- Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall (Children’s Literature)
- No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions by Ryan Berg (Nonfiction)
- The Grave Soul by Ellen Hart (Genre Fiction)
- Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Karen Sabine (Memoir & Creative Nonfiction)
- Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury by Larry Millett (Minnesota)
- There’s Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter (Novel & Short Story)
- Beautiful Wall by Ray Gonzalez (Poetry)
- See No Color by Shannon Gibney (Young People’s Literature)
Each April, authors, publishers and book-lovers celebrate the best of local literature at the Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony. Managed by The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, with financial assistance from CRPLSA, this year’s celebration returned to the beautiful and historic Union Depot in Lowertown, Saint Paul. Books, autographs, refreshments, live music, and the announcement of the award winners all made an unforgettable evening!