Books

California Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 220 books.


  1. A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California

    by Laura Cunningham

    Year: 2010
    Category: Californiana
    Rank: Gold
  2. Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

    by Mark Twain

    Year: 2010
    Category: Contribution to Publishing
    Rank: Gold
  3. I Hotel

    by Karen Tei Yamashita

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  4. Model Home

    by Eric Puchner

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  5. This book is based on The Odyssey by Homer.

    The Lost Books of the Odyssey

    by Zachary Mason

    Year: 2010
    Category: First Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  6. Grandma's Gloves

    by Cecil Castellucci, Julia Denos

    Year: 2010
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Gold
  7. Charlie Chan

    The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

    by Yunte Huang

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  8. 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

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  9. Mortal Geography

    Poems

    by Alexandra Teague

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Gold
  10. Suck on the Marrow

    by Camille T. Dungy

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Silver
  11. The Things a Brother Knows

    by Dana Reinhardt

    Year: 2010
    Category: Young Adult
    Rank: Gold
  12. The Vagrants

    by Yiyun Li

    Year: 2009
    Rank: Gold
  13. Wherever There's a Fight

    How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California

    by Elaine Elinson

    Year: 2009
    Category: Californiana
    Rank: Gold
  14. The Zohar 5: Pritzker Edition, Volume Five (Zohar: The Pritzker Editions)

    Year: 2009
    Category: Contribution to Publishing
    Rank: Gold
  15. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

    by Maile Meloy

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  16. The Bigness of the World

    by Lori Ostlund

    Year: 2009
    Category: First Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  17. The Hard Pan Trilogy: Book 2

    Lucky Breaks

    by Susan Patron, Matt Phelan

    Year: 2009
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Gold
  18. A Paradise Built in Hell

    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    by Rebecca Solnit

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  19. Imperial

    by William T. Vollmann

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  20. Leaving India

    My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents

    by Minal Hajratwala

    Year: 2009
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  21. Chronic

    Poems

    by D. A. Powell

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Gold
  22. Flygirl

    by Sherri L. Smith

    Year: 2009
    Category: Young Adult
    Rank: Gold
  23. Thirteen Reasons Why

    by Jay Asher

    Year: 2007
    Category: Young Adult
    Rank: Silver
  24. Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery)

    by James Greer

    Year: 2006
    Category: First Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  25. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

    Stories

    by Yiyun Li

    Year: 2005
    Category: First Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  26. The Confessions of Max Tivoli

    by Andrew Sean Greer

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  27. Evidence of Things Unseen

    by Marianne Wiggins

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  28. Parasites Like Us

    by Adam Johnson

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  29. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

    by ZZ. Packer

    Year: 2003
    Category: First Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  30. The Miracle

    by John L'Heureux

    Year: 2002
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  31. The Lovely Bones

    by Alice Sebold

    Year: 2002
    Category: First Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  32. Highwire Moon

    by Susan Straight

    Year: 2001
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  33. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

    by Michael Chabon

    Year: 2000
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  34. Goodnight, Nebraska

    by Tom McNeal

    Year: 1998
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  35. The Everlasting Fire

    by Jonreed Lauritzen

    Year: 1962
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  36. First Woman Ambulance Surgeon: Emily Barringer

    by Iris Noble

    Year: 1962
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  37. John Adams

    by Page Smith

    Year: 1962
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  38. Adolph Sutro-a Biography

    by Jr. Robert E. Stewart

    Year: 1962
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  39. Ishi in Two Worlds

    A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

    by Theodora Kroeber

    Year: 1961
    Category: Californiana
    Rank: Silver
  40. Mila 18

    by Leon Uris

    Year: 1961
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  41. Irving Stone: Biographical Novels

    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    by Irving Stone

    Year: 1961
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  42. The Gray Sea Raiders

    by Gordon D. Shirreffs

    Year: 1961
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  43. Sinclair Lewis

    An American Life

    by Mark Schorer

    Year: 1961
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  44. A Ring of Willows; Poems

    by Eric. Preface by Henry Miller BARKER

    Year: 1961
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Silver
  45. The infidels

    by Chloe Gartner

    Year: 1960
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  46. A Shooting Star

    by Wallace Stegner

    Year: 1960
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  47. Hawaii the Aloha State

    by Helen Bauer

    Year: 1960
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver

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