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. As of 2013, the categories encompass General Nonfiction (History), Biography and Memoir, Fiction, Poetry, and two to four Scandiuzzi Children's Books Awards.

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.

The 2017 Washington State Book Award winners (for books published in 2016) will be announced on Saturday, October 14, 2017. The deadline for the 2018 awards (for books published in 2017) is February 1, 2018.

Washington State Book Award winners and finalists

2018	Fiction Winner: Finalists: Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is; Laura Anne Gilman, The Cold Eye; Elise Hooper, The Other Alcott; Matthew D. Hunt, Solar Reboot; Nancy Pearl, George and Lizzie; Ingrid Thoft, Duplicity Poetry Winner: Finalists: Glenna Cook, Thresholds; Claudia Castro Luna, Killing Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices; Frances McCue, Timber Curtain; Melinda Mueller, Mary’s Dust; Eugenia Toledo, Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces, translated by Carolyne Wright; Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt Biography/Memoir Winner: Finalists: Kristin Jarvis Adams, The Chicken Who Saved Us; Geraldine DeRuiter, All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft; Claudia Rowe, The Spider and the Fly History/General Nonfiction Winner: Finalists: Langdon Cook, Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart’s Starling; 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; Various authors, curated and edited by Jaimee Garbacik, Ghosts of Seattle Past
2017	Fiction Winner: Shawn Vestal, Daredevils (Penguin Press) Finalists: Laurie Blauner, The Solace of Monsters; Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others; Annie Proulx, Barkskins, Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country Poetry Winner: Tara Hardy, My, My, My, My, My (Write Bloody Publishing) Finalists: Don Mee Choi, Hardly War; Paisley Rekdal, Imaginary Vessels; Michael Schmeltzer, Blood Song; Megan Snyder-Camp, Wintering Biography/Memoir Winner: Brenda Miller, An Earlier Life (Judith Kitchen's Ovenbird Books) Finalists: Susan Marie Conrad, Inside: One Woman’s Journey through the Inside Passage; Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman; Leif Whittaker, My Old Man and the Mountain History/General Nonfiction Winner: Steve Olson, Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (W.W. Norton & Company) Finalists: Timothy Egan, The Immortal Irishman; 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
2016	Fiction Winner: Sharma Shields, The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac (Henry Holt) Finalists: S.M. Hulse, Black River; Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts, Ann Pancake, Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley; Shann Ray, American Copper Poetry Winner: Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Finalists: Rob Carney, 88 Maps; Laura Da', Tributaries; Emily Johnston, Her Animals; Christina Stoddard, Hive Biography/Memoir Winner: Mark Rozema, Road Trip (Red Hen Press) Finalists: Sonya Lea, Wondering Who You Are; Michael N. McGregor, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax; Ana Maria Spagna, Reclaimers; Tara Austen Weaver, Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow History/General Nonfiction Winner: Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Crown Publishers) Finalists: Thor Hanson, The Triumph of Seeds; 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 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Awards Picture Book: Winner: Jessixa Bagley (author/illustrator), Boats for Papa (Roaring Brook Press) Finalists: Lisa Mantchev (author), Strictly No Elephants; Laurie Thompson (author), Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah Books for Early Readers: (ages 6 to 8): Winner, Deborah Underwood, Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat (Dial Books) Finalist: Kelly Jones, Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer Books for Middle Readers (ages 9 to 12) Winner: A.L. Sonnichsen, Red Butterfly (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Finalist: Beth Hautala, Waiting for Unicorns Books for Young Adults: (ages 13 to 18) Winner: Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books) Finalist: Carolyn Lee Adams, Ruthless
2015	Fiction Winner: Bruce Holbert, The Hour of Lead (Counterpoint Press) Finalists: Heather Brittain Bergstrom, Steal the North; Adrianne Harun, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain; Martin Limón, The Iron Sickle ; Peter Mountford, The Dismal Science Poetry Winners: Tod Marshall, Bugle (Canarium Books); Red Pine (translator), The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse (Copper Canyon Press) Finalists: Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum; Kim-An Lieberman, In Orbit Biography/Memoir Winner: Charles D’Ambrosio, Loitering: New and Collected Essays (Tin House Books) Finalists: Bryce Andrews, Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West; 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 History/General Nonfiction Winner: Justin Wadland, Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound (Oregon State University Press) Finalists: Greg Atkinson, In Season: Culinary Adventures of a Pacific Northwest Chef; 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 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Jennifer K. Mann (author/illustrator), Two Speckled Eggs (Candlewick Press) Finalists: Keith Baker (author/illustrator), Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Color; George Shannon (author) and Taeeun Yoo (illustrator), Hands Say Love; Hannah Viano (author/illustrator), S Is for Salmon: A Pacific Northwest Alphabet Winner, Middle Readers (ages 9 to 12): Dana Simpson, Phoebe and Her Unicorn (full title: Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle, Andrews McMeel Publishing) Finalists: Ken Jennings, Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides: Maps and Geography; Maureen McQuerry, Time Out of Time: Book One: Beyond the Door Winner, Young Adults: Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Candlewick Press) Finalists: Mary Cronk Farrell, Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific; Katherine Kirkpatrick, Between Two Worlds; Jennifer Longo, Six Feet Over It
2014	Fiction Winner: Nicola Griffith, Hild (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Finalists: Scott Elliott, Temple Grove; Gregory Spatz, Half as Happy; Jess Walter, We Live in Water; Lance Weller, Wilderness Poetry Winner: Ed Skoog, Rough Day (Copper Canyon Press) Finalists: Sherman Alexie, What I've Stolen, What I've Earned; Rebecca Hoogs, Self-Storage; Derek Sheffield, Through the Second Skin; Nance van Ninckel, Pacific Walkers Biography/Memoir Winner: David Laskin, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Finalists: Peter Bagge, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story; Nicole Hardy, Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin; Jonathan Raban, Driving Home: An American Journey History/General Nonfiction Winner: Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Viking Press / Penguin Group) Finalists: Nancy Bartley, The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls, Jr.; Langdon Cook, The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America; David Moskowitz, Wolves in the Land of Salmon Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Kobi Yamada (author) and Mae Besom (illustrator), What Do You Do With an Idea? (Compendium Inc.) Finalists: Brenda Guiberson (author) and Gennady Spirin (illustrator), Frog Song; Jack Prelutsky (author) and Carin Berger (illustrator), Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems; Nina Laden (author) and Renata Liwska (illustrator), Once Upon a Memory; George Shannon (author) and Julie Paschkis (illustrator), Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar? Winner, Early Readers (ages 6 to 8): M.H. Clark, And Then, Story Starters (Compendium Inc.) Winner, Middle Readers (ages 9 to 12): Suzanne Selfors, The Sasquatch Escape (Little, Brown and Company) Winner, Young Adults (ages 13 to 18): Patrick Flores-Scott, Jumped In (Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt and Company) Finalists: Steven Arntson, The Wrap-Up List; Sean Beaudoin, Wise Young Fool; Thatcher Heldring, The League; Kirby Larson, Duke Note: The News Release in the Seattle Public Library's archive lists the finalists for the Early Readers, Middle Readers and Young Adults as a group without an age designation.
2013	Fiction Winner: Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist (HarperCollins) Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife; Jonathan Evison, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Lucia Perillo, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain; Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins Poetry Winner: Kathleen Flenniken, Plume (University of Washington Press) Finalists: Bruce Beasley, Theophobia; Andrew Feld, Raptor; Colleen McElroy, Here I Throw Down My Heart; Claire McQuerry, Lacemakers Biography/Memoir Winner: Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Finalists: Ellen Forney, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me; Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War; Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas History/General Nonfiction Winner: David R. Montgomery, The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood Finalists: Kirsten Grind, The Lost Bank: The Story of the Biggest Bank Failure in American History; 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 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Barbara Kerley, Those Rebels, John & Tom Winner, Young Adults: J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just
2012	Fiction Winner: Peter Mountford, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Finalists: Jonathan Evison, West of Here; David Guterson, Ed King; Stacey Levine, The Girl With Brown Fur: Tales Stories; Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories Poetry Winner: Christine Deavel, Woodnote (Bear Star Press) Finalists: Arlene Kim, What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?; Katrina Roberts, Underdog; Martha Silano, The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception Biography/Memoir Winner: Paul Lindholdt, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (University of Iowa Press) Finalists: Jana Harris, Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her; 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 Spanga, Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness History/General Nonfiction Winner: Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Crown Publishers) Finalists: Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s; 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 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Nikki McClure (author and illustrator, To Market, To Market (Abrams Books for Young Readers) Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Katherine Schlick Noe, Something to Hold (Clarion Books)
2011	Fiction Winner: Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (Grove/Atlantic) Finalists: Carol Wiley Cassella, Healer; Susan Froderberg, Old Border Road: A Novel; Valerie Trueblood, Marry or Burn: Stories; Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets Poetry Winner: Frances McCue, The Bled: Poems (Factory Hollow Press) Finalists: Kelli Russell Agodon, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room; Don Mee Choi, The Morning News Is Exciting; Susan Rich, The Alchemist's Kitchen; Oliver de la Paz's website Biography/Memoir Winner: Doug Merlino, The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White (Bloomsbury) Finalists: Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses; Kurt Hoelting, The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for A Radically Local Life; Robert Michael Pyle, The Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year; Ana Maria Spagna, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey History/General Nonfiction Winner: David Laskin, The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (Harper) Finalists: Thea Cooper, Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle; Frances McCue, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo; David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto; Craig Welch, Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Erik Brooks (author and illustrator), Polar Opposites (Marshall Cavendish) Winner, Early Readers: Patrick Jennings (writer), Guinea Dog (Egmont USA) Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Lish McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (Henry Holt)
2010	Fiction Winner: Jim Lynch, Border Songs (Knopf) Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, Misconception; Pete Dexter, Spooner; Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Poetry Winner: Lucia Perillo, Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press) Finalists: Sherman Alexie, Face; Shirley Kaufman, Ezekiel's Wheels; Tod Marshall, The Tangled Line; Heather McHugh, Upgraded to Serious; Judith Skillman, Prisoner of the Swifts General Nonfiction Winner: Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (Norton) Finalists: Tony Angell, Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness; Brenda Miller, Blessing of the Animals; David Williams, Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology History/Biography Winner: Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Finalists: Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride; 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 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Samantha Vamos, Before You Were Here, Mi Amor (illustrated by Santiago Cohen) (Viking Children's Books) Winner, Early Readers: Bonny Becker, The Magical Ms. Plum (Knopf) Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Michael Harmon, Brutal (Knopf)
2009	Fiction Winner: Jonathan Evison, All About Lulu (Soft Skull Press) Finalists: Dave Boling, Guernica; Carol Cassella, Oxygen; David Guterson, The Other; Alex Kuo, White Jade and Other Stories Poetry Winner: David Wagoner, A Map of the Night (University of Illinois Press) Finalists: Thomas Aslin, A Moon Over Wings; Linda Bierds, Flight: New and Selected Poems; Katrina Roberts, Friendly Fire; D. S. Butterworth, The Radium Watchdial Painters General Nonfiction Winner: Barbara Brotherton, editor, S'abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists (Seattle Art Museum/University of Washington Press) Finalists: Paul Bannick, The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds; 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 History/Biography Winner: Robert Clark, Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (Doubleday) Finalists: Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo; 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 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Barbara Kerley, What To Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! (illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham) (Scholastic Press) Honorable Mention, Picture Book: Bonny Becker, A Visitor for Bear (illustrated by Kady M. Denton) Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Richard Farr, Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster in the Antarctic, 1910-13 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2008	Fiction Winner: Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys (HarperCollins) Finalists: Nancy Horan, Loving Frank; Alex Mindt, Male of the Species; Ann Pancake, Strange as This Weather Has Been; Joseph Powell, Fish Grooming and Other Stories Poetry Winner: Samuel Green, The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Finalists: Marvin Bell, Mars Being Red; Mary Cornish, Red Studio; Peter Periera, What's Written on the Body General Nonfiction Winner: David R. Montgomery, Dirt: the Erosion of Civilizations (University of California Press) Finalists: Kathleen Flinn. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School; 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 History/Biography Winner: Coll Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (University of Washington Press) Finalists: Michael Honey, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign; Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: from Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: George Shannon, Rabbit's Gift (illustrated by Laura Dronzek) (Harcourt) Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (illustrated by Ellen Forney) (Little, Brown)
2007	Fiction Winner: Charles D'Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum (Alfred A. Knopf) Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, The Littlest Hitler: Stories; David Long, The Inhabited World; Jess Walter, The Zero Poetry Winner: Madeline DeFrees, Spectral Waves (Copper Canyon Press) Finalists: Kathleen Flenniken, Famous; Tess Gallagher, Dear Ghosts; Jennifer Maier, Dark Alphabet; Eric McHenry, Potscrubber Lullabies General Nonfiction William D. Layman, River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia (University of Washington Press) History/Biography Winner: Jlie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St. Martins Press) Finalists: Daniel James Brown, Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894; Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, 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 Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Jack Prelutsky, Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (illustrated by Carin Berger) (Greenwillow) Finalist, Picture Book: Finalist: Karma Wilson, Moose Tracks (illustrated by Jack E. Davis) Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Brent Hartinger, Grand & Humble (Harper Tempest) Finalists: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky; Michele Torrey, Voyage of Plunder
2006	Fiction Winner: Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country (Random House) Finalists: MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright; Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo; Stacey Levine, Frances Johnson; Nancy Rawles, My Jim; Jess Walter, Citizen Vince Poetry Winner: Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck (Random House) Finalists: Lillias Bever, Bellini in Istanbul; Linda Bierds, First Hand; J.W. Marshall, Taken With; Katrina Roberts, The Quick; David Wagoner, Good Morning and Good Night General Nonfiction Winner: John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell, In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Yale University Press) Finalists: Hugo Kugiya, 58 Degrees North; James McKean, Home Stand; David E. Miller, Toward a New Regionalism; Jonathan Raban, My Holy War History/Biography Winner: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin) Finalists: Jack Hamann, On American Soil; David Neiwert, Strawberry Days; Eric Scigliano, Michelangelo's Mountain Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Picture Book: Karla Kuskin, So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? (illustrated by Betsy Lewin) Finalist, Picture Book: Carole Lexa Schaefer, The Bora-Bora Dress (illustrated by Catherine Stock) Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Michael Gruber, The Witch's Boy Finalist, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Deb Caletti, Wild Roses
2005	General Books Charles D'Ambrosio, Orphans Lesley Hazleton, Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother Christopher Howell, Light's Ladder: Poems Paul Hunter, Breaking Ground Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard Nikhil Pal Singh, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Peter Ward, Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart Winner, Picture Book: Carmela D'Amico, Ella the Elegant Elephant (illustrated by Steven D'Amico)
2004	2004 was the last year in which there were no categories. 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: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair 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
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
2002	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 Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World 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

References

1. "State Library joins The Seattle Public Library to lead WA Center for the Book 6/8 | The Seattle Public Library". www.spl.org. Retrieved 2017-06-19.

External links

• Washington Center for the Book List of Award Winners
• Seattle Times article on 2008 Awards