22nd BABRA AWARDS
for books published in 2002 by Northern California authors


29th Northern California Book Awards, April 18, 2010
(for books published in 2009)


Fiction   Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature Special Award: Translation

Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award


Fiction


Novels


The Monk Downstairs
by Tim Farrington
Harper San Francisco

House of Women
by Lynn Freed
Little, Brown & Company

A Girl from Zanzibar
by Roger King
Books & Co./Helen Marx Books

(2002 BABRA Winner!)

Spilling Clarence
by Anne Ursu
Hyperion


Short Story Collections


Some of Her Friends That Year:
New & Selected Stories

by Maxine Chernoff
Coffee House Press

Jobs & Other Preoccupations: Stories
by Daniel Coshnear
Helicon Nine Editions
(2002 BABRA Winner!)

Skin of the Earth:
Stories from Nevada's Back Country

by Art Gibney
University of Nevada Press

Emporium: Stories
by Adam Johnson
Viking



Poetry


The New World
by George Evans
Curbstone Press

Miniatures and Other Poems
by Barbara Guest
Wesleyan University Press

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Juan Felipe Herrera
University of Arizona Press

As Ever: Selected Poems
by Joanne Kyger
Penguin Poets

Gorgeous Chaos:
New & Selected Poems 1965-2001

by Jack Marshall
Coffee House Press

(2002 BABRA Winner!)



Non-Fiction


Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam
and the Pentagon Papers

by Daniel Ellsberg
Viking

(2002 BABRA Co-Winner!)

Seeing in the Dark:
How Backyard Stargazers
Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding
Earth from Interplanetary Peril

by Timothy Ferris
Simon & Schuster

A Long, Strange Trip:
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

by Dennis McNally
Broadway Books

Brown: The Last Discovery of America
by Richard Rodriguez
Viking

(2002 BABRA Co-Winner!)


Children's Literature

The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer
by Ann Arnold
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Ruby's Wish
by Shirin Yim Bridges
illustrator Sophie Blackall
Chronicle Books

The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
Atheneum

(2002 BABRA Winner!)

Ansel Adams: America's Photographer
by Beverly Gherman
Little, Brown & Company

This Land Was Made for You and Me:
The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

by Elizabeth Partridge
Viking
 


Special Award: Translation


Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas
by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Margret Schaefer
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

 
Fred Cody Award
For Lifetime Achievement
Community & Literature



Multicultural scholar and author

Ronald Takaki

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29th Northern California Book Awards, April 18, 2010
(for books published in 2009)

Fiction  Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature Special Award: Translation


22nd BABRA AWARDS