The deadline to submit titles to the 2022 Oregon Book Awards is Friday, October 1, 2021. Full guidelines and applications are available here.
Here is a list of titles submitted as of Friday morning, September 23, 2021. Titles are listed by category and are in alphabetical order by title. Please note today’s post will not be updated, but after the October 1 deadline, a complete list of all books submitted will be posted.
FICTION
A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus
A Simple Thought of Sanity by C E Huntingdon
A Small Crowd of Strangers by Joanna Rose
After Alice Fell by Kim Taylor Blakemore
Albert’s Adventures in Willy World by Scott Kaiser
An Irish Wife by Deborah Lincoln
Committal by Irene Cooper
Constellations of Scars by Melissa Eskue Ousley
Dangerous Freedom by William Dean
Fire in the Night & Other Stories by Dick Morgan
Fisken by J. Finnigan
Five Years Later by Sarah Kraft
Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories by Keith Rosson
Fresh Brewed Murder by Emmeline Duncan
From the Caves by Thea Prieto
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories by Chris Stuck
Haight St. by Pierre J. Ouelette
In Beta by Prescott Harvey
In the Quick by Kate Hope Day
Interstitial by Thomas Lance
Jillian in the Borderlands by Beth Alvarado
M-theory by Tiffany Cates
One of Us: Stories by Scott Nadelson
Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art by Deborah Reed
Pandora’s Last Gift by Kim K. McCrea
Q & A by M. Allen Cunningham
Sensored Souls: The Secret Life of a Mind-Hacking Neuroscientist by Jen L. Hanson
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Dan Armstrong
Summer of Smoke by Josh Gross
The Changer by David Hedges
The Domain of the Dead by Scott Herring
The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin
Utah: A Novel by Levi Rogers
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
While White Men Sleep by Alderin Ordell
POETRY
“last confession” by Frank Rossini
Again by Jennifer Perrine
Breaking by Brittney Corrigan
Callie Comes of Age by Dale Champlin
Closer to Thrones by Christopher Keller
Daybreak on the Water by Gary Lark
Etude for Belonging: Poems for Practicing Courage and Hope by Bethany Lee
Finding Lost Pond by Pamela Mitchell
Fjords vol. 2 by Zachary Schomburg
From Friend to Wife to Widow: Six Brief Years by Diana Coogle
Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month by Timothy Arliss OBrien
Helas Hellas Persephone by Laura Tattoo
In the Boarding House for Unclaimed Girls by Toni Thomas
In the Kingdom of Longing by Toni Thomas
Insomnia: A Middle-of-the-Night Haibun Collection by Lauren Bartleson
Incomplete Maps by Judy R. Sebastian
Instrument by Dao Strom
Learning to Love a Western Sky by Amelia DÃaz Ettinger
Light Sleeper by Coleman Stevenson
Lovability by Emily Kendal Frey
Mind Full and Growing by Michael Eric Jonas
My Wilderness by Maxine Scates
November Reconsidered by Marc Janssen
Pax by Annie Lighthart
Perigee Moon by Margaret Chula
Poetry for the People by Sandra de Helen
Proof of Stake: An Elegy by Charles Valle
Roadworthy by Dave Mehler
Singer Come from Afar by Kim Stafford
spare change by Irene Cooper
Stronger Than the Current by Mark Thalman
The Baby and the Seed by Leland Bud Beamer, MD
The Great Hunt and other poems by Patricia Wixon
The Things We Don’t Know by Toni A Thomas
When We Talk of Stolen Sisters by Jessica Mehta
Words of Change by Carl Scott Harker
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
A Whale of the Wild by Rosanne Parry
Abby Invents The Foldibot by Dr. Arlyne Simon
Chickens on the Loose by Jane Kurtz
Eleanor Makes Her Mark by Barbara Kerley
I Do Not Like Yolanda by Zoey Abbott
Inside Out Pirate Ship by Paul Beck
Listen by Gabi Snyder
Lucy’s Blooms by Dawn Babb Prochovnic
Mighty Little Thor: A Fawn Lost Then Found by Dawn Rasmussen
Mike And The Tree by Eric C. Goose
Milk and Juice: A Recycling Romance by Meredith Crandall Brown
My Way West: Real Kids Traveling the Oregon and California Trails by Elizabeth Goss
Rose the cat-dog by Todd Albert
Rosetown Summer by Cynthia Rylant
Snapped! by Martin Follose
Some Stories Are Not Seen by Mindy Hardwick
Song of the Redwing: Voice of the Wetlands by Tish McFadden
Stanley Jr. Gardening is Awesome by Chris Peterson
Taylor Before And After by Jennie Englund
Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper
The Candy Tree by Karena Stoner
The Girl And Her Rainbows by Arran Gimba
The Snow Dancer by Addie Boswell
The Whole Hole Story by Vivian McInerny
We Laugh Alike / Juntos nos reÃmos by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Where’s My Cow? by Susan Blackaby
While I Was Away by Waka T. Brown
Zombie, Or Not to Be by Kyle Sullivan
YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Eyes of the Forest by April Henry
Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher
Playing with Fire by April Henry
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
The Key to Fear by Kristin Cast
We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance by Deborah Hopkinson
GRAPHIC LITERATURE
No One Returns from the Enchanted Forest by Robin Robinson
Not a Place to Visit by T Edward Bak
Second Coming by Mark Russell
Mason Mooney: Paranormal Investigator by Seaerra Miller
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber
Adventureman, Vol. 1: The End and Everything After by Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 3: The Rat by Kelly Sue DeConnick
Mason Mooney: Paranormal Investigator by Seaerra Miller
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Mannie Murphy
FIELD TRIP (Mr. Wolf’s Class #4) by Aron Nels Steinke
LUCKY STARS (Mr. Wolf’s Class #3) by Aron Nels Steinke
CREATIVE NONFICTION
A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas by David Biespiel
Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography through Other Lives by Whitney Otto
Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam
Bad Mommy Bad Writer: Writing From Home While Keeping the Kids Alive by Kim Cooper Findling
Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief & Holding onto Happiness by Autumn Toelle-Jackson
Bookmarked: Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood by Justin St. Germain
Gondolier by KC Conrow
I Miss the Rain in Africa: Peace Corps as a Third Act by Nancy Daniel Wesson
Inheriting Our Names: an Imagined True Memoir of Spain’s Pact of Forgetting by C. Vargas-McPherson
Mi Salvador by A J Zelada
Mud Flower :Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide through Art by Meghan JM Caughey
My China Dream by Scott Morrill
Never Leaving Laramie: Travels in a Restless World by John W. Haines
Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast by Susan Kay Anderson
REFUGEE The Journey of an East GermanWoman by Jutta Donath
rough house by Tina Ontiveros
Storm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast by Lori Tobias
The Grammar of Untold Stories by Lois Ruskai Melina
The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley by Aaron Gilbreath
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking through Love and Loss on Alaska’s Wild Coast by Mary Emerick
The Road of a Thousand Wonders : Where to Eat, What to See, Where to Stop on the Road to the Correctional Institution by Thomas Lance
The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell
The Weight of Empathy by Lucas Spiegel
These Moments by Daniel J Curran
Unassisted by Erin J. Stammer
Zenithism by Jonathan van Belle
GENERAL NONFICTION
A Place for Inquiry, A Place for Wonder: The Andrews Forest by Willaim G. Robbins
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change by Lee van der Voo
Earth’s Wild Music by Kathleen Dean Moore
Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses by David Buckmaster
Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System by Elliott Young
Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi by Sandra Niemi
Guantanamo Voices by Sarah Mirk
Hard Ships: Navigating Your Company, Career and Life through the Fog of Disruption by David A. Giersdorf
Hops: Historic Photographs of the Oregon Hopscape by Kenneth I. Helphand
Liberty Factory by Peter J. Marsh
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture by Annelise Heinz
Murder Ballads by Santi Elijah Holley
Oregon Painters: Landscape to Modernism, 1859-1959 by Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit
Oregon Rocks! A Guide to 60 Amazing Geologic Sites by Marli B. Miller
Postcards from the Rogue Valley by Barbara Cervone
Should I Change My Name? The Impact of Your Last Name on Identity, Marriage, and Happiness by Marcia K. Morgan
Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros Records by Peter Ames Carlin
Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands by Jacqueline Keeler
