California Book Awards
The California Book Awards are annual literary awards given to California Writers and Publishers since 1931. The event is sponsored by Commonwealth [Club World Affairs of California]. The California Book Awards are funded by an endowment from Dr. Martha Heasley Cox, late professor of American Literature at San Jose State University. Medals and cash prizes are currently awarded in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, First Work of Fiction, Californiana, Juvenile Literature, Young Adult Literature, and Notable Contribution to Publishing. More than 400 books are submitted per year. The winning books are selected by an independent jury.
Winners
Californiana
Contribution to publishing
Fiction fiction / work
The California Book Award for First Fiction was first presented in 1977. In 1995, it was presented as the California Book Award for First Work.| Year | Title | Author | Result | |
| 1977 | ' | Gold | ||
| 1978 | ' | Silver | ||
| 1979 | Years of the French | Gold | ||
| 1982 | Story for a Black Night | Silver | ||
| 1983 | ' | Silver | ||
| 1984 | Tapping the Source | Silver | ||
| 1986 | Small Business: A Novel | Silver | ||
| 1987 | Imagining Argentina | Silver | ||
| 1987 | Unremembered Country Poems | Silver | ||
| 1992 | Cantora | Silver | ||
| 1993 | Tuscaloosa | Silver | ||
| 1995 | Jackson Street and other Soldier Stories | Gold | ||
| 1995 | Reckless Driver | Silver | ||
| 1996 | Sacred Dust | Silver | ||
| 1997 | Circumnavigation | Silver | ||
| 1998 | Hunger | Silver | ||
| 1999 | Oxygen Man | Gold | ||
| 1999 | ' | Silver | ||
| 1999 | Crooked | Silver | ||
| 2000 | ' | Silver | ||
| 2000 | Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner | Silver | ||
| 2001 | Edgewater Angels | Silver | ||
| 2002 | ' | Silver | ||
| 2002 | ' | Silver | ||
| 2003 | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | Silver | ||
| 2004 | Every Night is Ladies' Night | Silver | ||
| 2005 | ' | Silver | ||
| 2006 | Artificial Light | Silver | ||
| 2007 | Sons and Other Flammable Objects | Silver | ||
| 2008 | Telex From Cuba | Gold | ||
| 2008 | ' | Silver | ||
| 2009 | ' | Gold | ||
| 2010 | ' | Gold | ||
| 2011 | Turn of Mind | Gold | ||
| 2012 | ' | Gold | ||
| 2012 | Masha'allah and Other Stories | Silver | ||
| 2013 | ' | Gold | ||
| 2014 | Waiting for the Electricity | Gold | ||
| 2014 | ' | Silver | ||
| 2015 | ' | Gold | ||
| 2016 | Dog Years | Gold | ||
| 2017 | Goodbye, Vitamin | Gold | ||
| 2018 | There There | Gold | ||
| 2018 | Fruit of the Drunken Tree | Silver | ||
| 2019 | Home Remedies | Gold | ||
| 2019 | Last of Her Name | Silver | ||
| 2021 | How Much of These is God | Gold | ||
| 2022 | Skinship | Gold | ||
| 2022 | City of a Thousand Gates | Silver | ||
| 2023 | Nightcrawling | Gold | ||
| 2023 | ' | Silver | ||
| 2024 | All-Night Pharmacy | Gold | ||
| 2025 | Your Presence is Mandatory | Gold |