia G. Anderson (Minnesota Historical Society Press*)
  • Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound  by Andrea Swensson (University of Minnesota Press*)
  • Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice  by Roberta Walburn (University of Minnesota Press*)
  • Sights, Sounds, Soul: The Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis  by Davu Seru, photography by Charles Chamblis (Minnesota Historical Society Press*)

Children's Literature

  • A Different Pond  by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui (Capstone Young Readers/Capstone*)
  • Mighty Moby  by Ed Young, text by Barbara DaCosta (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group)
  • Round by Joyce Sidman, illustrated  by Taeeun Yoo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by K. L. Going, illustrated by Lauren Stringer (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster)

Read the entire list here.

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