1987-2008
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts, Inc. for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers.
Although awards are given in more categories, we have selected two categories for this listing: Fiction and Nonfiction.
FICTION
2009: Livability by Jon Raymond
2008: Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet
2007: Twenty Questions by Alison Clement
2006: The Best People in the World by Justin Tussing
2005: How I Paid For College: a novel of sex, theft, friendship, and musical theater by Marc Acito
2004: Axeman's Jazz by Tracy Daugherty
2003: His Mother's Son by Cai Emmons
2002: Necessary Grace to Fall by Gina Ochsher
2001: Throwing Knives by Molly Best Tinsley
2000: Storm Riders by Craig Lesley
1999: Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet
1998: The Ugliest House in the World by Peter Ho Davies
1997: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
1996: What Falls Away by Tracy Daugherty
1995: Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
1994: Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber
1993: Dreams Like Thunder by Diane Simmons
1992: Searoad by Ursula Le Guin
1991: (no recipients)
1990: The Jump-off Creek by Molly Gloss
1989: Cardinal Numbers by Hob Broun
1988: Within Normal Limits by Todd Grimson
1987: Resurrectionists by Russell Working
NONFICTION
2009: Hiding Man : a Biography of Donald Bartheleme by Tracy Daugherty
2008: One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity by Steven W. Bender
2007: Democracy Reborn: the fourteenth amendment and the fight
for equal rights in post-Civil War America by Garrett Epps
2006: Modern Passings: death rites, politics, and social change in Imperial Japan by Andrew Bernstein
2005: Plague and Fire: battling black death and the burning of Honolulu's Chinatown by James C. Mohr
2004: In Search of Ancient Oregon by Ellen Morris Bishop
2003: Dispatches and Dictators by Barbara S. Mahoney
2002: My Wars are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger
2001: When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
2000: The Night Gardener by Marjorie Sandor
1999: The Left Hand of Eden by William Ashworth
1998: Making It Home by Lars Nordström
1997: Looking After by John Daniel
1996: Volcano by Garrett Hongo
1995: Voyage of a Summer Sun by Robin Cody
1994: Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler
1993: The Trail Home by John Daniel
1992: No Duty to Retreat by Richard M. Brown
1991: (two awards given) Wings for My Flight by Marcy Cottrell Houle -and- My Country, My Right to Serve by Mary Ann Humphrey
1990: Baja Journey by Robin Carey
1989: A Golden Journey by Luther S. Cressman
1988: Faces of a Reservation by Cynthia Stowell
1987: Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez