Oregon Book Award Winners Fiction

Awards List

2016

Crooked River (Finalist)
Valerie Geary

Oct-2014
/ Thriller

Falling from Horses (Finalist)
Molly Gloss

Nov-2014
/ Historical

Turtleface and Beyond: Stories (Finalist)
Arthur Bradford

Feb-2015
/ Literary

The Tunnel (Finalist)
Gail Chehab

Jun-2015
/ Thriller

The Small Backs of Children (Finalist)
Lidia Yuknavitch

Jul-2015
/ Literary

2015

The Revolution of Every Day (Winner)
Cari Luna

Sep-2013
/ Literary

The Revolution of Every Day (Finalist)
Cari Luna

Sep-2013
/ Literary

Sea of Hooks (Finalist)
Lindsay Hill

Nov-2013
/ General Fiction

The Free (Finalist)
Willy Vlautin

Feb-2014
/ Literary

Spheres of Disturbance (Finalist)
Amy Schutzer

Apr-2014
/ General Fiction

Fourth of July Creek (Finalist)
Smith Henderson

Jun-2014
/ Literary

2014

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Nov-2012
/ General Fiction

The Orchardist (Finalist)
Amanda Coplin

Aug-2012
/ General Fiction

Eight Girls Taking Pictures (Finalist)
Whitney Otto

Nov-2012
/ General Fiction

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth (Finalist)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Nov-2012
/ General Fiction

Ghostman (Finalist)
Roger Hobbs

Feb-2013
/ Suspense

2013

Shards (Winner)
Ismet Prcic

Oct-2011
/ Literary

The Evening Hour (Finalist)
Carter Sickels

Jan-2012
/ Literary

Glaciers (Finalist)
Alexis Smith

Jan-2012
/ Literary

The Listeners (Finalist)
Leni Zumas

May-2012
/ Literary

2012

The Sisters Brothers (Winner)
Patrick deWitt

May-2011
/ General Fiction

Mink River (Finalist)
Brian Doyle

Oct-2010
/ General Fiction

You Don't Love This Man (Finalist)
Dan DeWeese

Jan-2011
/ General Fiction

Zazen (Finalist)
Vanessa Veselka

Jun-2011
/ Literary

2011

Lean on Pete (Winner)
Willy Vlautin

Apr-2010
/ General Fiction

A Flickering Light (Finalist)
Jane Kirkpatrick

Apr-2009
/ Historical

Lost in Wyoming: Stories (Finalist)
Scott Sadil

Jun-2009
/ General Fiction

A Painter's Life (Finalist)
K.B. Dixon

Oct-2009
/ General Fiction

2009

Livability (Winner)
Jonathan Raymond

Dec-2008
/ General Fiction

Cezanne's Quarry (Finalist)
Barbara Corrado Pope

Jun-2008
/ Historical Mystery

Crazy Love (Finalist)
Leslie What

Jul-2008
/ Fantasy

2008

The Motel Life (Finalist)
Willy Vlautin

Apr-2007
/ Literary

The Sum of His Syndromes (Finalist)
K.B. Dixon

Jun-2007
/ General Fiction

Whose World Is This? (Finalist)
Lee Begole Montgomery

Sep-2007
/ General Fiction

2002

The Necessary Grace to Fall (Winner)
Gina Ochsner

Oct-2009
/ General Fiction

The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold (Nominee)
Kate Bernheimer

Mar-2002
/ General Fiction

2001

Throwing Knives (Winner)
Molly Best Tinsley

Feb-2000
/ General Fiction

Wild Justice (Nominee)
Phillip Margolin

Sep-2000
/ Legal Thriller

Light Action in the Caribbean (Nominee)
Barry Lopez

Nov-2000
/ General Fiction

2000

Storm Riders (Winner)
Craig Lesley

Feb-2000
/ General Fiction

Makai (Nominee)
Kathleen Tyau

Jun-1999
/ General Fiction

The Second Coming of Curly Red (Nominee)
Jody Seay

Feb-2014
/ General Fiction

1999

Like Never Before (Winner)
Ehud Havazelet

Sep-1998
/ General Fiction

Survivor (Nominee)
Chuck Palahniuk

Feb-1999
/ Action Adventure

1998

The Ugliest House in the World (Winner)
Peter Ho Davies

Sep-1997
/ General Fiction

The Dazzle of Day (Nominee)
Molly Gloss

May-1997
/ Fantasy

Pink (Nominee)
Gus Van Sant

Nov-1998
/ General Fiction

1997

Fight Club (Winner)
Chuck Palahniuk

Aug-1996
/ General Fiction

Season of Apples (Nominee)
Ann Copeland

Oct-1996
/ General Fiction

Where River Turns to Sky (Nominee)
Gregg Kleiner

Nov-1997
/ General Fiction

1996

What Falls Away (Winner)
Tracy Daugherty

Feb-1996
/ General Fiction

The Sky Fisherman (Nominee)
Craig Lesley

Aug-1995
/ General Fiction

1995

Native Speaker (Winner)
Chang-Rae Lee

Apr-1995
/ General Fiction

Departures (Nominee)
Jennifer C. Cornell

Mar-1996
/ General Fiction

1994

Arabian Jazz (Winner)
Diana Abu-Jaber

Jun-1993
/ General Fiction

1993

The Brothers K (Nominee)
David James Duncan

Apr-1992
/ General Fiction

Sailor Song (Nominee)
Ken Kesey

Aug-1992
/ General Fiction

1992

Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (Winner)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Oct-1991
/ Fantasy

The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon (Nominee)
Tom Spanbauer

Sep-1992
/ General Fiction

1990

The Jump-Off Creek (Winner)
Molly Gloss

Aug-1989
/ General Fiction

Physical Culture (Nominee)
Hillary Louise Johnson

May-1990
/ General Fiction

Riversong (Nominee)
Craig Lesley

Aug-1993
/ General Fiction

1989

Cardinal Numbers (Winner)
Hob Broun

/ General Fiction

1988

Within Normal Limits (Winner)
Todd Grimson

Apr-1987
/ Literary

Watchman Tell Us (Nominee)
A.B. Paulson

Apr-1987
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Children's

Children's Literature

Award Years