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The
winners of the 2011 Northern California Independent Booksellers
Association Book of the Year Awards, all for books written by authors
living in the region, include four honorable mentions for books that had
strong second place finishes:
Fiction: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House)
Nonfiction: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (Norton)
Nonfiction honorable mention: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 (University of California)
Poetry: Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder (Copper Canyon)
Food Writing: My Calabria by Rosetta Costantino with Janet Fletcher (Norton)
Children's Picture Book: The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Children's Picture Book honorable mention: Zero by Kathryn Otoshi (KO Kids Books)
Teen Lit: The Sky Is Forever by Jandy Nelson (Dial)
Teen Lit honorable mention: The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Regional Title: Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit (University of California)
Regional Title honorable mention: State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California by Laura Cunningham (Heyday)
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