23rd Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2003 by Northern California authors

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

Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award

Fiction

Novels L'Affaire by Diane Johnson Dutton Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond MacAdam/Cage And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida Alfred A. Knopf Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman Sourcebooks Old School by Tobias Wolff Alfred A. Knopf (2004 NCBA Winner!)	Short Story Collections Red Ant House by Ann Cummins Mariner Books Denny Smith (stories) by Robert Glück Clear Cut Press How to Breathe Underwater: Stories by Julie Orringer Alfred A. Knopf (2004 NCBA Winner!) Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer Riverhead Books
Poetry Life Watch by Willis Barnstone BOA Editions, Ltd. The Starry Messenger by George Keithley University of Pittsburgh Press Notes from the Divided Country by Suji Kwock Kim Louisiana State University Press (2004 NCBA Winner!) Apprehend by Elizabeth Robinson Apogee/Fence/Saturnalia The Room Where I Was Born by Brian Teare University of Wisconsin Press	Nonfiction The Chinese in America, A Narrative History by Iris Chang Viking Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook Viking Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach W.W. Norton River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit Viking (2004 NCBA Winner!)

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Children's Literature The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Random House Books for Young Readers Oh No, Gotta Go! by Susan Middleton Elya • illustrator G. Brian Karas G.P. Putnam's Sons Just A Minute, a Trickster Tale and Counting Book written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales Chronicle Books The Day the Babies Crawled Away written and illustrated by Peggy Rathmann G.P. Putnam's Sons (2004 NCBA Winner!) Vampire High by Douglas Rees Delacorte Press TOP

Translation This award is a collaboration with: Center for Art in Translation PEN West Translation Committee and BABRA Head Above Water (Fuor d' Aqua) by Stefano Bortolussi translated by Anne Milano Appel A City Lights/Italian Voices Book (2004 NCBA Winner!) The Time Tree by Huu Thinh translated by George Evans & Nguyen Qui Duc Curbstone Press The Old Man Mad About Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai (Vieux Fou de Dessin) by Francois Place translated by William Rodarmor David R. Godine, Publisher

Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature Poet and Teacher Philip Levine

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

Fiction • Poetry • Nonfiction • Children's Literature • Translation