27th Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2007 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 Sacred Games Vikram Chandra HarperCollins The Great Far Away Joan Frank The Permanent Press A Handbook to Luck Cristina García Alfred A. Knopf 2008 NCBA Winner! A Far Country Daniel Mason Alfred A. Knopf Locke 1928 Shawna Yang Ryan El León Literary Arts TOP

Poetry Frail-Craft Jessica Fisher Yale University Press Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 Robert Hass Ecco 2008 NCBA Winner! Expectation Days Sandra McPherson University of Illinois Press The Second Person C. Dale Young Four Way Books Embryoyo Dean Young Believer Books/McSweeney's  TOP

General Nonfiction The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance Fritjof Capra Doubleday Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline Lisa Margonelli, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2008 NCBA Winner! Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution Thomas McNamee The Penguin Press Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life Robert B. Reich Alfred A. Knopf Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race Richard Rhodes Alfred A. Knopf TOP

Creative Nonfiction Ticket to Exile a memoir Adam David Miller Heyday Books Back on the Fire: Essays Gary Snyder Shoemaker & Hoard Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Rebecca Solnit University of California Press Poor People William T. Vollmann Ecco The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific Julia Whitty Houghton Mifflin 2008 NCBA Winner! TOP

Children's Literature Penguins, Penguins Everywhere! Bob Barner Chronicle Books The Apple Doll Elisa Kleven Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008 NCBA Winner! Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra Wendy Lichtman Greenwillow Books The Hound of Rowan: Book One of The Tapestry Henry H. Neff Random House Why War Is Never a Good Idea Alice Walker illustrated by Stefano Vitale HarperCollins TOP

Translation The Book of Psalms Translated from Hebrew by Robert Alter W.W. Norton 2008 NCBA Winner! The Palestinian Lover Sélim Nassi, Translated from French by Alison Anderson Europa Editions Driftwood Lo Fu, Translated from Chinese by John Balcom Zephyr Press Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus, Translated from French by Carol Cosman Vintage Closed for Repairs Nancy Alonso, Translated from Spanish by Anne Fountain Curbstone Press TOP

Special Recognition Award River of Words annual international environmental poetry & art contest for children K-12, conducted in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book

Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature California Poet Laureate Al Young

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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