Golden Poppy Awards 2021 - Winners
Golden Poppy Awards 2021
THE VOTES ARE IN!
The members of CALIBA present The Golden Poppy Book Awards to recognize the most distinguished books written by writers and artist who make California their home. The Golden Poppies are given for books published in the following categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Cooking & Food, Mystery, Romance, Poetry, Science Fiction, Non Narrative , Nature Writing, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Children’s Picture Book. Mirrors & Windows and the Martin Cruz Smith/Diversity celebrate diversity and inclusion.
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AND THE WINNERS ARE...
Winners highlighted in orange
FICTION
The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster)Better Luck Next Time, by Julia Claiborne Johnson (Custom House)
The Guncle, by Steven Rowley (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Good Company, by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (Ecco Press)
My Year Abroad, by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead Books)
NON-FICTION
Love is an Ex-Country, by Randa Jarrar (Catapult)
Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History, by David F. Walker & Marcus Kwame Anderson (Ten Speed Press)
Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change the Way We Eat,
by Larissa Zimberoff (Abrams Press)
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War,
by Alice L. Baumgartner (Basic Books)
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020, by Rachel Kushner (Scribner Book Company)
T. JEFFERSON PARKER AWARD - MYSTERY, SUSPENSE & THRILLER
Island Of Thieves, by Glen Erik Hamilton (Morrow)
One Got Away, by S.A. Lelchuk (Flatiron Books)
The Wonder Test, by Michelle Richmond (Atlantic Monthly Press)
POETRY
Tenderness, by Derrick Austin (BOA Editions)
Mule Kick Blues: And Last Poems, by Michael McClure (City Lights Books)
Little Elegies for Sister Satan, by Michael Palmer (New Directions Publishing)
Storage Unit for the Spirit House, by Maw Shein Win (Omnidawn)
SF/FANTASY
We Could Be Heroes, by Mike Chen (Mira Books)
The Arrest, by Jonathan Lethem (Ecco Press)
The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey (Tor Books)
ROMANCE
The Hate Project, by Kris Ripper (Carina Adores)
The Soulmate Equation, by Christina Lauren (Gallery Books)
The Heart Principle, by Helen Hoang (Berkley Books)
I’m Only Wicked with You, by Julie Anne Long (Avon Books)
A Duke Worth Fighting For, by Christina Britton (Forever)
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH DIVERSITY AWARD
What Storm, What Thunder, by Myriam J. A. Chancy (Tin House Books)
Skinship: Stories, by Yoon Choi (Knopf Publishing Group)
Gordo, by Jaime Cortez (Grove Press, Black Cat)
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert, by Shugri Said Salh (Algonquin Books)
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, by Victoria Chang (Milkweed Editions)
FOOD/COOKING
At Home in the Kitchen Simple Recipes From a Chef’s Night Off, by David Kinch (Ten Speed Press)
Food Between Friends: A Cookbook, by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Tanous (Clarkson Potter)
A Table, by Rebekah Peppler (Chronicle Books)
Heroes’ Feast (DUNGEONS & DRAGONS) : The Official D&D Cookbook,
by Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, Michael Witwer (Ten Speed Press)
The Flour Craft Bakery & Cafe Cookbook, by Heather Hardcastle (Welcome Books)
GLENN GOLDMAN AWARD-NON NARRATIVE
Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective, by Paul Martineau, Susan Ehrens (J. Paul Getty Museum)
L.A. Graffiti Black Book, by David Brafman (Getty Research Institute)
Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The Varieties of Modernism, by Christopher Long (Bauer And Dean Publishers)
and
PICTURE BOOKS
Little Sap, by Jan Hughes, illustrated by Ruth Hengeveld (Cameron Kids)
Paletero Man, by Lucky Diaz, illustrated by Micah Player (HarperCollins)
Two Many Birds, written and illustrated by Cindy Derby (Roaring Brook Press)
and
Wishes, by Mượn Thị Văn, illustrated by Victo Ngai (Orchard Books)
MIDDLE GRADE
Oddity, by Eli Brown (Walker Books Us)
Brave in the Woods, by Traci Holczer (G.P. Putnam's Sons BFYR)
The Lion of Mars, by Jennifer Holm (Random House BFYR)
Clues to the Universe, by Christine Li (Quill Tree Books)
The Elephant in the Room, by Holly Goldberg Sloan (Dial Books)
YOUNG ADULT
An Emotion of Great Delight, by Tahereh Mafi (HarperCollins)
Luck of the Titanic, by Stacey Lee (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR)
When We Were Infinite, by Kelly Loy Gilbert (Simon & Schuster BFYR)
Happily Ever Afters, by Elise Bryant (Balzer & Bray/Harperteen)
MIRRORS & WINDOWS * ILLUSTRATED
A Song of Frutas, by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sara Palacios (Atheneum BFYR)
Paletero Man, by Lucky Diaz, illustrated by Micah Player (HarperCollins)
When Lola Visits, by Michelle Sterling, illustrated by Aaron Asis (Katherine Tegen Books)
MIRRORS & WINDOWS * MIDDLE GRADE/YOUNG ADULT
From Little Tokyo with Love, by Sarah Kuhn (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Meet Cute Diary, by Emery Lee (Quill Tree Books)
Jukebox, by Nidhi Chanani (First Second)
Chunky, by Yehudi Mercado (Katherine Tegen Books)