The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association handed out its annual book awards this week. Executive Director Hut Landon shares the winning titles:
Fiction: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial).
Nonfiction: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, by Van Jones (HarperOne).
Poetry: My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, by Jack Spicer (Wesleyan University Press).
Children’s Literature: Steinbeck’s Ghost, by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends).
Children’s Illustrated: One, illustrated by Kathryn Otoshi (KO Kids Books).
Regional Title: Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, by Frances Dinkelspiel (St. Martin’s).
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