Non-Fiction
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- Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, by Colin Irwin
- To fans and critics alike, this was perhaps Dylan’s greatest album. It had a great impact on his career and on popular music as a whole. This book is a detailed history of the album, its conception and recording as well as its influence on popular culture.
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- A County Built on Iron: St. Louis County, Minnesota, 1856-2006, by Bill Beck
- A nicely illustrated, concise history of one of the state’s most diverse and important counties brings its history into the 21st century.
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- A Long Way Downstream: The Life and Family of Thibertine Johnson Winje, Norwegian-American Pioneer, by Chery Kinnick
- This work of family history is unusual on two counts. First, it includes a good amount of historical background and context and second, the author chooses to focus on a female ancestor, her great-great-grandmother.
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- Memoir of Carl W. Schevenius : 1878-1988, interviewed, edited, and prepared by his daughter, Bergliot M. Schevenius
- Based on a long series of taped interviews, this book traces the life of a Norwegian immigrant from his childhood and youth in Norway to his career in Minnesota. The editor has done a nice job of fact checking and organizing the materials. There also are some nice photographs.
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- Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935 , by William E. Lass
- Most of us know Bill Lass as a renowned teacher and writer of Minnesota History, but, as this book illustrates, Dr. Lass is also a great student of transportation history as well. This comprehensive, well-written, and thoroughly- researched work is a valuable addition to the history of the Northern Great Plains region.
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- The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own, by David Carr
- A "no holds barred" memoir, in which Minnesota writer and journalist Carr, who now writes for the New York Times, examines his life and career with the same rigor he brings to his reporting. Built on more than 50 videotaped interviews with people from his past, Carr’s investigation of his own history reveals a past far more harrowing than he allowed himself to remember.
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- Petal Pusher: A rock and Roll Cinderella Story, by Laurie Lindeen
- Minneapolis in the eighties was a musical hotbed, the land of 10,000 lakes and 10,000 bands that gave birth to Prince, the Replacements, and Soul Asylum. "Petal Pusher" takes readers on a stirring journey across rock and roll, from the big-haired 1980s to the grunge-filled 1990s, when Laurie Lindeen brought her all-girl band, Zuzu's Petals, to compete in the indie rock arena.
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- Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West , by John Craig Hammond
- Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding fathers" such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In "Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West," John Craig Hammond looks beyond elite leadership and examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and freedom in the West between 1790 and 1820. By shifting focus away from high politics in Philadelphia and Washington, Hammond demonstrates that local political contests and geopolitical realities were more responsible for determining slavery's fate in the West than were the clashing proslavery and antislavery proclivities of Founding Fathers and politicians in the East.
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