Washington State Book Award Explained
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.[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 |
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| 2002 | | Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World |
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| Whale Talk |
| Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems: 1951-2001 |
| Swimming Toward the Ocean |
| Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year |
| Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America Into Her Indian Family's Past |
| Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000 |
| Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret |
| Northern Haida Master Carvers |
| 2003 | | Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art |
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| Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River |
| Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary |
| Perma Red |
| Under the Quilt of Night |
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| Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back |
| Wonderful Tricks: Stories |
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| 2004 | | Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging |
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| Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range |
| Rodzina |
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| Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America |
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| King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon |
| Visible Bones: Journey Across Time in the Columbia River Country |
| 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 |
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| 2005 | | Orphans | Winner |
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| Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother | Winner |
| Light's Ladder: Poems | Winner |
| Breaking Ground | Winner |
| Broken for You | Winner |
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| Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy | Winner |
| 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 |
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| 2005 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | | Honey, Baby, Sweetheart | Winner |
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| Picture Book | , illustrated by Steven D'Amico | Ella the Elegant Elephant | Winner |
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| 2006 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | | | Winner |
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| Wild Roses | Finalist |
| Picture Book | , illustrated by Betsy Lewin | So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? | Winner |
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| , illustrated by Catherine Stock | | Finalist |
| 2007 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | | Grand & Humble | Winner |
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| Hattie Big Sky | Finalist |
| Voyage of Plunder |
| Picture Book | , illustrated by Carin Berger | Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems | Winner |
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| , illustrated by Jack E. Davis | Moose Tracks | Finalist |
| 2008 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | , illustrated by Ellen Forney | | Winner |
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| Picture Book | , illustrated by Laura Dronzek | Rabbit's Gift | Winner |
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| 2009 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | | Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster in the Antarctic, 1910-13 | Winner |
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| Picture Book | , 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 |
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| , illustrated by Kady M. Denton | | Honorable mention | |
Fiction
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
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| 2006 | | | Winner |
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| | Finalist |
| Shoot the Buffalo |
| Frances Johnson |
| My Jim |
| Citizen Vince |
| 2007 | | | Winner |
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| 2008 | | Bad Monkeys | Winner |
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| Loving Frank | Finalist |
| Male of the Species |
| Strange as This Weather Has Been |
| Fish Grooming and Other Stories |
| 2009 | | All About Lulu | Winner |
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| Guernica | Finalist |
| Oxygen |
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| White Jade and Other Stories | |
General nonfiction
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
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| 2006 | and Tony Angell | In the Company of Crows and Ravens | Winner |
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| 58 Degrees North | Finalist |
| Home Stand |
| Toward a New Regionalism |
| My Holy War |
| 2007 | | River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia | Finalist |
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| 2008 | | Dirt: the Erosion of Civilizations | Winner |
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| | Finalist |
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| Sky Time in Grays River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place |
| 2009 | , editor | S'abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists | Winner |
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History/Biography
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
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| 2006 | | | Winner |
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| On American Soil | Finalist |
| Strawberry Days |
| Michelangelo's Mountain |
| 2007 | | | Winner |
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| Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 | Finalist |
| 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 |
| Pilgrim on the Bird: Pilgrim on the Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks |
| Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness |
| 2008 | | Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place | Winner |
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| Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign | Finalist |
| Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: from Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture |
| 2009 | | Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces | Winner |
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| Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo | Finalist |
| It’s Not About the Hair: And Other Uncertainties of Life & Cancer |
| Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life |
| Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot | |
Poetry
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
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| 2006 | | Luck Is Luck | Winner |
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| Bellini in Istanbul | Finalist |
| First Hand |
| Taken With |
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| Good Morning and Good Night |
| 2007 | | Spectral Waves | Winner |
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| Famous | Finalist |
| Dear Ghosts |
| Dark Alphabet |
| Potscrubber Lullabies |
| 2008 | | | Winner |
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| Mars Being Red | Finalist |
| Red Studio |
| What's Written on the Body |
| 2009 | | | Winner |
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| | Finalist |
| Flight: New and Selected Poems | Finalist |
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| Friendly Fire | Finalist | |
2010s
Biography/Memoir
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2011 | | | Winner | [2] |
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| Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses | Finalist | |
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| Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey | |
| 2012 | | In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau | Winner | [3] |
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| Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her | Finalist | |
| Shiro: Wit, Wisdom & Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer | |
| Who In This Room: The Realities of Cancer, Fish, and Demolition | |
| Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness | |
| 2013 | | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis | Winner | [4] |
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| Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me | Finalist | |
| What It Is Like to Go to War | |
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| 2014 | | | Winner | |
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| Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story | Finalist | [5] |
| Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin | |
| Driving Home: An American Journey | |
| 2015 | | Loitering: New and Collected Essays | Winner | |
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| Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West | Finalist | |
| Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family | |
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| My Body Is a Book of Rules | |
| 2016 | | Road Trip | Winner | |
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| Wondering Who You Are | Finalist | |
| Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax | Finalist | |
| Reclaimers | Finalist | |
| Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow | Finalist | |
| 2017 | | | Winner | |
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| Inside: One Woman’s Journey through the Inside Passage | Finalist | |
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| My Old Man and the Mountain | Finalist | |
| 2018 | | | Winner | [6] |
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| All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft | Finalist | |
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| 2019 | | Guts | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Nothing Good Can Come from This | |
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| Arctic Solitaire | | |
Fiction
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2010 | | Border Songs | Winner | [7] |
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| Misconception | Finalist | |
| Spooner | |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | |
| 2011 | | | Winner | |
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| Old Border Road: A Novel | Finalist | |
| Marry or Burn: Stories | |
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| Healer | |
| 2012 | | | Winner | |
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| West of Here | Finalist | |
| Ed King | |
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| Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories | |
| 2013 | | | Winner | |
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| Blueprints of the Afterlife | Finalist | |
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| Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain | |
| Beautiful Ruins | |
| 2014 | | Hild | Winner | |
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| Temple Grove | Finalist | |
| Half as Happy | |
| We Live in Water | |
| Wilderness | |
| 2015 | | | Winner | [8] |
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| Steal the North | Finalist | |
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| 2016 | | | Winner | |
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| Black River | Finalist | |
| RT | Finalist | |
| American Copper | Finalist | |
| 2017 | | Daredevils | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Stories of Your Life and Others | |
| Barkskins, Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country | |
| 2018 | | This Is How It Always Is | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
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| Solar Reboot | |
| George and Lizzie | |
| Duplicity | |
| 2019 | | So Lucky | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
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| Night Hawks | |
| Winter Sisters | | |
General nonfiction
| Year | Author | Title | Results | Ref. |
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| 2010 | | Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science | Winner | |
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| Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye | Finalist | |
| Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness | |
| Blessing of the Animals | |
| Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology | | |
History/Biography
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2010 | | | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village | |
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| I'm Down: A Memoir | | |
History/General nonfiction
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2011 | | | Winner | |
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| Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle | Finalist | |
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| Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty | |
| 2012 | | | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha | |
| and Bruce Hevly | | |
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| 2013 | | | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West | |
| David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest | |
| Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy | |
| 2014 | | | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
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| Wolves in the Land of Salmon | |
| 2015 | | Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound | Winner | |
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| In Season: Culinary Adventures of a Pacific Northwest Chef | Finalist | |
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| When Money Grew on Trees: A.B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron | |
| Mary Randlett Portraits | |
| 2016 | | | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village | |
| Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us | |
| Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest | |
| 2017 | | Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness | |
| Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild | |
| Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge | |
| 2018 | | Mozart’s Starling | Winner | |
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| Various authors, curated and edited by Jaimee Garbacik | Ghosts of Seattle Past | Finalist | |
| Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table | |
| Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil to Life | |
| Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean | |
| and Jennifer Ott | Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal | |
| 2019 | | So You Want to Talk About Race | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Our Native Bees | |
| Like a Mother | |
| Uplake | |
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Poetry
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2010 | | Inseminating the Elephant | Winner | |
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| Face | Finalist | |
| Ezekiel's Wheels | |
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| Upgraded to Serious | |
| Prisoner of the Swifts | |
| 2011 | | | Winner | [9] |
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| Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room | Finalist | |
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| Personal website | |
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| 2012 | | Woodnote | Winner | |
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| What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes? | Finalist | |
| Underdog | |
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| 2013 | | Plume | Winner | |
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| Theophobia | Finalist | |
| Raptor | |
| Here I Throw Down My Heart | |
| Lacemakers | |
| 2014 | | Rough Day | Winner | |
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| What I've Stolen, What I've Earned | Finalist | |
| Self-Storage | |
| Through the Second Skin | |
| Pacific Walkers | |
| 2015 | | Bugle | Winner | |
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| Hourglass Museum | Finalist | |
| In Orbit | |
| 2016 | | Reconnaissance | Winner | |
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| 88 Maps | Finalist | |
| Tributaries | |
| Her Animals | |
| Hive | |
| 2017 | | My, My, My, My, My | Winner | |
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| Hardly War | Finalist | |
| Imaginary Vessels | |
| Blood Song | |
| Wintering | |
| 2018 | | Water & Salt | Winner | |
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| Killing Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices | Finalist | |
| Thresholds | |
| Timber Curtain | |
| Mary’s Dust | |
| with Carolyne Wright (trans.) | Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces | |
| 2019 | | Instruments of the True Measure | Winner | |
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| What We Do | Finalist | |
| Between Darkness and Trust | |
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Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
| Year | Category | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2010 | Early Readers | | | Winner | |
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| Middle Grades and Young Adults | | Brutal | Winner | |
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| Picture Book | with Santiago Cohen (illus.) | Before You Were Here, Mi Amor | Winner | |
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| 2011 | Early Readers | | Guinea Dog | Winner | |
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| Middle Grades and Young Adults | | Hold Me Closer,Necromancer | Winner | |
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| Picture Book | | Polar Opposites | Winner | |
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| 2012 | Middle Grades and Young Adults | | Something to Hold | Winner | |
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| Picture Book | | To Market, To Market | Winner | |
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| 2013 | Picture Book | | Those Rebels, John & Tom | Winner | |
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| Young Adult | | | Winner | |
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| 2014 | Early Readers | | And Then, Story Starters | Winner | |
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| Middle Readers | | | Winner | |
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| Picture Book | with Mae Besom (illus.) | What Do You Do With an Idea? | Winner | |
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| with Gennady Spirin (illustrator) | Frog Song | Finalist | |
| with Renata Liwska (illustrator) | Once Upon a Memory | |
| with Carin Berger (illustrator) | Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems | |
| with Julie Paschkis (illustrator) | Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar? | |
| Young Adult | | Jumped In | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Wise Young Fool | |
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| Duke | |
| 2015 | Middle Readers | | Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle | Winner | |
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| Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides: Maps and Geography | Finalist | |
| Beyond the Door | |
| Picture Book | | Two Speckled Eggs | Winner | |
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| Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Color | Finalist | |
| with Taeeun Yoo (illus.) | Hands Say Love | |
| S Is for Salmon: A Pacific Northwest Alphabet | |
| Young Adult | | | Winner | |
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| Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific | Finalist | |
| Between Two Worlds | |
| Six Feet Over It | |
| 2016 | Early Readers | | Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat | Winner | |
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| Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer | Finalist | |
| Middle Readers | | Red Butterfly | Winner | |
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| Waiting for Unicorns | Finalist | |
| Picture Book | | Boats for Papa | Winner | |
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| Strictly No Elephants | Finalist | |
| Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah | |
| Young Adult | | | Winner | |
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| Ruthless | Finalist | |
| 2019 | Middle Grade | | Winterhouse | Winner | |
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| | Finalist | |
| Dog Man Lord of the Fleas
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| Wish Upon a Sleepover | |
| Picture Books | with Suzanne Kaufman (illus.) | All Are Welcome | Winner | |
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| with Amy Hevron (illus) | Trevor | Finalist | |
| with Mark Fearing (illus.) | | |
| with Corinna Luyken (illus.) | Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse | |
| with Steven Henry (illus.) | Something Smells | |
| with Mike Austin (illus.) | Summer Supper | |
| Young Adult | | Blood Water Paint | Winner | |
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| Unpresidented | Finalist | |
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| I Am Still Alive | |
| Fast Backward | |
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| Young Readers | | Peanut Butter and Jelly | Winner | |
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| King & Kayla and the Case of the Lost Tooth | Finalist | |
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2020s
Biography/Memoir
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | | | Winner | [10] |
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| I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi | Finalists | [11] |
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| Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14 | |
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| 2021 | | | Winner | [12] |
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| House Lessons: Renovating a Life | Finalists | |
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| Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery | |
| 2022 | | Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism | Winner | [13] [14] |
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| The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs | Finalist | [15] | |
Creative nonfiction
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | | Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy | Winner | |
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| Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions | Finalists | |
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| Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s | |
| and Theresa Warburton | Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers | |
| 2021 | | Think Black | Winner | |
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| , curator | Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures | Finalists | |
| Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World | |
| Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature edited | |
| Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All | |
| 2022 | | | Winner | [16] | |
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Fiction
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
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| 2020 | | Deep River | Winner | |
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| Stay and Fight | Finalists | |
| Hollow Kingdom | |
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| One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow | |
| 2021 | | | Winner | |
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| Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories | Finalists | |
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| Vera Violet | |
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| 2022 | | On Fragile Waves | Winner | |
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| What Comes After | Finalist | [17] | |
General nonfiction
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
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| 2020 | , text by Eric Scigliano, with Dr. Robert Max Holmes, Dr. Susan Natali, and Dr. John Schade | | Winner | |
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| , illustrated by Ronald Otts Bolisay | Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World | Finalists | |
| Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City | |
| Seattle Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Tour through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods | |
| Museum of History & Industry and Clara Berg | Seattle Style: High Fashion/High Function | |
| 2021 | | Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 edited | Winner | |
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| Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis (and the Next) | Finalists | |
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| Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West | |
| Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the Eye and the Palate | |
| 2022 | | Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home | Winner | |
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| Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimíipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage | Finalist | [18] | |
Picture book
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | | Flora Forager ABC | Winner | |
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| Ghost Cat | Finalists | |
| , illustrated by Willow Heath | Lasting Love | |
| 2021 | | | Winner | |
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| Play Day School Day | Finalists | |
| Snail Crossing | |
| , illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo | This Old Dog | |
| , illustrated by Levi Hastings | | |
| 2022 | with Sam Boughton (illus.) | Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand | Winner | [19] |
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| with Corinna Luyken (illus.) | Something Good | Finalist | |
| 1, 2, 3 Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Counting Book | | |
Poetry
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | | Nightingale | Winner | |
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| All Its Charms | Finalists | |
| , illustrated by Justin Gibbens | Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest | |
| Hail and Farewell | |
| Bright Stain | |
| 2021 | , Anna Bálint, and Thomas Hubbard (editors) | Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, a Raven Chronicles Anthology | Winner | |
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| DMZ Colony | Finalists | |
| Feeding Hour | |
| Post Romantic | |
| Terrain | |
| Insubordinate | |
| 2022 | | More American | Winner | |
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| Dialogues with Rising Tides | Finalist | |
| Self-Portrait with Cephalopod | [20] | |
Young adult
| Year | Author | Title | Result | |
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| 2020 | | SLAY | Winner | |
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| Between Before & After | Finalists | |
| Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World | |
| Brave Face | |
| 2021 | | What I Carry | Winner | |
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| Heiress Apparently | Finalists | |
| Into the Deep: Science, Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean | |
| Spindle and Dagger | |
| Today Tonight Tomorrow | |
| Girl, Unframed | |
| 2022 | | Little Thieves | Winner | | |
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Young reader
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | | Growing Up Gorilla: How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together | Winner | |
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| Sauerkraut | Finalists | |
| Last Meeting of the Gorilla Club | |
| Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights | |
| Explorer Academy: The Falcon’s Feather | |
| King & Kayla and the Case of Found Fred | |
| 2021 | | Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! | Winner | |
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| | Finalists | |
| , illustrated by Ann Xu | Measuring Up | |
| Tornado Brain | |
| and Kati Bartowski | Whispering Pines | |
| , illustrated by Kevan Atteberry | Dear Beast | |
| 2022 | | Mighty Inside | Winner | | |
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References
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