California Book Award Silver Metal Winners
Since 1931, the California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers.
Each year a select jury consid...more
Each year a select jury consid...more
Winners
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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution
by David Rains Wallace California Book Award Silver Metal for Literature (1984) |
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Captain Retread
by Donald Hough California Book Award Silver Metal for Fiction (1944) |
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One Day on Beetle Rock
by Sally Carrighar California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1944) |
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Forward Observer
by Edwin V. Westrate California Book Award Silver Metal for Nonfiction (1944) |
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Mystery at Thunderbolt House
by Howard Pease California Book Award Silver Metal for Juvenile (1944) |
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The Phoenix and the Tortoise
by Kenneth Rexroth California Book Award Silver Metal for Poetry (1944) |
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Spurs for Antonia
by Katherine Wigmore Eyre California Book Award Silver Metal for Juvenile (1943) |
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The Day of Reckoning
by Max Radin California Book Award Silver Metal for Nonfiction (1943) |
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Wide Is the Gate
by Upton Sinclair California Book Award Silver Metal for Fiction (1943) |
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Trio
by Dorothy Baker California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1943) |
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I Remember Christine: (A Novel)
by Oscar Lewis California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1942) |
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The Stranger in Big Sur
by Lillian Bos Ross California Book Award Silver Metal for Fiction (1942) |
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The Man Who Killed the Deer
by Frank Waters California Book Award Silver Metal for Fiction (1942) |
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Long Adventure: The Story of Winston Churchill
by Hildegarde Hawthorne California Book Award Silver Metal for Juvenile (1942) |
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When the Living Strive
by Richard LaPiere California Book Award Silver Metal for Fiction (1941) |
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The Morning of America
by Frank J. Klingberg California Book Award Silver Metal for Nonfiction (1941) |
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Anybody's Gold: The Story of California's Mining Towns
by Joseph Henry Jackson California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1941) |
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Wild Geese Calling
by Stewart Edward White California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1940) |
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The March of the Barbarians
by Harold Lamb California Book Award Silver Metal for Scholarship (1940) |
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My Name Is Aram
by William Saroyan California Book Award Silver Metal for Nonfiction-Memoir (1940) |
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In What Hour
by Kenneth Rexroth California Book Award Silver Metal for Poetry (1940) |
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Blue Willow
by Doris Gates California Book Award Silver Metal for Juvenile (1940) |
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Bright Heritage
by Mary Virginia Provines California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1939) |
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Death Loses a Pair of Wings: The Epic of William Gorgas and the Conquest of Yellow Fever
by Robin Lampson California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1939) |
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The Time of Your Life
by William Saroyan California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1939) |
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Flowering Earth
by Donald Culross Peattie California Book Award Silver Metal for Scholarship (1939) |
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1939) |
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East of Giants
by George R. Stewart California Book Award Silver Metal for General Literature (1938) |
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Gone are the Days
by E. Alexander Powell California Book Award Silver Metal for Nonfiction (1938) |
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The Big Four
by Oscar Lewis California Book Award Silver Metal for Scholarship (1938) |

















