Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

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Since 1931, the Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books show more in search of the very best in literary achievement. Eligible books must be written while the author is a resident of California, and they must be published during the year under consideration. Awards are presented in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, First Work of Fiction, Poetry, Californiana, Notable Contribution to Publishing, Juvenile Literature and Young Adult Literature. show less

Stages:: All, Gold Medal (222), Silver Medal (395), Winner (424), Finalist (262)
Categories:: All, Californiana (59), Contribution to Publishing (16), Fiction (157), First Fiction (70), First Novel (2), First Work (2), First Work of Fiction (1), General Literature (18), Juvenile (119), Nonfiction (197), Nonfiction-Memoir (6), Notable Contribution to Publishing (13), Poetry (101), Publishing (1), Scholarship (19), Scholarship-History (2), Scholarship-Study (1), Silver (1), Special Acknowledgement (1), Young Adult (68), No Category (4)
Years:: All, 2024 (45), 2023 (23), 2022 (26), 2021 (28), 2020 (1), 2019 (27), 2018 (18), 2017 (7), 2016 (22), 2015 (22), 2014 (26), 2013 (27), 2012 (28), 2011 (28), 2010 (28), 2009 (4), 2008 (11), 2007 (10), 2006 (9), 2005 (10), 2004 (9), 2003 (12), 2002 (10), 2001 (9), 2000 (9), 1999 (9), 1998 (10), 1997 (8), 1996 (9), 1995 (10), 1994 (9), 1993 (9), 1992 (10), 1991 (9), 1990 (8), 1989 (6), 1988 (9), 1987 (8), 1986 (8), 1985 (7), 1984 (8), 1983 (9), 1982 (5), 1981 (6), 1980 (6), 1979 (7), 1978 (6), 1977 (5), 1976 (5), 1975 (6), 1974 (7), 1973 (7), 1972 (5), 1971 (6), 1970 (6), 1969 (4), 1968 (5), 1967 (8), 1966 (6), 1965 (7), 1964 (6), 1963 (5), 1962 (6), 1961 (6), 1960 (4), 1959 (7), 1958 (6), 1957 (6), 1956 (5), 1955 (5), 1954 (6), 1953 (3), 1952 (2), 1951 (5), 1950 (5), 1949 (6), 1948 (7), 1947 (4), 1946 (3), 1945 (6), 1944 (5), 1943 (5), 1942 (5), 1941 (3), 1940 (6), 1939 (6), 1938 (3), 1937 (3), 1936 (4), 1935 (3), 1934 (3), 1933 (2), 1932 (3), 1931 (2)

Stages List

Gold Medal 222

Work	Category	Year
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia	Californiana	2024
KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell by Robeson Taj Frazier	Contribution to Publishing	2024
Blackouts by Justin Torres	Fiction	2024
All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky	First Fiction	2024
The Honey Jar: An Armenian's Escape to Freedom by Joan Schoettler	Juvenile	2024
Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir by Fae Myenne Ng	Nonfiction	2024
Mass for Shut-Ins by Mary-Alice Daniel	Poetry	2024
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater	Young Adult	2024
The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson	Californiana	2023
The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History by Michael Kauffmann	Contribution to Publishing	2023
Heartbroke by Chelsea Bieker	Fiction	2023
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley	First Fiction	2023
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge	Juvenile	2023
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	2023
Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie	Young Adult	2023
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin	Californiana	2022
The Archer by Shruti Swamy	Fiction	2022
Skinship: Stories by Yoon Choi	First Fiction	2022
Wishes by Muon Thi Van	Juvenile	2022
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson	Nonfiction	2022
Refractive Africa by Will Alexander	Poetry	2022
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo	Young Adult	2022
California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History by Richard White	Californiana	2021
A Natural History of the Anza-Borrego Region - Then and Now by Marie Simovich	Contribution to Publishing	2021
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth by Daniel Mason	Fiction	2021
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang	First Fiction	2021
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros	Juvenile	2021
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner	Nonfiction	2021
Quiet Orient Riot by Nathalie Khankan	Poetry	2021
Private Lessons by Cynthia Salaysay	Young Adult	2021
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel	Californiana	2019
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner	Fiction	2019
There There by Tommy Orange	First Fiction	2019
The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr	Juvenile	2019
The Library Book by Susan Orlean	Nonfiction	2019
Total Recall by Samantha Giles	Poetry	2019
The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil	Fiction	2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein	Nonfiction	2018
Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy	First Fiction	2017
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet	Juvenile	2017
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez	Nonfiction	2017
Restless Continent by Aja Couchois Duncan	Poetry	2017
Moonglow by Michael Chabon	Fiction	2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez	Nonfiction	2016
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin	Fiction	2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen	First Fiction	2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy	Nonfiction	2015
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman	Young Adult	2015
San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 by Laura A. Ackley	Californiana	2014
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine	Fiction	2014
Waiting for the Electricity: A Novel by Christina Nichol	First Fiction	2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel	Nonfiction	2014
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal	Young Adult	2014
Scrape the Willow Until It Sings: The Words and Work of Basket Maker Julia Parker by Deborah Valoma	Contribution to Publishing	2013
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler	Fiction	2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra	First Fiction	2013
Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss	Juvenile	2013
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser	Nonfiction	2013
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire by Brenda Hillman	Poetry	2013
Valley of Shadows and Dreams by Melanie Light	Contribution to Publishing	2012
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson	Fiction	2012
A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois	First Fiction	2012
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate	Juvenile	2012
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet	Nonfiction	2012
Sea and fog by Etel Adnan	Poetry	2012
Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson	Young Adult	2012
Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California's Desert by David Rains Wallace	Californiana	2011
Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 by Chris Carlsson	Contribution to Publishing	2011
The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar	Fiction	2011
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante	First Fiction	2011
One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin	Juvenile	2011
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum by Jason Felch	Nonfiction	2011
Ascension by Giovanni Singleton	Poetry	2011
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy	Young Adult	2011
A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California by Laura Cunningham	Californiana	2010
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 by Mark Twain	Contribution to Publishing	2010
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita	Fiction	2010
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason	First Fiction	2010
Grandma's Gloves by Cecil Castellucci	Juvenile	2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Nonfiction	2010
Mortal Geography (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) by Alexandra Teague	Poetry	2010
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt	Young Adult	2010
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li	Fiction	2009
The Bigness of the World: Stories by Lori Ostlund	First Fiction	2009
Lucky Breaks by Susan Patron	Juvenile	2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction	2009
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 by Gordon H. Chang	Contribution to Publishing	2008
The End of the Jews: A Novel by Adam Mansbach	Fiction	2008
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner	First Fiction	2008
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson	Juvenile	2008
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams	Nonfiction	2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	2008
White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages	Young Adult	2008
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon	Fiction	2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad	Nonfiction	2007
Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems by W. S. Di Piero	Poetry	2007
Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	Fiction	2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan	Nonfiction	2006
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed	Poetry	2006
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann	Fiction	2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	2005
The Niagara River: Poems by Kay Ryan	Poetry	2005
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer	Fiction	2004
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson	Nonfiction	2004
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich	Poetry	2004
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins	Fiction	2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction	2003
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	2003
The Miracle: A Novel by John L'Heureux	Fiction	2002
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction	2002
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry	2002
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight	Fiction	2001
American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor	Nonfiction	2001
New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry	2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon	Fiction	2000
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth	Nonfiction	2000
Selected Poems by Fanny Howe	Poetry	2000
The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough	First Fiction	1999
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy	Nonfiction	1999
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	1998
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson	Fiction	1997
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond	Nonfiction	1997
Storm over Mono by John Hart	Californiana	1996
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D. J. Waldie	Nonfiction	1996
Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories by John A. Miller	First Work	1995
Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes	Nonfiction	1993
Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard by Robert V. Hine	Californiana	1992
When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom	Fiction	1992
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz	Nonfiction	1992
Farming on the Edge by John Hart	Californiana	1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook	Nonfiction	1991
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones	Californiana	1990
Sacred Mountains of the World by Edwin Bernbaum	Nonfiction	1990
Denial of Disaster by Gladys C. Hansen	Californiana	1989
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Updated and Revised Edition by Ronald Takaki	Nonfiction	1989
Julia Morgan, Architect by Sara Holmes Boutelle	Californiana	1988
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard	Nonfiction	1987
The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth	Californiana	1986
France, Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber	Nonfiction	1986
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 by Thomas Albright	Californiana	1985
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof	Nonfiction	1985
The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine by Doris Muscatine	Californiana	1984
French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean V. Bony	Nonfiction	1983
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson	Nonfiction	1983
Winemaking in California by Ruth Teiser	Californiana	1982
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff	Nonfiction	1982
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience by J. S. Holliday	Californiana	1981
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction	1981
Flight of the Sparrow by Julia Cunningham	Juvenile	1980
Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner	Nonfiction	1980
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan	First Fiction	1979
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg	Fiction	1978
The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived by Ingrid Rimland	First Fiction	1977
A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution by Page Smith	Nonfiction	1976
Jack Straw's Castle by Thom Gunn	Poetry	1976
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated by Brian M. Fagan	Nonfiction	1975
An Everyday History of Somewhere by Ray Raphael	Californiana	1974
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski	Nonfiction	1974
Steinbeck Country by Steve Crouch	Nonfiction	1973
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr	Nonfiction	1973
Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill by Travis Bogard	Nonfiction	1972
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty	Fiction	1971
Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India by Stephen N. Hay	Nonfiction	1970
With Bold Knife and Fork by M. F. K. Fisher	Nonfiction	1969
Edward L. Thorndike: The Sane Positivist by Geraldine JonCich Clifford	Nonfiction	1968
Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation by William Weber Johnson	Nonfiction	1968
A Night of Watching by Elliott Arnold	Fiction	1967
Robert E. Lee: A Portrait by Margaret Sanborn	Nonfiction	1967
The Stone Mason Of Tor House:The Life And Times Of Robinson Jeffers by Melba Berry Bennett	Nonfiction	1966
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster by Wilfred Stone	Nonfiction	1966
Arfive by A.B. Jr Guthrie	Nonfiction	1965
Oil, land, and politics; the California career of Thomas Robert Bard by W. H. Hutchinson	Nonfiction	1965
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 by C. D. O'Malley	Nonfiction	1964
A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky	Nonfiction	1963
Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox [Revised and Expanded Edition] by Heinz Politzer	Nonfiction	1962
John Adams by Page Smith	Nonfiction	1962
Mila 18 by Leon Uris	Fiction	1961
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer	Nonfiction	1961
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 by George Dangerfield	Nonfiction	1960
Flight from Ashiya by Elliott Arnold	Fiction	1959
Alexander Hamilton:Portrait in Paradox by John Chester Miller	Nonfiction	1959
Warlock by Oakley Hall	Fiction	1958
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold	Nonfiction	1958
Elizabethans at Home by Lu Emily Pearson	Nonfiction	1957
The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme	Nonfiction	1956
Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh	Nonfiction	1955
Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko	Nonfiction	1955
The Nightmare by C. S. Forester	Fiction	1954
Howells and the age of realism by Everett Carter	Nonfiction	1954
The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann	Fiction	1953
It's Good to Be Black by Ruby Berkley Goodwin	Nonfiction	1953
Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution (Cal 138) by Walton Bean	Nonfiction	1952
Sandra and the Right Prince by Mildred Napier Anderson	Fiction	1951
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer	Nonfiction	1951
Bridal Journey by Dale Van Every	Fiction	1950
Sea Road to the Indies: an Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, Together With the Life and Times of Dom Vasco Da Gama by Henry Hersch Hart	Nonfiction	1950
The Journey of Simon McKeever by Albert Maltz	Fiction	1949
The Sky and the Forest by C. S. Forester	Fiction	1948
The Age of the Great Depression 1929-1941: A History of American Life by Dixon Wecter	Scholarship	1948
Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold	Fiction	1947
The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization, 1607-1763 by Louis B. Wright	Scholarship	1947
Big Tree by Mary Buff	Fiction	1946
Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood by John Jenkins Espey	Nonfiction	1945
The Epic of Latin America by John A. Crow	Scholarship	1945
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant	Nonfiction	1944
Woodrow Wilson and the lost peace by Thomas A. Bailey	Scholarship	1944
Brothers under the skin by Carey McWilliams	Nonfiction	1943
The Legacy of Nazism: The Economic and Social Consequences of Totalitarianism by Frank Munk	Scholarship	1943
A history of historical writing by James Westfall Thompson	Scholarship	1942
Lord of Alaska; Baranov and the Russian Adventure by Hector Chevigny	Nonfiction	1941
Many Mexicos by Lesley Byrd Simpson	Scholarship	1941
A Diplomatic History of the American People by Thomas A. Bailey	Scholarship	1940
The Structure of Art by Carl Thurston	Scholarship	1940
Land Below the Wind by Agnes Newton Keith	Nonfiction-Memoir	1939
San Francisco's Literary Frontier by Franklin Walker	Scholarship	1939
Enchanted Vagabonds by Dana Lamb	Nonfiction-Memoir	1938
Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell	Scholarship	1937
God and Man's Destiny by Hartley Burr Alexander	Scholarship	1936
SAN FRANCISCO TALES by Charles Dobie	Nonfiction	1935
The Saga of the Comstock Lode by George D. Lyman	Scholarship	1934
San Francisco: A Pageant by Charles Caldwell Dobie	Nonfiction	1933
Adventures of a Novelist by Gertrude Atherton	Nonfiction-Memoir	1932

Silver Medal 395

Work	Category	Year
The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma	Fiction	2024
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Nonfiction	2024
The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold	Young Adult	2024
The Red Arrow by William Brewer	First Fiction	2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez	Nonfiction	2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras	Nonfiction	2023
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen	Fiction	2022
City of a Thousand Gates by Rebecca Sacks	First Fiction	2022
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras	Nonfiction	2022
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz	Nonfiction	2022
Interior Chinatown: A Novel by Charles Yu	Fiction	2021
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty	Nonfiction	2021
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed	Young Adult	2021
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed	Young Adult	2020
Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel by Anne Raeff	Fiction	2019
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras	First Fiction	2019
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer	Nonfiction	2019
So Much Blue by Percival Everett	Fiction	2018
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham	Nonfiction	2018
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie	Fiction	2017
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature by Jordan Fisher Smith	Nonfiction	2017
Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney	Poetry	2017
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie	Fiction	2016
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature by Jordan Fisher Smith	Nonfiction	2016
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman	Nonfiction	2015
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith	Young Adult	2015
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol	First Fiction	2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar	Nonfiction	2014
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz	Nonfiction	2013
The Boss (McSweeney's Poetry Series) by Victoria Chang	Poetry	2013
Masha'allah and Other Stories by Mariah K. Young	First Fiction	2012
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor	Nonfiction	2012
A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss	Young Adult	2012
Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner	Fiction	2011
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem	Nonfiction	2011
Model Home by Eric Puchner	Fiction	2010
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin	Nonfiction	2010
Suck on the Marrow by CAMILLE DUNGY	Poetry	2010
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann	First Fiction	2008
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West by Deanne Stillman	Nonfiction	2008
Practice by Dan Bellm	Poetry	2008
Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City by Robert Gottlieb	Californiana	2007
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman	Contribution to Publishing	2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini	Fiction	2007
Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour	First Fiction	2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe	Nonfiction	2007
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher	Young Adult	2007
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine	Young Adult	2007
The Great Black Way by RJ Smith	Californiana	2006
Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle	Fiction	2006
Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery) by James Greer	First Fiction	2006
Landed by Milly Lee	Juvenile	2006
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario	Nonfiction	2006
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant	Young Adult	2006
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 by Philip L. Fradkin	Californiana	2005
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz	Fiction	2005
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See	Fiction	2005
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li	First Fiction	2005
Terrific by Jon Agee	Juvenile	2005
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond	Nonfiction	2005
The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard	Young Adult	2005
Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 by Richard Steven Street	Californiana	2004
Graceland by Chris Abani	Fiction	2004
Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott	Fiction	2004
Every Night Is Ladies' Night: Stories by Michael Jaime-Becerra	First Fiction	2004
Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley	Juvenile	2004
Worth by A. LaFaye	Young Adult	2004
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire by Mark Arax	Californiana	2003
Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson	Fiction	2003
Old School by Tobias Wolff	Fiction	2003
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer	First Fiction	2003
Just a Minute! A Trickster Tale and Counting Book by Yuyi Morales	Juvenile	2003
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 by Bram Dijkstra	Nonfiction	2003
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann	Notable Contribution to Publishing	2003
Where I Was From by Joan Didion	Special Acknowledgement	2003
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau	Young Adult	2003
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology by David L. Ulin	Californiana	2002
The Last Good Chance: A Novel by Tom Barbash	First Fiction	2002
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold	First Fiction	2002
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan	Juvenile	2002
American Law in the Twentieth Century by Lawrence M. Friedman	Nonfiction	2002
The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder	Notable Contribution to Publishing	2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) by Elizabeth Partridge	Young Adult	2002
Capturing Light by Drew Heath Johnson	Californiana	2001
Haussmann, or the Distinction: A Novel by Paul La Farge	Fiction	2001
Edgewater Angels: A Novel by Sandro Meallet	First Fiction	2001
Splendide Californie! : impressions of the Golden State by French artists, 1786 to 1900 by Claudine Chalmers	Notable Contribution to Publishing	2001
Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer	Poetry	2001
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko	Young Adult	2001
The literature of California / 1, Native American beginnings to 1945 by Al Young	Californiana	2000
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann	Fiction	2000
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F. X. Toole	First Fiction	2000
Jubal's Wish by Audrey Wood	Juvenile	2000
California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940 by K. D. Kurutz	Publishing	2000
At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant	Young Adult	2000
Rush for Riches by J. S. Holliday	Californiana	1999
Leaving Pico by Frank X. Gaspar	Fiction	1999
The Artist of the Missing: A Novel by Paul La Farge	First Fiction	1999
Crooked by Laura McNeal	First Fiction	1999
Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe by Brad S. Gregory	Nonfiction	1999
The Mercy: Poems by Philip Levine	Poetry	1999
Little Bo by Julie Andrews	Young Adult	1999
Harvest Son by David Mas Masumoto	Californiana	1998
Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal	Fiction	1998
Lost Lake: Stories by Mark Slouka	Fiction	1998
Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Lan Samantha Chang	First Fiction	1998
Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard	Juvenile	1998
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Wilson	Juvenile	1998
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer	Nonfiction	1998
Mrs. Dumpty by Chana Bloch	Poetry	1998
The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry	1998
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s by Kevin Starr	Californiana	1997
Creek Walk and Other Stories by Molly Giles	Fiction	1997
Circumnavigation by Steve Lattimore	First Fiction	1997
The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale by Robert D. San Souci	Juvenile	1997
Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry W. Greene	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1997
A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems (New Directions Paperbook) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poetry	1997
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault	Fiction	1996
Sacred Dust by David Hill	First Work of Fiction	1996
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer	Juvenile	1996
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder	Juvenile	1996
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime	Nonfiction	1996
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass	Poetry	1996
Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995 by Carolyn Kizer	Poetry	1996
Naming the Spirits by Lawrence Thornton	Fiction	1995
Reckless Driver by Lisa Vice	First Work	1995
A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin	Juvenile	1995
Canto Familiar by Gary Soto	Juvenile	1995
The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci	Juvenile	1995
Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America by Mike Rose	Nonfiction	1995
Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic by Galen Rowell	Nonfiction	1995
Lights & Mysteries by Thomas Centolella	Poetry	1995
Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	1995
The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin	Fiction	1994
The ZOO WHERE YOU'RE FED TO GOD: A NOVEL by Michael Ventura	Fiction	1994
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting	Juvenile	1994
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Peter N. Carroll	Juvenile	1994
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman	Juvenile	1994
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein	Nonfiction	1994
Two Eagles / Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the United States-Mexico Borderlands by Tupper Ansel Blake	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1994
The Philosopher's Club : poems by Kim Addonizio	Poetry	1994
The October Palace: Poems by Jane Hirshfield	Poetry	1994
The Great Central Valley by Stephen Johnson	Californiana	1993
Tuscaloosa: A novel by W. Glasgow Phillips	First Novel	1993
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman	Juvenile	1993
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say	Juvenile	1993
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep	Juvenile	1993
No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture by Allan Temko	Nonfiction	1993
The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life by Kenneth R. Trapp	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1993
Lost Body (National Poetry Series) by Terry Ehret	Poetry	1993
Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith	Fiction	1992
Cantora by Sylvia Lopez-Medina	First Novel	1992
Earthquake at Dawn by Kristiana Gregory	Juvenile	1992
A Bowl of Mischief by Ellen Kindt McKenzie	Juvenile	1992
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco	Juvenile	1992
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction	1992
Napoleon An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy 1800-1814 by Proctor Patterson Jones	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1992
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler	Fiction	1991
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen	Fiction	1991
Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty	Juvenile	1991
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting	Juvenile	1991
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi	Nonfiction	1991
What Work Is by Philip Levine	Poetry	1991
Provinces by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry	1991
Limbo River by Rick Hillis	Fiction	1990
Even Now by Michelle Latiolais	Fiction	1990
Babushka's Doll by Patricia Polacco	Juvenile	1990
The Knight, Death and the Devil by Ella Leffland	Nonfiction	1990
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp	Nonfiction	1990
O California! : nineteenth and early twentieth century California landscapes and observations by Stephen Vincent	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1990
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan	Fiction	1989
Human Wishes by Robert Hass	Poetry	1989
Fortress (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Brenda Hillman	Poetry	1989
Dead Languages by David Shields	Poetry	1989
What Is It Then Between Us by Ehud Havazelet	Fiction	1988
Step into the Night by Joanne Ryder	Juvenile	1988
Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings by Herschel B. Chipp	Nonfiction	1988
The Way to the Western Sea by David Lavender	Nonfiction	1988
Green Architecture & The Agrarian Garden by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon	Nonfiction	1988
Of Gravity and Angels by Jane Hirshfield	Poetry	1988
The Collected Poems by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry	1988
Bitter Melon by Jeff Gillenkirk	Californiana	1987
World's End by T. C. Boyle	Fiction	1987
Unremembered Country by Susan Griffin	First Fiction	1987
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton	First Fiction	1987
Nell's Quilt by Susan Terris	Juvenile	1987
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts	Nonfiction	1987
Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey	Nonfiction	1987
Birds Landing by Ernest Finney	Fiction	1986
Small Business (Contemporary American Fiction) by Tom Parker	First Fiction	1986
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker	Nonfiction	1986
Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen A. Rowell	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1986
Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1985 by Gary Snyder	Poetry	1986
Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems by Timothy Steele	Poetry	1986
Greasy Lake: and Other stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle	Fiction	1985
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel	Fiction	1985
Face by Cecile Pineda	Fiction	1985
Willow Maiden by Meghan Collins	Juvenile	1985
Early light (University of Utah Press poetry series) by W. S. Di Piero	Poetry	1985
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr	Fiction	1984
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn	First Fiction	1984
Monkey Puzzle and Other Poems by Livingston	Juvenile	1984
Above Paris by Pierre Salinger	Nonfiction	1984
Celebrating Italy by Carol Field	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1984
The Hill Towns of Italy by Carol Field	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1984
European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries (New Directions Paperback) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poetry	1984
The Klamath Knot by David Rains Wallace	Californiana	1983
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines	Fiction	1983
A Dime to Dance By by Walter Walker	First Fiction	1983
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary	Juvenile	1983
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness by Mark Owens	Juvenile	1983
Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet by Galen Rowell	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1983
Collected Poems, 1930-83 by Josephine Miles	Poetry	1983
The Infinite Passion of Expectation by Gina Berriault	Fiction	1982
Story for a Black Night by Clayton Bess	First Fiction	1982
Spacks Street, New and Selected Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by Barry Spacks	Poetry	1982
Family: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by Herbert Gold	Fiction	1981
A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida	Juvenile	1981
Will's Boy: A Memoir by Wright Morris	Nonfiction	1981
Poems Old and New: 1918-1978 by Janet Lewis	Poetry	1981
Impossible Appetites: Nine Stories (The Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction) by James Fetler	Fiction	1980
The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman	Juvenile	1980
A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster	Nonfiction	1980
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp	Nonfiction	1980
The Fool and the Dancing Bear by Pamela Stearns	Juvenile	1979
Sea Glass by Laurence Yep	Juvenile	1979
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack	Nonfiction	1979
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash	Nonfiction	1979
Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China by Michael Sullivan	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1979
The Morning Star by Kenneth Rexroth	Poetry	1979
The Dark Range by David Rains Wallace	Californiana	1978
A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey	First Fiction	1978
North of Danger by Dale Fife	Juvenile	1978
Germany 1866-1945 by Gordon A. Craig	Nonfiction	1978
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend by Charles W. Jones	Nonfiction	1978
Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation by Ferol Egan	Nonfiction	1977
Botanical Prints by Henry Evans	Nonfiction	1977
Haywire by Brooke Hayward	Nonfiction	1977
In Mediterranean Air by Ann Stanford	Poetry	1977
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner	Fiction	1976
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber	Nonfiction	1976
Adult Bookstore by Karl Shapiro	Poetry	1976
Nothing seemed impossible: William C. Ralston and early San Francisco (Western biography series) by David Lavender	Californiana	1975
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton	Fiction	1975
The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant	Nonfiction	1975
The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar by Peter Ward Fay	Nonfiction	1975
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed by Robert A. Rosenstone	Nonfiction	1975
The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell	Fiction	1974
A time for titans by Viña Delmar	Fiction	1974
Love Out of Season by Ella Leffland	Fiction	1974
Against the law;: The Nixon Court and criminal justice by Leonard W. Levy	Fiction	1974
The paper party by Don Freeman	Juvenile	1974
Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 by Jay Monaghan	Californiana	1973
The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker	Fiction	1973
Yours, And Mine by Judith Rascoe	Fiction	1973
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by John Niven	Nonfiction	1973
Living Together by Edgar Bowers	Poetry	1973
Monterey by Augusta Fink	Californiana	1972
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner	Fiction	1972
Samurai of Gold Hill by Yoshiko Uchida	Juvenile	1972
Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 by Ferol Egan	Nonfiction	1972
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California by Alexander Saxton	Californiana	1971
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines	Fiction	1971
Annie and the Old One by Patricia Miles Martin	Juvenile	1971
Textile Art in the Church by Marion P. Ireland	Nonfiction	1971
More Under Saturn by William Dickey	Poetry	1971
The El Dorado Trail by Ferol Egan	Californiana	1970
Crimson ramblers of the world, farewell by Jessamyn West	Fiction	1970
Jonah and the Great Fish. by Clyde Robert Bulla	Juvenile	1970
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time by Will Durant	Nonfiction	1970
The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü	Nonfiction	1970
The Great Betrayal by Audrie Girdner	Californiana	1969
The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books by Eleanor Cameron	Juvenile	1969
The Cay by Theodore Taylor	Juvenile	1969
Everyman's Eden; a history of California by Ralph Joseph Roske	Californiana	1968
Airport by Arthur Hailey	Fiction	1968
Westward the Immigrants: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America by Andrew F. Rolle	Nonfiction	1968
Fool's Gold. A Biography of John Sutter by Richard Dillon	Californiana	1967
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner	Fiction	1967
Silent ship, silent sea by Robb White	Juvenile	1967
Fathers by Herbert Gold	Nonfiction	1967
The young Stalin; the early years of an elusive revolutionary by Edward Ellis Smith	Nonfiction	1967
The Rose of Solitude by William Everson	Poetry	1967
Chancy and the Grand Rascal by Sid Fleischman	Californiana	1966
All the Little Heroes by Herbert Wilner	Fiction	1966
Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 by Leonard Pitt	Nonfiction	1966
The ordeal of the Constitution; the antifederalists and the ratification struggle of 1787-1788 by Robert Allen Rutland	Nonfiction	1966
The Year of the Death by Reuben R Merliss	Fiction	1965
Campion Towers by John Louis Beatty	Juvenile	1965
Mein Cello und ich und unsere Begegnungen by Gregor Piatigorsky	Nonfiction	1965
The Final Challenge: The American Frontier, 1804-1845 by Dale Van Every	Nonfiction	1965
Selected Poems by Louis Simpson	Poetry	1965
Sarah & the Senator by Robert Henry Kroninger	Californiana	1964
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail by Wallace Stegner	Fiction	1964
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin by Leon Uris	Fiction	1964
The Man by Irving Wallace	Fiction	1964
A Spell is Cast by Eleanor Cameron	Juvenile	1964
South from San Francisco by Frank Merriman Stanger	Californiana	1963
The Keys and the Candle by Maryhale Woolsey	Juvenile	1963
James Gibbons Huneker, critic of the seven arts by Arnold T. Schwab	Nonfiction	1963
Ah Julian! A Memoir of Julian Brodetsky by Leonard Wibberley	Nonfiction	1963
The Everlasting Fire by Jonreed Lauritzen	Fiction	1962
Heart of the Wild by Chet Schwarzkopf	Fiction	1962
First woman ambulance surgeon, Emily Barringer by Iris Noble	Juvenile	1962
Adolph Sutro: A Biography by Robert E. Stewart	Nonfiction	1962
Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber	Californiana	1961
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone	Fiction	1961
The Gray Sea Raiders by Gordon D. Shirreffs	Juvenile	1961
Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 by Dale Van Every	Nonfiction	1961
A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner	Fiction	1960
Hawaii, the Aloha State by Helen Bauer	Juvenile	1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 by Allan Nevins	Nonfiction	1960
The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned by William Bronson	Californiana	1959
The Thirteenth Apostle by Eugene Vale	Fiction	1959
This is the Desert: The Story of America's Arid Region by Phil Ault	Juvenile	1959
Thaddeus Stevens : Scourge of the South by Fawn Brodie	Nonfiction	1959
The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917 by Henry Farnham May	Nonfiction	1959
Montgomery and the Portsmouth by Fred Blackburn Rogers	Californiana	1958
The Sergeant by Dennis Murphy	Fiction	1958
Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950 by David Lavender	Nonfiction	1958
The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 by George E. Mowry	Nonfiction	1958
San Francisco Bay by Harold Gilliam	Californiana	1957
The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee	Fiction	1957
Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks	Fiction	1957
The Braintree Mission by Nicholas E. Wyckoff	Fiction	1957
David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd	Juvenile	1957
Men of the Western Waters by Dale Van Every	Californiana	1956
The Long Watch by Elizabeth Linington	Fiction	1956
Spook, the Mustang by Harlan Thompson	Fiction	1956
James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798 by Charles Page Smith	Nonfiction	1956
The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester	Fiction	1955
The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley	Fiction	1955
The Streets of San Francisco by Samuel Dickson	Nonfiction	1955
Beyond the Hungry Country by Louise A. Stinetorf	Fiction	1954
The Epics of Everest by Leonard Wibberley	Fiction	1954
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner	Nonfiction	1954
Glory, God and Gold: A Narrative History of the Southwest by Paul I. Wellman	Nonfiction	1954
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury	Fiction	1953
Winds of Morning by H.L. Davis	Fiction	1952
Tracy's Tiger by William Saroyan	Fiction	1951
Ark of Empire by Idwal Jones	Nonfiction	1951
The Negro and the Communist Party by Wilson Record	Nonfiction	1951
About Mrs. Leslie by Viña Delmar	Fiction	1950
Thomas and the Red Headed Angel by Marion Garthwaite	Juvenile	1950
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong	Nonfiction	1950
Revolt in San Marcos by Robert Carver North	Fiction	1949
Epicurus My Master by Max Radin	Fiction	1949
At the Palace Gates by Helen Rand Parish	Juvenile	1949
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy	Nonfiction	1949
The beast in his hunger; poems by Harry Brown	Poetry	1949
The Nine Brides and Granny Hite by Neill Compton Wilson	Fiction	1948
Woman with a Sword by Hollister Noble	General Literature	1948
Seabird by Holling C. Holling	Juvenile	1948
The Big Divide: The Lively Story of the People of the Southern Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to Santa Fe by David Lavender	Nonfiction	1948
The Legend of Henry Ford by Keith Sward	Nonfiction	1948
The Trial of Sören Qvist by Janet Lewis	General Literature	1947
The great forest by Richard Gordon Lillard	Nonfiction	1947
The Christian heritage in America by George Percy Hedley	Nonfiction	1946
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement by George E. Mowry	Nonfiction	1946
High Bonnet by Idwal Jones	Fiction	1945
A Lion Is in the Streets by Adria Locke Langley	General Literature	1945
The Singing Cave by Margaret Carver Leighton	Juvenile	1945
South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen	Nonfiction	1945
Captain Retread by Donald Hough	Fiction	1944
One Day on Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar	General Literature	1944
Mystery at Thunderbolt House by Howard Pease	Juvenile	1944
Wide is the Gate by Upton Sinclair	Fiction	1943
Trio by Dorothy Baker	General Literature	1943
Spurs for Antonia by Katherine Wigmore Eyre	Juvenile	1943
The Stranger in Big Sur by Lillian Bos Ross	Fiction	1942
The Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters	Fiction	1942
I Remember Christine: (A Novel) by Oscar Lewis	General Literature	1942
Anybody's Gold: The Story of California's Mining Towns by Joseph Henry Jackson	General Literature	1941
Wild Geese Calling by Stewart Edward White	General Literature	1940
Blue Willow by Doris Gates	Juvenile	1940
My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan	Nonfiction-Memoir	1940
The March of the Barbarians by Harold Lamb	Scholarship	1940
Bright heritage by Mary Virginia Provines	General Literature	1939
The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts by William Saroyan	General Literature	1939
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	General Literature	1939
Flowering Earth by Donald Culross Peattie	Scholarship	1939
East of the Giants by George R. Stewart	General Literature	1938
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific by Oscar Lewis	Scholarship	1938
The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leonard Q. Ross	General Literature	1937
The early Stuarts, 1603-1660 by Godfrey Davies	Scholarship	1937
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck	General Literature	1936
Snow covered wagons : a pioneer epic : the Donner party expedition, 1846-1847 by Julia Cooley Altrocchi	Scholarship	1936
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart	Scholarship	1936
Laughter Out of the Ground; A Novel in Cadence by Robin Lampson	General Literature	1935
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck	General Literature	1935
THE LORD'S ANNOINTED : A novel of Hawaii by Ruth Eleanor McKee	General Literature	1934
The Revolutionary Emperor: Joseph II of Austria by Saul Kussiel Padover	Scholarship-History	1934
The Pursuit of Death: A Study of Shelley's Poetry by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz	Scholarship-Study	1933
Nur Mahal by Harold Lamb	General Literature	1932
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens by Lincoln Steffens	Nonfiction-Memoir	1932

Winner 424

Work	Category	Year
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge	Juvenile	2023
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez	Nonfiction	2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras	Nonfiction	2023
Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie	Young Adult	2023
Wishes by Muon Thi Van	Juvenile	2022
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson	Nonfiction	2022
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz	Nonfiction	2022
Refractive Africa by Will Alexander	Poetry	2022
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo	Young Adult	2022
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros	Juvenile	2021
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner	Nonfiction	2021
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty	Nonfiction	2021
Quiet Orient Riot by Nathalie Khankan	Poetry	2021
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed	Young Adult	2021
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed	Young Adult	2020
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras	First Fiction	2019
The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr	Juvenile	2019
The Library Book by Susan Orlean	Nonfiction	2019
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer	Nonfiction	2019
Total Recall by Samantha Giles	Poetry	2019
Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert	Young Adult	2019
The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age by Robert Aquinas McNally	Californiana	2018
The California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann	Contribution to Publishing	2018
The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil	Fiction	2018
So Much Blue by Percival Everett	Fiction	2018
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong	First Fiction	2018
Maya Lin by Susan Goldman Rubin	Juvenile	2018
Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 61) by Tongo Eisen-Martin	Poetry	2018
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater	Young Adult	2018
Restless Continent by Aja Couchois Duncan	Poetry	2017
Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney	Poetry	2017
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley	Californiana	2016
Ecosystems of California by Harold Mooney	Contribution to Publishing	2016
Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy	First Fiction	2016
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet	Juvenile	2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez	Nonfiction	2016
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature by Jordan Fisher Smith	Nonfiction	2016
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon	Young Adult	2016
California's Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History by Tom Killion	Californiana	2015
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume One, 1890-1930 by Robinson Jeffers	Contribution to Publishing	2015
Melissa by Alex Gino	Juvenile	2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy	Nonfiction	2015
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman	Nonfiction	2015
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman	Young Adult	2015
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith	Young Adult	2015
The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin : the damn good times of a fiercely independent publisher by Kim Bancroft	Contribution to Publishing	2014
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol	First Fiction	2014
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm	Juvenile	2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel	Nonfiction	2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar	Nonfiction	2014
The Feel Trio by Fred Moten	Poetry	2014
Orfeo by Richard Powers	Silver	2014
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal	Young Adult	2014
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero	Young Adult	2014
Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss	Juvenile	2013
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser	Nonfiction	2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz	Nonfiction	2013
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire by Brenda Hillman	Poetry	2013
The Boss (McSweeney's Poetry Series) by Victoria Chang	Poetry	2013
Masha'allah and Other Stories by Mariah K. Young	First Fiction	2012
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate	Juvenile	2012
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet	Nonfiction	2012
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor	Nonfiction	2012
Sea and fog by Etel Adnan	Poetry	2012
Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson	Young Adult	2012
A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss	Young Adult	2012
Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010 by John H. M. Laslett		2012
One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin	Juvenile	2011
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum by Jason Felch	Nonfiction	2011
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem	Nonfiction	2011
Ascension by Giovanni Singleton	Poetry	2011
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy	Young Adult	2011
Grandma's Gloves by Cecil Castellucci	Juvenile	2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Nonfiction	2010
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin	Nonfiction	2010
Mortal Geography (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) by Alexandra Teague	Poetry	2010
Suck on the Marrow by CAMILLE DUNGY	Poetry	2010
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt	Young Adult	2010
Lucky Breaks by Susan Patron	Juvenile	2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction	2009
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann	First Fiction	2008
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson	Juvenile	2008
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams	Nonfiction	2008
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West by Deanne Stillman	Nonfiction	2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	2008
Practice by Dan Bellm	Poetry	2008
White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages	Young Adult	2008
The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space by William David Estrada		2008
Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour	First Fiction	2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad	Nonfiction	2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe	Nonfiction	2007
Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems by W. S. Di Piero	Poetry	2007
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher	Young Adult	2007
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine	Young Adult	2007
Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery) by James Greer	First Fiction	2006
Landed by Milly Lee	Juvenile	2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan	Nonfiction	2006
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario	Nonfiction	2006
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed	Poetry	2006
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant	Young Adult	2006
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li	First Fiction	2005
Terrific by Jon Agee	Juvenile	2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	2005
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond	Nonfiction	2005
The Niagara River: Poems by Kay Ryan	Poetry	2005
The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard	Young Adult	2005
Every Night Is Ladies' Night: Stories by Michael Jaime-Becerra	First Fiction	2004
Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley	Juvenile	2004
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson	Nonfiction	2004
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich	Poetry	2004
Worth by A. LaFaye	Young Adult	2004
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer	First Fiction	2003
Just a Minute! A Trickster Tale and Counting Book by Yuyi Morales	Juvenile	2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction	2003
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 by Bram Dijkstra	Nonfiction	2003
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann	Notable Contribution to Publishing	2003
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	2003
Where I Was From by Joan Didion	Special Acknowledgement	2003
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau	Young Adult	2003
The Last Good Chance: A Novel by Tom Barbash	First Fiction	2002
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold	First Fiction	2002
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan	Juvenile	2002
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction	2002
American Law in the Twentieth Century by Lawrence M. Friedman	Nonfiction	2002
The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder	Notable Contribution to Publishing	2002
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry	2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) by Elizabeth Partridge	Young Adult	2002
Edgewater Angels: A Novel by Sandro Meallet	First Fiction	2001
American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor	Nonfiction	2001
Splendide Californie! : impressions of the Golden State by French artists, 1786 to 1900 by Claudine Chalmers	Notable Contribution to Publishing	2001
New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry	2001
Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer	Poetry	2001
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko	Young Adult	2001
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F. X. Toole	First Fiction	2000
Jubal's Wish by Audrey Wood	Juvenile	2000
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth	Nonfiction	2000
Selected Poems by Fanny Howe	Poetry	2000
California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940 by K. D. Kurutz	Publishing	2000
At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant	Young Adult	2000
The Artist of the Missing: A Novel by Paul La Farge	First Fiction	1999
Crooked by Laura McNeal	First Fiction	1999
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy	Nonfiction	1999
Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe by Brad S. Gregory	Nonfiction	1999
The Mercy: Poems by Philip Levine	Poetry	1999
Little Bo by Julie Andrews	Young Adult	1999
Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Lan Samantha Chang	First Fiction	1998
Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard	Juvenile	1998
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Wilson	Juvenile	1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	1998
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer	Nonfiction	1998
Mrs. Dumpty by Chana Bloch	Poetry	1998
The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry	1998
Circumnavigation by Steve Lattimore	First Fiction	1997
The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale by Robert D. San Souci	Juvenile	1997
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond	Nonfiction	1997
Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry W. Greene	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1997
A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems (New Directions Paperbook) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poetry	1997
Sacred Dust by David Hill	First Work of Fiction	1996
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer	Juvenile	1996
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder	Juvenile	1996
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D. J. Waldie	Nonfiction	1996
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime	Nonfiction	1996
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass	Poetry	1996
Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995 by Carolyn Kizer	Poetry	1996
Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories by John A. Miller	First Work	1995
A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin	Juvenile	1995
Canto Familiar by Gary Soto	Juvenile	1995
The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci	Juvenile	1995
Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America by Mike Rose	Nonfiction	1995
Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic by Galen Rowell	Nonfiction	1995
Lights & Mysteries by Thomas Centolella	Poetry	1995
Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler	Poetry	1995
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting	Juvenile	1994
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Peter N. Carroll	Juvenile	1994
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman	Juvenile	1994
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein	Nonfiction	1994
Two Eagles / Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the United States-Mexico Borderlands by Tupper Ansel Blake	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1994
The Philosopher's Club : poems by Kim Addonizio	Poetry	1994
The October Palace: Poems by Jane Hirshfield	Poetry	1994
Tuscaloosa: A novel by W. Glasgow Phillips	First Novel	1993
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman	Juvenile	1993
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say	Juvenile	1993
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep	Juvenile	1993
Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes	Nonfiction	1993
No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture by Allan Temko	Nonfiction	1993
The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life by Kenneth R. Trapp	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1993
Lost Body (National Poetry Series) by Terry Ehret	Poetry	1993
Cantora by Sylvia Lopez-Medina	First Novel	1992
Earthquake at Dawn by Kristiana Gregory	Juvenile	1992
A Bowl of Mischief by Ellen Kindt McKenzie	Juvenile	1992
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco	Juvenile	1992
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz	Nonfiction	1992
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction	1992
Napoleon An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy 1800-1814 by Proctor Patterson Jones	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1992
Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty	Juvenile	1991
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting	Juvenile	1991
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook	Nonfiction	1991
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi	Nonfiction	1991
What Work Is by Philip Levine	Poetry	1991
Provinces by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry	1991
Babushka's Doll by Patricia Polacco	Juvenile	1990
Sacred Mountains of the World by Edwin Bernbaum	Nonfiction	1990
The Knight, Death and the Devil by Ella Leffland	Nonfiction	1990
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp	Nonfiction	1990
O California! : nineteenth and early twentieth century California landscapes and observations by Stephen Vincent	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1990
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Updated and Revised Edition by Ronald Takaki	Nonfiction	1989
Human Wishes by Robert Hass	Poetry	1989
Fortress (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Brenda Hillman	Poetry	1989
Dead Languages by David Shields	Poetry	1989
Step into the Night by Joanne Ryder	Juvenile	1988
Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings by Herschel B. Chipp	Nonfiction	1988
The Way to the Western Sea by David Lavender	Nonfiction	1988
Green Architecture & The Agrarian Garden by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon	Nonfiction	1988
Of Gravity and Angels by Jane Hirshfield	Poetry	1988
The Collected Poems by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry	1988
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect by Victoria Kastner		1988
Unremembered Country by Susan Griffin	First Fiction	1987
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton	First Fiction	1987
Nell's Quilt by Susan Terris	Juvenile	1987
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard	Nonfiction	1987
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts	Nonfiction	1987
Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey	Nonfiction	1987
Small Business (Contemporary American Fiction) by Tom Parker	First Fiction	1986
France, Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber	Nonfiction	1986
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker	Nonfiction	1986
Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen A. Rowell	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1986
Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1985 by Gary Snyder	Poetry	1986
Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems by Timothy Steele	Poetry	1986
Willow Maiden by Meghan Collins	Juvenile	1985
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof	Nonfiction	1985
Early light (University of Utah Press poetry series) by W. S. Di Piero	Poetry	1985
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn	First Fiction	1984
Monkey Puzzle and Other Poems by Livingston	Juvenile	1984
Above Paris by Pierre Salinger	Nonfiction	1984
Celebrating Italy by Carol Field	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1984
The Hill Towns of Italy by Carol Field	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1984
European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries (New Directions Paperback) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poetry	1984
A Dime to Dance By by Walter Walker	First Fiction	1983
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary	Juvenile	1983
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness by Mark Owens	Juvenile	1983
French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean V. Bony	Nonfiction	1983
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson	Nonfiction	1983
Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet by Galen Rowell	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1983
Collected Poems, 1930-83 by Josephine Miles	Poetry	1983
Story for a Black Night by Clayton Bess	First Fiction	1982
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff	Nonfiction	1982
Spacks Street, New and Selected Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by Barry Spacks	Poetry	1982
A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida	Juvenile	1981
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction	1981
Will's Boy: A Memoir by Wright Morris	Nonfiction	1981
Poems Old and New: 1918-1978 by Janet Lewis	Poetry	1981
Flight of the Sparrow by Julia Cunningham	Juvenile	1980
The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman	Juvenile	1980
Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner	Nonfiction	1980
A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster	Nonfiction	1980
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp	Nonfiction	1980
The Fool and the Dancing Bear by Pamela Stearns	Juvenile	1979
Sea Glass by Laurence Yep	Juvenile	1979
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack	Nonfiction	1979
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash	Nonfiction	1979
Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China by Michael Sullivan	Notable Contribution to Publishing	1979
The Morning Star by Kenneth Rexroth	Poetry	1979
A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey	First Fiction	1978
North of Danger by Dale Fife	Juvenile	1978
Germany 1866-1945 by Gordon A. Craig	Nonfiction	1978
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend by Charles W. Jones	Nonfiction	1978
Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation by Ferol Egan	Nonfiction	1977
Botanical Prints by Henry Evans	Nonfiction	1977
Haywire by Brooke Hayward	Nonfiction	1977
In Mediterranean Air by Ann Stanford	Poetry	1977
A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution by Page Smith	Nonfiction	1976
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber	Nonfiction	1976
Jack Straw's Castle by Thom Gunn	Poetry	1976
Adult Bookstore by Karl Shapiro	Poetry	1976
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated by Brian M. Fagan	Nonfiction	1975
The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant	Nonfiction	1975
The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar by Peter Ward Fay	Nonfiction	1975
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed by Robert A. Rosenstone	Nonfiction	1975
The paper party by Don Freeman	Juvenile	1974
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski	Nonfiction	1974
Steinbeck Country by Steve Crouch	Nonfiction	1973
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr	Nonfiction	1973
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by John Niven	Nonfiction	1973
Living Together by Edgar Bowers	Poetry	1973
Samurai of Gold Hill by Yoshiko Uchida	Juvenile	1972
Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill by Travis Bogard	Nonfiction	1972
Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 by Ferol Egan	Nonfiction	1972
Annie and the Old One by Patricia Miles Martin	Juvenile	1971
Textile Art in the Church by Marion P. Ireland	Nonfiction	1971
More Under Saturn by William Dickey	Poetry	1971
Jonah and the Great Fish. by Clyde Robert Bulla	Juvenile	1970
Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India by Stephen N. Hay	Nonfiction	1970
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time by Will Durant	Nonfiction	1970
The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü	Nonfiction	1970
The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books by Eleanor Cameron	Juvenile	1969
The Cay by Theodore Taylor	Juvenile	1969
With Bold Knife and Fork by M. F. K. Fisher	Nonfiction	1969
Edward L. Thorndike: The Sane Positivist by Geraldine JonCich Clifford	Nonfiction	1968
Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation by William Weber Johnson	Nonfiction	1968
Westward the Immigrants: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America by Andrew F. Rolle	Nonfiction	1968
Silent ship, silent sea by Robb White	Juvenile	1967
Robert E. Lee: A Portrait by Margaret Sanborn	Nonfiction	1967
Fathers by Herbert Gold	Nonfiction	1967
The young Stalin; the early years of an elusive revolutionary by Edward Ellis Smith	Nonfiction	1967
The Rose of Solitude by William Everson	Poetry	1967
The Stone Mason Of Tor House:The Life And Times Of Robinson Jeffers by Melba Berry Bennett	Nonfiction	1966
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster by Wilfred Stone	Nonfiction	1966
Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 by Leonard Pitt	Nonfiction	1966
The ordeal of the Constitution; the antifederalists and the ratification struggle of 1787-1788 by Robert Allen Rutland	Nonfiction	1966
Campion Towers by John Louis Beatty	Juvenile	1965
Arfive by A.B. Jr Guthrie	Nonfiction	1965
Oil, land, and politics; the California career of Thomas Robert Bard by W. H. Hutchinson	Nonfiction	1965
Mein Cello und ich und unsere Begegnungen by Gregor Piatigorsky	Nonfiction	1965
The Final Challenge: The American Frontier, 1804-1845 by Dale Van Every	Nonfiction	1965
Selected Poems by Louis Simpson	Poetry	1965
A Spell is Cast by Eleanor Cameron	Juvenile	1964
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 by C. D. O'Malley	Nonfiction	1964
The Keys and the Candle by Maryhale Woolsey	Juvenile	1963
A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky	Nonfiction	1963
James Gibbons Huneker, critic of the seven arts by Arnold T. Schwab	Nonfiction	1963
Ah Julian! A Memoir of Julian Brodetsky by Leonard Wibberley	Nonfiction	1963
First woman ambulance surgeon, Emily Barringer by Iris Noble	Juvenile	1962
Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox [Revised and Expanded Edition] by Heinz Politzer	Nonfiction	1962
John Adams by Page Smith	Nonfiction	1962
Adolph Sutro: A Biography by Robert E. Stewart	Nonfiction	1962
The Gray Sea Raiders by Gordon D. Shirreffs	Juvenile	1961
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer	Nonfiction	1961
Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 by Dale Van Every	Nonfiction	1961
Hawaii, the Aloha State by Helen Bauer	Juvenile	1960
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 by George Dangerfield	Nonfiction	1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 by Allan Nevins	Nonfiction	1960
This is the Desert: The Story of America's Arid Region by Phil Ault	Juvenile	1959
Alexander Hamilton:Portrait in Paradox by John Chester Miller	Nonfiction	1959
Thaddeus Stevens : Scourge of the South by Fawn Brodie	Nonfiction	1959
The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917 by Henry Farnham May	Nonfiction	1959
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold	Nonfiction	1958
Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950 by David Lavender	Nonfiction	1958
The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 by George E. Mowry	Nonfiction	1958
David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd	Juvenile	1957
Elizabethans at Home by Lu Emily Pearson	Nonfiction	1957
The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme	Nonfiction	1956
James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798 by Charles Page Smith	Nonfiction	1956
Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh	Nonfiction	1955
Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko	Nonfiction	1955
The Streets of San Francisco by Samuel Dickson	Nonfiction	1955
Howells and the age of realism by Everett Carter	Nonfiction	1954
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner	Nonfiction	1954
Glory, God and Gold: A Narrative History of the Southwest by Paul I. Wellman	Nonfiction	1954
It's Good to Be Black by Ruby Berkley Goodwin	Nonfiction	1953
Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution (Cal 138) by Walton Bean	Nonfiction	1952
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer	Nonfiction	1951
Ark of Empire by Idwal Jones	Nonfiction	1951
The Negro and the Communist Party by Wilson Record	Nonfiction	1951
Thomas and the Red Headed Angel by Marion Garthwaite	Juvenile	1950
Sea Road to the Indies: an Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, Together With the Life and Times of Dom Vasco Da Gama by Henry Hersch Hart	Nonfiction	1950
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong	Nonfiction	1950
At the Palace Gates by Helen Rand Parish	Juvenile	1949
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy	Nonfiction	1949
The beast in his hunger; poems by Harry Brown	Poetry	1949
Woman with a Sword by Hollister Noble	General Literature	1948
Seabird by Holling C. Holling	Juvenile	1948
The Big Divide: The Lively Story of the People of the Southern Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to Santa Fe by David Lavender	Nonfiction	1948
The Legend of Henry Ford by Keith Sward	Nonfiction	1948
The Age of the Great Depression 1929-1941: A History of American Life by Dixon Wecter	Scholarship	1948
The Trial of Sören Qvist by Janet Lewis	General Literature	1947
The great forest by Richard Gordon Lillard	Nonfiction	1947
The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization, 1607-1763 by Louis B. Wright	Scholarship	1947
The Christian heritage in America by George Percy Hedley	Nonfiction	1946
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement by George E. Mowry	Nonfiction	1946
A Lion Is in the Streets by Adria Locke Langley	General Literature	1945
The Singing Cave by Margaret Carver Leighton	Juvenile	1945
Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood by John Jenkins Espey	Nonfiction	1945
South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen	Nonfiction	1945
The Epic of Latin America by John A. Crow	Scholarship	1945
One Day on Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar	General Literature	1944
Mystery at Thunderbolt House by Howard Pease	Juvenile	1944
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant	Nonfiction	1944
Woodrow Wilson and the lost peace by Thomas A. Bailey	Scholarship	1944
Trio by Dorothy Baker	General Literature	1943
Spurs for Antonia by Katherine Wigmore Eyre	Juvenile	1943
Brothers under the skin by Carey McWilliams	Nonfiction	1943
The Legacy of Nazism: The Economic and Social Consequences of Totalitarianism by Frank Munk	Scholarship	1943
I Remember Christine: (A Novel) by Oscar Lewis	General Literature	1942
Proud Riders, and Other Poems by H.L. Davis	Poetry	1942
A history of historical writing by James Westfall Thompson	Scholarship	1942
Anybody's Gold: The Story of California's Mining Towns by Joseph Henry Jackson	General Literature	1941
Lord of Alaska; Baranov and the Russian Adventure by Hector Chevigny	Nonfiction	1941
Many Mexicos by Lesley Byrd Simpson	Scholarship	1941
Wild Geese Calling by Stewart Edward White	General Literature	1940
Blue Willow by Doris Gates	Juvenile	1940
My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan	Nonfiction-Memoir	1940
A Diplomatic History of the American People by Thomas A. Bailey	Scholarship	1940
The Structure of Art by Carl Thurston	Scholarship	1940
The March of the Barbarians by Harold Lamb	Scholarship	1940
Bright heritage by Mary Virginia Provines	General Literature	1939
The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts by William Saroyan	General Literature	1939
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	General Literature	1939
Land Below the Wind by Agnes Newton Keith	Nonfiction-Memoir	1939
San Francisco's Literary Frontier by Franklin Walker	Scholarship	1939
Flowering Earth by Donald Culross Peattie	Scholarship	1939
East of the Giants by George R. Stewart	General Literature	1938
Enchanted Vagabonds by Dana Lamb	Nonfiction-Memoir	1938
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific by Oscar Lewis	Scholarship	1938
The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leonard Q. Ross	General Literature	1937
Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell	Scholarship	1937
The early Stuarts, 1603-1660 by Godfrey Davies	Scholarship	1937
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck	General Literature	1936
God and Man's Destiny by Hartley Burr Alexander	Scholarship	1936
Snow covered wagons : a pioneer epic : the Donner party expedition, 1846-1847 by Julia Cooley Altrocchi	Scholarship	1936
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart	Scholarship	1936
Laughter Out of the Ground; A Novel in Cadence by Robin Lampson	General Literature	1935
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck	General Literature	1935
SAN FRANCISCO TALES by Charles Dobie	Nonfiction	1935
THE LORD'S ANNOINTED : A novel of Hawaii by Ruth Eleanor McKee	General Literature	1934
The Saga of the Comstock Lode by George D. Lyman	Scholarship	1934
The Revolutionary Emperor: Joseph II of Austria by Saul Kussiel Padover	Scholarship-History	1934
San Francisco: A Pageant by Charles Caldwell Dobie	Nonfiction	1933
The Pursuit of Death: A Study of Shelley's Poetry by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz	Scholarship-Study	1933
Nur Mahal by Harold Lamb	General Literature	1932
Adventures of a Novelist by Gertrude Atherton	Nonfiction-Memoir	1932
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens by Lincoln Steffens	Nonfiction-Memoir	1932
Crowded years: The reminiscences of William G. McAdoo by William Gibbs McAdoo	Nonfiction-Memoir	1931
Outpost of empire : the story of the founding of San Francisco by Herbert Eugene Bolton	Scholarship-History	1931

Finalist 262

Work	Category	Year
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City by Andrew Alden	Californiana	2024
Octopus's Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California by Benjamin T. Jenkins	Californiana	2024
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities by John King	Californiana	2024
Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California by Kaitlin P. Reed	Californiana	2024
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland by Ali Winston	Californiana	2024
KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell by Robeson Taj Frazier	Contribution to Publishing	2024
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt	Contribution to Publishing	2024
How to Say Goodbye: The Wisdom of Hospice Caregivers by Wendy MacNaughton	Contribution to Publishing	2024
Fire in the Canyon: A Novel by Daniel Gumbiner	Fiction	2024
Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc	Fiction	2024
The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma	Fiction	2024
Blackouts by Justin Torres	Fiction	2024
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese	Fiction	2024
I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani	First Fiction	2024
All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky	First Fiction	2024
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton	First Fiction	2024
The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers	Juvenile	2024
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat	Juvenile	2024
The Honey Jar: An Armenian's Escape to Freedom by Joan Schoettler	Juvenile	2024
Boomi's Boombox by Shanthi Sekaran	Juvenile	2024
Big Tree by Brian Selznick	Juvenile	2024
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future by Peter Gleick	Nonfiction	2024
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton	Nonfiction	2024
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Nonfiction	2024
Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir by Fae Myenne Ng	Nonfiction	2024
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia	Nonfiction	2024
Mass for Shut-Ins by Mary-Alice Daniel	Poetry	2024
Things I Didn't Do with This Body (The Lannan Literary Selections) by Amanda Gunn	Poetry	2024
Quiver: Poems by Luke Johnson	Poetry	2024
Tarta Americana (Penguin Poets) by J. Michael Martinez	Poetry	2024
The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold	Young Adult	2024
The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent by Ann Jacobus	Young Adult	2024
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham	Young Adult	2024
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater	Young Adult	2024
The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson	Californiana	2023
The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History by Michael Kauffmann	Contribution to Publishing	2023
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell	Fiction	2023
Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins	Fiction	2023
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley	First Fiction	2023
The Red Arrow by William Brewer	First Fiction	2023
Out There: Stories by Kate Folk	First Fiction	2023
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty	First Fiction	2023
Native Air by Jonathan Howland	First Fiction	2023
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge	Juvenile	2023
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy	Juvenile	2023
In the Beautiful Country by Jane Kuo	Juvenile	2023
Twin Cities by Jose Pimienta	Juvenile	2023
Hello, Moon by Evan Turk	Juvenile	2023
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez	Nonfiction	2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras	Nonfiction	2023
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History by Ian Morris	Nonfiction	2023
Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie	Young Adult	2023
Notes from a Sickbed by Tessa Brunton	Young Adult	2023
Cold: A Novel by Mariko Tamaki	Young Adult	2023
The Well by Jake Wyatt	Young Adult	2023
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin	Californiana	2022
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen	Fiction	2022
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead	Fiction	2022
Skinship: Stories by Yoon Choi	First Fiction	2022
City of a Thousand Gates by Rebecca Sacks	First Fiction	2022
Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So	First Fiction	2022
Wishes by Muon Thi Van	Juvenile	2022
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes	Juvenile	2022
Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick	Juvenile	2022
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin	Juvenile	2022
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson	Nonfiction	2022
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz	Nonfiction	2022
Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell	Nonfiction	2022
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff	Nonfiction	2022
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature by Beth Shapiro	Nonfiction	2022
Refractive Africa by Will Alexander	Poetry	2022
Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 62) by Tongo Eisen-Martin	Poetry	2022
Permanent Volta by Rosie Stockton	Poetry	2022
Yellow Rain: Poems by Mai Der Vang	Poetry	2022
Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo	Young Adult	2022
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert	Young Adult	2022
The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore	Young Adult	2022
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon	Young Adult	2022
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett	Fiction	2021
Members Only by Sameer Pandya	Fiction	2021
These Women by Ivy Pochoda	Fiction	2021
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang	First Fiction	2021
Godshot by Chelsea Bieker	First Fiction	2021
Fiebre Tropical: A Novel by Juliana Delgado Lopera	First Fiction	2021
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros	Juvenile	2021
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert	Juvenile	2021
Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan	Juvenile	2021
Outside In by Deborah Underwood	Juvenile	2021
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner	Nonfiction	2021
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty	Nonfiction	2021
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich	Nonfiction	2021
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami	Nonfiction	2021
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner	Nonfiction	2021
Quiet Orient Riot by Nathalie Khankan	Poetry	2021
Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody	Poetry	2021
Bareback Nightfall by Joshua Escobar	Poetry	2021
Letters to a Young Brown Girl (American Poets Continuum Series, 182) by Barbara Jane Reyes	Poetry	2021
Little Hill by Alli Warren	Poetry	2021
Private Lessons by Cynthia Salaysay	Young Adult	2021
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed	Young Adult	2021
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee	Young Adult	2021
Dragon Hoops by Gene Yuen Yang	Young Adult	2021
Awayland: Stories by Ramona Ausubel	Fiction	2019
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao	Fiction	2019
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo	First Fiction	2019
Karen Green: Frail Sister by Karen Green	First Fiction	2019
The Boatbuilder by Daniel Gumbiner	First Fiction	2019
Jabberwalking by Juan Felipe Herrera	Juvenile	2019
Escape from Aleppo by N. H. Senzai	Juvenile	2019
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser	Nonfiction	2019
Indianapolis : The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent	Nonfiction	2019
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler	Nonfiction	2019
Cenzontle : poems by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	Poetry	2019
Isako Isako by Mia Ayumi Malhotra	Poetry	2019
Vigilance Is No Orchard by Hazel White	Poetry	2019
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold	Young Adult	2019
The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo	Young Adult	2019
Rabbit & Robot by Andrew Smith	Young Adult	2019
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang	Young Adult	2019
Less by Andrew Sean Greer	Fiction	2018
Large Animals: Stories by Jess Arndt	First Fiction	2018
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons	First Fiction	2018
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson	First Fiction	2018
Holy Ghost (City Lights Spotlight) by David Brazil	Poetry	2018
Tony Greene Era by Kevin Killian	Poetry	2018
Invocation to Daughters: City Lights Spotlight No. 16 by Barbara Jane Reyes	Poetry	2018
I Love It Though by Alli Warren	Poetry	2018
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie	Fiction	2017
Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy	First Fiction	2017
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet	Juvenile	2017
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez	Nonfiction	2017
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature by Jordan Fisher Smith	Nonfiction	2017
The Jungle Around Us: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.) by Anne Raeff	Fiction	2016
They May Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel by Cathleen Schine	Fiction	2016
Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua	First Fiction	2016
The Airport Book by Lisa Brown	Juvenile	2016
Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm	Juvenile	2016
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird by Pamela S. Turner	Juvenile	2016
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction	2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild	Nonfiction	2016
The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire by Kimball Taylor	Nonfiction	2016
The Laughter of the Sphinx by Michael Palmer	Poetry	2016
Position Paper by Carol Snow	Poetry	2016
Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes	Young Adult	2016
Scythe by Neal Shusterman	Young Adult	2016
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin	Fiction	2015
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson	Fiction	2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen	First Fiction	2015
The Girl Who Slept with God: A Novel by Val Brelinski	First Fiction	2015
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle	Juvenile	2015
Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert	Juvenile	2015
Hilo Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winick	Juvenile	2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy	Nonfiction	2015
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman	Nonfiction	2015
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones	Nonfiction	2015
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles	Nonfiction	2015
The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying by Brent Armendinger	Poetry	2015
Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera	Poetry	2015
Land Sparing by Gabriella Klein	Poetry	2015
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman	Young Adult	2015
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith	Young Adult	2015
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton	Young Adult	2015
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan	Young Adult	2015
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis		2015
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas by Lynne Cox	Juvenile	2014
Space Case by Stuart Gibbs	Juvenile	2014
Shoe Dog by Megan McDonald	Juvenile	2014
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson	Juvenile	2014
The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789 by Edward J. Larson	Nonfiction	2014
War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots by Ian Morris	Nonfiction	2014
Hard Love Province: Poems by Marilyn Chin	Poetry	2014
Tree Line by Judy Halebsky	Poetry	2014
Patter by Douglas Kearney	Poetry	2014
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine	Poetry	2014
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson	Young Adult	2014
100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith	Young Adult	2014
The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, His Horse Midnight, a Mysterious Princess, and Sundry Magical Persons Besides by Ben Tripp	Young Adult	2014
Noggin by John Corey Whaley	Young Adult	2014
At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón	Fiction	2013
Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel by Eli Brown	Fiction	2013
Goat Mountain: A Novel by David Vann	Fiction	2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra	First Fiction	2013
Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Lam	First Fiction	2013
Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss	Juvenile	2013
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt	Juvenile	2013
Glasswings: A Butterfly’s Story by Elisa Kleven	Juvenile	2013
Lara's Gift by Annemarie O'Brien	Juvenile	2013
The Dark by Lemony Snicket	Juvenile	2013
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser	Nonfiction	2013
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan	Nonfiction	2013
Wilson by A. Scott Berg	Nonfiction	2013
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us by S. Lochlann Jain	Nonfiction	2013
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire by Brenda Hillman	Poetry	2013
Fire Break by George Albon	Poetry	2013
Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights Spotlight) by Alli Warren	Poetry	2013
Small Porcelain Head by Allison Benis White	Poetry	2013
Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn	Young Adult	2013
Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers	Young Adult	2013
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal	Young Adult	2013
Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross	Young Adult	2013
Boxers and Saints by Gene Yuen Yang	Young Adult	2013
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon	Fiction	2012
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers	Fiction	2012
A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois	First Fiction	2012
A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins	First Fiction	2012
Monstress: Stories by Lysley Tenorio	First Fiction	2012
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate	Juvenile	2012
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale	Juvenile	2012
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook by Joanne Rocklin	Juvenile	2012
The Seven Tales of Trinket by Shelley Moore Thomas	Juvenile	2012
Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ashley Wolff	Juvenile	2012
Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz	Nonfiction	2012
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History by Nancy C. Unger	Nonfiction	2012
Journey to the Sun by Brent Cunningham	Poetry	2012
After Urgency by Rusty Morrison	Poetry	2012
Citizen by Aaron Shurin	Poetry	2012
Hurrah's Nest by Arisa White	Poetry	2012
Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson	Young Adult	2012
Out of Reach by Carrie Arcos	Young Adult	2012
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers	Young Adult	2012
“Who Could That Be at This Hour?” by Lemony Snicket	Young Adult	2012
The Great Night by Chris Adrian	Fiction	2011
You Are Free: Stories by Danzy Senna	Fiction	2011
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace	Fiction	2011
Power Ballads (Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Will Boast	First Fiction	2011
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas	First Fiction	2011
The Bravest Woman in America by Marissa Moss	Juvenile	2011
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson	Juvenile	2011
Lucky for Good by Susan Patron	Juvenile	2011
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin	Juvenile	2011
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem	Nonfiction	2011
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White	Nonfiction	2011
Waifs and Strays (City Lights Spotlight) by Micah Ballard	Poetry	2011
Smith Blue by Camille T. Dungy	Poetry	2011
Open Winter by Rae Gouirand	Poetry	2011
Journal of American Foreign Policy (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Jeff Hoffman	Poetry	2011
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy	Young Adult	2011
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler	Young Adult	2011
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs	Young Adult	2011
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick	Young Adult	2011
Dragons of Silk by Laurence Yep	Young Adult	2011
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita	Fiction	2010
City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris	Fiction	2010
In Envy Country: Stories (ND Sullivan Prize Short Fiction) by Joan Frank	Fiction	2010
The True Memoirs of Little K by Adrienne Sharp	Fiction	2010
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason	First Fiction	2010
Quiet As They Come by Angie Chau	First Fiction	2010
Breathing, In Dust (The Americas Series) by Tim Z. Hernandez	First Fiction	2010
Death Is Not an Option: Stories by Suzanne Rivecca	First Fiction	2010
Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz by Beverly Gherman	Juvenile	2010
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According To Susy) by Barbara Kerley	Juvenile	2010
From North to South / Del Norte al Sur by Rene Lainez	Juvenile	2010
Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide by Icy Smith	Juvenile	2010
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean by Julia Whitty	Nonfiction	2010
Suck on the Marrow by CAMILLE DUNGY	Poetry	2010
Sky=Empty (First Book) by Judy Halebsky	Poetry	2010
Diwata (American Poets Continuum) by Barbara Jane Reyes	Poetry	2010
Phantom Noise by Brian Turner	Poetry	2010
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba by Margarita Engle	Young Adult	2010
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs by Ron Koertge	Young Adult	2010
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman	Young Adult	2010

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