Fiction Winner:
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (HarperCollins)
Fiction Finalists:
The Second Star by Alma Alexander (Crossroad Press)
Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories by Donna Miscolta (Jaded Ibis Press)
Vera Violet by Melissa Anne Peterson (Counterpoint Press)
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite (Avon Impulse)
Biography and Memoir Winner:
The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh (Tin House Books)
Biography and Memoir Finalists:
Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery by Erica C. Barnett (Viking Books)
House Lessons: Renovating a Life by Erica Bauermeister (Sasquatch Books)
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg (Abrams Press)
Creative Nonfiction Winner:
Think Black by Clyde Ford (Amistad/Harper Collins)
Creative Nonfiction Finalists:
Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All by Charles Bergman (Sasquatch Books)
Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World by Kelly Brenner (Mountaineers Books)
Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures curated by Natasha Marin (McSweeney’s)
Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature edited by Kristen Millares Young (Seattle City of Literature)
General Nonfiction Winner:
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 edited by Jennifer Haupt (Central Avenue Publishing)
General Nonfiction Finalists:
Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the Eye and the Palate by Lauren Ko (William Morrow Cooksbooks)
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque (Sourcebooks)
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson (W.W. Norton Company)
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso Books)
Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West by Cassandra Tate (Sasquatch Books)
Poetry Winner:
Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, a Raven Chronicles Anthology edited by Phoebe Bosché, Anna Bálint, and Thomas Hubbard (Raven Chronicles Press)
Poetry Finalists:
Insubordinate by Ebo Barton (Ebo Baron)
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi (Wave Books)
Post Romantic by Kathleen Flenniken (University of Washington)
Feeding Hour by Jessica Gigot (Wandering Aengus Press)
Terrain by Gina Hietpas (Blue Cactus Press)
Young Adult Literature Winner:
What I Carry by Jennifer Longo (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Young Adult Literature Finalists:
Girl, Unframed by Debi Caletti (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Spindle and Dagger by J. Anderson Coats (Candlewick Press)
Heiress Apparently by Diana Ma (Amulet)
Into the Deep: Science, Technology and the Quest to Protect the Ocean by Christy Peterson (Lerner Publishing)
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon (Simon Pulse)
Books for Young Readers Winner:
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Books for Young Readers Finalists:
Dear Beast written by Dori Hillestad, illustrated by Kevan Atteberry (Holiday House)
Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte (Harper Alley/HarperCollins)
Whispering Pines by Heidi Lang and Kati Bartowski (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Joy McCullough (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Tornado Brain by Cat Patrick (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
Picture Book Winner:
The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann (Candlewick Press)
Picture Book Finalists:
The Spirit of Springer by Amanda Abler, illustrated by Levi Hastings (Little Bigfoot/Sasquatch Books)
This Old Dog by Martha Brockenbrough, illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo (Levine Querido)
Snail Crossing written and illustrated by Corey Tabor (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)
Play Day School Day written and illustrated by Toni Yuly (Candlewick Press)
2021 Judges for Adult Titles:
Kerry Halls – Manager, Auntie’s Bookstore
Tiffany Midge – Author and 2020 WSBA Award Finalist
Zola Mumford – Reference & Instruction Librarian, North Seattle College Library
Betsey Stahler – Collection Development Manager, NCW Libraries
Jenna Zarzycki – Adult Services Librarian, King County Library System
2021 Judges for Youth Titles:
Tamar Clarke – Teen Services Coordinator, Whatcom County Library System
Christopher Robert – Librarian, Seattle Public Schools
Janelle Smith – Owner, Wishing Tree Books