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  2010/2011: Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin    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  2010/2011: Savages and Scoundrels by Paul VanDevelder    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

*There were no 2010 awards because they changed the time frame for the awards.