The Massachusetts Book Awards have been given since 2001 in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s/young adult literature. They are awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

2007 (honoring books published in 2006)
FICTION – The emperor’s children, by Claire Messud
NONFICTION – Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war, by Nathaniel Philbrick
POETRY – Averno, by Louise Glück
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT – Incantation, by Alice Hoffman

2006 (honoring books published in 2005)
FICTION – The Season of open water, by Dawn Clifton Tripp
NONFICTION – The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism , by Megan Marshall
POETRY – Zeppo’s first wife : new and selected poems, by Gail Mazur
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT – Where the Great Hawk Flies, by Liza Ketchum

2005 (honoring books published in 2004)
FICTION – Project X, by Jim Shepard
NONFICTION – Outwitting history, by Aaron Lansky
POETRY – Trouble in mind, by Lucie Brock-Broido
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT – My light, by Molly Bang

2004 (honoring books published in 2003)
FICTION – A kiss from Maddalena, by Christopher Castellani
NONFICTION – Patriots : the Vietnam War remembered from all sides, by Christian G. Appy
POETRY – Middle earth, by Henry Cole
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT – Silent boy, by Lois Lowry

2003 (honoring books published in 2002)
FICTION – Sea room, by Norman G. Gautreau, Wakefield author!
NONFICTION – Revere beach elegy, by Roland Merullo
POETRY – Never, by Jorie Graham
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT – Hole in my life, by Jack Gantos
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Eric Carle, children’s author and illustrator

2002 (honoring books published in 2001)
FICTION – Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane
NONFICTION – The imprisoned guest, by Elisabeth Gitter
POETRY – Poems seven, by Alan Dugan
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT – Moonpie and Ivy, by Barbara O’Connor
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Stanley Kunitz, poet

2001 (honoring books published in 2000)
FICTION – MotherKind, by Jayne Anne Phillips
NONFICTION – Reflections in Bullough’s Pond, by Diana Muir
POETRY – Breathing room, by Peter Davison
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT – What’s in a name?, by Ellen Witlinger
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK – Henry hikes to Fitchburg, by D.B. Johnson

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