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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Jim Lynch	Border Songs	Winner	[7]
	Ryan Boudinot	Misconception	Finalist
	Pete Dexter	Spooner
	Jamie Ford	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
2011	Karl Marlantes	Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War	Winner	[2]
	Susan Froderberg	Old Border Road: A Novel	Finalist	[2]
	Valerie Trueblood	Marry or Burn: Stories		[2]
	Jess Walter	The Financial Lives of the Poets		[2]
	Carol Wiley Cassella	Healer		[2]
2012	Peter Mountford	A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism	Winner	[3]
	Jonathan Evison	West of Here	Finalist
	David Guterson	Ed King
	Stacey Levine	The Girl With Brown Fur: Tales Stories
	Melinda Moustakis	Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
2013	Amanda Coplin	The Orchardist	Winner	[4]
	Ryan Boudinot	Blueprints of the Afterlife	Finalist
	Jonathan Evison	The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
	Lucia Perillo	Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain
	Jess Walter	Beautiful Ruins
2014	Nicola Griffith	Hild	Winner
	Scott Elliott	Temple Grove	Finalist
	Gregory Spatz	Half as Happy
	Jess Walter	We Live in Water
	Lance Weller	Wilderness
2015	Bruce Holbert	The Hour of Lead	Winner	[8]
	Heather Brittain Bergstrom	Steal the North	Finalist
	Adrianne Harun	A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain	Finalist
	Martin Limón	The Iron Sickle	Finalist
	Peter Mountford	The Dismal Science	Finalist
2016	Sharma Shields	The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac	Winner
	S.M. Hulse	Black River	Finalist
	Stephanie Kallos	RT	Finalist
	Shann Ray	American Copper	Finalist
2017	Shawn Vestal	Daredevils	Winner
	Laurie Blauner	The Solace of Monsters	Finalist
	Ted Chiang	Stories of Your Life and Others
	Annie Proulx	Barkskins, Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country
2018	Laurie Frankel	This Is How It Always Is	Winner
	Laura Anne Gilman	The Cold Eye	Finalist
	Elise Hooper	The Other Alcott
	Matthew D. Hunt	Solar Reboot
	Nancy Pearl	George and Lizzie
	Ingrid Thoft	Duplicity
2019	Nicola Griffith	So Lucky	Winner
	Katrina Carrasco	The Best Bad Things	Finalist
	Kim Fu	The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
	Charles Johnson	Night Hawks
	Robin Oliveira	Winter Sisters

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

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

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

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

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

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	Finalists	[15][16]
	Anne Liu Kellor	Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging		[16]
	Carol Smith	Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life		[16]

In 2023, this category was split up and merged with two others: Biography joined General Nonfiction to become General Nonfiction/Biography, and Memoir joined Creative Nonfiction to become Creative Nonfiction/Memoir.^[16][17]

In 2023, this category was expanded from Creative Nonfiction to become Creative Nonfiction/Memoir.^[16][17]

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][18]
	Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, art by Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki	We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration	Finalists	[16]
	Marcus Harrison Green	Readying to Rise: Essays		[16]
	Lyanda Lynn Haupt	Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit		[16]
	Elissa Washuta	White Magic: Essays		[16]
2023	Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe	Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk	Winner	[17]
	Putsata Reang	Ma and Me: A Memoir	Finalists	[17]
	Mickey Rowe	Fearlessly Different		[17]
	Janet Yoder	Where the Language Lives: Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed		[17]
2024	Jane Wong	Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City	Winner	[19]
	Claire Dederer	Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma	Finalists	[19]
	Sadie Hartmann	101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered		[19]
	Lauren Kay Johnson	The Fine Art of Camouflage		[19]
	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore	Touching the Art		[19]
	Josh Tuininga	We Are Not Strangers		[19]
2025	Tessa Hulls	Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir	Winner	[20]
	Lawrence Ingrassia	A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery	Finalists	[20]
	Susan Lieu	The Manicurist’s Daughter: A Memoir		[20]
	Steve Duda	River Songs: Moments of Wild Wonder in Fly Fishing		[20]
	Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe	Thunder Song: Essays		[20]
	Simone Gorrindo	The Wives		[20]

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]
	Jonathan Evison	Legends of the North Cascades	Finalists	[16]
	Laurie Frankel	One Two Three		[16]
	Rachel Lynn Solomon	The Ex Talk		[16]
	JoAnne Tompkins	What Comes After		[21]
2023	Kim Fu	Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century	Winner	[17]
	Travis Baldree	Legends & Lattes	Finalists	[17]
	Alli Frank and Asha Youmans	Never Meant to Meet You		[17]
	David Guterson	The Final Case		[17]
	Jess Walter	The Angel of Rome and Other Stories		[17]
2024	Sonora Jha	The Laughter	Winner	[19]
	Travis Baldree	Bookshops & Bonedust	Finalists	[19]
	E. J. Koh	The Liberators		[19]
	Robert Lashley	I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer		[19]
	Dominic Smith	Return to Valetto		[19]
	E. Lily Yu	Jewel Box: Stories		[19]
2025	Katrina Carrasco	Rough Trade	Winner	[20]
	Elaine U. Cho	Ocean’s Godori	Finalists	[20]
	Jennifer Gold	Polite Calamities		[20]
	Samantha Allen	Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet		[20]
	Jared Pechaček	West Passage		[20]
	Kristin Hannah	The Women		[20]

In 2023, this category was expanded from General Nonfiction to become General Nonfiction/Biography.^[16][17]

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	[22]
	Trevor James Bond	Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimíipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage	Finalists	[22]
	Daniel James Brown	Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
	Mike Gastineau	Fear No Man: Don James, the '91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship
	Blaine Hardin	Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American
	Josephine Ensign	Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
2023	J. Kenji López-Alt	The Wok: Recipes and Techniques	Winner	[23]
	Mónica Guzmán	I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times	Finalists	[23]
	Rena Priest	Northwest Know-How: Beaches
	Clyde W. Ford	Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
	William Alexander	Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
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	[19]
	Tom Fuculoro	Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars	Finalists	[24]
	Matika Wilbur	Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America
	Tim McNulty	Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington's Olympic Peninsula
	Peter Blecha	Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll
	Shannon Cram	Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
2025	Ijeoma Oluo	Be A Revolution	Winner	[20]
	David Moskowitz	Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin	Finalists	[20]
	Ashley Rodriguez	Field Notes from a Fungi Forager		[20]
	Seth Zuckerman & Kirk Hanson	A Forest of Your Own: The Pacific Northwest Handbook of Ecological Forestry		[20]
	Lynne Peeples	The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms		[20]
	Anna Letitia Zivarts	When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency		[20]

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	[25][13]
	Marcy Campbell with Corinna Luyken (illus.)	Something Good	Finalists	[15]
	Nikki McClure	1, 2, 3 Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Counting Book		[15]
	Julie Paschkis	The Barking Ballad: A Bark-along, Meow-along Book		[16]
2023	Ellie Peterson	How to Hug a Pufferfish	Winner	[17]
	Rob Albanese	The Birders: An Unexpected Encounter in the Northwest Woods	Finalists	[17]
	Tom Crestodina	Working Boats: An Inside Look at Ten Amazing Watercraft		[17]
	Nikki McClure	Old Wood Boat		[17]
2024	Ben Clanton and Andy Chou Musser	Ploof	Winner	[19]
	Jessixa Bagley	Maurice	Finalists	[19]
	Tom Brenner with Jenn Hill (illus.)	And Then Comes School		[19]
	Kate Hoefler with Corinna Luyken (illus.)	In the Dark		[19]
	Joy McCullough	The Story of a Book		[19]
	Michaele Razi	Drake the Super-Excited, Overeager, In-Your-Face Snake		[19]
2025	Belen Medina with Natalia Rojas Castro (illus.)	Daughter of the Light-Footed People	Winner	[20]
	Lynn Brunelle with Julia Patton (illus.)	Haiku, Ew!: Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature	Finalists	[20]
	Corey Tabor	Fox, Fox, and More Fox: Three Stories		[20]
	Amy Hevron	Log Life		[20]
	Nina Laden with Melissa Castrillon (illus.)	Love Is My Favorite Color		[20]
	Quinn Miller Murphy with Jillian Thalman (illus.)	What Did My Ancestors Eat?		[20]

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	Finalists	[21]
	Andrew Robin	Stray Birds		[16]
	Kathryn Smith	Self-Portrait with Cephalopod		[26]
	Gary Thompson	Broken by Water: Salish Sea Years		[16]
2023	Ricardo Ruiz	We Had Our Reasons: Poems by Ricardo Ruiz and Other Hardworking Mexicans from Eastern Washington	Winner	[17]
	Paul Hlava Ceballos	banana [ ]	Finalists	[17]
	Claudia Castro Luna	Cipota Under the Moon		[17]
	Hannah Lee Jones	When I Was the Wind		[17]
	Caitlin Scarano	The Necessity of Wildfire		[17]
	Scott Oki	Contemplations		[17]
2024	Rena Priest	I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State	Winner	[19]
	Gabrielle Bates	Judas Goat: Poems	Finalists	[19]
	Translated by Michael Freiling, Satsuki Takikawa, Shelley Barker-Gard, and Duane Watari	They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center		[19]
	Jeanine Hall Gailey	Flare, Corona		[19]
	Rob Schlegel	Childcare		[19]
	Edited by Derek Sheffield, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Cmarie Fuhrman	Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry		[19]
2025	Lena Khalaf Tuffaha	Something About Living	Winner	[20]
	Susan Rich	Blue Atlas	Finalists	[20]
	Thomas Thomas	My Heart Is Not Asleep		[20]
	Sarah Stockton	The Scarecrow of My Former Self		[20]
	Katie Prince	Tell This to the Universe		[20]
	Martha Silano	This One We Call Ours		[20]

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	[25][13]
	Eireann Corrigan	Remedy	Finalists	[16]
	Shaun David Hutchinson	A Complicated Love Story Set in Space		[16]
	Nova McBee	Calculated		[16]
	Joy McCullough	We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire		[16]
2023	Will Taylor	The Language of Seabirds	Winner	[17]
	Shaun David Hutchinson	Howl	Finalists	[17]
	Vanessa L. Torres	The Turning Pointe		[17]
2024	Margaret Owen	Painted Devils	Winner	[19]
	T. J. Carroll	The Golden Needle	Finalists	[19]
	Joy McCullough	Enter the Body		[19]
2025	K.A. Cobell	Looking for Smoke	Winner	[20]
	Dan Gemeinhart	Coyote Lost and Found	Finalists	[20]
	Parisa Akhbari	Just Another Epic Love Poem		[20]
	Hemant Nayak	A Magic Fierce and Bright		[20]
	Leslie Lutz	Sweetest Darkness		[20]
	Natalie Leif	Take All of Us		[20]

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	[25][13]
	Jake Maia Arlow	Almost Flying	Finalists	[16]
	Donna Barba Higuera	The Last Cuentista		[16]
	Kelly Jones	Happily For Now		[16]
	Donna Sandstrom, illustrated by Sarah Burwash	Orca Rescue: The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer		[16]
2023	Tae Keller	Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone	Winner	[17]
	Ben Clanton	Narwhalicorn and Jelly	Finalists	[17]
	Sonja Thomas	Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence		[17]
2024	Jessixa Bagley, illustrated by Aaron Bagley	Duel	Winner	[19]
	Jake Maia Arlow	The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet	Finalists	[19]
	Donna Barba Higuera	Alebrijes: Cuentista		[19]
	Joy McCullough	Code Red		[19]
	Lora Senf	The Nighthouse Keeper		[19]
	Alder Van Otterloo	The Beautiful Something Else		[19]
2025	Scott Kurtz	Table Titans Club	Winner	[20]
	Vikram Madan	Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock	Finalists	[20]
	Iron Tazz with Martin Stanev (illus.)	Hike It: An Introduction to Camping, Hiking, and Backpacking		[20]
	Lora Senf with Alfredo Cáceres (illus.)	The Loneliest Place		[20]
	Lily LaMotte with Ann Xu (illus.)	Unhappy Camper		[20]
	Ben Guterson with Kristina Kiser (illus.)	The World-Famous Nine		[20]

• Washington Center for the Book List of Award Winners Archived May 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
• Seattle Times article on 2008 Awards