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The Massachusetts Book Awards
The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize significant works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s/young adult literature published by Commonwealth residents or about Massachusetts subjects.
For more information see: The Massachusetts Center for the Book website
2020 Award Winners
The Bear
Andrew Krivak | 2020 Fiction
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker | 2020 Nonfiction
When My Body Was a Clinched Fist
Enzo Silon Surin | 2020 Poetry
Flamer
Mike Curato | 2020 Middle Grade / Young Adult
Wherever I Go
Mary Wagley Copp, Munir D Mohammed | 2020 Picture Book
Past Award Winners
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong | 2019 Fiction
Shouting at the Rain
Lynda Mullaly Hunt | 2019 Middle Grade / Young Adult
¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market
Raúl the Third | 2019 Picture Book
The Unmade World
Steve Yarbrough | 2018 Fiction
The Chalk Artist
Allegra Goodman | 2017 Fiction
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
Michelle Cuevas | 2017 Middle Grade / Young Adult
Windows
Julia Denos | 2017 Picture Book
Mercury
Margot Livesey | 2016 Fiction
A Revolution In Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky | 2016 Nonfiction
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
Martin Espada | 2016 Poetry
Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk | 2016 Middle Grade / Young Adult
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation On Trial
Susan E Goodman | 2016 Picture Book
A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay | 2015 Fiction
Rosemary: the Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson | 2015 Nonfiction
Immortality
Alan Feldman | 2015 Poetry
The Thing About Jellyfish
Ali Benjamin | 2015 Middle Grade / Young Adult
Ketzel the Cat Who Composed
Lesléa Newman | 2015 Picture Book
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng | 2014 Fiction
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert | 2014 Nonfiction
Misery Islands
January Gill O’Neil | 2014 Poetry
Conversion
Katherine Howe | 2014 Middle Grade / Young Adult
Peter H Reynolds, Paul A Reynolds | 2014 Picture Book
News From Heaven
Jennifer Haigh | 2013 Fiction
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall | 2013 Nonfiction
Grass Whistle
Amy Dryansky | 2013 Poetry
First Drawing
Mordicai Gerstein | 2013 Children's / Young Adult
The Technologists
Matthew Pearl | 2012 Fiction
Ocean Sunlight
Molly Bang, Penny Chisholm | 2012 Children's / Young Adult
Alice Bliss
Laura Harrington | 2011 Fiction
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money
Maureen Stanton | 2011 Nonfiction
The Trouble Ball
Martin Espada | 2011 Poetry
Chasing the Nightbird
Krista Russell | 2011 Children's / Young Adult
World and Town
Gish Jen | 2010 Fiction
The Other Side of Dark
Sarah Smith | 2010 Children's / Young Adult
Woodsburner
John Pipkin | 2009 Fiction
American Passage: A History of Ellis Island
Vincent J Cannato | 2009 Nonfiction
This Is the Red Door
James R Whitley | 2009 Poetry
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin | 2009 Children's / Young Adult
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks | 2008 Fiction
One Hen
Katie Smith Milway | 2008 Children's / Young Adult
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz | 2007 Fiction
Incantation
Alice Hoffman | 2007 Children's / Young Adult
The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud | 2006 Fiction
Whaleport: a History of Tuckanucket
Mark Foster, Gerald L Foster | 2006 Children's / Young Adult
The Season of Open Water
Dawn Clifton Tripp | 2005 Fiction
Where the Great Hawk Flies
Liza Ketchum | 2005 Children's / Young Adult
Project X
Jim Shepard | 2004 Fiction
My Light
Molly Bang | 2004 Children's / Young Adult
A Kiss from Maddalena
Christopher Castellani | 2003 Fiction
Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
Christian G Appy | 2003 Nonfiction
Middle Earth
Henri Cole | 2003 Poetry
The Silent Boy
Lois Lowry | 2003 Children's / Young Adult
Sea Room
Norman Gautreau | 2002 Fiction
Hole In My Life
Jack Gantos | 2002 Children's / Young Adult
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane | 2001 Fiction
Moonpie & Ivy
Barbara O'Connor | 2001 Children's / Young Adult
Motherkind
Jayne Anne Phillips | 2000 Fiction
