29th Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2009 by Northern California authors

29th Northern California Book Awards, April 18, 2010

Special Recognition Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award

Fiction The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories Catherine Brady University of Nevada Press 2010 NCBA Winner Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection Anne Finger Bison Books The Servants' Quarters Lynn Freed Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The Southern Cross Skip Horack Mariner Books Elegy for a Fabulous World Alta Ifland Ninebark Press The Vagrants Yiyun Li Random House   TOP

Poetry Lucifer at the Starlite Kim Addonizio W.W. Norton The Mansion of Happiness Robin Ekiss VQR Poetry Series/ University of Georgia Press Practical Water Brenda Hillman Wesleyan Chronic D.A. Powell Graywolf Press 2010 NCBA Winner Of This World: New and Selected Poems Joseph Stroud Copper Canyon Press   TOP

General Nonfiction Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes Tamim Ansary PublicAffairs 2010 NCBA Winner Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness Alva Noë Hill and Wang Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary Bertrand M. Patenaude Harper Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life Carol Sklenicka Scribner Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal, with a Selection of Her Poems Kathleen Weaver, Pennsylvania State University Press   TOP

Creative Nonfiction Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer Novella Carpenter The Penguin Press Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son Michael Chabon Harper My Father's Love: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl Sharon Doubiago Wild Ocean Press Zeitoun Dave Eggers McSweeney's 2010 NCBA Winner Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth Mark Sloan, M.D. Ballantine Books   TOP

Children's Literature Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree Betsy Franco illustrator Shino Arihara Tricycle Press Night Lights Susan Gal Knopf Book for Young Readers Mother Goose in California Doug Hansen, author/illustrator Heyday Books Hold Still Nina LaCour Dutton Juvenile 2010 NCBA Winner Ash Malinda Lo Little, Brown Books for Young Readers   TOP

Translation FICTION There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night Cao Naiqian translated from Chinese by John Balcom Columbia University Press 2010 NCBA Winner A Leap Anna Enquist translated from Dutch by Jeanette K. Ringold The Toby Press Running Away Jean-Philippe Toussaint translated from French by Matthew B. Smith Dalkey Archive Press POETRY Songs for Tomorrow: A Collection of Poems 1960-2002 Ko Un translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taize Young-moo Kim & Gary Gach Green Integer Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch translated from Hebrew by Chana Bloch & Chana Kronfeld W.W. Norton 2010 NCBA Winner Desolation of the Chimera Luis Cernuda translated from Spanish by Stephen Kessler White Pine Press   TOP

Special Recognition Award Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry edited by Camille T. Dungy University of Georgia Press

Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature City Lights co-owner & former publisher Nancy J. Peters

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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