The Minnesota Book Awards honor the best books written by Minnesotans for a variety of ages and genres. Thanks to the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library, all of these nominees are available at Meinders Community Library, as well as a few titles to fill in series gaps. For more information on the nominees and to see the winners on April 28th, visit the Minnesota Book Awards home page.
Children’s Literature
- A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the American Swedish Institute by Nate Christopherson and Tara Sweeney
- Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler
- A Map Into the World by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Seo Kim
- My Footprints by Bao Phi, illustrated by Basia Tran
General Nonfiction
- America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
- Consider the Platypus: Evolution Through Biology’s Most Baffling Beasts by Maggie Ryan Sandford, illustrations by Rodica Prato
- Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions by Nancy Atkinson
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Genre Fiction
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- The Body Keeper by Anne Frasier
- Ice Cold Heart by P. J. Tracy
- Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
- All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer by Karen Babine
- Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family by Anika Fajardo
- The Memory House by Raki Kopernik
- The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra by Alex Messenger
Middle Grade Literature
- The Line Tender by Kate Allen
- The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu
- The Missing Piece of Charlie O’Reilly by Rebecca K. S. Ansari
- A Tear in the Ocean by H.M. Bouwman, illustrations by Yuko Shimizu
Minnesota Nonfiction
- Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities by Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant
- Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State by Christopher P. Lehman
- Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe by Staci Lola Drouillard
Novel & Short Story
- Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions by Sheila O’Conner
- Stray by Nancy J. Hedin
- Suicide Woods by Benjamin Percy
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Poetry
- Bodega by Su Hwang
- A Bony Framework for the Tangible Universe by D. Allen
- Mitochondrial Night by Ed Bok Lee
- Safe Houses I Have Known by Steve Healey
Young Adult Literature
- Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
- Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach
- Last Things by Jacqueline West
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
-Emily
