28th Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2008 by Northern California authors

29th Northern California Book Awards, April 18, 2010

Special Recognition Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award

Fiction Lady Lazarus Andrew Foster Altschul Harcourt Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain Kirsten Menger-Anderson Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill The Delivery Room Sylvia Brownrigg Counterpoint 2009 NCBA Winner Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein Molly Dwyer Lost Coast Press No One You Know Michelle Richmond Delacorte Press   TOP

Poetry Lucky Break Terry Ehret Sixteen Rivers Press The Date Fruit Elegies John Olivares Espinoza Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe Inverse Sky John Isles University of Iowa Press Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, New & Selected August Kleinzahler Farrar, Straus and Giroux the true keeps calm biding its story Rusty Morrison Ahsahta Press 2009 NCBA Winner   TOP

General Nonfiction Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines Richard A. Muller W.W. Norton 2009 NCBA Winner The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich Island Press A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano Katie Hafner Bloomsbury Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California Frances Dinkelspiel St. Martin's Press In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan The Penguin Press   TOP

Creative Nonfiction Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life John Adams Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009 NCBA Winner The Middle Place Kelly Corrigan Voice Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction David Sheff Houghton Mifflin Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen Susan Griffin Trumpeter   TOP

Children's Literature Steinbeck's Ghost Lewis Buzbee Feiwel & Friends Just In Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book Yuyi Morales Roaring Brook Press Facts of Life: Stories Gary Soto Harcourt Children's Books A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts Pamela S. Turner Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009 NCBA Winner The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island Laurence Yep and Dr. Kathleen S. Yep HarperCollins   TOP

Translation The Old Man's Verses Ivan Divis Translated from Czech by Deborah Garfinkle Host Publications Odes and Elegies Friedrich Hölderlin Translated from German by Nick Hoff Wesleyan University Press State of Exile Cristina Peri Rossi Translated from Spanish by Marilyn Buck City Lights Publishers Senselessness Horacio Castellanos Moya Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver New Directions 2009 NCBA Winner Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World Translated from Persian by Niloufar Talebi North Atlantic Books   TOP

Special Recognition Award Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to "In Search of Lost Time" Eric Karpeles Thames & Hudson

Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature Novelist, publisher, & playwright Dorothy Bryant

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

Special Recognition Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award