21st BABRA AWARDS
for books published in 2001 by Northern California authors


Fiction   Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature

Special Awards

Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement

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

Fiction


Boys Keep Being Born
stories by Joan Frank
University of Missouri Press

The Path of Minor Planets
Andrew Sean Greer
Picador USA

Snow Mountain Passage
James D. Houston
Knopf

Haussmann, or the Distinction
Paul LaFarge
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
(2001 BABRA Winner!)

Grand Ambition: a Novel
Lisa Michaels
W.W. Norton

Poetry


Against Love Poetry
Eavan Boland
W.W. Norton

Harmless Medicine
Justin Chin
Manic D Press

Lovers In The Used World
Gillian Conoley
Carnegie Mellon University Press

Giraffe on Fire
Juan Felipe Herrera
University of Arizona Press

Cascadia
Brenda Hillman
Wesleyan University Press

Given Sugar, Given Salt
Jane Hirshfield
HarperCollins
(2001 BABRA Winner!)


Non-Fiction


Postmodern Pooh
Frederick Crews
North Point Press

Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's
Search for His White Family

Neil Henry
University of California Press

Home to War: A History of
the Vietnam Veterans' Movement

Gerald Nicosia
Crown

A Primate's Memoir
Robert M. Sapolsky
Scribner
(2001 BABRA Winner!)

Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge
Our Misguided Rehab System

Lonny Shavelson
The New Press


Children's Literature


Everywhere Babies
Susan Meyers
illustrator Marla Frazee
Harcourt

Judy Moody Gets Famous!
Megan McDonald
illustrator Peter Reynolds
Candlewick Press

A Step from Heaven
An Na
Front Street Press
(2001 BABRA Winner!)

Monster Goose
Judy Sierra
illustrator Jack E. Davis
Harcourt Brace

The Ersatz Elevator,
The Vile Village, and
The Hostile Hospital
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Books 6, 7 & 8

Lemony Snicket
illustrator Brett Helquist
HarperCollins Juvenile Books


Special Book Trade
Award


Valerie Walley
Random House
Book Representative


Special Award
Distinguished Contribution to Literature & Culture


Czeslaw Milosz

 

Fred Cody Award
For Lifetime Achievement,
Community & Literature:


Francisco X. Alarcón

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

Fiction  Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature


21st BABRA AWARDS