The winners of the 2010 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards, sponsored by the Midwest Booksellers Association and chosen by member bookstores, are:
Fiction: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (Knopf/Vintage)
Nonfiction: The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow (Gotham Books)
Poetry: The Chain Letter of the Soul: New and Selected Poems by Bill Holm (Milkweed Editions)
Children's Picture Book: Otis by Loren Long (Philomel)
Children's Literature: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
Honor Books:
Fiction: Driftless by David Rhodes (Milkweed Editions)
Nonfiction: Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François (St. Martin's)
Poetry: Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude edited by Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, Pamela Mittlefehldt (Holy Cow! Press/Consortium)
Children's Picture Book: Moose on the Loose by Kathy-jo Wargin, illustrated by John Bendall-Brunello (Sleeping Bear Press)
Children's Literature: Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
The titles and authors will be celebrated at a reception Friday, October 1, during the MBA Trade Show in St. Paul, Minn.