Massachusetts Book Award2014

Given by Massachusetts Center for the Book

Otros Nombres: Mass Book Awards (Inglés), Massachusetts Must-Read (Inglés)
24 Obras 5,267 Libros 504 Reseñas 4.2
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 First Drawing por Mordicai GersteinChildren's / Young Adult2014
News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories por Jennifer HaighFiction2014
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life por Megan MarshallNonfiction2014
Grass Whistle por Amy DryanskyPoetry2014

Must-Read (Longlist) 24

ObraCategoríaAño
The First Drawing por Mordicai GersteinChildren's / Young Adult2014
Journey por Aaron BeckerChildren's / Young Adult2014
Garden Princess por Kristin KladstrupChildren's / Young Adult2014
The Extra por Kathryn LaskyChildren's / Young Adult2014
White Fur Flying por Patricia MacLachlanChildren's / Young Adult2014
A Place for Turtles por Melissa StewartChildren's / Young Adult2014
News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories por Jennifer HaighFiction2014
Together Tea por Marjan KamaliFiction2014
Along the Watchtower por David LitwackFiction2014
Vatican Waltz por Roland MerulloFiction2014
The Hanging Judge: A Novel por Michael PonsorFiction2014
The Celestials: A Novel por Karen ShepardFiction2014
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life por Megan MarshallNonfiction2014
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country por Andrew BacevichNonfiction2014
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance por Carla KaplanNonfiction2014
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin por Jill LeporeNonfiction2014
El Fuerte de las Nueve Torres por Qais Akbar OmarNonfiction2014
El último tren a la zona verde: Mi safari africano definitivo (Spanish Edition) por Paul TherouxNonfiction2014
Grass Whistle por Amy DryanskyPoetry2014
Strange Borderlands por (Poet) Ben BermanPoetry2014
Belmont: Poems por Stephen BurtPoetry2014
Inside the Splintered Wood por Myles GordonPoetry2014
Boy Singing to Cattle por Mark D. HartPoetry2014
Frost in the Low Areas por Karen SkolfieldPoetry2014

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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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