24th Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2004 by Northern California authors


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

Special Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award

Fiction click on title for mini review Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Curse of the Appropriate Man by Lynn Freed Harvest Original/Harcourt The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 NCBA Winner! The Woman Who Knew Gandhi by Keith Heller Mariner Books The Painting by Nina Schuyler Algonquin Books TOP

Poetry click on title for mini review What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio W.W. Norton Brother Fire by W.S. Di Piero Alfred A. Knopf Americus I by Lawrence Ferlinghetti New Directions 2005 NCBA Winner! Danger on Peaks by Gary Snyder Shoemaker & Hoard, Publishers Country of Light by Joseph Stroud Copper Canyon Press Saving the Appearances by Liz Waldner Ahsahta Press TOP

Nonfiction click on title for mini review Michelangelo Antonioni: The Complete Films by Seymour Chatman, Paul Duncan (Editor) Taschen John James Audubon: The Making of an American Richard Rhodes Alfred A. Knopf American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation by Jonah Raskin University of California Press To be considered as one nominee: Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 & Photographing Farmworkers in California by Richard Steven Street Stanford University Press 2005 NCBA Winner! The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California by Richard A. Walker The New Press TOP

Children's Literature click on title for mini review Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko Putnam 2005 NCBA Winner! The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer Atheneum Wild About Books by Judy Sierra illustrated by Marc Brown Alfred A. Knopf The Gospel Cinderella by Joyce Carol Thomas illustrated by David Diaz HarperCollins/Amistad Hachiko, The True Story of a Loyal Dog by Pamela Turner illustrated by Yan Nascimbene Houghton Mifflin TOP

Translation click on title for mini review The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter W.W. Norton Border of a Dream: Selected Poems by Antonio Machado translated by Willis Barnstone Copper Canyon Press 2005 NCBA Winner! Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda translated by Stephen Kessler City Lights Books Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Didier Eribon translated by Michael Lucey Duke University Press Green Wheat by Colette translated by Zack Rogow Sarabande Books My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel translated by Katherine Silver Grove Press This award is a collaboration with: The Center for Art in Translation, PEN West Translation Committee, and the NCBR TOP

Special Award click on Poetry Center for details The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives San Francisco State University In recognition of their 50th Anniversary

Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature click on name for details Author & Dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Orville Schell

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29th Northern California Book Awards, April 18, 2010

Special Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award