Golden Poppy Book Awards 2024
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA) presents the 2024 Golden Poppy Awards in recognition of the most distinguished books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.
Committees for each category are made up of booksellers throughout the state tasked with developing a final ballot that will be voted upon by CALIBA's bookstore membership and their employees.
Our goal is to elevate California voices and recognize the unique and diverse talents within our state as voted upon by the booksellers who know them best.
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this years' Golden Poppy Award Winners.
ACCESS THE GOLDEN POPPY 2024 FINALIST TOOLKIT
Fiction
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky (Ecco)
Real Americans by Rachel Khong (Knopf)
Under a Neon Sun by Kate Gale (Three Rooms Press)
Nonfiction
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna (Ecco)
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Tiny Reparations Books)
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA by Jesse Katz (Astra House)
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León (Viking)
Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future by Daniel Lewis (Avid Reader Press)
Mystery
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Celadon Books)
Guide Me Home by Attica Locke (Mulholland Books)
The Hushed by K.R. Blair (Blackstone Publishing)
The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs (Atria Books)
The Whitewashed Tombs by Kwei Quartey (Soho Crime)
Poetry
woke up no light: poems by Leila Mottley (Knopf)
Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz (Acre Books)
Blade by Blade by Danusha Laméris (Copper Canyon Press)
A Face Out of Clay by Brent Ameneyro (The Center for Literary Publishing)
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian (Tin House Books)
Octavia E. Butler Award (Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror)
The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis (Primero Sueño Press)
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (Tor Nightfire)
Dearest by Jacquie Walters (Mulholland Books)
Moonbound by Robin Sloan (MCD)
The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song (Ace)
Romance
How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang (Avon)
The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion (Berkley)
My Season of Scandal by Julie Ann Long (Avon)
Savor It by Tarah DeWitt (St. Martin's Griffin)
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava (Berkley)
Martin Cruz Smith Award: Emerging Diverse Voices
(juried prize)
All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz (Algonquin Books)
The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song (Ace)
Real Americans by Rachel Khong (Knopf)
See Loss See Also Love by Yukiko Tominaga (Scribner)
Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali (Alice James Books)
What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn, with Lee Romney
Glenn Goldman: California Lifestyle
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities by John King (W. W. Norton & Company)
Art Is Art: Collaborating with Neurodiverse Artists at Creativity Explored by Ann Kappes (Chronicle Books)
Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling by Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo (Angel City Press)
Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder's Lens by José Vadi (Soft Skull Press)
Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture by Eric Nakamura (Drawn & Quarterly)
Glenn Goldman: Cooking
Nosh: Plant-Forward Recipes Celebrating Modern Jewish Cuisine by Micah Siva (The Collective Book Studio)
The California Farm Table Cookbook: 100 Recipes from the Golden State by Lori Rice (Countryman Press)Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California's Wine Country by Rogelio Garcia and Andréa Lawson Gray (Abrams Books)
Desi Bakes: 85 Recipes Bringing the Best of Indian Flavors to Western-Style Desserts by Hetal Vasavada (Hardie Grant North America)
Make It Fancy: Cooking at Home with Sad Papi (A Cookbook) by Brandon Skier (Simon Element)
Picture Book
The Man Who Didn't Like Animals by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Clarion Books)
Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Susan Gal (Levine Querido)
A Mischief of Mice by Christie Matheson (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
Mochi Makers by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson (Beach Lane Books)
Small Things Mended by Casey W. Robinson, illustrated by Nancy Whitesides (Rocky Pond Books)
Middle Grade
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Anzu and the Realm of Darkness by Mai K. Nguyen (Viking Books for Young Readers)
The Color of Sound by Emily Barth Isler (Carolrhoda Books)
Ultraviolet by Aida Salazar (Scholastic Press)
The Wrong Way Home by Kate O'Shaughnessy (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Young Adult
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo (Make Me a World)
Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta (Quill Tree Books)
The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
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Children's Nonfiction
My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story by George Takei and Michelle Lee (Crown Books for Young Readers)
Road Home by Rex Ogle (Norton Young Readers)
Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ying Chang Compestine and Xinmei Liu (Rocky Pond Books)
A Guide to Grief by Cole Imperi and Bianca Jagoe (Kids Can Press)
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape by Sam Nakahira (Getty Publications)
Mirrors & Windows: Excellence in Children's Literature
(juried prize)
Juneteenth Is by Natasha Tripplett and Daniel J. O'Brien (Chronicle Books)
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
The Ofrenda That We Built by Jolene Gutiérrez, Shaian Gutiérrez and Gabby Zapata (Chronicle Books)
Road Home by Rex Ogle (Norton Young Readers)
The Spice Box by Meera Sriram and Sandhya Prabhat (Knopf Books for Young Readers)