| 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
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| 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
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
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| 2012 |
Fiction
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)
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| 2011 |
Fiction
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)
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| 2010 |
Fiction
Poetry
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)
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| 2009 |
Fiction
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)
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| 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
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)
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| 2007 |
Fiction
Poetry
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
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| 2006 |
Fiction
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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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