Especially notable books from Coffee House Press include the best-selling Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage and National Book Award finalists Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith (poetry, 2008), and I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (fiction, 2010).[14] Other national award-winning titles include American Book Award winners Somewhere Else by Matthew Shenoda (2006), The Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi (2008), [15] American Library Association Notable Book Miniatures by Norah Labiner (2003) and ALA Best First Novels List selection Our Sometime Sister, also by Labiner (2000). In 2011 Coffee House published Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, one of the year's most critically acclaimed novels, drawing national and international attention to the press.[16]