Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Califronia Book Awards 2007

As some of you might know I serve on this committee, so please pardon a moment of self-promotion.

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/features/caBookAwards/

Basically to qualify for the award(s) the book either needed to be written in California or the author is a resident of the state. All of the winners were worthwhile, but here's my personal shortlist of highly recommended reads...

Chinese Apples by W.S. Di Piero (poetry)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (nonfiction)
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (fiction)
Reinventing Los Angeles by Robert Gottlieb (Californiana)

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