• Winner:
• Finalists: Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is; Laura Anne Gilman, The Cold Eye; Elise Hooper, The Other Alcott; Matthew D. Hunt, Solar Reboot; Nancy Pearl, George and Lizzie; Ingrid Thoft, Duplicity

• Winner:
• Finalists: Glenna Cook, Thresholds; Claudia Castro Luna, Killing Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices; Frances McCue, Timber Curtain; Melinda Mueller, Mary’s Dust; Eugenia Toledo, Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces, translated by Carolyne Wright; Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Water & Salt

• Winner:
• Finalists: Kristin Jarvis Adams, The Chicken Who Saved Us; Geraldine DeRuiter, All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft; Claudia Rowe, The Spider and the Fly

• Winner:
• Finalists: Langdon Cook, Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart’s Starling; David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil to Life; Jonathan White, Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean; David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott, Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal; Various authors, curated and edited by Jaimee Garbacik, Ghosts of Seattle Past

• Winner: Shawn Vestal, Daredevils (Penguin Press)
• Finalists: Laurie Blauner, The Solace of Monsters; Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others; Annie Proulx, Barkskins, Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country

• Winner: Tara Hardy, My, My, My, My, My (Write Bloody Publishing)
• Finalists: Don Mee Choi, Hardly War; Paisley Rekdal, Imaginary Vessels; Michael Schmeltzer, Blood Song; Megan Snyder-Camp, Wintering

• Winner: Brenda Miller, An Earlier Life (Judith Kitchen's Ovenbird Books)
• Finalists: Susan Marie Conrad, Inside: One Woman’s Journey through the Inside Passage; Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman; Leif Whittaker, My Old Man and the Mountain

• Winner: Steve Olson, Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Finalists: Timothy Egan, The Immortal Irishman; Eli Sanders, While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness; Adrienne Ross Scanlan, Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild; Margaret Willson, Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge

• Winner: Sharma Shields, The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac (Henry Holt)
• Finalists: S.M. Hulse, Black River; Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts, Ann Pancake, Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley; Shann Ray, American Copper

• Winner: Carl Phillips, Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Finalists: Rob Carney, 88 Maps; Laura Da', Tributaries; Emily Johnston, Her Animals; Christina Stoddard, Hive

• Winner: Mark Rozema, Road Trip (Red Hen Press)
• Finalists: Sonya Lea, Wondering Who You Are; Michael N. McGregor, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax; Ana Maria Spagna, Reclaimers; Tara Austen Weaver, Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow

• Winner: Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Crown Publishers)
• Finalists: Thor Hanson, The Triumph of Seeds; Ruth Kirk, Ozette: Excavating a Makah Whaling Village; David Neiwert, Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us; Jack Nisbet, Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest

• Winner: Jessixa Bagley (author/illustrator), Boats for Papa (Roaring Brook Press)
• Finalists: Lisa Mantchev (author), Strictly No Elephants; Laurie Thompson (author), Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

Books for Early Readers: (ages 6 to 8):

• Winner, Deborah Underwood, Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat (Dial Books)
• Finalist: Kelly Jones, Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer

Books for Middle Readers (ages 9 to 12)

• Winner: A.L. Sonnichsen, Red Butterfly (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Finalist: Beth Hautala, Waiting for Unicorns

Books for Young Adults: (ages 13 to 18)

• Winner: Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books)
• Finalist: Carolyn Lee Adams, Ruthless

• Winner: Bruce Holbert, The Hour of Lead (Counterpoint Press)
• Finalists: Heather Brittain Bergstrom, Steal the North; Adrianne Harun, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain; Martin Limón, The Iron Sickle ; Peter Mountford, The Dismal Science

• Winners: Tod Marshall, Bugle (Canarium Books); Red Pine (translator), The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse (Copper Canyon Press)
• Finalists: Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum; Kim-An Lieberman, In Orbit

• Winner: Charles D’Ambrosio, Loitering: New and Collected Essays (Tin House Books)
• Finalists: Bryce Andrews, Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West; Kathleen Flinn, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family; Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life; Elissa Washuta, My Body Is a Book of Rules

• Winner: Justin Wadland, Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound (Oregon State University Press)
• Finalists: Greg Atkinson, In Season: Culinary Adventures of a Pacific Northwest Chef; William Dietrich, The North Cascades: Finding Beauty and Renewal in the Wild Nearby; Greg Gordon, When Money Grew on Trees: A.B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron; Frances McCue, Mary Randlett Portraits

• Winner, Picture Book: Jennifer K. Mann (author/illustrator), Two Speckled Eggs (Candlewick Press)
• Finalists: Keith Baker (author/illustrator), Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Color; George Shannon (author) and Taeeun Yoo (illustrator), Hands Say Love; Hannah Viano (author/illustrator), S Is for Salmon: A Pacific Northwest Alphabet
• Winner, Middle Readers (ages 9 to 12): Dana Simpson, Phoebe and Her Unicorn (full title: Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle, Andrews McMeel Publishing)
• Finalists: Ken Jennings, Ken Jennings’ Junior Genius Guides: Maps and Geography; Maureen McQuerry, Time Out of Time: Book One: Beyond the Door
• Winner, Young Adults: Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Candlewick Press)
• Finalists: Mary Cronk Farrell, Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific; Katherine Kirkpatrick, Between Two Worlds; Jennifer Longo, Six Feet Over It

• Winner: Nicola Griffith, Hild (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Finalists: Scott Elliott, Temple Grove; Gregory Spatz, Half as Happy; Jess Walter, We Live in Water; Lance Weller, Wilderness

• Winner: Ed Skoog, Rough Day (Copper Canyon Press)
• Finalists: Sherman Alexie, What I've Stolen, What I've Earned; Rebecca Hoogs, Self-Storage; Derek Sheffield, Through the Second Skin; Nance van Ninckel, Pacific Walkers

• Winner: David Laskin, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century (Viking Press / Penguin Group)
• Finalists: Peter Bagge, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story; Nicole Hardy, Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin; Jonathan Raban, Driving Home: An American Journey

• Winner: Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Viking Press / Penguin Group)
• Finalists: Nancy Bartley, The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff: The Redemption of Herbert Niccolls, Jr.; Langdon Cook, The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America; David Moskowitz, Wolves in the Land of Salmon

• Winner, Picture Book: Kobi Yamada (author) and Mae Besom (illustrator), What Do You Do With an Idea? (Compendium Inc.)
• Finalists: Brenda Guiberson (author) and Gennady Spirin (illustrator), Frog Song; Jack Prelutsky (author) and Carin Berger (illustrator), Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems; Nina Laden (author) and Renata Liwska (illustrator), Once Upon a Memory; George Shannon (author) and Julie Paschkis (illustrator), Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar?
• Winner, Early Readers (ages 6 to 8): M.H. Clark, And Then, Story Starters (Compendium Inc.)
• Winner, Middle Readers (ages 9 to 12): Suzanne Selfors, The Sasquatch Escape (Little, Brown and Company)
• Winner, Young Adults (ages 13 to 18): Patrick Flores-Scott, Jumped In (Christy Ottaviano Books / Henry Holt and Company)
• Finalists: Steven Arntson, The Wrap-Up List; Sean Beaudoin, Wise Young Fool; Thatcher Heldring, The League; Kirby Larson, Duke

Note: The News Release in the Seattle Public Library's archive lists the finalists for the Early Readers, Middle Readers and Young Adults as a group without an age designation.

• Winner: Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist (HarperCollins)
• Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife; Jonathan Evison, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Lucia Perillo, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain; Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

• Winner: Kathleen Flenniken, Plume (University of Washington Press)
• Finalists: Bruce Beasley, Theophobia; Andrew Feld, Raptor; Colleen McElroy, Here I Throw Down My Heart; Claire McQuerry, Lacemakers

• Winner: Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
• Finalists: Ellen Forney, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me; Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War; Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas

• Winner: David R. Montgomery, The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
• Finalists: Kirsten Grind, The Lost Bank: The Story of the Biggest Bank Failure in American History; Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West; Jack Nisbet, David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest; Douglas Smith, Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy

• Winner, Picture Book: Barbara Kerley, Those Rebels, John & Tom
• Winner, Young Adults: J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just

• Winner: Peter Mountford, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Finalists: Jonathan Evison, West of Here; David Guterson, Ed King; Stacey Levine, The Girl With Brown Fur: Tales Stories; Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

• Winner: Christine Deavel, Woodnote (Bear Star Press)
• Finalists: Arlene Kim, What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?; Katrina Roberts, Underdog; Martha Silano, The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception

• Winner: Paul Lindholdt, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (University of Iowa Press)
• Finalists: Jana Harris, Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her; Shiro Kashiba, Shiro: Wit, Wisdom & Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer; Katherine Malmo, Who In This Room: The Realities of Cancer, Fish, and Demolition; Ana Maria Spanga, Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness

• Winner: Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Crown Publishers)
• Finalists: Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s; Jeff Crane, Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha; John Findlay and Bruce Hevly, Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West; Thor Hanson, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

• Winner, Picture Book: Nikki McClure (author and illustrator, To Market, To Market (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Katherine Schlick Noe, Something to Hold (Clarion Books)

• Winner: Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (Grove/Atlantic)
• Finalists: Carol Wiley Cassella, Healer; Susan Froderberg, Old Border Road: A Novel; Valerie Trueblood, Marry or Burn: Stories; Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets

• Winner: Frances McCue, The Bled: Poems (Factory Hollow Press)
• Finalists: Kelli Russell Agodon, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room; Don Mee Choi, The Morning News Is Exciting; Susan Rich, The Alchemist's Kitchen; Oliver de la Paz's website

• Winner: Doug Merlino, The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White (Bloomsbury)
• Finalists: Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses; Kurt Hoelting, The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for A Radically Local Life; Robert Michael Pyle, The Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year; Ana Maria Spagna, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey

• Winner: David Laskin, The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (Harper)
• Finalists: Thea Cooper, Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle; Frances McCue, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo; David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto; Craig Welch, Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty

• Winner, Picture Book: Erik Brooks (author and illustrator), Polar Opposites (Marshall Cavendish)
• Winner, Early Readers: Patrick Jennings (writer), Guinea Dog (Egmont USA)
• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Lish McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (Henry Holt)

• Winner: Jim Lynch, Border Songs (Knopf)
• Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, Misconception; Pete Dexter, Spooner; Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

• Winner: Lucia Perillo, Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press)
• Finalists: Sherman Alexie, Face; Shirley Kaufman, Ezekiel's Wheels; Tod Marshall, The Tangled Line; Heather McHugh, Upgraded to Serious; Judith Skillman, Prisoner of the Swifts

• Winner: Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (Norton)
• Finalists: Tony Angell, Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness; Brenda Miller, Blessing of the Animals; David Williams, Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology

• Winner: Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Finalists: Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride; Lynda Mapes, Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village; Jack Nisbet, The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest; Mishna Wolff, I'm Down: A Memoir

• Winner, Picture Book: Samantha Vamos, Before You Were Here, Mi Amor (illustrated by Santiago Cohen) (Viking Children's Books)
• Winner, Early Readers: Bonny Becker, The Magical Ms. Plum (Knopf)
• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Michael Harmon, Brutal (Knopf)

• Winner: Jonathan Evison, All About Lulu (Soft Skull Press)
• Finalists: Dave Boling, Guernica; Carol Cassella, Oxygen; David Guterson, The Other; Alex Kuo, White Jade and Other Stories

• Winner: David Wagoner, A Map of the Night (University of Illinois Press)
• Finalists: Thomas Aslin, A Moon Over Wings; Linda Bierds, Flight: New and Selected Poems; Katrina Roberts, Friendly Fire; D. S. Butterworth, The Radium Watchdial Painters

• Winner: Barbara Brotherton, editor, S'abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists (Seattle Art Museum/University of Washington Press)
• Finalists: Paul Bannick, The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds; Bruce Barcott, The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird; Cliff Mass, The Weather of the Pacific Northwest; David Shields, The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead

• Winner: Robert Clark, Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (Doubleday)
• Finalists: Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo; Debra Jarvis, It’s Not About the Hair: And Other Uncertainties of Life & Cancer; Jim Kershner, Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life; Richard Scheuermann, Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot

• Winner, Picture Book: Barbara Kerley, What To Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! (illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham) (Scholastic Press)
• Honorable Mention, Picture Book: Bonny Becker, A Visitor for Bear (illustrated by Kady M. Denton)
• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Richard Farr, Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster in the Antarctic, 1910-13 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

• Winner: Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys (HarperCollins)
• Finalists: Nancy Horan, Loving Frank; Alex Mindt, Male of the Species; Ann Pancake, Strange as This Weather Has Been; Joseph Powell, Fish Grooming and Other Stories

• Winner: Samuel Green, The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• Finalists: Marvin Bell, Mars Being Red; Mary Cornish, Red Studio; Peter Periera, What's Written on the Body

• Winner: David R. Montgomery, the Erosion of Civilizations (University of California Press)
• Finalists: Kathleen Flinn. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School; Lesley Hazelton, Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen; Robert D. Morris, The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster and the Water We Drink; Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Grays River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

• Winner: Coll Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (University of Washington Press)
• Finalists: Michael Honey, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign; Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: from Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture

• Winner, Picture Book: George Shannon, Rabbit's Gift (illustrated by Laura Dronzek) (Harcourt)
• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (illustrated by Ellen Forney) (Little, Brown)

• Winner: Charles D'Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, The Littlest Hitler: Stories; David Long, The Inhabited World; Jess Walter, The Zero

• Winner: Madeline DeFrees, Spectral Waves (Copper Canyon Press)
• Finalists: Kathleen Flenniken, Famous; Tess Gallagher, Dear Ghosts; Jennifer Maier, Dark Alphabet; Eric McHenry, Potscrubber Lullabies

• William D. Layman, River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia (University of Washington Press)

• Winner: Jlie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St. Martins Press)
• Finalists: Daniel James Brown, Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894; Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Pilgrim on the Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks; Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

• Winner, Picture Book: Jack Prelutsky, Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (illustrated by Carin Berger) (Greenwillow)
• Finalist, Picture Book: Finalist: Karma Wilson, Moose Tracks (illustrated by Jack E. Davis)
• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Brent Hartinger, Grand & Humble (Harper Tempest)
• Finalists: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky; Michele Torrey, Voyage of Plunder

• Winner: Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country (Random House)
• Finalists: MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright; Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo; Stacey Levine, Frances Johnson; Nancy Rawles, My Jim; Jess Walter, Citizen Vince

• Winner: Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck (Random House)
• Finalists: Lillias Bever, Bellini in Istanbul; Linda Bierds, First Hand; J.W. Marshall, Taken With; Katrina Roberts, The Quick; David Wagoner, Good Morning and Good Night

• Winner: John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell, In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Yale University Press)
• Finalists: Hugo Kugiya, 58 Degrees North; James McKean, Home Stand; David E. Miller, Toward a New Regionalism; Jonathan Raban, My Holy War

• Winner: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)
• Finalists: Jack Hamann, On American Soil; David Neiwert, Strawberry Days; Eric Scigliano, Michelangelo's Mountain

• Winner, Picture Book: Karla Kuskin, So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? (illustrated by Betsy Lewin)
• Finalist, Picture Book: Carole Lexa Schaefer, The Bora-Bora Dress (illustrated by Catherine Stock)
• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Michael Gruber, The Witch's Boy
• Finalist, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Deb Caletti, Wild Roses

• Charles D'Ambrosio, Orphans
• Lesley Hazleton, Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother
• Christopher Howell, Light's Ladder: Poems
• Paul Hunter, Breaking Ground
• Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You
• David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard
• Nikhil Pal Singh, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
• Peter Ward, Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History

• Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
• Winner, Picture Book: Carmela D'Amico, Ella the Elegant Elephant (illustrated by Steven D'Amico)

2004 was the last year in which there were no categories.

• Gary Atkins, Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging
• Fred Beckey, Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range
• Karen Cushman, Rodzina
• Chris Forhan, The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars
• Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
• Linda Lawrence Hunt, Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
• Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair
• David R. Montgomery, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
• Jack Nisbet, Visible Bones: Journey Across Time in the Columbia River Country
• Matt Ruff, Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls

• Deloris Tarzan Ament, Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art
• Charles Bergman, Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River
• Rebecca Brown, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
• Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
• Deborah Hopkinson, Under the Quilt of Night
• Tina Kelley, The Gospel of Galore
• Pamela McClusky, Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back
• Gregory Spatz, Wonderful Tricks: Stories
• Indu Sundaresan, The Twentieth Wife
• Hill Williams, The Restless Northwest

• Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
• Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk
• Madeline DeFrees, Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems: 1951-2001
• Carole Glickfeld, Swimming Toward the Ocean
• Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year
• Mira Kamdar, Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America Into Her Indian Family's Past
• Carolyn Kizer, Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000
• Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World
• Duff Wilson, Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
• Robin K. Wright, Northern Haida Master Carvers