26th Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2006 by Northern California authors

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

Special Recognition Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award

Fiction Samba Dreamers by Kathleen de Azevedo University of Arizona Press What is the What by Dave Eggers McSweeney's Miss Kansas City by Joan Frank University of Michigan Press Buffalo Boy and Geronimo by James Janko Curbstone Press 2007 NCBA Winner! The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster Wings Press TOP

Poetry The Totality for Kids by Joshua Clover University of California Press After Jane Hirshfield HarperCollins Angle of Yaw Ben Lerner Copper Canyon Press Splay Anthem Nathaniel Mackey New Directions 2007 NCBA Winner! Deconstruction of the Blues Richard Silberg Red Hen Press  TOP

Nonfiction Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays by Frederick Crews Shoemaker & Hoard The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan The Penguin Press 2007 NCBA Winner! Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond by Peter Selz University of California Press/San Jose Museum of Art The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan Bloomsbury USA The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire by Tom Zoellner St. Martin's Press TOP

Children's Literature Roar of a Snore by Marsha Diane Arnold illustrated by Pierre Pratt Dial The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages Viking Juvenile King Dork by Frank Portman Delacorte Books for Young Readers 2007 NCBA Winner! Probably the World's Best Story About a Dog and the Girl Who Loved Me by D. James Smith Atheneum American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang First Second  TOP

Translation Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho translated by Willis Barnstone Shambhala Publications Flowers of a Moment by Ko Un translated by Brother Anthony, Young-Moo Kim, and Gary Gach BOA Editions 2007 NCBA Co-Winner! Paradise Travel by Jorge Franco translated by Katherine Silver Farrar, Straus, and Giroux The Three Way Tavern by Ko Un translated by Clare You and Richard Silberg University of California Press 2007 NCBA Co-Winner! Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck, translated by Brenda Webste with Gabriella Romani Modern Language Assocation of America TOP

Special Award in Publishing Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace edited by Maxine Hong Kingston Koa Books

Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature Printer & Publisher, Arion Press Andrew Hoyem

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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