Massachusetts Book Award2011

Given by Massachusetts Center for the Book

Otros Nombres: Mass Book Awards (Inglés), Massachusetts Must-Read (Inglés)
48 Obras 25,509 Libros 1,554 Reseñas ½ 3.9
Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous mostrar más calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 mostrar menos
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Todos, 2023 (61), 2022 (63), 2021 (64), 2020 (59), 2019 (60), 2018 (60), 2017 (60), 2016 (60), 2015 (30), 2014 (24), 2013 (24), 2012 (48), 2011 (48), 2010 (48), 2009 (50), 2008 (12), 2007 (12), 2006 (12), 2005 (12), 2004 (12), 2003 (12), 2002 (13), 2001 (25)

Winner 4

ObraCategoríaAño
The Other Side of Dark por Sarah SmithChildren's / Young Adult2011
World and Town por Gish JenFiction2011
First Family: Abigail and John Adams por Joseph J. EllisNonfiction2011
Belated Heavens (Malcolm McDonald Series Selection) por Daniel TobinPoetry2011

Must-Read (Longlist) 48

ObraCategoríaAño
The Other Side of Dark por Sarah SmithChildren's / Young Adult2011
Gata blanca por Holly BlackChildren's / Young Adult2011
No Easy Way: The Story of Ted Williams and the Last .400 Season por Fred BowenChildren's / Young Adult2011
Daughter of Winter por Pat Lowery CollinsChildren's / Young Adult2011
Big Night for Salamanders por Sarah Marwil LamsteinChildren's / Young Adult2011
Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! por Grace LinChildren's / Young Adult2011
Black Radishes por Susan Lynn MeyerChildren's / Young Adult2011
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester por Barbara O'ConnorChildren's / Young Adult2011
Bamboo People por Mitali PerkinsChildren's / Young Adult2011
Henry Knox: Bookseller, Soldier, Patriot por Anita SilveyChildren's / Young Adult2011
The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors por Francisco StorkChildren's / Young Adult2011
City Dog, Country Frog por Mo WillemsChildren's / Young Adult2011
World and Town por Gish JenFiction2011
La carta por Sarah BlakeFiction2011
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel por Jerome CharynFiction2011
The Widower's Tale por Julia GlassFiction2011
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction por Rebecca GoldsteinFiction2011
The Quickening por Michelle HooverFiction2011
The Wolves of Andover por Kathleen KentFiction2011
La última causa perdida por Dennis LehaneFiction2011
The Murderer's Daughters por Randy Susan MeyersFiction2011
Captivity por Deborah NoyesFiction2011
This Must Be the Place por Kate RacculiaFiction2011
Safe from the Neighbors por Steve YarbroughFiction2011
First Family: Abigail and John Adams por Joseph J. EllisNonfiction2011
Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America por Benjamin L. CarpNonfiction2011
The Great Penguin Rescue: 40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue por Dyan DenapoliNonfiction2011
Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard por Tom DunlopNonfiction2011
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things por Randy O. FrostNonfiction2011
Guerra por Sebastian JungerNonfiction2011
Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss por Marianne LeoneNonfiction2011
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age por William PowersNonfiction2011
Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship por Dwayne RaymondNonfiction2011
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre por Heather Cox RichardsonNonfiction2011
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy por Bruce WatsonNonfiction2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration por Isabel WilkersonNonfiction2011
Belated Heavens (Malcolm McDonald Series Selection) por Daniel TobinPoetry2011
East of the moon por Ruth Kramer BadenPoetry2011
Stray Home (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) por Amy M. ClarkPoetry2011
Ghosts and whispers : poems por Krikor Der HohannesianPoetry2011
God, seed : poetry & art about the natural world por Rebecca FoustPoetry2011
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems por Tony HoaglandPoetry2011
Heaven & Earth Holding Company (Pitt Poetry Series) por John HodgenPoetry2011
our daily words por Bernard HornPoetry2011
Triage por Tam Lin NevillePoetry2011
Had slaves por Catherine SasanovPoetry2011
The Real Story por Melissa ShookPoetry2011
Mapping the Sands por Geraldine ZetzelPoetry2011

Descripciones

Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 (English, Escritos por miembros)
Massachusetts Book Awards

The Massachusetts Book Awards highlight the work of our vital contemporary writing community and encourage readers to do some "close reading" of those imaginative works created by the authors among us. Throughout the award year, we a list of "Must Reads " in each of four award categories -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry & children's/young adult literature -- that have been written by Massachusetts writers or about Massachusetts themes. We also publish an annual MassBook Census of Massachusetts books. In the Fall, we name promote an award winner in each of the categories. (English, Escritos por miembros)

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