| Titles | Order |
| The Real Minerva by Mary Sharratt | finalist |
| Airmail to the Moon by Tom Birdseye | Finalist, 1988 |
| American Beauty by C.J. Hribal | Finalist, 1988 |
| Arnie Goes to Camp (Picture Puffins) by Nancy Carlson | Finalist, 1988 |
| Grand Opening by Jon Hassler | Finalist, 1988 |
| In a Sheep's Eye, Darling: Poems by Margaret Hasse | Finalist, 1988 |
| Red Lake/the Heart by Mary Logue | Finalist, 1988 |
| Stranger, You and I by Patricia Calvert | Finalist, 1988 |
| The Superior North Shore by Thomas F. Waters | Finalist, 1988 |
| Three nights in the heart of the earth : a novel by Brett Laidlaw | Finalist, 1988 |
| Touch the Moon by Marion Dane Bauer | Finalist, 1988 |
| Border Country: The Quetico-Superior Wilderness by Craig Blacklock | Book Design & Execution, 1988 |
| Hatchet by Gary Paulsen | Winner, 1988 |
| Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor | Winner, 1988 |
| Selected Poems 1938-1988 by Thomas McGrath | Winner, 1988 |
| Spillville by Patricia Hampl | Winner, 1988 |
| The Star Maiden: An Ojibway Tale by Estate of Barbara Juster Esbensen | Winner, 1988 |
| The Sun, the Wind and the Rain (An Owlet Book) by Lisa Westberg Peters | Younger Children, 1989 |
| The Freedom of History: Poems by Jim Moore | Poetry, 1989 |
| Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford | NonFiction Winner, 1989 |
| Courage and Love by Gisela Konopka | NonFiction, 1989 |
| Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut by John Camp | NonFiction, 1989 |
| The Service Edge: 101 Companies That Profit from Customer Care (Plume) by Ron Zemke | NonFiction, 1989 |
| Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? by Karen Thompson | NonFiction, 1989 |
| Meant to be Read Out Loud by Susan Hauser | Minnesota Winner, 1989 |
| The Necessity of Empty Places by Paul Gruchow | Minnesota, 1989 |
| No retreat, no surrender : labor's war at Hormel by Dave Hage | Minnesota, 1989 |
| Quiet Magic by Sam Cook | Minnesota, 1989 |
| Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer | Genres Winner, 1989 |
| Family Closets by Marjorie Dorner | Genres, 1989 |
| Mindscream by R. D. Zimmerman | Genres, 1989 |
| Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede | Genres, 1989 |
| A Gravestone Made of Wheat (Greywolf Short Fiction Series) by Will Weaver | Fiction Winner, 1989 |
| Feeding the eagles : short stories by Paulette Bates Alden | Fiction, 1989 |
| The Finer Grain by Denise Ohio | Fiction, 1989 |
| Madonna Stories by Gary Paulsen | Fiction, 1989 |
| This Coffin Has No Handles: A Novel by Thomas McGrath | Fiction, 1989 |
| Wheat That Springeth Green by J. F. Powers | Fiction, 1989 |
| Going the Moose Way Home by Latimer | Children's Winner, 1989 |
| I Like Me! (Picture Puffins) by Nancy Carlson | Children's, 1989 |
| Porkchop's Halloween by Susan Pearson | Children's, 1989 |
| Saying Good-bye to Grandma by Jane Resh Thomas | Children's, 1989 |
| Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman | Children's, 1989 |
| The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack by L. David Mech | Book Design & Execution Winner, 1989 |
| Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota by Willard B. Moore | Book Design & Execution, 1989 |
| Minnesota's Endangered Flora and Fauna by Barbara Coffin | Book Design & Execution, 1989 |
| Village Without Mirrors (Seeing Double Collaborative Book Series) by Timothy Francisco | Book Design & Execution, 1989 |
| Is This a House for Hermit Crab? by Megan McDonald | Younger Children Winner; International Children's Book Award, 1991 |
| How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots by Barbara Knutson | Younger Children Winner, 1991 |
| Arnie and the New Kid (Picture Puffins) by Nancy Carlson | Younger Children, 1991 |
| Dora's Book by Michelle Edwards | Younger Children, 1991 |
| When Moose Was Young by Latimer | Younger Children, 1991 |
| The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems by John Caddy | Poetry Winner, 1991 |
| Cherry Ferris Wheels by Patrick McKinnon | Poetry, 1991 |
| How to Be Lucky by Jill Breckenridge | Poetry, 1991 |
| Iron Woman by Diane Glancy | Poetry, 1991 |
| Woodsong by Gary Paulsen | Older Children Winner, 1991 |
| Dream of Queens and Castles, A by Marion Dane Bauer | Older Children, 1991 |
| The Music Box Christmas by Rosalie Maggio | Older Children, 1991 |
| The Princess in the Pigpen by Jane Resh Thomas | Older Children, 1991 |
| When Morning Comes (An Avon Flare Book) by Patricia Calvert | Older Children, 1991 |
| The Passionate, Accurate Story: Making Your Heart's Truth into Literature by Carol Bly | NonFiction Winner, 1991 |
| The Anatomy of Judgment by Philip J. Regal | NonFiction, 1991 |
| Blue Ribbon: A Social and Pictorial History of the Minnesota State Fair by Karal Ann Marling | NonFiction, 1991 |
| Breaking hard ground! : stories of the Minnesota farm advocates by Dianna Hunter | NonFiction, 1991 |
| The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists (Oxford Paperbacks) by Philip Furia | NonFiction, 1991 |
| The Bear Guardian: Northwoods Tales and Meditations by Peter M. Leschak | Nature Winner, 1991 |
| The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States by Janine M. Benyus | Nature, 1991 |
| A Northwoods Window (Naturalists Library Series) by Robert Treuer | Nature, 1991 |
| Prairie Skies: The Minnesota Weather Book by Paul Douglas | Nature, 1991 |
| Freeze Frame by Marjorie Dorner | Mystery Winner, 1991 |
| Amends for Murder by M. D. Lake | Mystery, 1991 |
| The Fool's Run by John Sandford | Mystery, 1991 |
| Hallowed Murder by Ellen Hart | Mystery, 1991 |
| How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation by Rosalie Maggio | Information Winner, 1991 |
| Minnesota Atlas: A Sportsmans Guide to Public Lands and Water Accesses by John Hansen | Information, 1991 |
| Teaching Kids to Love the Earth by Marina Herman | Information, 1991 |
| The Stone Canoe and Other Stories by John L. Peyton | Fiction Winner, 1991 |
| Medicine River by Thomas King | Fiction, 1991 |
| North of Hope by Jon Hassler | Fiction, 1991 |
| The Samaritan Treasure by Marianne Luban | Fiction, 1991 |
| Tokens of Grace: A Novel in Stories by Sheila O'Connor | Fiction, 1991 |
| Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede | Fantasy & Science Fiction Winner, 1991 |
| Hero by Joel Rosenberg | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1991 |
| Phoenix by Steven Brust | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1991 |
| Wolf And Iron by Gordon R. Dickson | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1991 |
| Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays by Bill Holm | Biography Winner, 1991 |
| The Days of Rondo (Minnesota) by Evelyn Fairbanks | Biography, 1991 |
| Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick by Lawrence Sutin | Biography, 1991 |
| Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and Her World by Rosalynd Pflaum | Biography, 1991 |
| Road Song by Natalie Kusz | Biography, 1991 |
| The Salamander Room (Dragonfly Paperbacks) by Anne Mazer | Younger Children Winner, 1992 |
| Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year by Betsy Bowen | Younger Children, 1992 |
| Chicken Man by Michelle Edwards | Younger Children, 1992 |
| Old Turtle by Douglas Wood | Younger Children, 1992 |
| On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier | Younger Children, 1992 |
| Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran | Younger Children, 1992 |
| Tiger With Wings by Barbara Esbensen | Younger Children, 1992 |
| A Visit to Grandma's (Picture Puffins) by Nancy Carlson | Younger Children, 1992 |
| The Wing Shop by Elvira Woodruff | Younger Children, 1992 |
| Lone Dog's Winter Count by Diane Glancy | Poetry Winner, 1992 |
| All Tangled Up With the Living: Poems by Louis Jenkins | Poetry, 1992 |
| But I Won't Go Out In a Boat (MVP) by Sharon Chmielarz | Poetry, 1992 |
| The Dead Get by With Everything by Bill Holm | Poetry, 1992 |
| Death Song by Thomas McGrath | Poetry, 1992 |
| Witch Tree: A Collaboration by Joanne Hart | Poetry, 1992 |
| Face to Face by Marion Dane Bauer | Older Children Winner, 1992 |
| Everybody's Daughter (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books) by Marsha Qualey | Older Children, 1992 |
| Leona and Ike by Juanita Havill | Older Children, 1992 |
| River Rats by Caroline Stevermer | Older Children, 1992 |
| The Secret of Sanctuary Island by A. M. Monson | Older Children, 1992 |
| Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America by Jack Weatherford | NonFiction Winner, 1992 |
| Everyone's Country Estate: A History of Minnesota's State Parks by Roy Willard Meyer | NonFiction, 1992 |
| A House of One's Own: An Architect's Guide to Designing the House of Your Dreams by James Stageberg | NonFiction, 1992 |
| Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Christina Baldwin | NonFiction, 1992 |
| There Is No November by Dave Hoium | NonFiction, 1992 |
| The Way of the Wolf by L. David Mech | NonFiction, 1992 |
| Walking Minnesota by Mary Jo Malach | Information Winner, 1992 |
| Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage: A Guide to Nondiscriminatory Language by Rosalie Maggio | Information, 1992 |
| Igger's Twin Cities Restaurant Guide by Jeremy Iggers | Information, 1992 |
| Our Historic Upper Mississippi by Duane Lund | Information, 1992 |
| My Father's War and Other Stories by Barton Sutter | Fiction Winner, 1992 |
| Billy Brazil (Minnesota voices project) by Emilio Degrazia | Fiction, 1992 |
| Sweet Eyes by Jonis Agee | Fiction, 1992 |
| The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories by Carol Bly | Fiction, 1992 |
| Elsewhere by Will Shetterly | Fantasy & Science Fiction Winner, 1992 |
| Bone Dance by Emma Bull | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992 |
| Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992 |
| The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992 |
| D'Shai by Joel Rosenberg | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992 |
| Tam Lin by Pamela Dean | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992 |
| Young Bleys by Gordon R. Dickson | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992 |
| Matriarch of Conspiracy: Ruth Von Kleist, 1867-1945 by Jane Pejsa | Biography Winner, 1992 |
| Holy Cow! the Life and Times of Halsey Hall by Stew Thornley | Biography, 1992 |
| Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei by David Mura | Biography, 1992 |
| The Graywolf Annual Eight: The New Family (Graywolf Annual) by Scott Walker | Anthologies Winner, 1992 |
| The House on Via Gombito by Madelon Sprengnether | Anthologies, 1992 |
| Mixed Voices: Contemporary Poems About Music by Emilie Buchwald | Anthologies, 1992 |
| North Writers: A Strong Woods Collection by John Henricksson | Anthologies, 1992 |
| Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture by Various | Anthologies, 1992 |
| Vital Signs: International Short Stories on Aging (Graywolf Short Fiction Series) by Dorothy Sennett | Anthologies, 1992 |
| Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth | Younger Children Winner, 1993 |
| Alef-Bet: A Hebrew Alphabet Book by Michelle Edwards | Younger Children, 1993 |
| Dreamcatcher by Audrey Osofsky | Younger Children, 1993 |
| Hello, Crow by Jeff Daniel Marion | Younger Children, 1993 |
| Lenore's big break | Younger Children, 1993 |
| Purple Delicious Blackberry Jam | Younger Children, 1993 |
| Up North at the Cabin by Marsha Wilson Chall | Younger Children, 1993 |
| Who Shrank My Grandmother's House?: Poems of Discovery by Barbara Juster Esbensen | Younger Children, 1993 |
| You Won't Remember This by Michael Dennis Browne | Poetry Winner, 1993 |
| Hogs and Personals: Poems by Leo Dangel | Poetry, 1993 |
| When I looked back you were gone : poems by Cary Waterman | Poetry, 1993 |
| Girl to Woman: A Gathering of Images by Susan Hauser | Personal Narrative, 1993 |
| Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life by Patricia Hampl | Personal Narrative, 1993 |
| What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction by Marion Dane Bauer | Older Children Winner, 1993 |
| Take Time to Play Checkers: And Other Wise Words from Kids by Misti Snow | Older Children, 1993 |
| Dragon Within the Gates: The Once And Future AIDS Epidemic by Stephen C. Joseph | NonFiction Winner, 1993 |
| Women With Alcoholic Husbands: Ambivalence and the Trap of Codependency by Ramona M. Asher | NonFiction, 1993 |
| The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips | NonFiction, 1993 |
| The Man Who Was Taller Than God by Harold Adams | Mystery & Detective Winner, 1993 |
| Blood Kin: A Novel by Marjorie Dorner | Mystery & Detective, 1993 |
| Shooting Star by Kate Green | Mystery & Detective, 1993 |
| The Wild Gardener: The Life and Selected Writings of Eloise Butler by Martha E. Hellander | Information Winner, 1993 |
| How to Turn Your Money Life Around: The Money Book for Women by Ruth Hayden | Information, 1993 |
| Lost Twin Cities by Larry Millett | Information, 1993 |
| Winter Roads, Summer Fields: Stories by Marjorie Dorner | Fiction Winner, 1993 |
| Just This Side of Fargo by W. Scott Olsen | Fiction, 1993 |
| The Price of Eggs by Anne Panning | Fiction, 1993 |
| Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel by Judith Katz | Fiction, 1993 |
| Scandinavian Feasts by Beatrice A. Ojakangas | Cuisine Winner, 1993 |
| The Cafe Brenda Cookbook: Redefining Seafood & Vegetarian Cuisine by Brenda Langton | Cuisine, 1993 |
| Lutheran Church Basement Women by J. Marten | Cuisine, 1993 |
| The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food by Lynne Rossetto Kasper | Cuisine, 1993 |
| The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women by Rosalie Maggio | Collections Winner, 1993 |
| Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War by Anthony Signorelli | Collections, 1993 |
| A World Treasury of Folk Wisdom by Reynold Feldman | Collections, 1993 |
| Sungura And Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale by Barbara Knutson | Younger Children Winner, 1994 |
| Tracks in the Wild by Betsy Bowen | Younger Children Winner, 1994 |
| Monster Mama by Liz Rosenberg | Younger Children, 1994 |
| A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler | Younger Children, 1994 |
| Playful Slider: The North American River Otter by Barbara Juster Esbensen | Younger Children, 1994 |
| Sato and the Elephants by Juanita Havill | Younger Children, 1994 |
| Caution: Thin Ice by Lawrence Schug | Poetry, 1994 |
| The Second Thing I Remember (MVP) by Judith Hougen | Poetry, 1994 |
| Walking the Rez Road (History & Heritage) by Jim Northrup | Personal Voices Winner, 1994 |
| Bumming with the Furies by Peter M. Leschak | Personal Voices, 1994 |
| Firesticks: A Collection of Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) by Diane Glancy | Personal Voices, 1994 |
| To the Top of the World by Jim Brandenburg | Older Children's NonFiction Winner, 1994 |
| American Woman: Hidden in History, Forging the Future (Hammer, Roger a., Hidden America, V. 2.) by Roger A. Hammer | Older Children's NonFiction, 1994 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton: A New Kind of First Lady (Achievers) by Joann Bren Guernsey | Older Children's NonFiction, 1994 |
| Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking (We Are Still Here) by Laura Waterman Wittstock | Older Children's NonFiction, 1994 |
| Revolutions of the Heart by Marsha Qualey | Older Children's Fiction Winner, 1994 |
| Champ Hobarth by Judith Bernie Strommen | Older Children's Fiction, 1994 |
| Striking Out by Will Weaver | Older Children's Fiction, 1994 |
| A Taste of Smoke by Marion Dane Bauer | Older Children's Fiction, 1994 |
| News from the Border by Jane Taylor McDonnell | NonFiction Winner, 1994 |
| Birth of a new world : an open moment for international leadership by Harlan Cleveland | NonFiction, 1994 |
| Medical Cost Crisis: A Common-Sense Solution by Don W. Larson | NonFiction, 1994 |
| Transforming a Rape Culture by Emilie Buchwald | NonFiction, 1994 |
| Black Dreams by Kate Green | Mystery & Detective Winner, 1994 |
| Cry Vengeance by Ron Handberg | Mystery & Detective, 1994 |
| Drawing Dead by Pete Hautman | Mystery & Detective, 1994 |
| A Killing Cure by Ellen Hart | Mystery & Detective, 1994 |
| The Other Side of Silence by Joan M. Drury | Mystery & Detective, 1994 |
| Still Explosion: A Laura Malloy Mystery by Mary Logue | Mystery & Detective, 1994 |
| Basic Needs: A Year With Street Kids in a City School by Julie Landsman | Minnesota Winner, 1994 |
| The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream by Joseph Anthony Amato | Minnesota, 1994 |
| Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement by Peter Rachleff | Minnesota, 1994 |
| Knowing Where the Fountains Are: Stories and Stark Realities of Homeless Youth by Kevin Cwayna | Minnesota, 1994 |
| 30 Steps to Becoming a Writer and Getting Published by Scott Edelstein | Information, 1994 |
| Bringing Baby Home: A New Owners Manual for First Time Parents by Laura Zahn | Information, 1994 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul: People, Place, and Public Life by John S. Adams | Information, 1994 |
| Lake Superior Images by Craig Blacklock | Illustrated Winner, 1994 |
| Brother Wolf: A Forgotten Promise by Jim Brandenburg | Illustrated, 1994 |
| Landscape Of Ghosts by Bill Holm | Illustrated, 1994 |
| Native Nations: First North Americans as Seen by Edward Curtis by Edward S. Curtis | Illustrated, 1994 |
| The Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese Until 194 by Bernard T. Fitzpatrick | History Winner, 1994 |
| Clare of Assisi: A Biographical Study by Ingrid Peterson | History, 1994 |
| The Snellings: Minnesota's First First Family by Barbara K. Luecke | History, 1994 |
| What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village by Janet D. Spector | History, 1994 |
| A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez | Fiction Winner, 1994 |
| Blue Bel Air: A Novel by Brett Laidlaw | Fiction, 1994 |
| Dear James by Jon Hassler | Fiction, 1994 |
| No Matter What: A Novel (Coming of Age Series) by Mary Saracino | Fiction, 1994 |
| Right by My Side by David Haynes | Fiction, 1994 |
| Strange Angels by Jonis Agee | Fiction, 1994 |
| Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason | Fantasy & Science Fiction Winner, 1994 |
| Agyar by Steven Brust | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1994 |
| Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1994 |
| Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1994 |
| Nevernever by Will Shetterly | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1994 |
| Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest by Mark Vinz | Collected Works Winner, 1994 |
| Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories by Pam Keesey | Collected Works, 1994 |
| What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread: Poems by Alden Nowlan by Alden Nowlan | Collected Works, 1994 |
| A guide to Minnesota writers by Ron Barron | Minnesota Community of the Book Special Award, 1994 |
| Minnesota's Literary Visitors by John T. Flanagan | Minnesota Community of the Book Special Award, 1994 |
| Imani In The Belly by Chocolate | Younger Children Winner, 1995 |
| Clouds of Terror (On My Own) by Catherine A. Welch | Younger Children, 1995 |
| My Head is Full of Colors by Catherine Friend | Younger Children, 1995 |
| Sam Who Was Swallowed by a Shark by Phyllis Root | Younger Children, 1995 |
| Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems by Louis Jenkins | Poetry Winner, 1995 |
| Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems by Robert Bly | Poetry, 1995 |
| The Physicist at the Mall by Janet Holmes | Poetry, 1995 |
| Ungodliness: Poems by Leslie Adrienne Miller | Poetry, 1995 |
| Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn | Personal Voices Winner, 1995 |
| Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love by Kent Nerburn | Personal Voices, 1995 |
| Seeing the Raven: A Narrative of Renewal by Peter M. Leschak | Personal Voices, 1995 |
| Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer | Older Children Winner, 1995 |
| Come in from the Cold by Marsha Qualey | Older Children, 1995 |
| A Question of Trust by Marion Dane Bauer | Older Children, 1995 |
| Mother Journeys: Feminists Writing About Mothering by Martha Roth | NonFiction Winner, 1995 |
| Rebel Baseball: The Summer the Game Was Returned to the Fans by Steve Perlstein | NonFiction, 1995 |
| Savages and Civilization by Jack Weatherford | NonFiction, 1995 |
| Amphibians & reptiles native to Minnesota by Barney Oldfield | Nature Winner, 1995 |
| Sky Spirit: The American Bald Eagle by Michael Furtman | Nature, 1995 |
| Wild Minnesota by Greg Breining | Nature, 1995 |
| Wilderness Visionaries by Jim Dale Vickery | Nature, 1995 |
| A Small Sacrifice by Ellen Hart | Mystery & Detective Winner, 1995 |
| The Bishop's Tale by Margaret Frazer | Mystery & Detective, 1995 |
| Red Trance by R. D. Zimmerman | Mystery & Detective, 1995 |
| A way with widows by Harold Adams | Mystery & Detective, 1995 |
| Minnesota Job Seeker's Sourcebook | Information Winner, 1995 |
| A Rustling of Wings: An Angelic Guide to the Twin Cities by Joan Nyberg | Information, 1995 |
| Where the Waters Gather and the Rivers Meet: An Atlas of the Eastern Sioux by Paul C. Durand | Information, 1995 |
| The Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques by Patricia Condon Johnston | Illustrated Book Winner, 1995 |
| Gooseberry by Nadine Blacklock | Illustrated Book, 1995 |
| As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s by Karal Ann Marling | History Winner, 1995 |
| Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany by Louis C. Kilzer | History, 1995 |
| North Star Statehouse: An Armchair Guide to the Minnesota State Capitol by Thomas O'Sullivan | History, 1995 |
| Suicide Why: 85 Questions and Answers About Suicide by Adina Wrobleski | Help & Guidance Winner, 1995 |
| Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey by Michael Barry Winer | Help & Guidance, 1995 |
| Mediasmart: How to Handle a Reporter by a Reporter by Dennis Stauffer | Help & Guidance, 1995 |
| Roughing it elegantly: A practical guide to canoe camping by Patricia J. Bell | Help & Guidance, 1995 |
| Losing Absalom by Alexs D. Pate | Fiction Winner, 1995 |
| Hitting into the Wind by Bill Meissner | Fiction, 1995 |
| Rainy Lake by Mary F. Rockcastle | Fiction, 1995 |
| A Walking Fire by Valerie Miner | Fiction, 1995 |
| A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer | Fantasy & Science Fiction Winner, 1995 |
| Double Feature by Emma Bull | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1995 |
| The Dubious Hills by Pamela Dean | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1995 |
| Five Hundred Years After by Steven Brust | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1995 |
| Sovietrek: A Journey by Bicycle Across Russia by Dan Buettner | Children's NonFiction Winner, 1995 |
| A Beekeeper's Year by Sylvia A. Johnson | Children's NonFiction, 1995 |
| Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust by David A. Adler | Children's NonFiction, 1995 |
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Superwoman (Sports Achievers Biographies) by Margaret J. Goldstein | Children's NonFiction, 1995 |
| Kerry, a Teenage Mother (In My Shoes) by Maggi Aitkens | Children's NonFiction, 1995 |
| Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years As a Farmwife (Midwest Reflections) by Marjorie Myers Douglas | Biography Winner, 1995 |
| Gratia Countryman (Minnesota) by Jane Pejsa | Biography, 1995 |
| Hellroaring: The Life and Times of a Fire Bum by Peter M. Leschak | Biography, 1995 |
| Daddy Played Music for the Cows by Maryann Weidt | Younger Children Winner, 1996 |
| Ellis Island: Doorway to Freedom by Steven Kroll | Younger Children Winner, 1996 |
| Cat, You Better Come Home by Garrison Keillor | Younger Children, 1996 |
| Dance With Me by Barbara Juster Esbensen | Younger Children, 1996 |
| Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book by Betsy Bowen | Younger Children, 1996 |
| Snail and Buffalo by Jim Latimer | Younger Children, 1996 |
| When I Go Camping With Grandma - Pbk by Bauer | Younger Children, 1996 |
| Hometown by Marsha Qualey | Young Adult Fiction Winner, 1996 |
| Farm Team by Will Weaver | Young Adult Fiction, 1996 |
| The long experience of love by James Moore | Poetry Winner, 1996 |
| Happiness: Poems by Deborah Keenan | Poetry, 1996 |
| Shepherdess: Notes from the Field by Joan Jarvis Ellison | Personal Voice Winner, 1996 |
| Tales from Jackpine Bob by Bob Cary | Personal Voice, 1996 |
| Trust Me, I'm a Doctor: Humorous Second Opinions for Everyday Life by Mark Depaolis | Personal Voice, 1996 |
| Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers (MVP) by Ann Lundberg Grunke | Novel & Short Stories Winner, 1996 |
| A .38 Special and a Broken Heart: Short-Short Stories (Coffee-to-Go Short-Short Stories) by Jonis Agee | Novel & Short Stories, 1996 |
| The Body Is Water by Julie Schumacher | Novel & Short Stories, 1996 |
| Little: A Novel by David Treuer | Novel & Short Stories, 1996 |
| Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik | Novel & Short Stories, 1996 |
| Rookery Blues by Jon Hassler | Novel & Short Stories, 1996 |
| Somebody Else's Mama (Harvest Book) by David Haynes | Novel & Short Stories, 1996 |
| When Beaver Was Very Great: Stories to Live by by Anne M. Dunn | Novel & Short Stories, 1996 |
| Grass Roots: The Universe of Home (World As Home, The) by Paul Gruchow | NonFiction Winner, 1996 |
| Dahcotah : or, life and legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling by Mary H. Eastman | NonFiction, 1996 |
| Law V. Life: What Lawyers Are Afraid to Say About the Legal Profession by Walt Bachman | NonFiction, 1996 |
| Passages of Pride:: Lesbian and Gay Youth Come of Age by Kurt Chandler | NonFiction, 1996 |
| Minnesota's Natural Heritage: An Ecological Perspective by John R. Tester | Nature Winner, 1996 |
| Minnesota's St. Croix River Valley and the Anoka Sandplain: A Guide to Native Habitats by Daniel S. Wovcha | Nature, 1996 |
| Nature Smart by Stan Tekiela | Nature, 1996 |
| Upland game birds by Dick Sternberg | Nature, 1996 |
| Faint Praise by Ellen Hart | Mystery & Detective Winner, 1996 |
| The Ditched Blonde by Harold Adams | Mystery & Detective, 1996 |
| Grave Choices by M. D. Lake | Mystery & Detective, 1996 |
| The Weatherman by Steve Thayer | Mystery & Detective, 1996 |
| Minnesota Gardens: An Illustrated History by Susan Davis Price | Minnesota Winner, 1996 |
| A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe by John D. Nichols | Information Winner, 1996 |
| Twin Cities Bicycling by Richard Arey | Information, 1996 |
| Twin Cities Family Fun Spots by Sabroski | Information, 1996 |
| Architecture of Edwin Lundie by Dale Mulfinger | Illustrated Book Winner, 1996 |
| The Duluth Portfolio by Craig Blacklock | Illustrated Book, 1996 |
| Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington: The Inside Story of a Grassroots U.S. Senate Campaign by Dennis J. McGrath | History Winner, 1996 |
| Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War by Ivan Musicant | History, 1996 |
| Gentle warriors : Clara Ueland and the Minnesota struggle for woman suffrage by Barbara Stuhler | History, 1996 |
| Upper Mississippi River History: Fact-Fiction-Legend by Ron Larson | History, 1996 |
| Realistic Oil Painting Techniques by Kurt Anderson | Help & Guidance Winner, 1996 |
| England as You Like It by Susan Allen Toth | Help & Guidance, 1996 |
| Making Sense of Adolescence: How to Parent from the Heart by John Crudele | Help & Guidance, 1996 |
| The Unnatural: A Novel by David Prill | Fantasy & Science Fiction Winner, 1996 |
| Cat's paw by L. A. Taylor | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1996 |
| Headcrash by Bruce Bethke | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1996 |
| Imagining Home: Writing from the Midwest by Mark Vinz | Collected Works Winner, 1996 |
| Ringing in the Wilderness: Selections from the North Country Anvil by Rhoda R. Gilman | Collected Works, 1996 |
| Twenty Six Minnesota Writers by Monico D. Degrazia | Collected Works, 1996 |
| Bookworks: Making Books by Hand (Carolrhoda Photo Books) by Gwenyth Swain | Children's NonFiction Winner, 1996 |
| Drummer-boy's diary, A; comprising four years of service with the second regiment Minnesota veteran volunteers, 1861-1865. by William Bircher | Children's NonFiction, 1996 |
| Electrifying medicine : how electricity sparked a medical revolution by Brenda L. Himrich | Children's NonFiction, 1996 |
| Kwanzaa Karamu: Cooking and Crafts for a Kwanzaa Feast by April A. Brady | Children's NonFiction, 1996 |
| Up to the Plate: The All American Girls Baseball League (Sports Legacy) by Margot Fortunato Galt | Children's NonFiction, 1996 |
| A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction (Clarion Nonfiction) by Marion Dane Bauer | Children's NonFiction, 1996 |
| Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Jack Sutin | Biography Winner, 1996 |
| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sandy Berman but Were Afraid to Ask by Chris Dodge | Biography, 1996 |
| Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist by Philip Furia | Biography, 1996 |
| Book of Enchantments by Patricia C. Wrede | Young Adult Fiction, 1997 |
| Nerd No More by Kristine L. Franklin | Young Adult Fiction, 1997 |
| Riot by Mary Casanova | Young Adult Fiction, 1997 |
| Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris | Young Adult Fiction, 1997 |
| Glass Houses by George Rabasa | Short Stories Winner, 1997 |
| The Dance Hall at Spring Hill: Short Stories by Duke Klassen (MVP) by Duke Klassen | Short Stories, 1997 |
| An Explanation for Chaos by Julie Schumacher | Short Stories, 1997 |
| One Last Dance With Lawrence Welk & Other Stories: And Other Stories by Peter Damian Bellis | Short Stories, 1997 |
| The Worldwide Church of the Handicapped by Marie Sheppard Williams | Short Stories, 1997 |
| War Baby Express by Roseann Lloyd | Poetry Winner, 1997 |
| Dovetailed Corners by Jim Johnson | Poetry, 1997 |
| On the Road to Patsy Cline : Poems by John Reinhard (MVP) by John Reinhard | Poetry, 1997 |
| To Collect the Flesh: Poems by Greg Hewett (MVP) by Greg Hewett | Poetry, 1997 |
| Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble by Phyllis Root | Picture Books Winner, 1997 |
| Mud by Mary Lyn Ray | Picture Books Winner, 1997 |
| The Fiddler of the Northern Lights by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock | Picture Books, 1997 |
| The Ghost Dance by Alice McLerran | Picture Books, 1997 |
| My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss | Picture Books, 1997 |
| Night Driving by John Coy | Picture Books, 1997 |
| October Smiled Back by Lisa Westberg Peters | Picture Books, 1997 |
| Remember That by Lesléa Newman | Picture Books, 1997 |
| The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth by Bill Holm | Personal Voices Winner, 1997 |
| A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land by Kent Nerburn | Personal Voices, 1997 |
| The Snow Lotus: Exploring the Eternal Moment by Peter M. Leschak | Personal Voices, 1997 |
| Tales of Burning Love: A Novel by Louise Erdrich | Novels Winner, 1997 |
| The Empress of One by Faith Sullivan | Novels, 1997 |
| Live at Five (Harvest Book) by David Haynes | Novels, 1997 |
| Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (Harvest American Writing) by Diane Glancy | Novels, 1997 |
| The Garden of Eating: Food, Sex, and the Hunger for Meaning by Jeremy Iggers | NonFiction Winner, 1997 |
| The American Barbershop: A Closer Look at a Disappearing Place by Mic Hunter | NonFiction, 1997 |
| The Last Word on Lutefisk: True Tales of Cod and Tradition by Gary Legwold | NonFiction, 1997 |
| Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent by Laurie Allmann | Nature Winner, 1997 |
| Explorations in the Ordinary: A Backyard Naturalist's View of Minnesota by David R. Moffatt | Nature, 1997 |
| North Country Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to the Great Outdoors by Anne Brataas | Nature, 1997 |
| Smithson's Island: The Necessity of Solitude by Judith A. Smithson | Nature, 1997 |
| Silent Words by Joan M. Drury | Mystery & Detective Winner, 1997 |
| The MORTAL NUTS by Pete Hautman | Mystery & Detective, 1997 |
| The Oldest Sin by Ellen Hart | Mystery & Detective, 1997 |
| Grand Avenue: The Renaissance of an Urban Street by Biloine Whiting Young | Minnesota Places, 1997 |
| Patty's Journey: From Orphanage to Adoption and Reunion by Donna Scott Norling | Memoirs Winner, 1997 |
| Crossing the Moon: A Memoir by Paulette Bates Alden | Memoirs, 1997 |
| Rescuing Little Roundhead by Syl Jones | Memoirs, 1997 |
| Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity by David Mura | Memoirs, 1997 |
| Canoe Country Flora: Plants and Trees of the North Woods and Boundary Waters by Mark Stensaas | Information Winner, 1997 |
| A Field Guide to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breeds by John Pukite | Information, 1997 |
| Nature's Revenge: The Secrets of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, and Their Remedies by Susan Carol Hauser | Information, 1997 |
| Minnesota architect : the life and work of Clarence H. Johnston by Paul Clifford Larson | Illustrated Books Winner, 1997 |
| Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban Neighborhood by Wing Young Huie | Illustrated Books, 1997 |
| Twin Cities Then and Now (Minnesota) by Larry Millett | Illustrated Books, 1997 |
| The Manipulative Child: How to Regain Control and Raise Resilient, Resourceful, and Independent Kids by Ernest W. Jr Swihart | Help & Guidance Winner, 1997 |
| Cooperation Works!: How People Are Using Cooperative Action to Rebuild Communities and Revitalize the Economy by E. G. Nadeau | Help & Guidance, 1997 |
| LifeKeys: Discovering ...: Who You Are, Why You're Here, What You Do Best by Jane A. G. Kise | Help & Guidance, 1997 |
| Changing the Bully Who Rules the World: Reading and Thinking aAbout Ethics by Carol Bly | Collected Works Winner, 1997 |
| The Frederick Manfred Reader by Frederick Manfred | Collected Works, 1997 |
| Going to the Lake by Betty Rossi | Collected Works, 1997 |
| Snapshot: America Discovers the Camera (People's History) by Kenneth P. Czech | Children's NonFiction Winner, 1997 |
| Diseases: Finding the Cure (Innovators) by Robert Mulcahy | Children's NonFiction, 1997 |
| Free to Dream: The Making of a Poet, Langston Hughes by Audrey Osofsky | Children's NonFiction, 1997 |
| Jimmy Carter : on the road to peace by Caroline Evensen Lazo | Children's NonFiction, 1997 |
| Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire by Marybeth Lorbiecki | Biography and History Winner, 1997 |
| And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 by Linda Mack Schloff | Biography and History, 1997 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: Toward the Summit by Dave Page | Biography and History, 1997 |
| The Broken Blade by William Durbin | Young Adult Winner, 1998 |
| Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin | Young Adult, 1998 |
| Thin Ice by Marsha Qualey | Young Adult, 1998 |
| Wolf Shadows by Mary Casanova | Young Adult, 1998 |
| Crowning the Queen of Love by Susan Welch | Short Stories, 1998 |
| Grandmother's Gift: Stories from the Anishinabeg (Native American Studies) by Anne M. Dunn | Short Stories, 1998 |
| Selected Poems 1965-1995 (Carnegie Mellon Poetry) by Michael Dennis Browne | Poetry Winner, 1998 |
| Faith in Ice Time by Mark Christensen | Poetry, 1998 |
| Fishing for Myth: Poems by Heid E. Erdrich (MVP) by Heid E. Erdrich | Poetry, 1998 |
| Home from the Field by Leo Dangel | Poetry, 1998 |
| Morning Poems by Robert Bly | Poetry, 1998 |
| If You Were Born a Kitten by Marion Dane Bauer | Picture Books Winner, 1998 |
| Celebration by Rosie Thomas | Picture Books, 1998 |
| Is That You, Winter? by Stephen Gammell | Picture Books, 1998 |
| The Lost and Found House by Michael Cadnum | Picture Books, 1998 |
| Rosie's fiddle by Phyllis Root | Picture Books, 1998 |
| Shingebiss: An Ojibwe Legend by Nancy Van Laan | Picture Books, 1998 |
| Wanted: Best Friend by A. M. Monson | Picture Books, 1998 |
| The Year of the Ranch (Viking Kestrel Picture Books) by Alice McLerran | Picture Books, 1998 |
| Dear Poppa: The World War II Berman Family Letters by Ruth Berman | Personal Papers, 1998 |
| Views from the Publisher's Desk by Elmer L. Andersen | Personal Papers, 1998 |
| Floating Kingdom by George Rabasa | Novel Winner, 1998 |
| All American Dream Dolls by David Haynes | Novel, 1998 |
| Bitter Grounds: A Novel by Sandra Benitez | Novel, 1998 |
| Dean's List by Jon Hassler | Novel, 1998 |
| Errands by Judith Guest | Novel, 1998 |
| Your Oasis on Flame Lake (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Lorna Landvik | Novel, 1998 |
| Cleaning Up by David Lebedoff | NonFiction Winner, 1998 |
| Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America by John D. Bessler | NonFiction, 1998 |
| Golf Beats Us All (And So We Love It) by Joseph A. Amato | NonFiction, 1998 |
| The History of Money by Jack Weatherford | NonFiction, 1998 |
| The Spirit of the Sixties: The Making of Postwar Radicalism (American Radicals) by James J. Farrell | NonFiction, 1998 |
| Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild (World As Home, The) by Paul Gruchow | Nature Winner, 1998 |
| A Wild Neighborhood by John Henricksson | Nature Winner, 1998 |
| Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maples Syrup by Susan Carol Hauser | Nature, 1998 |
| Connections & Reflections: Mothers & Daughters in Their Own Light, in Their Own Words by Catherine Koemptgen | Illustrated Books Winner, 1998 |
| 15 Years in a Photographer's Life by Nadine Blacklock | Illustrated Books, 1998 |
| Death of the Dream: Classic Minnesota Farmhouses by William G. Gabler | Illustrated Books, 1998 |
| Icy Pleasures: Minnesota Celebrates Winter by Paul Clifford Larson | History Winner, 1998 |
| Taking Charge of My Mind and Body: A Girls' Guide to Outsmarting Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking, and Eating Problems by Gladys Folkers | Help & Guidance Winner, 1998 |
| Brave New Girls: Creative Ideas to Help Girls Be Confident, Healthy and Happy by Jeanette Gadeberg | Help & Guidance, 1998 |
| The Therapy Answer Book: Getting the Most Out of Counseling by Ph.D. Kathleen J. Papatola | Help & Guidance, 1998 |
| Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean? by Janet Martin | Fun & Humor Winner, 1998 |
| Burma-Shave (Minnesota) by Bill Vossler | Fun & Humor, 1998 |
| Having Fun With Baseball Nicknames by Phil Blazovich | Fun & Humor, 1998 |
| From the End of the Twentieth Century by John M. Ford | Fantasy & Science Fiction Winner, 1998 |
| Emerald House Rising by Peg Kerr | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1998 |
| Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1998 |
| North Enough: AIDS and Other Clear-Cuts by Jan Zita Grover | Creative NonFiction Winner, 1998 |
| The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets by Jim Northrup | Creative NonFiction, 1998 |
| The West Pole by Diane Glancy | Creative NonFiction, 1998 |
| Tanzania on Tuesday: Writing by American Women Abroad (A New Rivers Abroad Book) by Kathleen Coskran | Collected Works Winner, 1998 |
| The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading by Michael Dorris | Collected Works, 1998 |
| North Writers II: Our Place in the Woods by John Henricksson | Collected Works, 1998 |
| Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children (Single Titles) by David L. Parker | Children's NonFiction Winner, 1998 |
| Africatrek: A Journey by Bicycle Through Africa by Dan Buettner | Children's NonFiction, 1998 |
| The American Frontier (Great Lives) by Patricia Calvert | Children's NonFiction, 1998 |
| Horsepower: The Wonder of Draft Horses by Cris Peterson | Children's NonFiction, 1998 |
| Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, and Beans: How the Foods of the Americas Changed Eating Arou by Sylvia A. Johnson | Children's NonFiction, 1998 |
| John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel | Autobiography & Biography Winner, 1998 |
| Romanoff-Prince of Rogues: The Life and Times of a Hollywood Icon by Jane Pejsa | Autobiography & Biography, 1998 |
| The Green Tuxedo (The Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry) (The Ernst Sandeen Prize in Poetry) by Janet Holmes | Poetry Winner, 1999 |
| Sacred Vows (Khmer Edition) by U Sam Oeur | Poetry, 1999 |
| Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day: Poems (MVP) by Philip S. Bryant | Poetry, 1999 |
| Temporary Help: Poems by John Engman | Poetry, 1999 |
| Yesterday Had a Man in It (Carnegie Mellon Poetry) by Leslie Miller | Poetry, 1999 |
| Rainlight by Allison McGhee | Novels and Short Stories Winner, 1999 |
| Blue Bossa by Bart Schneider | Novels and Short Stories, 1999 |
| How the Dead Live by Alvin Greenberg | Novels and Short Stories, 1999 |
| Our Sometime Sister by Norah Labiner | Novels and Short Stories, 1999 |
| Range of Light by Valerie Miner | Novels and Short Stories, 1999 |
| Trip Sheets by Ellen Hawley | Novels and Short Stories, 1999 |
| Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger | Mystery Winner, 1999 |
| The Big Law by Chuck Logan | Mystery, 1999 |
| Closed in Silence (Feminist Mystery Series) by Joan M. Drury | Mystery, 1999 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders by Larry Millett | Mystery, 1999 |
| The Witness of Combines by Kent Meyers | Memoir Winner, 1999 |
| Barefoot on Crane Island (Midwest Reflections) by Marjorie Myers Douglas | Memoir, 1999 |
| A Finntown of the Heart by Patricia Eilola | Memoir, 1999 |
| Reluctant dissenter by James P. Shannon | Memoir, 1999 |
| Turning the feather around : my life in art by George Morrison | Memoir, 1999 |
| Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold | Fantasy & Science Fiction Winner, 1999 |
| Dragon by Steven Brust | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1999 |
| Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary by Pamela Dean | Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1999 |
| The Talking of Hands: Unpublished Writing by New Rivers Press Authors by Mark Vinz | Collected Works Winners, 1999 |
| Minnesota seasons : classic tales of life outdoors | Collected Works, 1999 |
| Lake Superior Lawyer: A Biography of Chester Adgate Congdon by royohoover | Biography Winner, 1999 |
| Louise's Legacy: Hamm Family Stories by Monica F. Harris | Biography, 1999 |
| Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (North American Indian Prose Award) by Brenda J. Child | History, 1999 |
| Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century by Ivan Musicant | History, 1999 |
| A Place at the Lake by Paul Clifford Larson | History, 1999 |
| The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today by Odd Sverre Lovoll | History, 1999 |
| Chased By The Light by Jim Brandenburg | Illustrated Winner, 1999 |
| Born To Pull by Bob Cary | Illustrated, 1999 |
| Valley of Grass: Tall Grass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Valley (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Kim Alan Chapman | Nature Winner, 1999 |
| Black Bear Country by Michael Furtman | Nature, 1999 |
| Winter Sign by Jim Dale Huot-Vickery | Nature, 1999 |
| The Wolves of Denali by Layne G. Adams | Nature, 1999 |
| Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map (Minnesota) by Barton Sutter | Creative NonFiction Winner, 1999 |
| Arousal: Bodies and Pleasures by Martha Roth | Creative NonFiction, 1999 |
| The Cold-and-Hunger Dance by Diane Glancy | Creative NonFiction, 1999 |
| The Ice Palace That Melted Away: Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life by Bill Stumpf | Creative NonFiction, 1999 |
| The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka | NonFiction Winner, 1999 |
| No-Fault Politics: Modern Presidents, the Press, and Reformers by Eugene J. McCarthy | NonFiction, 1999 |
| Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA by John Donald Gustav-Wrathall | NonFiction, 1999 |
| Raising Nonviolent Children In A Violent World by Michael Obsatz | Help and Guidance Winner, 1999 |
| Sports Medicine for Young Athletes by The Institute for Athletic Medicine | Help and Guidance, 1999 |
| What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future by Peter L. Benson | Help and Guidance, 1999 |
| Hiking Minnesota by John Pukite | Information Winner, 1999 |
| Bicycle Vacation Guide, Minnesota and Wisconsin: Minnesota, Wisconsin by Doug Shidell | Information, 1999 |
| Birds of Minnesota Field Guide by Stan Tekiela | Information, 1999 |
| Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen | Young People's Fiction Winner, 1999 |
| Hard Ball by Will Weaver | Young People's Fiction, 1999 |
| Sooner by Patricia Calvert | Young People's Fiction, 1999 |
| Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I by Jane Resh Thomas | Children's NonFiction Winner, 1999 |
| Gloria Steinem: Feminist Extraordinaire (Newsmakers Biographies) by Caroline Evensen Lazo | Children's NonFiction, 1999 |
| Jane Gibbs by Anne E. Neuberger | Children's NonFiction, 1999 |
| Out of the Ocean by Debra Frasier | Picture Books - Illustrator Winner, 1999 |
| Coppelia by Margot Fonteyn | Picture Books - Illustrator, 1999 |
| M Is for Minnesota by Dori Hillestad Butler | Picture Books - Illustrator, 1999 |
| Music over Manhattan by Mark Karlins | Picture Books - Illustrator, 1999 |
| Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant | Picture Books - Illustrator, 1999 |
| Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen | Picture Books - Author Winner, 1999 |
| I Need a Snake (Picture Puffins) by Lynne Jonell | Picture Books - Author, 1999 |
| Letter to the Lake by Susan Marie Swanson | Picture Books - Author, 1999 |
| Making The World by Douglas Wood | Picture Books - Author, 1999 |
| Dove Song by Kristine L. Franklin | Young Adult Winner, 2000 |
| An Early Winter by Marion Dane Bauer | Young Adult, 2000 |
| Trapped between Lash and Gun by Arvella Whitmore | Young Adult, 2000 |
| Dating Miss Universe : nine stories by Steven Polansky | Short Stories Winner, 2000 |
| Keepsakes & Other Stories by Jon Hassler | Short Stories, 2000 |
| Taking the Wall by Jonis Agee | Short Stories, 2000 |
| Mrs. Million by Pete Hautman | Popular Fiction Winner, 2000 |
| Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger | Popular Fiction, 2000 |
| A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold | Popular Fiction, 2000 |
| The Reeve's Tale by Margaret Frazer | Popular Fiction, 2000 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (Penguin)) by Larry Millett | Popular Fiction, 2000 |
| Tug by G. E. Patterson | Poetry Winner, 2000 |
| An Alchemy in the Bones: Poems by William Reichard | Poetry, 2000 |
| Cabato Sentora (American Poets Continuum) by Ray González | Poetry, 2000 |
| Visit teepee town : native writings after the detours by Diane Glancy | Poetry, 2000 |
| The Multicultiboho Sideshow: A Novel by Alexs D. Pate | Novel Winner, 2000 |
| The Hiawatha: A Novel by David Treuer | Novel, 2000 |
| Seasons of Sun and Rain by Marjorie Dorner | Novel, 2000 |
| The Tall Pine Polka (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Lorna Landvik | Novel, 2000 |
| Worlds within a World by Paul Gruchow | Nature and Minnesota Winner, 2000 |
| Finding the forest : the initiation by Peter P. Bundy | Nature and Minnesota, 2000 |
| Rock Pickers Guide to Lake Superior's North Shore (North Woods Naturalist Guides) by Mark Stensaas | Nature and Minnesota, 2000 |
| Southwest Minnesota : the Land and the People by Joseph Amato | Nature and Minnesota, 2000 |
| Talking Rocks Pb by Morton | Nature and Minnesota, 2000 |
| Minnesota's Twentieth Century: Stories of Extraordinary Everyday People by D. J. Tice | History Winner, 2000 |
| All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke | History, 2000 |
| Cass Gilbert, Architect (Sources of American Architecture) by Sharon Irish | History, 2000 |
| Minnesota Politics & Government (Politics and Governments of the American States) by Daniel Judah Elazar | History, 2000 |
| The Troll With No Heart in His Body by Lise Lunge-Larsen | Children Winner, 2000 |
| Grandmother Winter by Phyllis Root | Children, 2000 |
| The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau | Children, 2000 |
| Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery by Patricia Weaver Francisco | Biography and Memoir Winner, 2000 |
| Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers (Midwest Reflections) by Freya Manfred | Biography and Memoir, 2000 |
| Grand Canyon Celebration: A Father-Son Journey of Discovery by Michael Quinn Patton | Biography and Memoir, 2000 |
| My Lesbian Husband by Barrie Jean Borich | Biography and Memoir, 2000 |
| Curse of a Winter Moon by Mary Casanova | Young Adult Winner, 2001 |
| Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo | Young Adult, 2001 |
| Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh | Young Adult, 2001 |
| Mummies, Bones & Body Parts (Carolrhoda Photo Books) by Charlotte Wilcox | Young Adult, 2001 |
| My Name Is America: The Journal Of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant (My Name Is America) by William Durbin | Young Adult, 2001 |
| Dark Coulee by Mary Logue | Popular Fiction Winner, 2001 |
| Easy Prey by John Sandford | Popular Fiction, 2001 |
| The Last Good Man by Kathleen Eagle | Popular Fiction, 2001 |
| Six Crooked Highways by Wayne Johnson | Popular Fiction, 2001 |
| Turtle Pictures (Camino Del Sol) by Ray Gonzalez | Poetry Winner, 2001 |
| Coming Back to the Body: Poems by Joyce Sutphen | Poetry, 2001 |
| Rafting on the Water Table: Poems (Minnesota Voices Project, No. 96) by Susan Steger Welsh | Poetry, 2001 |
| Winter Road by Louis Jenkins | Poetry, 2001 |
| Shadow Baby by Allison McGhee | Novel & Short Story Winner, 2001 |
| Glory Goes and Gets Some by Emily Carter | Novel & Short Story, 2001 |
| The Pact (MVP) by Walter J. Roers | Novel & Short Story, 2001 |
| Revenge of Underwater Man (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction) by Jarda Cervenka | Novel & Short Story, 2001 |
| Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken by Shannon Olson | Novel & Short Story, 2001 |
| Wild Rice Cooking by Susan Carol Hauser | Nature & Minnesota Winner, 2001 |
| Growing Home: Stories of Ethnic Gardening by Susan Davis Price | Nature & Minnesota, 2001 |
| A Plague of Frogs : The Horrifying True Story by William Souder | Nature & Minnesota, 2001 |
| The Wolves of Minnesota by L. David Mech | Nature & Minnesota, 2001 |
| The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families by Steven R. Hoffbeck | History and Biography Winner, 2001 |
| Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China by Wang Ping | History and Biography, 2001 |
| Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-Ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939 by Steven J. Keillor | History and Biography, 2001 |
| Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible by Joseph A. Amato | History and Biography, 2001 |
| Emerson Wulling: Printer For Pleasure. by Emerson | Fine Press, 2001 |
| The Hunter by Mary Casanova | Children Winner, 2001 |
| Bonaparte by Marsha Wilson Chall | Children, 2001 |
| Everything I Know About Pirates by Tom Lichtenheld | Children, 2001 |
| Grandma's Gone to Live in the Stars (Concept Books (Albert Whitman)) by Max Haynes | Children, 2001 |
| Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir by Cheri Register | Autobiography & Memoir Winner, 2001 |
| The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd by Mary Rose O'Reilley | Autobiography & Memoir, 2001 |
| Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary by Bill Holm | Autobiography & Memoir, 2001 |
| Honor the Grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories by Sarah Penman | Autobiography & Memoir, 2001 |
| Places in the World a Person Could Walk : Family, Stories, Home, and Place in the Texas Hill Country by David Syring | Autobiography & Memoir, 2001 |
| Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson by Sheila Coghill | Anthology & Collections Winner, 2001 |
| 100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors by Michael Dregni | Anthology & Collections, 2001 |
| 33 Minnesota Poets by Monica Degrazia | Anthology & Collections, 2001 |
| A man's reach by Elmer L. Andersen | Honor Award, 2001 |
| Zazoo by Richard Mosher | Youth Literature Winner, 2002 |
| Four to the Pole!: The American Women's Expedition to Antarctica, 1992-1993 by American Women's Expedition to Antarctica (1992-19 | Youth Literature, 2002 |
| Memory Boy by Will Weaver | Youth Literature, 2002 |
| The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo | Youth Literature, 2002 |
| Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger | Popular Fiction Winner, 2002 |
| The End of Enemies (Briggs Tanner Novels) by Grant Blackwood | Popular Fiction, 2002 |
| The Merchant of Venus by Ellen Hart | Popular Fiction, 2002 |
| The Night Abraham Called to the Stars: Poems by Robert Bly | Poetry Winner, 2002 |
| Alembic by Vicki Graham | Poetry, 2002 |
| Bullroarer: A Sequence (The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize) by Ted Genoways | Poetry, 2002 |
| The Salt Hour: Poems (Illinois Poetry Series) by J.P. White | Poetry, 2002 |
| The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich | Novel & Short Story Winner, 2002 |
| In the Company of Angels: A Novel by N. M. Kelby | Novel & Short Story, 2002 |
| Peace Like a River by Leif Enger | Novel & Short Story, 2002 |
| In Search of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor | Nature & Minnesota Winner, 2002 |
| Lake Street, U.S.A. by Wing Young Huie | Nature & Minnesota, 2002 |
| Picturing Lake Minnetonka: A Postcard History by James W. Ogland | Nature & Minnesota, 2002 |
| Views on the Mississippi: The Photographs of Henry Peter Bosse by Mark Neuzil | History & Biography Winner, 2002 |
| Body of Clay, Soul of Fire: Richard Bresnahan and the Saint John's Pottery by Matthew Welch | History & Biography, 2002 |
| A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903-1947 by William Millikan | History & Biography, 2002 |
| The Race of the Birkebeiners by Lise Lunge-Larsen | Children Winner, 2002 |
| The Day Ocean Came to Visit by Diane Wolkstein | Children, 2002 |
| Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli | Children, 2002 |
| While the Locust Slept (Native Voices) by Peter Razor | Autobiography & Memoir Winner, 2002 |
| The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s by Ricardo J. Brown | Autobiography & Memoir, 2002 |
| The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir by Valerie Miner | Autobiography & Memoir, 2002 |
| Mountains of Memory: A Fire Lookout's Life in the River of No Return Wilderness (American Land & Life) by Don Scheese | Autobiography & Memoir, 2002 |
| The Kerlan Awards in Children's Literature 1975-2001 by Ruth Berman | Anthology & Collections, 2002 |
| Living our language : Ojibwe tales & oral histories by Anton Treuer | Anthology & Collections, 2002 |
| This Old Quilt: A Heartwarming Celebration of Quilts And Quilting Memories by Margret Aldrich | Anthology & Collections, 2002 |
| Boy V. Girl?: How Gender Shapes Who We Are, What We Want, and How We Get Along by Ph.D. George Abrahams | Young Adult NonFiction, 2003 |
| The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (American Poets Continuum) by Ray Gonzalez | Poetry Winner, 2003 |
| Acts of Contortion (The Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Anna Meek | Poetry, 2003 |
| Red Suburb by Greg Hewett | Poetry, 2003 |
| By These Hands: Portraits from the Factory Floor by David L. Parker | Photography, 2003 |
| Spilling Clarence: A Novel by Anne Ursu | New Voice Winner, 2003 |
| Audrey and Barbara by Janet Lawson | New Voice, 2003 |
| Pathways To Spirituality and Healing: Embracing Life and Each Other in the Face of a Serious Illness by Mark S. Umbreit | New Age, Metaphysics, and Spirituality Winner, 2003 |
| A Book of Grace: Words to Bring You Peace by Margi Preus | New Age, Metaphysics, and Spirituality, 2003 |
| You Better Recognize! by Valerie Rose | New Age, Metaphysics, and Spirituality, 2003 |
| Overcoming: The Autobiography of W. Harry Davis by W. Harry Davis | Multicultural Winner, 2003 |
| Bears Make Rock Soup: And Other Stories by Lise Erdrich | Multicultural, 2003 |
| A Country Doctor's Casebook: Tales from the North Woods by Roger Allan Macdonald | Minnesota Subject, 2003 |
| Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg by Brian Leehan | History, Politics, and Culture Winner, 2003 |
| Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--From the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi | History, Politics, and Culture, 2003 |
| Field Guide to the Wildlife of Costa Rica (Corrie Herring Hooks) by Carrol L. Henderson | Gardening, Nature, Environmental, 2003 |
| Trees of Wisconsin Field Guide (Our Nature Field Guides) by Stan Tekiela | Gardening, Nature, Environmental, 2003 |
| Voices for the Land: Minnesotans Writing About the Places They Love by Voices for the Land | Gardening, Nature, Environmental, 2003 |
| Miniatures by Norah Labiner | Fiction - Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single Author Winner, 2003 |
| July, July by Tim O'Brien | Fiction - Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single Author, 2003 |
| Roofwalker by Susan Power | Fiction - Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single Author, 2003 |
| Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions by Thomas D. Peacock | Education, Teaching, Academic Winner, 2003 |
| The Good Path: Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids by Thomas D. Peacock | Education, Teaching, Academic, 2003 |
| The Sky's The Limit: Stories of Discovery by Women and Girls by Catherine Thimmesh | Children's NonFiction Winner, 2003 |
| Inside the Secret Garden: A Treasury of Crafts, Recipes, and Activities by Carolyn Strom Collins | Children's NonFiction, 2003 |
| Jesse Ventura Tells It Like It Is: America's Most Outspoken Governor Speaks Out About Government (Carolrhoda Photo Books by Jesse Ventura | Children's NonFiction, 2003 |
| Countdown to Kindergarten by Allison McGhee | Children's Fiction Winner, 2003 |
| Cécile: Gates of Gold by Mary Casanova | Children's Fiction, 2003 |
| The First Thing My Mama Told Me by Susan Marie Swanson | Children's Fiction, 2003 |
| Back to Mississippi: A Personal Journey Through the Events that Changed America in 1964 by Mary Winstead | Autobiography, Biography, Memoir Winner, 2003 |
| Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir by Madelon Sprengnether | Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, 2003 |
| The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape (Camino Del Sol) by Ray Gonzalez | Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, 2003 |
| The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America by Julie L'Enfant | Art and Music Winner, 2003 |
| Minnesota Orchestra at 100 (Minnesota) | Art and Music, 2003 |
| Cap Wigington : an architectural legacy in ice and stone by David Vassar Taylor | Architecture Winner, 2003 |
| Ralph Rapson: Sketches and Drawings from Around the World by Ralph Rapson | Architecture, 2003 |
| Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans by Mai Neng Moua | Anthology or Collection of Short Stories by Multiple Authors, 2003 |
| Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers On Community (Native Voices) by Heid E. Erdrich | Anthology or Collection of Short Stories by Multiple Authors, 2003 |
| Sweetblood by Pete Hautman | Young Adult Literature Winner, 2004 |
| Blackwater Ben by William Durbin | Young Adult Literature, 2004 |
| The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo | Young Adult Literature, 2004 |
| The World According to Dog by Joyce Sidman | Young Adult Literature, 2004 |
| Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy | Popular Fiction Winner, 2004 |
| Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik | Popular Fiction, 2004 |
| The Last Witness: A Mystery by Kj Erickson | Popular Fiction, 2004 |
| O'Banion's Gift by Michael O'Rourke | Popular Fiction, 2004 |
| Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold | Popular Fiction, 2004 |
| Coming Late to Rachmaninoff: Poems by Richard Terrill | Poetry Winner, 2004 |
| The Magic Whip by Wang Ping | Poetry, 2004 |
| Original Fire: Selected and New Poems by Louise Erdrich | Poetry, 2004 |
| Paper Boat by Cullen Bailey Burns | Poetry, 2004 |
| Where No Gods Came (Sweetwater Fiction: Originals) by Sheila O'Connor | Novel and Short Story Winner, 2004 |
| Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter | Novel and Short Story, 2004 |
| Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea by Diane Glancy | Novel and Short Story, 2004 |
| Was It Beautiful? by Allison McGhee | Novel and Short Story, 2004 |
| Looking for the Summer by Jim Brandenburg | Nature and Minnesota Winner, 2004 |
| Birds of Minnesota and Wisconsin by Robert B. Janssen | Nature and Minnesota, 2004 |
| Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win by John Rosengren | Nature and Minnesota, 2004 |
| A Cook's Tour of Minnesota by Ann L. Burckhardt | Nature and Minnesota, 2004 |
| Mill City: A Visual History of the Minneapolis Mill District (Minnesota) by Nina M. Archabal | History and Biography Winner, 2004 |
| Enterprising Minnesotans: 150 Years of Business Pioneers by Stephen George | History and Biography, 2004 |
| Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota by John D. Bessler | History and Biography, 2004 |
| Minnesota Eats Out: An Illustrated History by Kathryn Koutsky | History and Biography, 2004 |
| Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters | Children's NonFiction Family, 2004 |
| Imagine a House: A Journey to Fascinating Houses Around the World (What a World We Live in, 1) by Angela Gustafson | Children's NonFiction, 2004 |
| Nature's Yucky: Gross Stuff That Helps Nature Work by Lee Ann Landstrom | Children's NonFiction, 2004 |
| Sacagawea by Liselotte Erdrich | Children's NonFiction, 2004 |
| V is for Viking: A Minnesota Alphabet by Kathy-jo Wargin | Children's NonFiction, 2004 |
| Hey, Pancakes! by Tamson Weston | Children's Literature Winner, 2004 |
| Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up by Lisa Westberg Peters | Children's Literature, 2004 |
| One-Dog Canoe by Mary Casanova | Children's Literature, 2004 |
| Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy | Children's Literature, 2004 |
| The Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka | Autobiography and Memoir Winner, 2004 |
| Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir by Joel Turnipseed | Autobiography and Memoir, 2004 |
| The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War by Samuel Hynes | Autobiography and Memoir, 2004 |
| Jesus Sound Explosion (Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) by Mark Curtis Anderson | Autobiography and Memoir, 2004 |
| Leaning into the Wind: A Memoir of Midwest Weather by Susan Allen Toth | Autobiography and Memoir, 2004 |
| A Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town by Richard O. Davies | Anthology and Collections Winner, 2004 |
| No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets by Ray Gonzalez | Anthology and Collections, 2004 |
| Toward the Livable City (World As Home, The) by Emilie Buchwald | Anthology and Collections, 2004 |
| Twelve Branches: Stories from St. Paul by Nora Murphy | Anthology and Collections, 2004 |
| Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman (Iowa Whitman Series) | Anthology and Collections, 2004 |
| Godless by Pete Hautman | Young Adult Fiction and Poetry Winner, 2005 |
| The Alison Rules by Catherine Clark | Young Adult Fiction and Poetry, 2005 |
| Too Big a Storm by Marsha Qualey | Young Adult Fiction and Poetry, 2005 |
| Alone at Night (Mars Bahr Mysteries) by Kj Erickson | Popular Fiction Winner, 2005 |
| Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger | Popular Fiction, 2005 |
| Lake of Sorrows: A Novel by Erin Hart | Popular Fiction, 2005 |
| Live Bait by P. J. Tracy | Popular Fiction, 2005 |
| The Tarnished Eye: A Novel of Suspense (Guest, Judith) by Judith Guest | Popular Fiction, 2005 |
| Naming the Stars: Poems by Joyce Sutphen | Poetry Winner, 2005 |
| Atlas: Poems by Katrina Vandenberg | Poetry, 2005 |
| The Jewish Fake Book (Fake Books) by Velvel Pasternak | Poetry, 2005 |
| Playing the Black Piano: Poems by Bill Holm | Poetry, 2005 |
| Shut Up Shut Down by Mark Nowak | Poetry, 2005 |
| Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers | Novel and Short Story Winner, 2005 |
| Those who save us by Jenna Blum | Novel and Short Story, 2005 |
| Minnesota Treasures: Stories Behind the State's Historic Places by Denis Gardner | Nature and Minnesota Winner, 2005 |
| Angry Trout Cafe Notebook: Friends, Recipes, and The Culture of Sustainability by George Wilkes | Nature and Minnesota, 2005 |
| The Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods by Jeff Forester | Nature and Minnesota, 2005 |
| Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book by Paul Douglas | Nature and Minnesota, 2005 |
| Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford | History and Biography Winner, 2005 |
| In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau by Larry Haeg | History and Biography, 2005 |
| Minnesota Goes to War: The Home Front During World War II by Dave Kenney | History and Biography, 2005 |
| On Foot: A History of Walking by Joseph Amato | History and Biography, 2005 |
| Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos from the Speed Graphics Era by Larry Millett | History and Biography, 2005 |
| WHY Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen by David Walsh | General NonFiction Winner, 2005 |
| Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide by Sherelyn Ogden | General NonFiction, 2005 |
| Meetings by Paul Shambroom | General NonFiction, 2005 |
| Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns by Cheryl L. Reed | General NonFiction, 2005 |
| The Intruder. by Clayton | Fine Press, 2005 |
| The Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies, and Other Secret Beings by Lise Lunge-Larsen | Children's and Young Adult NonFiction Winner, 2005 |
| Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics by Catherine Thimmesh | Children's and Young Adult NonFiction, 2005 |
| The Best Pet of All by David LaRochelle | Children’s Picture Books Winner, 2005 |
| Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains by Barbara Knutson | Children’s Picture Books, 2005 |
| Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Allison McGhee | Children’s Picture Books, 2005 |
| Rules of the Wild: An Unruly Book of Manners by Bridget Levin | Children’s Picture Books, 2005 |
| The Darkest Evening by William Durbin | Children’s Fiction and Poetry Winner, 2005 |
| The Double Digit Club by Marion Dane Bauer | Children’s Fiction and Poetry, 2005 |
| Grass Angel by Julie Schumacher | Children’s Fiction and Poetry, 2005 |
| Snap by Allison McGhee | Children’s Fiction and Poetry, 2005 |
| Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History by Jennifer Vogel | Autobiography and Memoir Winner, 2005 |
| Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard (American Lives) by Fan Shen | Autobiography and Memoir, 2005 |
| Yeh Yeh's House: A Memoir by Evelina Chao | Autobiography and Memoir, 2005 |
| Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism by Robert Hedin | Anthology and Collections Winner, 2005 |
| As Long as the Moon Shall Rise by editor Ellen Moore Anderson | Anthology and Collections, 2005 |
| For the Love of Knitting by Voyageur Press | Anthology and Collections, 2005 |
| All Rivers Flow to the Sea by Allison McGhee | Young Adult Fiction Winner, 2006 |
| Full Service by Will Weaver | Young Adult Fiction, 2006 |
| Invisible by Pete Hautman | Young Adult Fiction, 2006 |
| Just Like That by Marsha Qualey | Young Adult Fiction, 2006 |
| Resistance by Janet Graber | Young Adult Fiction, 2006 |
| A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays by John Hildebrand | Science & Nature Winner, 2006 |
| Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times by Calvin R. Fremling | Science & Nature, 2006 |
| Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota by Lynn M. Steiner | Science & Nature, 2006 |
| The Iron Girl by Ellen Hart | Popular Fiction Winner, 2006 |
| Dead Run by P. J. Tracy | Popular Fiction, 2006 |
| Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger | Popular Fiction, 2006 |
| Poison Heart by Mary Logue | Popular Fiction, 2006 |
| Tin City by David Housewright | Popular Fiction, 2006 |
| Lightning at Dinner: Poems by Jim Moore | Poetry Winner, 2006 |
| Consideration of the Guitar: New And Selected Poems, 1986-2005 (American Poets Continuum Series,) by Ray Gonzalez | Poetry, 2006 |
| The Mother's Tongue (Earthworks) by Heid E. Erdrich | Poetry, 2006 |
| Polar by Dobby Gibson | Poetry, 2006 |
| Real Karaoke People (Many Voices Project) by Ed Bok Lee | Poetry, 2006 |
| The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich | Novel and Short Story Winner, 2006 |
| Beautiful Inez: A Novel by Bart Schneider | Novel and Short Story, 2006 |
| Gardenias: A Novel by Faith Sullivan | Novel and Short Story, 2006 |
| Somebody's Daughter by Marie Myung-Ok Lee | Novel and Short Story, 2006 |
| The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai | History & Biography Winner, 2006 |
| Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn | History & Biography, 2006 |
| The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln (Rhetoric & Public Affairs) by Michael Pfau | History & Biography, 2006 |
| Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke | General NonFiction Winner, 2006 |
| Barns of Minnesota (Minnesota Byways) by Will Weaver | General NonFiction, 2006 |
| Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues by Wellstone Action | General NonFiction, 2006 |
| Roads Less Traveled: Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth by Catherine Watson | General NonFiction, 2006 |
| Mayflies Of The Driftless Region. by Clarke | Fine Press, 2006 |
| Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George | Children’s Picture Book Winner, 2006 |
| Dear Big, Mean, Ugly Monster by Ruth Berglin | Children’s Picture Book, 2006 |
| If Frogs Made the Weather by Marion Dane Bauer | Children’s Picture Book, 2006 |
| Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman | Children’s Picture Book, 2006 |
| The Counterfeit Princess by Jane Resh Thomas | Children’s Fiction Winner, 2006 |
| A Bear Named Trouble by Marion Dane Bauer | Children’s Fiction, 2006 |
| Bridge to America: Based on a True Story by Linda Glaser | Children’s Fiction, 2006 |
| Stinky Stern Forever by Michelle Edwards | Children’s Fiction, 2006 |
| Wanda Gag: Storybook Artist by Gwenyth Swain | Children’s and Young Adult NonFiction Winner, 2006 |
| Marooned: The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe by Robert Kraske | Children’s and Young Adult NonFiction, 2006 |
| Minnesota's Capitol: A Centennial Story by Leigh Roethke | Children’s and Young Adult NonFiction, 2006 |
| Crossing Three Wildernesses by U Sam Oeur | Autobiography, Memoir, & Creative NonFiction, 2006 |
| Humble Pie by Anne Dimock | Autobiography, Memoir, & Creative NonFiction, 2006 |
| On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, And Holiness by Elizabeth Andrew | Autobiography, Memoir, & Creative NonFiction, 2006 |
| The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A Memoir by Nicole Lea Helget | Autobiography, Memoir, & Creative NonFiction, 2006 |
| Voices of Rondo : oral histories of Saint Paul's historic Black community by Kate Cavett | Anthology & Collection Winner, 2006 |
| Christmas in Minnesota by Marilyn Ziebarth | Anthology & Collection, 2006 |
| Kiss Me Goodnight: Stories And Poems By Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died by Ann Murphy O'Fallon | Anthology & Collection, 2006 |
| Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past by Gail Bakkom | Anthology & Collection, 2006 |
| The Book of One Hundred Truths by Julie Schumacher | Young Adult Literature Winner, 2007 |
| El Lector by William Durbin | Young Adult Literature, 2007 |
| Rash by Pete Hautman | Young Adult Literature, 2007 |
| Coven by Susan Deborah King | Poetry, 2007 |
| The Curator of Silence (ERNEST SANDEEN PRIZE) by Jude Nutter | Poetry, 2007 |
| Yahweh's Other Shoe by Kilian McDonnell | Poetry, 2007 |
| When Charlotte Comes Home: A Novel by Maureen Millea Smith | Novel & Short Story Winner, 2007 |
| Cirkus: A Novel by Patti Frazee | Novel & Short Story, 2007 |
| Lives of Mapmakers (Carnegie Mellon University Press Series in Fiction) by Alicia L. Conroy | Novel & Short Story, 2007 |
| Copper River by William Kent Krueger | Genre Fiction Winner, 2007 |
| The St. Paul Conspiracy by Roger Stelljes | Genre Fiction, 2007 |
| Stripped by Brian Freeman | Genre Fiction, 2007 |
| A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akçam | General NonFiction Winner, 2007 |
| Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club: Recipes, Tips and Stories by Kim Ode | General NonFiction, 2007 |
| Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson by William Swanson | General NonFiction, 2007 |
| Minnesota on Paper: Collecting Our Printed History by Moira F. Harris | General NonFiction, 2007 |
| West Bank Boogie by Cyn Collins | General NonFiction, 2007 |
| The Grammarian's Five Daughters by Eleanor Arnason | Fine Press, 2007 |
| Tomorrow, The River by Dianne Gray | Children’s Literature Winner, 2007 |
| Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow by Joyce Sidman | Children’s Literature, 2007 |
| Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry by Joyce Sidman | Children’s Literature, 2007 |
| The Shadow Thieves (Cronus Chronicles) by Anne Ursu | Children’s Literature, 2007 |
| Winter Is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer | Children’s Literature, 2007 |
| Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past by Diane Wilson | Autobiography, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Winner, 2007 |
| Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat by Caroline Burau | Autobiography, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2007 |
| The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology (World As Home, The) by Mary Rose O'Reilley | Autobiography, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2007 |
| Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford | Autobiography, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2007 |
| Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger | Award for Genre Fiction Winner, 2008 |
| Code Black by Philip S. Donlay | Award for Genre Fiction, 2008 |
| Maiden Rock by Mary Logue | Award for Genre Fiction, 2008 |
| Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn | Award for Genre Fiction, 2008 |
| The Last Communist Virgin by Wang Ping | Award for Novel & Short Story Winner, 2008 |
| Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor | Award for Novel & Short Story, 2008 |
| Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Heather Mcelhatton | Award for Novel & Short Story, 2008 |
| The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik | Award for Novel & Short Story, 2008 |
| The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl | Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction Winner, 2008 |
| The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling | Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2008 |
| Home on the Road: Further Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth by Catherine Watson | Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2008 |
| The Wet Collection by Joni Tevis | Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2008 |
| Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems by Deborah Keenan | Award for Poetry Winner, 2008 |
| Music for Landing Planes By: Poems by Eireann Lorsung | Award for Poetry, 2008 |
| The Resurrection Trade by Leslie Adrienne Miller | Award for Poetry, 2008 |
| This Brightness: Poems by William Reichard | Award for Poetry, 2008 |
| Defect by Will Weaver | Award for Young Adult Literature Winner, 2008 |
| Billie Standish Was Here by Nancy Crocker | Award for Young Adult Literature, 2008 |
| Chasing Tail Lights by Patrick Jones | Award for Young Adult Literature, 2008 |
| Falling Boy by Allison McGhee | Award for Young Adult Literature, 2008 |
| Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota by Doug Hoverson | Award for Minnesota Winner, 2008 |
| Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out by Annette Atkins | Award for Minnesota, 2008 |
| Mike Lynch's Minnesota Weatherwatch: A Complete Guide for Weather-Obsessed Minnesotans by Mike Lynch | Award for Minnesota, 2008 |
| We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People by Bruce White | Award for Minnesota, 2008 |
| The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Art of...) by Charles Baxter | Award for General Nonfiction Winner, 2008 |
| The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History by Jim Walsh | Award for General Nonfiction, 2008 |
| That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity by James Dawes | Award for General Nonfiction, 2008 |
| Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell | Award for Children’s Literature Winner, 2008 |
| Farmer Cap (Pfeffernut County) by Jill Kalz | Award for Children’s Literature, 2008 |
| Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg by Mia Posada | Award for Children’s Literature, 2008 |
| The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend | Award for Children’s Literature, 2008 |
