Friday, August 30, 2013 is the deadline to submit books for consideration for the 2014 Oregon Book Awards. The guidelines and applications can be found on
our web site; contact
Susan Denningfor more information.
Here is a list of titles that have been submitted, as of August 7, to the 2014 Oregon Book Awards:
Fiction
A Brilliant Novel in the Works by Yuvi Zalkow
All She Ever Wanted by Rosalind Noonan
Anything by Robert McBride
Back to the High Desert by Robert Emerson
Close Is Fine by Eliot Treichel
Courting Cate by Leslie Gould
Dora by Lidia Yuknavitch
Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6 by Susan Jackson Rodgers
Finding Annie by Michael Matthews
Graphic the Valley by Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Henry by Michael Strelow
Jumping the Gun by Lori L Lake
Lucy’s Fence by Carol Duncan Sweet
Nor’westering by T.C. Tornay
Novel Ideas by K.B. Dixon
Nyx by D.M. Livingston
Packer and Jack by Rachel Hoffman
Riders of the Tides by Frederick Cooper
Tattered Lace by Suzanne Grant
The Case of D. B. Cooper’s Parachute by William L. Sullivan
The Christmas Carol Murders by Carl Wilson
The Honeylicker Angel by Anna Elkins
The Missing Italian Girl by Barbara Pope
The Pet Thief by Kassten Alonso
The Sparks Fly Upward by Jon Correll
There’s A Somebody by Stephen Long
Warriors of Sukra by Chloe Hagerman
Graphic Literature
Big Plans by Nels Steinke
Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole Georges
Habibi by Craig Thompson
Ms. Baross Goes to Mexico by Jan Baross
Terra Tempo by David Shapiro
Poetry
A Scripture of Crows by Charles Goodrich
Anuk Ite: Double-Face Woman by Dorothy Black Crow
Blood Sisters of the Republic by Wendy Willis
Congress of Strange People by Stephanie Lenox
Controlled Hallucinations by John Sibley Williams
Hearts, Hopes, and Halos by Ryan Cunningham
How Singular and Fine by Ruth Harrison
How Things Were; How Things Are by Terry Melton
In The White Room by Elizabeth McLagan
In This Vast Sea of Stars by Patrick Joseph Leach
Incarnadine by Mary Szybist
Inner Earthquakes by Esther Elizabeth
Landscape with Female Figure by Andrea Hollander
Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman
Lillie was a goddess, Lillie was a whore by Penelope Scambly Schott
Lost Transmissions by David Memmott
Lovesong for Dufur by Penelope Scambly Schott
Mayakovsky’s Revolver by Matthew Dickman
Mile Zero by Ryan Bradley
Odes to the Ki of the Universe by Howard Robertson
Poems Along the Way by Sandra K. Ellston
Steptoe Butte by Bill Siverly
The Accidentalist by Wm. Vandoren Wheeler
The Caged and The Dying by Jean & John Noland
The Children’s War by Shaindel Beers
The Parachute Jump Effect by Judith Arcana
Vivaldi, an autobiography by Michael Hanner
We Say Ourselves by Timothy J Whitsel
Without A Map by Gary L. Lark
Children’s Literature
Ellie’s Log by Judith L. Li
Calvin Coconut: Extra Famous by Graham Salisbury
I’m not perfect. So what? by Julie Dahnke
Josh Anvil and the Pivotal Weapon by Bruce Arrington
Knit Your Bit by Deborah Hopkinson
One Lucky Flower by Elizabeth King Gerlach
Patches Catches the Sargo County Cattle Rustler by Mark Niemann-Ross
Promise of Wings by Lena Lingemann
Rainy Day Poems by James McDonald
The Mighty Quinn by Robyn Parnell
Through the Milky Way On A PB&J by James McDonald
Young Adult Literature
A Surprising God by James V. Parker
Captives by Jill Williamson
ChinAlive by Bob Jonas
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
Salvation by Anne Osterlund
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry
The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna
Written in Stone by Rosanne Parry
Creative Nonfiction
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do by Kim Stafford
Almost Finished by J.K. Bowen-Jones
Big Topics at Midnight by Nancy Thurston
El Salvador Could Be Like That by Joseph Frazier
Ex-Rich Girl Tells All by Kami Corban
Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension by Michael Heald
Keeping the Swarm by George Venn
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello
Mom, I’m Not a Kid Anymore by Sue Sanders
Of Walking In Rain by Matt Love
Reaching by Grace Peterson
The Next Scott Nadelson by Scott Nadelson
This Is Why by Leland Spencer
Wedlocked by Jay Ponteri
Wil of God by Carrie Wilson Link
Without Utterance by Ruth Resch
General Nonfiction
Ava Helen Pauling by Mina Carson
Breaking Chains by R. Gregory Nokes
California Condors in the Pacific Northwest by Jesse D’Elia
Charles Schwab and the US Government by Wayne Pierce
Culture Wars in British Literature by Tracy Prince
Eruption! by Elizabeth Rusch
Favorite Hikes of the Applegate by Diana Coogle
Fire in the Dark by Ron Talarico
From Bach to the Beatles by K. R. Hillyer
Heroic Vignettes by Tami Richards
High School Prom by Ann Anderson
Inside Oregon State Hospital by Diane Goeres-Gardner
Legendary Truths by Kenneth L Johnston
Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era by Richard W. Etulain
Motion, Emotion and Love by Thomas Mark
My Sicilian Nanna: A Memoir by Peter J. Pedone
O Pilot! by Steven E. Woods
Oregon Geology by Elizabeth Orr
Power Plays by Ted Case
Rough Enough by Richard H. McBee
Standing at the Water’s Edge by Charles Johnson
The Approaching Great Transformation by Joel Magnuson
The Business of Baby by Jennifer Margulis
The Complicity of Friends by Martin Raitiere
The Evangelicals You Don’t Know by Tom Krattenmaker
The Healing Paradox by Steven Goldsmith
The Mouth is for Talking by Ron Talarico
Why We Fight by David Churchman