# Washington State Book 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.

## 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. 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 |
| 2002 | Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth |
| 2002 | Chris Crutcher | Whale Talk |
| 2002 | Madeline DeFrees | Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems: 1951-2001 |
| 2002 | Carole Glickfeld | Swimming Toward the Ocean |
| 2002 | Lyanda Lynn Haupt | Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year |
| 2002 | Mira Kamdar | Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America Into Her Indian Family's Past |
| 2002 | Carolyn Kizer | Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000 |
| 2002 | Duff Wilson | Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret |
| 2002 | Robin K. Wright | Northern Haida Master Carvers |
| 2003 | Deloris Tarzan Ament | Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art |
| 2003 | Charles Bergman | Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River |
| 2003 | Rebecca Brown | Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary |
| 2003 | Debra Magpie Earling | Perma Red |
| 2003 | Deborah Hopkinson | Under the Quilt of Night |
| 2003 | Tina Kelley | The Gospel of Galore |
| 2003 | Pamela McClusky | Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back |
| 2003 | Gregory Spatz | Wonderful Tricks: Stories |
| 2003 | Indu Sundaresan | The Twentieth Wife |
| 2003 | Hill Williams | The Restless Northwest |
| 2004 | Gary Atkins | Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging |
| 2004 | Fred Beckey | Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range |
| 2004 | Karen Cushman | Rodzina |
| 2004 | Chris Forhan | The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars |
| 2004 | Alan Gallay | The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 |
| 2004 | Linda Lawrence Hunt | Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America |
| 2004 | Erik Larson | The Devil in the White City |
| 2004 | David R. Montgomery | King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon |
| 2004 | Jack Nisbet | Visible Bones: Journey Across Time in the Columbia River Country |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2005 | Lesley Hazleton | Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother | Winner |
| 2005 | Christopher Howell | Light's Ladder: Poems | Winner |
| 2005 | Paul Hunter | Breaking Ground | Winner |
| 2005 | Stephanie Kallos | Broken for You | Winner |
| 2005 | David Laskin | The Children's Blizzard | Winner |
| 2005 | Nikhil Pal Singh | Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy | Winner |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2006 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | Deb Caletti | Wild Roses | Finalist |
| 2006 | Picture Book | Karla Kuskin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin | So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? | Winner |
| 2006 | Picture Book | Carole Lexa Schaefer, illustrated by Catherine Stock | The Bora-Bora Dress | Finalist |
| 2007 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | Brent Hartinger | Grand & Humble | Winner |
| 2007 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | Kirby Larson | Hattie Big Sky | Finalist |
| 2007 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | Michele Torrey | Voyage of Plunder | Finalist |
| 2007 | Picture Book | Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Carin Berger | Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems | Winner |
| 2007 | Picture Book | 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 |
| 2008 | 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 |
| 2009 | 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 |
| 2009 | Picture Book | Bonny Becker, illustrated by Kady M. Denton | A Visitor for Bear | Honorable mention |

#### Fiction

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Karen Fisher | A Sudden Country | Winner |
| 2006 | MacKenzie Bezos | The Testing of Luther Albright | Finalist |
| 2006 | Matt Briggs | Shoot the Buffalo | Finalist |
| 2006 | Stacey Levine | Frances Johnson | Finalist |
| 2006 | Nancy Rawles | My Jim | Finalist |
| 2006 | Jess Walter | Citizen Vince | Finalist |
| 2007 | Charles D'Ambrosio | The Dead Fish Museum | Winner |
| 2007 | David Long | The Inhabited World | Finalist |
| 2007 | Ryan Boudinot | The Littlest Hitler: Stories | Finalist |
| 2007 | Jess Walter | The Zero | Finalist |
| 2008 | Matt Ruff | Bad Monkeys | Winner |
| 2008 | Nancy Horan | Loving Frank | Finalist |
| 2008 | Alex Mindt | Male of the Species | Finalist |
| 2008 | Ann Pancake | Strange as This Weather Has Been | Finalist |
| 2008 | Joseph Powell | Fish Grooming and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 2009 | Jonathan Evison | All About Lulu | Winner |
| 2009 | Dave Boling | Guernica | Finalist |
| 2009 | Carol Cassella | Oxygen | Finalist |
| 2009 | David Guterson | The Other Alcott | Finalist |
| 2009 | Alex Kuo | White Jade and Other Stories | Finalist |

#### General nonfiction

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell | In the Company of Crows and Ravens | Winner |
| 2006 | Hugo Kugiya | 58 Degrees North | Finalist |
| 2006 | James McKean | Home Stand | Finalist |
| 2006 | David E. Miller | Toward a New Regionalism | Finalist |
| 2006 | Jonathan Raban | My Holy War | Finalist |
| 2007 | William D. Layman | River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia | Finalist |
| 2008 | David R. Montgomery | Dirt: the Erosion of Civilizations | Winner |
| 2008 | Kathleen Flinn | The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School | Finalist |
| 2008 | Lesley Hazelton | Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen | Finalist |
| 2008 | Robert D. Morris | The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster and the Water We Drink | Finalist |
| 2008 | Robert Michael Pyle | Sky Time in Grays River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place | Finalist |
| 2009 | Barbara Brotherton, editor | S'abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists | Winner |
| 2009 | Paul Bannick | The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds | Finalist |
| 2009 | Bruce Barcott | The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird | Finalist |
| 2009 | Cliff Mass | The Weather of the Pacific Northwest | Finalist |
| 2009 | David Shields | The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead | Finalist |

#### History/Biography

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Timothy Egan | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Winner |
| 2006 | Jack Hamann | On American Soil | Finalist |
| 2006 | David Neiwert | Strawberry Days | Finalist |
| 2006 | Eric Scigliano | Michelangelo's Mountain | Finalist |
| 2007 | Julie Phillips | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon | Winner |
| 2007 | Daniel James Brown | Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 | Finalist |
| 2007 | Charles R. Cross | Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks; Joshua Wolf Shenk | Finalist |
| 2007 | Lyanda Lynn Haupt | Pilgrim on the Bird: Pilgrim on the Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks | Finalist |
| 2007 | Joshua Wolf Shenk | Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness | Finalist |
| 2008 | Coll Thrush | Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place | Winner |
| 2008 | Michael Honey | Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign | Finalist |
| 2008 | Jeffrey Karl Ochsner | Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: from Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture | Finalist |
| 2009 | Robert Clark | Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces | Winner |
| 2009 | Kate Jackson | Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo | Finalist |
| 2009 | Debra Jarvis | It’s Not About the Hair: And Other Uncertainties of Life & Cancer | Finalist |
| 2009 | Jim Kershner | Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life | Finalist |
| 2009 | Richard Scheuermann | Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot | Finalist |

#### Poetry

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2006 | Lucia Perillo | Luck Is Luck | Winner |
| 2006 | Lillias Bever | Bellini in Istanbul | Finalist |
| 2006 | Linda Bierds | First Hand | Finalist |
| 2006 | J.W. Marshall | Taken With | Finalist |
| 2006 | Katrina Roberts | The Quick | Finalist |
| 2006 | David Wagoner | Good Morning and Good Night | Finalist |
| 2007 | Madeline DeFrees | Spectral Waves | Winner |
| 2007 | Kathleen Flenniken | Famous | Finalist |
| 2007 | Tess Gallagher | Dear Ghosts | Finalist |
| 2007 | Jennifer Maier | Dark Alphabet | Finalist |
| 2007 | Eric McHenry | Potscrubber Lullabies | Finalist |
| 2008 | Samuel Green | The Grace of Necessity | Winner |
| 2008 | Marvin Bell | Mars Being Red | Finalist |
| 2008 | Mary Cornish | Red Studio | Finalist |
| 2008 | Peter Periera | What's Written on the Body | Finalist |
| 2009 | David Wagoner | A Map of the Night | Winner |
| 2009 | Thomas Aslin | A Moon Over Wings | Finalist |
| 2009 | Linda Bierds | Flight: New and Selected Poems | Finalist |
| 2009 | D. S. Butterworth | The Radium Watchdial Painters | Finalist |
| 2009 | Katrina Roberts | Friendly Fire | Finalist |

### 2010s
#### Biography/Memoir

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2011 | Doug Merlino | The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White | Winner |
| 2011 | Claire Dederer | Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses | Finalist |
| 2011 | Kurt Hoelting | The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for A Radically Local Life | Finalist |
| 2011 | Robert Michael Pyle | The Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year | Finalist |
| 2011 | Ana Maria Spagna | Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey | Finalist |
| 2012 | Paul Lindholdt | In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau | Winner |
| 2012 | Jana Harris | Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her | Finalist |
| 2012 | Shiro Kashiba | Shiro: Wit, Wisdom & Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer | Finalist |
| 2012 | Katherine Malmo | Who In This Room: The Realities of Cancer, Fish, and Demolition | Finalist |
| 2012 | Ana Maria Spagna | Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness | Finalist |
| 2013 | Timothy Egan | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis | Winner |
| 2013 | Ellen Forney | Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me | Finalist |
| 2013 | Karl Marlantes | What It Is Like to Go to War | Finalist |
| 2013 | Domingo Martinez | The Boy Kings of Texas | Finalist |
| 2014 | David Laskin | The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century | Winner |
| 2014 | Peter Bagge | Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story | Finalist |
| 2014 | Nicole Hardy | Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jonathan Raban | Driving Home: An American Journey | Finalist |
| 2015 | Charles D’Ambrosio | Loitering: New and Collected Essays | Winner |
| 2015 | Bryce Andrews | Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kathleen Flinn | Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family | Finalist |
| 2015 | Tom Robbins | Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life | Finalist |
| 2015 | Elissa Washuta | My Body Is a Book of Rules | Finalist |
| 2016 | Mark Rozema | Road Trip | Winner |
| 2016 | Sonya Lea | Wondering Who You Are | Finalist |
| 2016 | Michael N. McGregor | Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ana Maria Spagna | Reclaimers | Finalist |
| 2016 | Tara Austen Weaver | Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow | Finalist |
| 2017 | Brenda Miller | An Earlier Life | Winner |
| 2017 | Susan Marie Conrad | Inside: One Woman’s Journey through the Inside Passage | Finalist |
| 2017 | Lindy West | Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman | Finalist |
| 2017 | Leif Whittaker | My Old Man and the Mountain | Finalist |
| 2018 | Claudia Rowe | The Spider and the Fly | Winner |
| 2018 | Geraldine DeRuiter | All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft | Finalist |
| 2018 | Kristin Jarvis Adams | The Chicken Who Saved Us | Finalist |
| 2019 | Janet Buttenwieser | Guts | Winner |
| 2019 | Sarah Cannon | The Shame of Losing | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kristi Coulter | Nothing Good Can Come from This | Finalist |
| 2019 | Patrick Parr | The Seminarian | Finalist |
| 2019 | Paul Souders | Arctic Solitaire | Finalist |

#### Fiction

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2010 | Jim Lynch | Border Songs | Winner |
| 2010 | Ryan Boudinot | Misconception | Finalist |
| 2010 | Pete Dexter | Spooner | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jamie Ford | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Finalist |
| 2011 | Karl Marlantes | Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War | Winner |
| 2011 | Susan Froderberg | Old Border Road: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2011 | Valerie Trueblood | Marry or Burn: Stories | Finalist |
| 2011 | Jess Walter | The Financial Lives of the Poets | Finalist |
| 2011 | Carol Wiley Cassella | Healer | Finalist |
| 2012 | Peter Mountford | A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism | Winner |
| 2012 | Jonathan Evison | West of Here | Finalist |
| 2012 | David Guterson | Ed King | Finalist |
| 2012 | Stacey Levine | The Girl With Brown Fur: Tales Stories | Finalist |
| 2012 | Melinda Moustakis | Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories | Finalist |
| 2013 | Amanda Coplin | The Orchardist | Winner |
| 2013 | Ryan Boudinot | Blueprints of the Afterlife | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jonathan Evison | The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving | Finalist |
| 2013 | Lucia Perillo | Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jess Walter | Beautiful Ruins | Finalist |
| 2014 | Nicola Griffith | Hild | Winner |
| 2014 | Scott Elliott | Temple Grove | Finalist |
| 2014 | Gregory Spatz | Half as Happy | Finalist |
| 2014 | Jess Walter | We Live in Water | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lance Weller | Wilderness | Finalist |
| 2015 | Bruce Holbert | The Hour of Lead | Winner |
| 2015 | Heather Brittain Bergstrom | Steal the North | Finalist |
| 2015 | Adrianne Harun | A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain | Finalist |
| 2015 | Martin Limón | The Iron Sickle | Finalist |
| 2015 | Peter Mountford | The Dismal Science | Finalist |
| 2016 | Sharma Shields | The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac | Winner |
| 2016 | S.M. Hulse | Black River | Finalist |
| 2016 | Stephanie Kallos | RT | Finalist |
| 2016 | Shann Ray | American Copper | Finalist |
| 2017 | Shawn Vestal | Daredevils | Winner |
| 2017 | Laurie Blauner | The Solace of Monsters | Finalist |
| 2017 | Ted Chiang | Stories of Your Life and Others | Finalist |
| 2017 | Annie Proulx | Barkskins, Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country | Finalist |
| 2018 | Laurie Frankel | This Is How It Always Is | Winner |
| 2018 | Laura Anne Gilman | The Cold Eye | Finalist |
| 2018 | Elise Hooper | The Other Alcott | Finalist |
| 2018 | Matthew D. Hunt | Solar Reboot | Finalist |
| 2018 | Nancy Pearl | George and Lizzie | Finalist |
| 2018 | Ingrid Thoft | Duplicity | Finalist |
| 2019 | Nicola Griffith | So Lucky | Winner |
| 2019 | Katrina Carrasco | The Best Bad Things | Finalist |
| 2019 | Kim Fu | The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore | Finalist |
| 2019 | Charles Johnson | Night Hawks | Finalist |
| 2019 | Robin Oliveira | Winter Sisters | Finalist |

#### General nonfiction

| Year | Author | Title | Results |
| 2010 | Carol Kaesuk Yoon | Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science | Winner |
| 2010 | Tony Angell | Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lyanda Lynn Haupt | Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness | Finalist |
| 2010 | Brenda Miller | Blessing of the Animals | Finalist |
| 2010 | David Williams | Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology | Finalist |

#### History/Biography

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2010 | Timothy Egan | The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America | Winner |
| 2010 | Daniel James Brown | The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride | Finalist |
| 2010 | Lynda Mapes | Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village | Finalist |
| 2010 | Jack Nisbet | The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest | Finalist |
| 2010 | Mishna Wolff | I'm Down: A Memoir | Finalist |

#### History/General nonfiction

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2011 | David Laskin | The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War | Winner |
| 2011 | Thea Cooper | Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle | Finalist |
| 2011 | Frances McCue | The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo | Finalist |
| 2011 | David Shields | Reality Hunger: A Manifesto | Finalist |
| 2011 | Craig Welch | Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty | Finalist |
| 2012 | Erik Larson | In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin | Winner |
| 2012 | Stephanie Coontz | A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s | Finalist |
| 2012 | Jeff Crane | Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha | Finalist |
| 2012 | John Findlay and Bruce Hevly | Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West | Finalist |
| 2012 | Thor Hanson | Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle | Finalist |
| 2013 | David R. Montgomery | The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood | Winner |
| 2013 | Kirsten Grind | The Lost Bank: The Story of the Biggest Bank Failure in American History | Finalist |
| 2013 | Blaine Harden | Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jack Nisbet | David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest | Finalist |
| 2013 | Douglas Smith | Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy | Finalist |
| 2014 | Daniel James Brown | The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Winner |
| 2014 | Nancy Bartley | The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls, Jr. | Finalist |
| 2014 | Langdon Cook | The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America | Finalist |
| 2014 | David Moskowitz | Wolves in the Land of Salmon | Finalist |
| 2015 | Justin Wadland | Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound | Winner |
| 2015 | Greg Atkinson | In Season: Culinary Adventures of a Pacific Northwest Chef | Finalist |
| 2015 | William Dietrich | The North Cascades: Finding Beauty and Renewal in the Wild Nearby | Finalist |
| 2015 | Greg Gordon | When Money Grew on Trees: A.B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron | Finalist |
| 2015 | Frances McCue | Mary Randlett Portraits | Finalist |
| 2016 | Erik Larson | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania | Winner |
| 2016 | Thor Hanson | The Triumph of Seeds | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ruth Kirk | Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village | Finalist |
| 2016 | David Neiwert | Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us | Finalist |
| 2016 | Jack Nisbet | Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest | Finalist |
| 2017 | Steve Olson | Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens | Winner |
| 2017 | Timothy Egan | The Immortal Irishman | Finalist |
| 2017 | Eli Sanders | While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness | Finalist |
| 2017 | Adrienne Ross Scanlan | Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild | Finalist |
| 2017 | Margaret Willson | Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge | Finalist |
| 2018 | Lyanda Lynn Haupt | Mozart’s Starling | Winner |
| 2018 | Various authors, curated and edited by Jaimee Garbacik | Ghosts of Seattle Past | Finalist |
| 2018 | Langdon Cook | Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table | Finalist |
| 2018 | David R. Montgomery | Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil to Life | Finalist |
| 2018 | Jonathan White | Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean | Finalist |
| 2018 | David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott | Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ijeoma Oluo | So You Want to Talk About Race | Winner |
| 2019 | Ken Armstrong | A False Report | Finalist |
| 2019 | Paige Embry | Our Native Bees | Finalist |
| 2019 | Angela Garbes | Like a Mother | Finalist |
| 2019 | Ana Maria Spagna | Uplake | Finalist |
| 2019 | Nathan Vass | The Lines That Make Us: Stories from Nathan’s Bus | Finalist |

#### Poetry

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2010 | Lucia Perillo | Inseminating the Elephant | Winner |
| 2010 | Sherman Alexie | Face | Finalist |
| 2010 | Shirley Kaufman | Ezekiel's Wheels | Finalist |
| 2010 | Tod Marshall | The Tangled Line | Finalist |
| 2010 | Heather McHugh | Upgraded to Serious | Finalist |
| 2010 | Judith Skillman | Prisoner of the Swifts | Finalist |
| 2011 | Frances McCue | The Bled: Poems | Winner |
| 2011 | Kelli Russell Agodon | Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room | Finalist |
| 2011 | Don Mee Choi | The Morning News Is Exciting | Finalist |
| 2011 | Oliver de la Paz | Personal website | Finalist |
| 2011 | Susan Rich | The Alchemist's Kitchen | Finalist |
| 2012 | Christine Deavel | Woodnote | Winner |
| 2012 | Arlene Kim | What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes? | Finalist |
| 2012 | Katrina Roberts | Underdog | Finalist |
| 2012 | Martha Silano | The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception | Finalist |
| 2013 | Kathleen Flenniken | Plume | Winner |
| 2013 | Bruce Beasley | Theophobia | Finalist |
| 2013 | Andrew Feld | Raptor | Finalist |
| 2013 | Colleen McElroy | Here I Throw Down My Heart | Finalist |
| 2013 | Claire McQuerry | Lacemakers | Finalist |
| 2014 | Ed Skoog | Rough Day | Winner |
| 2014 | Sherman Alexie | What I've Stolen, What I've Earned | Finalist |
| 2014 | Rebecca Hoogs | Self-Storage | Finalist |
| 2014 | Derek Sheffield | Through the Second Skin | Finalist |
| 2014 | Nance van Ninckel | Pacific Walkers | Finalist |
| 2015 | Tod Marshall | Bugle | Winner |
| 2015 | Red Pine (trans.) | The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse | Winner |
| 2015 | Kelli Russell Agodon | Hourglass Museum | Finalist |
| 2015 | Kim-An Lieberman | In Orbit | Finalist |
| 2016 | Carl Phillips | Reconnaissance | Winner |
| 2016 | Rob Carney | 88 Maps | Finalist |
| 2016 | Laura Da' | Tributaries | Finalist |
| 2016 | Emily Johnston | Her Animals | Finalist |
| 2016 | Christina Stoddard | Hive | Finalist |
| 2017 | Tara Hardy | My, My, My, My, My | Winner |
| 2017 | Don Mee Choi | Hardly War | Finalist |
| 2017 | Paisley Rekdal | Imaginary Vessels | Finalist |
| 2017 | Michael Schmeltzer | Blood Song | Finalist |
| 2017 | Megan Snyder-Camp | Wintering | Finalist |
| 2018 | Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | Water & Salt | Winner |
| 2018 | Claudia Castro Luna | Killing Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices | Finalist |
| 2018 | Glenna Cook | Thresholds | Finalist |
| 2018 | Frances McCue | Timber Curtain | Finalist |
| 2018 | Melinda Mueller | Mary’s Dust | Finalist |
| 2018 | Eugenia Toledo with Carolyne Wright (trans.) | Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces | Finalist |
| 2019 | Laura Da’ | Instruments of the True Measure | Winner |
| 2019 | Michele Bombardier | What We Do | Finalist |
| 2019 | Lorraine Ferra | Between Darkness and Trust | Finalist |
| 2019 | Sierra Golden | The Slow Art | Finalist |
| 2019 | Rob Carney | The Book of Sharks | Finalist |

#### Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award

| Year | Category | Author | Title | Result |
| 2010 | Early Readers | Bonny Becker | The Magical Ms. Plum | Winner |
| 2010 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | Michael Harmon | Brutal | Winner |
| 2010 | Picture Book | Samantha Vamos with Santiago Cohen (illus.) | Before You Were Here, Mi Amor | Winner |
| 2011 | Early Readers | Patrick Jennings | Guinea Dog | Winner |
| 2011 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | Lish McBride | Hold Me Closer,Necromancer | Winner |
| 2011 | Picture Book | Erik Brooks | Polar Opposites | Winner |
| 2012 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | Katherine Schlick Noe | Something to Hold | Winner |
| 2012 | Picture Book | Nikki McClure | To Market, To Market | Winner |
| 2013 | Picture Book | Barbara Kerley | Those Rebels, John & Tom | Winner |
| 2013 | Young Adult | J. Anderson Coats | The Wicked and the Just | Winner |
| 2014 | Early Readers | M.H. Clark | And Then, Story Starters | Winner |
| 2014 | Middle Readers | Suzanne Selfors | The Sasquatch Escape | Winner |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Kobi Yamada with Mae Besom (illus.) | What Do You Do With an Idea? | Winner |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Brenda Guiberson with Gennady Spirin (illustrator) | Frog Song | Finalist |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Nina Laden with Renata Liwska (illustrator) | Once Upon a Memory | Finalist |
| 2014 | Picture Book | Jack Prelutsky with Carin Berger (illustrator) | Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems | Finalist |
| 2014 | Picture Book | George Shannon with Julie Paschkis (illustrator) | Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar? | Finalist |
| 2014 | Young Adult | Patrick Flores-Scott | Jumped In | Winner |
| 2014 | Young Adult | Steven Arntson | The Wrap-Up List | Finalist |
| 2014 | Young Adult | Sean Beaudoin | Wise Young Fool | Finalist |
| 2014 | Young Adult | Thatcher Heldring | The League | Finalist |
| 2014 | Young Adult | Kirby Larson | Duke | Finalist |
| 2015 | Middle Readers | Dana Simpson | Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle | Winner |
| 2015 | Middle Readers | Ken Jennings | Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides: Maps and Geography | Finalist |
| 2015 | Middle Readers | Maureen McQuerry | Beyond the Door | Finalist |
| 2015 | Picture Book | Jennifer K. Mann | Two Speckled Eggs | Winner |
| 2015 | Picture Book | Keith Baker | Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Color | Finalist |
| 2015 | Picture Book | George Shannon with Taeeun Yoo (illus.) | Hands Say Love | Finalist |
| 2015 | Picture Book | Hannah Viano | S Is for Salmon: A Pacific Northwest Alphabet | Finalist |
| 2015 | Young Adult | Leslye Walton | The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender | Winner |
| 2015 | Young Adult | Mary Cronk Farrell | Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific | Finalist |
| 2015 | Young Adult | Katherine Kirkpatrick | Between Two Worlds | Finalist |
| 2015 | Young Adult | Jennifer Longo | Six Feet Over It | Finalist |
| 2016 | Early Readers | Deborah Underwood | Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat | Winner |
| 2016 | Early Readers | Kelly Jones | Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer | Finalist |
| 2016 | Middle Readers | A.L. Sonnichsen | Red Butterfly | Winner |
| 2016 | Middle Readers | Beth Hautala | Waiting for Unicorns | Finalist |
| 2016 | Picture Book | Jessixa Bagley | Boats for Papa | Winner |
| 2016 | Picture Book | Lisa Mantchev | Strictly No Elephants | Finalist |
| 2016 | Picture Book | Laurie Thompson | Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah | Finalist |
| 2016 | Young Adult | Martha Brockenbrough | The Game of Love and Death | Winner |
| 2016 | Young Adult | Carolyn Lee Adams | Ruthless | Finalist |
| 2019 | Middle Grade | Ben Guterson | Winterhouse | Winner |
| 2019 | Middle Grade | Beth Hautala | The Ostrich and Other Lost Things | Finalist |
| 2019 | Middle Grade | Dav Pilkey | Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas | Finalist |
| 2019 | Middle Grade | Suzanne Selfors | Wish Upon a Sleepover | Finalist |
| 2019 | Picture Books | Alexandra Penfold with Suzanne Kaufman (illus.) | All Are Welcome | Winner |
| 2019 | Picture Books | Jim Averbeck with Amy Hevron (illus) | Trevor | Finalist |
| 2019 | Picture Books | Bonny Becker with Mark Fearing (illus.) | The Frightful Ride of Michael McMichael | Finalist |
| 2019 | Picture Books | Marcy Campbell with Corinna Luyken (illus.) | Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse | Finalist |
| 2019 | Picture Books | Blake Liliane Hellman with Steven Henry (illus.) | Something Smells | Finalist |
| 2019 | Picture Books | Rubin Pfeffer with Mike Austin (illus.) | Summer Supper | Finalist |
| 2019 | Young Adult | Joy McCullough | Blood Water Paint | Winner |
| 2019 | Young Adult | Martha Brockenbrough | Unpresidented | Finalist |
| 2019 | Young Adult | Deb Caletti | A Heart in a Body in the World | Finalist |
| 2019 | Young Adult | Kate Alice Marshall | I Am Still Alive | Finalist |
| 2019 | Young Adult | David Patneaude | Fast Backward | Finalist |
| 2019 | Young Adult | Leslye Walton | The Price Guide to the Occult | Finalist |
| 2019 | Young Readers | Ben Clanton | Peanut Butter and Jelly | Winner |
| 2019 | Young Readers | Dori Hillestad Butler | King & Kayla and the Case of the Lost Tooth | Finalist |
| 2019 | Young Readers | Crix Sheridan | The Sasquatch and the Lumberjack | Finalist |

### 2020s
#### Biography/Memoir (See General nonfiction/Biography from 2023)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Aaron Bobrow-Strain | The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story | Winner |
| 2020 | Gina Siciliano | I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi | Finalists |
| 2020 | Julie Tate-Libby | The Good Way: A Himalayan Journey | Finalists |
| 2020 | Jeff Smoot | Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14 | Finalists |
| 2020 | Paula Becker | A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction | Finalists |
| 2021 | E.J. Koh | The Magical Language of Others | Winner |
| 2021 | Erica Bauermeister | House Lessons: Renovating a Life | Finalists |
| 2021 | Molly Wizenberg | The Fixed Stars | Finalists |
| 2021 | Erica C. Barnett | Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery | Finalists |
| 2022 | Elsa Sjunneson | Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism | Winner |
| 2022 | Jennifer Berney | The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs | Finalist |

#### Creative nonfiction

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Eric Liu | Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy | Winner |
| 2020 | Briallen Hopper | Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions | Finalists |
| 2020 | Lindy West | The Witches Are Coming | Finalists |
| 2020 | Tiffany Midge | Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s | Finalists |
| 2020 | Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton | Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers | Finalists |
| 2021 | Clyde Ford | Think Black | Winner |
| 2021 | Natasha Marin, curator | Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures | Finalists |
| 2021 | Kelly Brenner | Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World | Finalists |
| 2021 | Kristen Millares Young | Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature edited | Finalists |
| 2021 | Charles Bergman | Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All | Finalists |
| 2022 | Kate Lebo | The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) | Winner |

#### Fiction

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Karl Marlantes | Deep River | Winner |
| 2020 | Madeline ffitch | Stay and Fight | Finalists |
| 2020 | Kira Jane Buxton | Hollow Kingdom | Finalists |
| 2020 | G. Willow Wilson | The Bird King | Finalists |
| 2020 | Sharma Shields | The Cassandra | Finalists |
| 2020 | Olivia Hawker | One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow | Finalists |
| 2021 | Jess Walter | The Cold Millions | Winner |
| 2021 | Donna Miscolta | Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories | Finalists |
| 2021 | Olivia Waite | The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows | Finalists |
| 2021 | Melissa Anne Peterson | Vera Violet | Finalists |
| 2021 | Alma Alexander | The Second Star | Finalists |
| 2022 | E. Lily Yu | On Fragile Waves | Winner |
| 2022 | JoAnne Tompkins | What Comes After | Finalist |

#### General nonfiction (General nonfiction/Biography from 2023)

| 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 |
| 2020 | Anu Taranath, illustrated by Ronald Otts Bolisay | Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World | Finalists |
| 2020 | Jennifer Ott | Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City | Finalists |
| 2020 | Susanna Ryan | Seattle Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Tour through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods | Finalists |
| 2020 | Museum of History & Industry and Clara Berg | Seattle Style: High Fashion/High Function | Finalists |
| 2021 | Jennifer Haupt | Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 edited | Winner |
| 2021 | Dean Spade | Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis (and the Next) | Finalists |
| 2021 | Steve Olson | The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age | Finalists |
| 2021 | Emily Levesque | The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers | Finalists |
| 2021 | Cassandra Tate | Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West | Finalists |
| 2021 | Lauren Ko | Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the Eye and the Palate | Finalists |
| 2022 | Lynda Mapes | Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home | Winner |
| 2022 | Trevor James Bond | Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimíipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage | Finalists |
| 2022 | Daniel James Brown | Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II | Finalists |
| 2022 | Mike Gastineau | Fear No Man: Don James, the '91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship | Finalists |
| 2022 | Blaine Hardin | Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American | Finalists |
| 2022 | Josephine Ensign | Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City | Finalists |
| 2023 | J. Kenji López-Alt | The Wok: Recipes and Techniques | Winner |
| 2023 | Mónica Guzmán | I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times | Finalists |
| 2023 | Rena Priest | Northwest Know-How: Beaches | Finalists |
| 2023 | Clyde W. Ford | Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth | Finalists |
| 2023 | William Alexander | Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History | Finalists |
| 2024 | Timothy Egan | A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them | Winner |
| 2024 | Tom Fuculoro | Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars | Finalists |
| 2024 | Matika Wilbur | Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America | Finalists |
| 2024 | Tim McNulty | Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington’s Olympic Peninsula | Finalists |
| 2024 | Peter Blecha | Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll | Finalists |
| 2024 | Shannon Cram | Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility | Finalists |

#### Picture book

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Bridget Beth Collins | Flora Forager ABC | Winner |
| 2020 | Kevan Atteberry | Ghost Cat | Finalists |
| 2020 | Caroline Wright, illustrated by Willow Heath | Lasting Love | Finalists |
| 2021 | Jennifer K. Mann | The Camping Trip | Winner |
| 2021 | Toni Yuly | Play Day School Day | Finalists |
| 2021 | Corey Tabor | Snail Crossing | Finalists |
| 2021 | Martha Brockenbrough, illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo | This Old Dog | Finalists |
| 2021 | Amanda Abler, illustrated by Levi Hastings | The Spirit of Springer | Finalists |
| 2022 | Jennifer Bradbury with Sam Boughton (illus.) | Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand | Winner |
| 2022 | Marcy Campbell with Corinna Luyken (illus.) | Something Good | Finalist |
| 2022 | Nikki McClure | 1, 2, 3 Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Counting Book | Finalist |

#### Poetry

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Paisley Rekdal | Nightingale | Winner |
| 2020 | Keetje Kuipers | All Its Charms | Finalists |
| 2020 | David Guterson, illustrated by Justin Gibbens | Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest | Finalists |
| 2020 | Abby E. Murray | Hail and Farewell | Finalists |
| 2020 | Francesca Bell | Bright Stain | Finalists |
| 2021 | Phoebe Bosché, Anna Bálint, and Thomas Hubbard (editors) | Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, a Raven Chronicles Anthology | Winner |
| 2021 | Don Mee Choi | DMZ Colony | Finalists |
| 2021 | Jessica Gigot | Feeding Hour | Finalists |
| 2021 | Kathleen Flenniken | Post Romantic | Finalists |
| 2021 | Gina Hietpas | Terrain | Finalists |
| 2021 | Ebo Barton | Insubordinate | Finalists |
| 2022 | Sharon Hashimoto | More American | Winner |
| 2022 | Kelli Russell Agodon | Dialogues with Rising Tides | Finalist |
| 2022 | Kathryn Smith | Self-Portrait with Cephalopod | Finalist |

#### Young adult

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Brittney Morris | SLAY | Winner |
| 2020 | Maureen Doyle McQuerry | Between Before & After | Finalists |
| 2020 | Jeff Henigson | Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World | Finalists |
| 2020 | Shaun Hutchinson | Brave Face | Finalists |
| 2021 | Jennifer Longo | What I Carry | Winner |
| 2021 | Diana Ma | Heiress Apparently | Finalists |
| 2021 | Christy Peterson | Into the Deep: Science, Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean | Finalists |
| 2021 | J. Anderson Coats | Spindle and Dagger | Finalists |
| 2021 | Rachel Lynn Solomon | Today Tonight Tomorrow | Finalists |
| 2021 | Deb Caletti | Girl, Unframed | Finalists |
| 2022 | Margaret Owen | Little Thieves | Winner |

#### Young reader

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2020 | Clare Hodgson Meeker | Growing Up Gorilla: How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together | Winner |
| 2020 | Kelly Jones | Sauerkraut | Finalists |
| 2020 | Sara Nickerson | Last Meeting of the Gorilla Club | Finalists |
| 2020 | Randall Platt | Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights | Finalists |
| 2020 | Trudi Trueit | Explorer Academy: The Falcon’s Feather | Finalists |
| 2020 | Dori Hillestad Butler | King & Kayla and the Case of Found Fred | Finalists |
| 2021 | Sarah Kapit | Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! | Winner |
| 2021 | Joy McCullough | A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Finalists |
| 2021 | Lily LaMotte, illustrated by Ann Xu | Measuring Up | Finalists |
| 2021 | Cat Patrick | Tornado Brain | Finalists |
| 2021 | Heidi Lang and Kati Bartowski | Whispering Pines | Finalists |
| 2021 | Dori Hillestad Butler, illustrated by Kevan Atteberry | Dear Beast | Finalists |
| 2022 | Sundee Frazier | Mighty Inside | Winner |