Books

California Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 253 books.


  1. Dominant Seventh

    by Phillips Wray Kloss

    Year: 1950
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Silver
  2. Journey of Simon McKeever

    by Albert Maltz

    Year: 1949
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  3. Revolt in San Marcos

    by Robert Carver North

    Year: 1949
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  4. Epicurus My Master :Atticus

    by Max Radin

    Year: 1949
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  5. At the Palace Gates

    by Helen Rand Parish, Leo Politi

    Year: 1949
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  6. The universe of G. B. S

    by William Irvine

    Year: 1949
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  7. To Hell and Back

    The Epic Combat Journal of World War II's Most Decorated G.I.

    by Audie Murphy

    Year: 1949
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  8. The Beast in His Hunger

    by Harry Brown

    Year: 1949
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Silver
  9. The Sky and the Forest

    by C. S. Forester

    Year: 1948
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  10. The Nine Brides and Granny Hite

    by Neill C. Wilson

    Year: 1948
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  11. Woman with a Sword

    by Hollister Noble

    Year: 1948
    Category: General Literature
    Rank: Silver
  12. Seabird

    by Holling Clancy Holling

    Year: 1948
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  13. The Big Divide

    The Lively Story of the People of the Southern Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to Santa Fe

    by David Lavender

    Year: 1948
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  14. The Legend of Henry Ford

    by Keith Sward

    Year: 1948
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  15. Blood Brother

    by Elliott Arnold

    Year: 1947
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  16. The Trial of Sören Qvist

    by Janet Lewis

    Year: 1947
    Category: General Literature
    Rank: Silver
  17. Sancho of the Long, Long Horns

    by Allan R. Bosworth

    Year: 1947
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  18. The Great Forest

    by Richard Gordon Lillard

    Year: 1947
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  19. A Yanqui in Patagonia

    by Bailey Willis

    Year: 1947
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  20. Journey to victory,: And Looking-Glass River;

    by Hazel Louise Zimmerman

    Year: 1947
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Silver
  21. The Atlantic Frontier

    Colonial American Civilization, 1601-1763

    by Louis B. Wright

    Year: 1947
    Category: Scholarship
    Rank: Gold
  22. Big Tree

    by Mary Buff, Conrad Buff

    Year: 1946
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Gold
  23. Western World

    A Study of the Forces Shaping Our Time

    by Royce Brier

    Year: 1946
    Category: General Literature
    Rank: Silver
  24. Towards Oregon

    by Elmer Hubert Staffelbach

    Year: 1946
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  25. The Christian Heritage in America

    by George Hedley

    Year: 1946
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  26. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement

    by George Edwin Mowry

    Year: 1946
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  27. The Faultless Shore

    And Other Poems

    by Edward Ronald Weismiller

    Year: 1946
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Silver
  28. High Bonnet

    A Novel of Epicurean Adventures

    by Idwal Jones

    Year: 1945
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  29. A Lion is in the Streets

    by Adria Locke Langley

    Year: 1945
    Category: General Literature
    Rank: Silver
  30. The Singing Cave

    by Margaret (Carver) Leighton

    Year: 1945
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  31. Minor Heresies, Major Departures

    A China Mission Boyhood

    by John Jenkins Espey

    Year: 1945
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  32. South America Called Them

    Explorations of the Great Naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce

    by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen

    Year: 1945
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  33. The Epic of Latin America

    by John Armstrong Crow

    Year: 1945
    Category: Scholarship
    Rank: Gold
  34. The Brontës

    Charlotte and Emily

    by Laura L. Hinkley

    Year: 1945
    Category: Scholarship
    Rank: Gold
  35. Captain Retread

    by Donald Hough

    Year: 1944
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  36. One Day on Beetle Rock

    by Sally Carrighar

    Year: 1944
    Category: General Literature
    Rank: Silver
  37. Mystery at Thunderbolt House

    by Howard Pease

    Year: 1944
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  38. The Story Of Civilization: Book 3

    Caesar and Christ

    A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to A.D. 325

    by Will Durant

    Year: 1944
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  39. Forward Observer

    by Edwin V. Westrate

    Year: 1944
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  40. The Phoenix and the Tortoise

    by Kenneth Rexroth

    Year: 1944
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Silver
  41. Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace

    by Thomas Andrew Bailey

    Year: 1944
    Category: Scholarship
    Rank: Gold
  42. World's End (Lanny Budd): Book 4

    Wide Is the Gate

    by Upton Sinclair

    Year: 1943
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  43. Trio

    by Dorothy Baker

    Year: 1943
    Category: General Literature
    Rank: Silver
  44. Spurs for Antonia

    by Katherine Wigmore Eyre

    Year: 1943
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver
  45. Brothers Under The Skin

    Race Relations

    by Carey McWilliams

    Year: 1943
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Gold
  46. The day of reckoning

    by Max Radin

    Year: 1943
    Category: Nonfiction
    Rank: Silver
  47. The Legacy of Nazism

    The Economic and Social Consequences of Totalitarianism

    by Frank Munk

    Year: 1943
    Category: Scholarship
    Rank: Gold
  48. The Stranger in Big Sur

    by Lillian Ross

    Year: 1942
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  49. The Man Who Killed the Deer

    by Frank Waters

    Year: 1942
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Silver
  50. Long Adventure

    The Story of Winston Churchill

    by Hildegarde Hawthorne

    Year: 1942
    Category: Juvenile
    Rank: Silver

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