Congratulations to the 2021 Connecticut Book Awards winners! We are delighted to name the following for this year’s awards:
Adult Books
- Nonfiction | The Alchemy of Us | Ainissa Ramirez | New Haven | The MIT Press
- Poetry | My Husband Would | Benjamin S. Grossberg | West Hartford | University of Tampa Press
- Fiction | Musical Chairs | Amy Poeppel | Kent | Simon & Schuster
Young Readers
- Fiction | Dress Coded | Carrie Firestone | Avon| Putnam/Penquin
- Nonfiction | Accidental Archaeologists | Sarah Albee | Watertown | Scholastic
- Picture Books | The All-Together Quilt | Lizzy Rockwell | Author and Illustrator | Bridgeport | Alfred A. Knopf
2021 Spirit of Connecticut Honorable Mentions
- Paved Roads & Public Money | Richard Deluca | Cheshire | Wesleyan University Press
- The History of Steep Rock Association | Carol Bergren Santoleri | New Preston | Steep Rock Association
- Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments that Shaped a Great State | Walter Woodward | Columbia | Globe Pequot Press