In 2005 a separate category for children's books was established; since 2005 two children's books each year have received Scandiuzzi Children's Book Awards, one for picture books and the other for middle grades and young adults.
In 2006 the Center for the Book divided the entire awards program into categories and severely reduced the number of awards. From 2006 through 2010, History and Biography formed one category. In 2011, Biography and Memoir formed one category and History was grouped with General Nonfiction. The current categories are: History/General Nonfiction, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Poetry, and two Scandiuzzi Children's Books Awards.
Since 2006 the program has been much more restrictive since there is only a single award-winner in each category.
| 2011 |
Fiction
- Winner: Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (Grove/Atlantic)
- Finalists: Carol Wiley Cassella, Healer; Susan Froderberg, Old Border Road: A Novel; Valerie Trueblood, Marry or Burn: Stories; Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets
Poetry
- Winner: Frances McCue, The Bled: Poems (Factory Hollow Press)
- Finalists: Kelli Russell Agodon, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room; Don Mee Choi, The Morning News Is Exciting; Susan Rich, The Alchemist's Kitchen; Oliver de la Paz's website
Biography/Memoir
- Winner: Doug Merlino, The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White (Bloomsbury)
- Finalists: Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses; Kurt Hoelting, The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for A Radically Local Life; Robert Michael Pyle, The Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year; Ana Maria Spagna, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
History/General Nonfiction
- Winner: David Laskin, The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (Harper)
- Finalists: Thea Cooper, Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle; Frances McCue, The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo; David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto; Craig Welch, Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
- Winner, Picture Book: Erik Brooks (author and illustrator, Polar Opposites (Marshall Cavendish)
- Winner, Early Readers: Patrick Jennings (writer), Guinea Dog (Egmont USA)
- Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Lish McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (Henry Holt)
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| 2010 |
Fiction
- Winner: Jim Lynch, Border Songs (Knopf)
- Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, Misconception; Pete Dexter, Spooner; Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Poetry
General Nonfiction
- Winner: Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (Norton)
- Finalists: Tony Angell, Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness; Brenda Miller, Blessing of the Animals; David Williams, Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology
History/Biography
- Winner: Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Finalists: Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride; Lynda Mapes, Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village; Jack Nisbet, The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest; Mishna Wolff, I'm Down: A Memoir
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
- Winner, Picture Book: Samantha Vamos, Before You Were Here, Mi Amor (illustrated by Santiago Cohen) (Viking Children's Books)
- Winner, Early Readers: Bonny Becker, The Magical Ms. Plum (Knopf)
- Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Michael Harmon, Brutal (Knopf)
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| 2009 |
Fiction
Poetry
- Winner: David Wagoner, A Map of the Night (University of Illinois Press)
- Finalists: Thomas Aslin, A Moon Over Wings; Linda Bierds, Flight: New and Selected Poems; Katrina Roberts, Friendly Fire; D. S. Butterworth, The Radium Watchdial Painters
General Nonfiction
- Winner: Barbara Brotherton, editor, S'abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists (Seattle Art Museum/University of Washington Press)
- Finalists: Paul Bannick, The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds; Bruce Barcott, The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird; Cliff Mass, The Weather of the Pacific Northwest; David Shields, The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
History/Biography
- Winner: Robert Clark, Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (Doubleday)
- Finalists: Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo; Debra Jarvis, It’s Not About the Hair: And Other Uncertainties of Life & Cancer; Jim Kershner, Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life; Richard Scheuermann, Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
- Winner, Picture Book: Barbara Kerley, What To Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! (illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham) (Scholastic Press)
- Honorable Mention, Picture Book: Bonny Becker, A Visitor for Bear (illustrated by Kady M. Denton)
- Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Richard Farr, Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster in the Antarctic, 1910-13 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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| 2008 |
Fiction
- Winner: Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys (HarperCollins)
- Finalists: Nancy Horan, Loving Frank; Alex Mindt, Male of the Species; Ann Pancake, Strange as This Weather Has Been; Joseph Powell, Fish Grooming and Other Stories
Poetry
- Winner: Samuel Green, The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
- Finalists: Marvin Bell, Mars Being Red; Mary Cornish, Red Studio; Peter Periera, What's Written on the Body
General Nonfiction
History/Biography
- Winner: Coll Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (University of Washington Press)
- Finalists: Michael Honey, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign; Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: from Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
- Winner, Picture Book: George Shannon, Rabbit's Gift (illustrated by Laura Dronzek) (Harcourt)
- Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (illustrated by Ellen Forney) (Little, Brown)
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| 2007 |
Fiction
- Winner: Charles D'Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Finalists: Ryan Boudinot, The Littlest Hitler: Stories; David Long, The Inhabited World; Jess Walter, The Zero
Poetry
General Nonfiction
- William D. Layman, River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia (University of Washington Press)
History/Biography
- Winner: Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St. Martins Press)
- Finalists: Daniel James Brown, Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894; Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix; Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Pilgrim on the Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks; Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
- Winner, Picture Book: Jack Prelutsky, Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems (illustrated by Carin Berger) (Greenwillow)
- Finalist, Picture Book: Finalist: Karma Wilson, Moose Tracks (illustrated by Jack E. Davis)
- Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Brent Hartinger, Grand & Humble (Harper Tempest)
- Finalists: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky; Michele Torrey, Voyage of Plunder
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| 2006 |
Fiction
Poetry
- Winner: Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck (Random House)
- Finalists: Lillias Bever, Bellini in Istanbul; Linda Bierds, First Hand; J.W. Marshall, Taken With; Katrina Roberts, The Quick; David Wagoner, Good Morning and Good Night
General Nonfiction
- Winner: John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell, In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Yale University Press)
- Finalists: Hugo Kugiya, 58 Degrees North; James McKean, Home Stand; David E. Miller, Toward a New Regionalism; Jonathan Raban, My Holy War
History/Biography
- Winner: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)
- Finalists: Jack Hamann, On American Soil; David Neiwert, Strawberry Days; Eric Scigliano, Michelangelo's Mountain
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
- Winner, Picture Book: Karla Kuskin, So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? (illustrated by Betsy Lewin)
- Finalist, Picture Book: Carole Lexa Schaefer, The Bora-Bora Dress (illustrated by Catherine Stock)
- Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Michael Gruber, The Witch's Boy
- Finalist, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Deb Caletti, Wild Roses
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| 2005 |
General Books
- Charles D'Ambrosio, Orphans
- Lesley Hazleton, Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother
- Christopher Howell, Light's Ladder: Poems
- Paul Hunter, Breaking Ground
- Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You
- David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard
- Nikhil Pal Singh, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
- Peter Ward, Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History
Scandiuzzi Children's Book Award
- Winner, Middle Grades and Young Adults: Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
- Winner, Picture Book: Carmela D'Amico, Ella the Elegant Elephant (illustrated by Steven D'Amico)
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| 2004 |
2004 was the last year in which there were no categories.
- Gary Atkins, Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging
- Fred Beckey, Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range
- Karen Cushman, Rodzina
- Chris Forhan, The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars
- Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
- Linda Lawrence Hunt, Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
- Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair
- David R. Montgomery, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
- Jack Nisbet, Visible Bones: Journey Across Time in the Columbia River Country
- Matt Ruff, Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
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| 2003 |
- Deloris Tarzan Ament, Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art
- Charles Bergman, Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River
- Rebecca Brown, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
- Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
- Deborah Hopkinson, Under the Quilt of Night
- Tina Kelley, The Gospel of Galore
- Pamela McClusky, Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back
- Gregory Spatz, Wonderful Tricks: Stories
- Indu Sundaresan, The Twentieth Wife
- Hill Williams, The Restless Northwest
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| 2002 |
- Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
- Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk
- Madeline DeFrees, Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems: 1951-2001
- Carole Glickfeld, Swimming Toward the Ocean
- Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year
- Mira Kamdar, Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America Into Her Indian Family's Past
- Carolyn Kizer, Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000
- Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World
- Duff Wilson, Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
- Robin K. Wright, Northern Haida Master Carvers
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