Annual literary award
The Washington State Book Awards is a literary awards program presented annually in recognition of notable books written by Washington authors in the previous year. The program was established in 1967 as the Governor's Writers Awards . Each year, up to ten outstanding books of any genre, which have been written by Washington authors in the previous year are recognized with awards based on literary merit, lasting importance, and overall quality of the publication.
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History
When the Governor's Writers Awards was established in 1967, it was based at the Washington State Library in Olympia . In 2001, the Washington Center for the Book based at the Seattle Public Library took over the administration of the program, renaming it as the Washington State Book Awards.
In 2005, an additional category was added to represent children's books. Since established, two children's books are honored each year with the Scandiuzzi Children's Book Awards . One book is honored for picture books, while the other for middle grades and young adults.
In 2006, the Center for the Book divided the entire awards program into categories, significantly reducing the number of awards presented. From 2006 through 2010, the genres of History and Biography formed one category. In 2011, Biography was regrouped with Memoir, while History was regrouped with General Nonfiction. In 2013, the categories encompass General Nonfiction (History), Biography and Memoir, Fiction, Poetry, and two to four Scandiuzzi Children's Books Awards. As of 2020, there are five categories for adults (Fiction, Poetry, Biograph/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction and General Nonfiction) and three categories for books for youth (Picture Books, Books for Young Readers, and Young Adult Literature).
In 2017, the Washington Center for the Book became a joint partnership of the Washington State Library and The Seattle Public Library.[1] The Washington State Book Awards continue as a project for the Center for the Book.
Washington State Book Award winners and finalists
2000s
Between 2002 and 2004, the award was presented to a group of books rather than to a single winner with a selection of finalists.
Year
Author
Title
2002
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World
Michael Collins
The Keepers of Truth
Chris Crutcher
Whale Talk
Madeline DeFrees
Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems: 1951-2001
Carole Glickfeld
Swimming Toward the Ocean
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year
Mira Kamdar
Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America Into Her Indian Family's Past
Carolyn Kizer
Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000
Duff Wilson
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
Robin K. Wright
Northern Haida Master Carvers
2003
Deloris Tarzan Ament
Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art
Charles Bergman
Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River
Rebecca Brown
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
Debra Magpie Earling
Perma Red
Deborah Hopkinson
Under the Quilt of Night
Tina Kelley
The Gospel of Galore
Pamela McClusky
Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back
Gregory Spatz
Wonderful Tricks: Stories
Indu Sundaresan
The Twentieth Wife
Hill Williams
The Restless Northwest
2004
Gary Atkins
Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging
Fred Beckey
Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range
Karen Cushman
Rodzina
Chris Forhan
The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars
Alan Gallay
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
Linda Lawrence Hunt
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City
David R. Montgomery
King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
Jack Nisbet
Visible Bones: Journey Across Time in the Columbia River Country
Matt Ruff
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
In 2005, the Washington State Book Awards were separated into categories, and individual winners were selected.
General Books
Year
Author
Title
Result
2005
Charles D'Ambrosio
Orphans
Winner
Lesley Hazleton
Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother
Winner
Christopher Howell
Light's Ladder: Poems
Winner
Paul Hunter
Breaking Ground
Winner
Stephanie Kallos
Broken for You
Winner
David Laskin
The Children's Blizzard
Winner
Nikhil Pal Singh
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Winner
Peter Ward
Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History
Winner
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
Year
Category
Author
Title
Result
2005
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Deb Caletti
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Winner
Picture Book
Carmela D'Amico , illustrated by Steven D'Amico
Ella the Elegant Elephant
Winner
2006
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Michael Gruber
The Witch's Boy
Winner
Deb Caletti
Wild Roses
Finalist
Picture Book
Karla Kuskin , illustrated by Betsy Lewin
So, What's It Like to Be a Cat?
Winner
Carole Lexa Schaefer , illustrated by Catherine Stock
The Bora-Bora Dress
Finalist
2007
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Brent Hartinger
Grand & Humble
Winner
Kirby Larson
Hattie Big Sky
Finalist
Michele Torrey
Voyage of Plunder
Picture Book
Jack Prelutsky , illustrated by Carin Berger
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems
Winner
Karma Wilson , illustrated by Jack E. Davis
Moose Tracks
Finalist
2008
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Sherman Alexie , illustrated by Ellen Forney
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Winner
Picture Book
George Shannon , illustrated by Laura Dronzek
Rabbit's Gift
Winner
2009
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Richard Farr
Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster in the Antarctic, 1910-13
Winner
Picture Book
Barbara Kerley , illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
What To Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
Winner
Bonny Becker , illustrated by Kady M. Denton
A Visitor for Bear
Honorable mention
Fiction
General nonfiction
History/Biography
Poetry
Year
Author
Title
Result
2006
Lucia Perillo
Luck Is Luck
Winner
Lillias Bever
Bellini in Istanbul
Finalist
Linda Bierds
First Hand
J.W. Marshall
Taken With
Katrina Roberts
The Quick
David Wagoner
Good Morning and Good Night
2007
Madeline DeFrees
Spectral Waves
Winner
Kathleen Flenniken
Famous
Finalist
Tess Gallagher
Dear Ghosts
Jennifer Maier
Dark Alphabet
Eric McHenry
Potscrubber Lullabies
2008
Samuel Green
The Grace of Necessity
Winner
Marvin Bell
Mars Being Red
Finalist
Mary Cornish
Red Studio
Peter Periera
What's Written on the Body
2009
David Wagoner
A Map of the Night
Winner
Thomas Aslin
A Moon Over Wings
Finalist
Linda Bierds
Flight: New and Selected Poems
Finalist
D. S. Butterworth
The Radium Watchdial Painters
Finalist
Katrina Roberts
Friendly Fire
Finalist
2010s
Biography/Memoir
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2011
Doug Merlino
The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White
Winner
[2]
Claire Dederer
Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
Finalist
[2]
Kurt Hoelting
The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for A Radically Local Life
[2]
Robert Michael Pyle
The Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year
[2]
Ana Maria Spagna
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
[2]
2012
Paul Lindholdt
In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau
Winner
[3]
Jana Harris
Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her
Finalist
Shiro Kashiba
Shiro: Wit, Wisdom & Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer
Katherine Malmo
Who In This Room: The Realities of Cancer, Fish, and Demolition
Ana Maria Spagna
Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness
2013
Timothy Egan
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Winner
[4]
Ellen Forney
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me
Finalist
Karl Marlantes
What It Is Like to Go to War
Domingo Martinez
The Boy Kings of Texas
2014
David Laskin
The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
Winner
Peter Bagge
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Finalist
[5]
Nicole Hardy
Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
Jonathan Raban
Driving Home: An American Journey
2015
Charles D’Ambrosio
Loitering: New and Collected Essays
Winner
Bryce Andrews
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Finalist
Kathleen Flinn
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
Tom Robbins
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Elissa Washuta
My Body Is a Book of Rules
2016
Mark Rozema
Road Trip
Winner
Sonya Lea
Wondering Who You Are
Finalist
Michael N. McGregor
Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
Finalist
Ana Maria Spagna
Reclaimers
Finalist
Tara Austen Weaver
Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow
Finalist
2017
Brenda Miller
An Earlier Life
Winner
Susan Marie Conrad
Inside: One Woman’s Journey through the Inside Passage
Finalist
Lindy West
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Finalist
Leif Whittaker
My Old Man and the Mountain
Finalist
2018
Claudia Rowe
The Spider and the Fly
Winner
[6]
Geraldine DeRuiter
All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
Finalist
Kristin Jarvis Adams
The Chicken Who Saved Us
2019
Janet Buttenwieser
Guts
Winner
Sarah Cannon
The Shame of Losing
Finalist
Kristi Coulter
Nothing Good Can Come from This
Patrick Parr
The Seminarian
Paul Souders
Arctic Solitaire
Fiction
General nonfiction
Year
Author
Title
Results
Ref.
2010
Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Winner
[7]
Tony Angell
Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye
Finalist
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
Brenda Miller
Blessing of the Animals
David Williams
Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology
History/Biography
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2010
Timothy Egan
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
Winner
[7]
Daniel James Brown
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Finalist
Lynda Mapes
Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
Jack Nisbet
The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Mishna Wolff
I'm Down: A Memoir
History/General nonfiction
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2011
David Laskin
The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
Winner
[2]
Thea Cooper
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle
Finalist
[2]
Frances McCue
The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo
[2]
David Shields
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
[2]
Craig Welch
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty
[2]
2012
Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Winner
[3]
Stephanie Coontz
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Finalist
Jeff Crane
Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha
John Findlay and Bruce Hevly
Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
Thor Hanson
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
2013
David R. Montgomery
The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
Winner
[4]
Kirsten Grind
The Lost Bank: The Story of the Biggest Bank Failure in American History
Finalist
Blaine Harden
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Jack Nisbet
David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest
Douglas Smith
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
2014
Daniel James Brown
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Winner
Nancy Bartley
The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls, Jr.
Finalist
Langdon Cook
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
David Moskowitz
Wolves in the Land of Salmon
2015
Justin Wadland
Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound
Winner
[8]
Greg Atkinson
In Season: Culinary Adventures of a Pacific Northwest Chef
Finalist
William Dietrich
The North Cascades: Finding Beauty and Renewal in the Wild Nearby
Greg Gordon
When Money Grew on Trees: A.B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Frances McCue
Mary Randlett Portraits
2016
Erik Larson
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Winner
Thor Hanson
The Triumph of Seeds
Finalist
Ruth Kirk
Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village
David Neiwert
Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
Jack Nisbet
Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest
2017
Steve Olson
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Winner
Timothy Egan
The Immortal Irishman
Finalist
Eli Sanders
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness
Adrienne Ross Scanlan
Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild
Margaret Willson
Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge
2018
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Mozart’s Starling
Winner
Various authors, curated and edited by Jaimee Garbacik
Ghosts of Seattle Past
Finalist
Langdon Cook
Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table
David R. Montgomery
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil to Life
Jonathan White
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott
Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal
2019
Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want to Talk About Race
Winner
Ken Armstrong
A False Report
Finalist
Paige Embry
Our Native Bees
Angela Garbes
Like a Mother
Ana Maria Spagna
Uplake
Nathan Vass
The Lines That Make Us: Stories from Nathan’s Bus
Poetry
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2010
Lucia Perillo
Inseminating the Elephant
Winner
[7]
Sherman Alexie
Face
Finalist
Shirley Kaufman
Ezekiel's Wheels
Tod Marshall
The Tangled Line
Heather McHugh
Upgraded to Serious
Judith Skillman
Prisoner of the Swifts
2011
Frances McCue
The Bled: Poems
Winner
[2] [9]
Kelli Russell Agodon
Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room
Finalist
[2]
Don Mee Choi
The Morning News Is Exciting
[2]
Oliver de la Paz
Personal website
[2]
Susan Rich
The Alchemist's Kitchen
[2]
2012
Christine Deavel
Woodnote
Winner
[3]
Arlene Kim
What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
Finalist
Katrina Roberts
Underdog
Martha Silano
The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception
2013
Kathleen Flenniken
Plume
Winner
[4]
Bruce Beasley
Theophobia
Finalist
Andrew Feld
Raptor
Colleen McElroy
Here I Throw Down My Heart
Claire McQuerry
Lacemakers
2014
Ed Skoog
Rough Day
Winner
Sherman Alexie
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned
Finalist
Rebecca Hoogs
Self-Storage
Derek Sheffield
Through the Second Skin
Nance van Ninckel
Pacific Walkers
2015
Tod Marshall
Bugle
Winner
[8]
Red Pine (trans.)
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
[8]
Kelli Russell Agodon
Hourglass Museum
Finalist
Kim-An Lieberman
In Orbit
2016
Carl Phillips
Reconnaissance
Winner
Rob Carney
88 Maps
Finalist
Laura Da'
Tributaries
Emily Johnston
Her Animals
Christina Stoddard
Hive
2017
Tara Hardy
My, My, My, My, My
Winner
Don Mee Choi
Hardly War
Finalist
Paisley Rekdal
Imaginary Vessels
Michael Schmeltzer
Blood Song
Megan Snyder-Camp
Wintering
2018
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Water & Salt
Winner
Claudia Castro Luna
Killing Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices
Finalist
Glenna Cook
Thresholds
Frances McCue
Timber Curtain
Melinda Mueller
Mary’s Dust
Eugenia Toledo with Carolyne Wright (trans.)
Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces
2019
Laura Da’
Instruments of the True Measure
Winner
Michele Bombardier
What We Do
Finalist
Lorraine Ferra
Between Darkness and Trust
Sierra Golden
The Slow Art
Rob Carney
The Book of Sharks
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
Year
Category
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2010
Early Readers
Bonny Becker
The Magical Ms. Plum
Winner
[7]
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Michael Harmon
Brutal
Winner
[7]
Picture Book
Samantha Vamos with Santiago Cohen (illus.)
Before You Were Here, Mi Amor
Winner
[7]
2011
Early Readers
Patrick Jennings
Guinea Dog
Winner
[2]
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Lish McBride
Hold Me Closer,Necromancer
Winner
[2]
Picture Book
Erik Brooks
Polar Opposites
Winner
[2]
2012
Middle Grades and Young Adults
Katherine Schlick Noe
Something to Hold
Winner
[3]
Picture Book
Nikki McClure
To Market, To Market
Winner
[3]
2013
Picture Book
Barbara Kerley
Those Rebels, John & Tom
Winner
[4]
Young Adult
J. Anderson Coats
The Wicked and the Just
Winner
[4]
2014
Early Readers
M.H. Clark
And Then, Story Starters
Winner
Middle Readers
Suzanne Selfors
The Sasquatch Escape
Winner
Picture Book
Kobi Yamada with Mae Besom (illus.)
What Do You Do With an Idea?
Winner
Brenda Guiberson with Gennady Spirin (illustrator)
Frog Song
Finalist
Nina Laden with Renata Liwska (illustrator)
Once Upon a Memory
Jack Prelutsky with Carin Berger (illustrator)
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems
George Shannon with Julie Paschkis (illustrator)
Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?
Young Adult
Patrick Flores-Scott
Jumped In
Winner
Steven Arntson
The Wrap-Up List
Finalist
Sean Beaudoin
Wise Young Fool
Thatcher Heldring
The League
Kirby Larson
Duke
2015
Middle Readers
Dana Simpson
Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle
Winner
[8]
Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides: Maps and Geography
Finalist
Maureen McQuerry
Beyond the Door
Picture Book
Jennifer K. Mann
Two Speckled Eggs
Winner
[8]
Keith Baker
Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Color
Finalist
George Shannon with Taeeun Yoo (illus.)
Hands Say Love
Hannah Viano
S Is for Salmon: A Pacific Northwest Alphabet
Young Adult
Leslye Walton
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Winner
[8]
Mary Cronk Farrell
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
Finalist
Katherine Kirkpatrick
Between Two Worlds
Jennifer Longo
Six Feet Over It
2016
Early Readers
Deborah Underwood
Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat
Winner
Kelly Jones
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Finalist
Middle Readers
A.L. Sonnichsen
Red Butterfly
Winner
Beth Hautala
Waiting for Unicorns
Finalist
Picture Book
Jessixa Bagley
Boats for Papa
Winner
Lisa Mantchev
Strictly No Elephants
Finalist
Laurie Thompson
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
Young Adult
Martha Brockenbrough
The Game of Love and Death
Winner
Carolyn Lee Adams
Ruthless
Finalist
2019
Middle Grade
Ben Guterson
Winterhouse
Winner
Beth Hautala
The Ostrich and Other Lost Things
Finalist
Dav Pilkey
Dog Man : Lord of the Fleas
Suzanne Selfors
Wish Upon a Sleepover
Picture Books
Alexandra Penfold with Suzanne Kaufman (illus.)
All Are Welcome
Winner
Jim Averbeck with Amy Hevron (illus)
Trevor
Finalist
Bonny Becker with Mark Fearing (illus.)
The Frightful Ride of Michael McMichael
Marcy Campbell with Corinna Luyken (illus.)
Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse
Blake Liliane Hellman with Steven Henry (illus.)
Something Smells
Rubin Pfeffer with Mike Austin (illus.)
Summer Supper
Young Adult
Joy McCullough
Blood Water Paint
Winner
Martha Brockenbrough
Unpresidented
Finalist
Deb Caletti
A Heart in a Body in the World
Kate Alice Marshall
I Am Still Alive
David Patneaude
Fast Backward
Leslye Walton
The Price Guide to the Occult
Young Readers
Ben Clanton
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Winner
Dori Hillestad Butler
King & Kayla and the Case of the Lost Tooth
Finalist
Crix Sheridan
The Sasquatch and the Lumberjack
2020s
Biography/Memoir
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2020
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Winner
[10]
Gina Siciliano
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi
Finalists
[11]
Julie Tate-Libby
The Good Way: A Himalayan Journey
[11]
Jeff Smoot
Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14
[11]
Paula Becker
A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction
[11]
2021
E.J. Koh
The Magical Language of Others
Winner
[12]
Erica Bauermeister
House Lessons: Renovating a Life
Finalists
Molly Wizenberg
The Fixed Stars
Erica C. Barnett
Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
2022
Elsa Sjunneson
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism
Winner
[13] [14]
Jennifer Berney
The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs
Finalist
[15]
Creative nonfiction
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2020
Eric Liu
Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy
Winner
[10]
Briallen Hopper
Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
Finalists
[11]
Lindy West
The Witches Are Coming
[11]
Tiffany Midge
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s
[11]
Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton
Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
[11]
2021
Clyde Ford
Think Black
Winner
[12]
Natasha Marin , curator
Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures
Finalists
Kelly Brenner
Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World
Kristen Millares Young
Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature edited
Charles Bergman
Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All
2022
Kate Lebo
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
Winner
[13] [16]
Fiction
Year
Author
Title
Result
2020
Karl Marlantes
Deep River
Winner
[10]
Madeline ffitch
Stay and Fight
Finalists
[11]
Kira Jane Buxton
Hollow Kingdom
[11]
G. Willow Wilson
The Bird King
[11]
Sharma Shields
The Cassandra
[11]
Olivia Hawker
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
[11]
2021
Jess Walter
The Cold Millions
Winner
[12]
Donna Miscolta
Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories
Finalists
Olivia Waite
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows
Melissa Anne Peterson
Vera Violet
Alma Alexander
The Second Star
2022
E. Lily Yu
On Fragile Waves
Winner
[13]
JoAnne Tompkins
What Comes After
Finalist
[17]
General nonfiction
Year
Author
Title
Result
2020
Chris Linder , text by Eric Scigliano, with Dr. Robert Max Holmes, Dr. Susan Natali , and Dr. John Schade
The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon, Modern Science, and a Race to Save the World
Winner
[10]
Anu Taranath , illustrated by Ronald Otts Bolisay
Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World
Finalists
[11]
Jennifer Ott
Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City
[11]
Susanna Ryan
Seattle Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Tour through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods
[11]
Museum of History & Industry and Clara Berg
Seattle Style: High Fashion/High Function
[11]
2021
Jennifer Haupt
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 edited
Winner
[12]
Dean Spade
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis (and the Next)
Finalists
Steve Olson
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
Emily Levesque
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers
Cassandra Tate
Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West
Lauren Ko
Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the Eye and the Palate
2022
Lynda Mapes
Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home
Winner
[13]
Trevor Bond
Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimíipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage
Finalist
[18]
Picture book
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2020
Bridget Beth Collins
Flora Forager ABC
Winner
[10]
Kevan Atteberry
Ghost Cat
Finalists
[11]
Caroline Wright , illustrated by Willow Heath
Lasting Love
[11]
2021
Jennifer K. Mann
The Camping Trip
Winner
[12]
Toni Yuly
Play Day School Day
Finalists
Corey Tabor
Snail Crossing
Martha Brockenbrough , illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo
This Old Dog
Amanda Abler , illustrated by Levi Hastings
The Spirit of Springer
2022
Jennifer Bradbury with Sam Boughton (illus.)
Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand
Winner
[19] [13]
Marcy Campbell with Corinna Luyken (illus.)
Something Good
Finalist
[15]
Nikki McClure
1, 2, 3 Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Counting Book
[15]
Poetry
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2020
Paisley Rekdal
Nightingale
Winner
[10]
Keetje Kuipers
All Its Charms
Finalists
[11]
David Guterson , illustrated by Justin Gibbens
Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest
[11]
Abby E. Murray
Hail and Farewell
[11]
Francesca Bell
Bright Stain
[11]
2021
Phoebe Bosché , Anna Bálint, and Thomas Hubbard (editors)
Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, a Raven Chronicles Anthology
Winner
[12]
Don Mee Choi
DMZ Colony
Finalists
Jessica Gigot
Feeding Hour
Kathleen Flenniken
Post Romantic
Gina Hietpas
Terrain
Ebo Barton
Insubordinate
2022
Sharon Hashimoto
More American
Winner
[13]
Kelli Russell Agodon
Dialogues with Rising Tides
Finalist
[17]
Kathryn Smith
Self-Portrait with Cephalopod
[20]
Young adult
Year
Author
Title
Result
2020
Brittney Morris
SLAY
Winner
[10]
Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Between Before & After
Finalists
[11]
Jeff Henigson
Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
[11]
Shaun Hutchinson
Brave Face
[11]
2021
Jennifer Longo
What I Carry
Winner
[12] [6]
Diana Ma
Heiress Apparently
Finalists
Christy Peterson
Into the Deep: Science, Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean
J. Anderson Coats
Spindle and Dagger
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Today Tonight Tomorrow
Deb Caletti
Girl, Unframed
2022
Margaret Owen
Little Thieves
Winner
[19] [13]
Young reader
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
2020
Clare Hodgson Meeker
Growing Up Gorilla: How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together
Winner
[10]
Kelly Jones
Sauerkraut
Finalists
[11]
Sara Nickerson
Last Meeting of the Gorilla Club
[11]
Randall Platt
Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights
[11]
Trudi Trueit
Explorer Academy: The Falcon’s Feather
[11]
Dori Hillestad Butler
King & Kayla and the Case of Found Fred
[11]
2021
Sarah Kapit
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Winner
[12]
Joy McCullough
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Finalists
Lily LaMotte , illustrated by Ann Xu
Measuring Up
Cat Patrick
Tornado Brain
Heidi Lang and Kati Bartowski
Whispering Pines
Dori Hillestad Butler , illustrated by Kevan Atteberry
Dear Beast
2022
Sundee Frazier
Mighty Inside
Winner
[19] [13]
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