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Andere Namen: Mass Book Awards (Englisch), Massachusetts Must-Read (Englisch)
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Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous mehr anzeigen calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 weniger anzeigen
Etappen:
Alle, Winner (103), Honor Book (178), Must-Read (Longlist) (869), Special Director's Mention (3)
Kategorien:
Alle, Sachbücher (37)
Jahre:
Alle, 2023 (2), 2022 (2), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (2), 2018 (2), 2017 (2), 2016 (3), 2013 (1), 2009 (2), 2008 (2), 2007 (1), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (4)

Honor Book 37

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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners von Margaret A. Burnham2023
The Third Person von Emma Grove2023
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future von Elizabeth Kolbert2022
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy von Nathaniel Philbrick2022
Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow von Nicholas A. Basbanes2021
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World von Sara Hendren2021
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter von Kerri K. Greenidge2020
American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation von Holly Jackson2020
The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 von George Howe Colt2019
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro von Rachel Slade2019
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. von Danielle S. Allen2018
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire von Stephen Kinzer2018
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars von Dava Sobel2017
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon von Larry Tye2017
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America von Jay Atkinson2016
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 von Joseph J. Ellis2016
The Wright Brothers von David McCullough2016
Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life von Natalie Dykstra2013
Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day von Patricia J. Fanning2009
White Heat von Brenda Wineapple2009
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America von Eric Jay Dolin2008
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father von John Matteson2008
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power von James Carroll2007
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet von Charlotte Gordon2006
A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit von Alan Lightman2006
Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church von James M. Ault2005
Washington's Crossing von David Hackett Fischer2005
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home von George Howe Colt2004
Dämonen der See von Nathaniel Philbrick2004
Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo von Pagan Kennedy2003
Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey von Mitchell Zuckoff2003
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital von Alex Beam2002
Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family von Madeleine Blais2002
Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England von Mary H. Blewett2001
Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise, Expanded and Updated von Richard A. Johnson2001
Im Herzen der See von Nathaniel Philbrick2001
Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 von Nancy Lusignan Schultz2001

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Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 (English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)
Massachusetts Book Awards

The Massachusetts Book Awards highlight the work of our vital contemporary writing community and encourage readers to do some "close reading" of those imaginative works created by the authors among us. Throughout the award year, we a list of "Must Reads " in each of four award categories -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry & children's/young adult literature -- that have been written by Massachusetts writers or about Massachusetts themes. We also publish an annual MassBook Census of Massachusetts books. In the Fall, we name promote an award winner in each of the categories. (English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)

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