Oregon Book Award Winners

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Winners

	Friends Are Friends, Forever by Dane Liu (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 506 ratings Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream, Annie, Dream by Waka T. Brown (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 263 ratings Oregon Book Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery by Casey Parks 4.13 avg rating — 1,009 ratings Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home by Lauren Kessler (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 176 ratings Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke by Eric Tran 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings Oregon Book Award for Poetry (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories by Sindya Bhanoo 4.26 avg rating — 487 ratings Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trespassers by Breena Bard 3.98 avg rating — 898 ratings Oregon Book Award for Graphic Literature (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taylor Before and After by Jennie Englund really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 257 ratings Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 7,484 ratings Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb 4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology by Jacob Darwin Hamblin (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Instrument by Dao Strom (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings Oregon Book Award for Poetry (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 12,038 ratings Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sullivan Sisters by Kathryn Ormsbee (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 341 ratings Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Game of Fox & Squirrels by Jenn Reese (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 1,148 ratings Oregon Book Award for Children's Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch 3.76 avg rating — 4,826 ratings Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 918 ratings Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope of Stones by Anna Elkins (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Oregon Book Award for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 1,816 ratings Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penny Nichols by M.K. Reed 4.07 avg rating — 481 ratings Oregon Book Award for Graphic Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anxious Attachments by Beth Alvarado (Goodreads Author) 4.82 avg rating — 33 ratings Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 1,110 ratings Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spectra by Ashley Toliver (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 77 ratings Oregon Book Award for Poetry (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No God Like the Mother by Kesha Ajose Fisher 4.15 avg rating — 94 ratings Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Gods (Green Rose Series) by Matthew Minicucci (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings Oregon Book Award for Poetry (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 22,938 ratings Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon by Kenneth R. Coleman (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir by Apricot Irving 3.89 avg rating — 447 ratings Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Field Theories by Samiya Bashir (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 98 ratings Oregon Book Award for Poetry (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American War by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 36,323 ratings Oregon Book Award for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars