| Titler | Rækkefølge |
| Crowded years; the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo af William Gibbs McAdoo | Nonfiction-Memoir, 1931 |
| Outpost of empire : the story of the founding of San Francisco af Herbert Eugene Bolton | Scholarship-History, 1931 |
| Adventures of a Novelist af Gertrude Atherton | Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1932 |
| The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens af Lincoln Steffens | Nonfiction-Memoir, Silver, 1932 |
| Nur Mahal af Harold Lamb | General Literature, Silver, 1932 |
| The pursuit of death: A study of Shelley's poetry af Benjamin Putnam Kurtz | Scholarship-Study, Silver, 1933 |
| San Francisco: A Pageant af Charles Caldwell Dobie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1933 |
| The Lord's anointed, a novel of Hawaii af Ruth Eleanor McKee | General Literature, Silver, 1934 |
| The Revolutionary Emperor Joseph II Second of Austria af Saul Kussiel Padover | Scholarship-History, Silver, 1934 |
| The Saga of the Comstock Lode af George D. Lyman | Scholarship, Gold, 1934 |
| Dagdriverbanden af John Steinbeck | General Literature, Silver, 1935 |
| Laughter Out of the Ground; A Novel in Cadence af Robin Lampson | General Literature, Silver, 1935 |
| San Francisco tales af charles dobie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1935 |
| God and man's destiny af Hartley Burr Alexander | Scholarship, Gold, 1936 |
| Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party af George R. Stewart | Scholarship, Silver, 1936 |
| Snow covered wagons : a pioneer epic : the Donner party expedition, 1846-1847 af Julia Cooley Altrocchi | Scholarship, Silver, 1936 |
| Det ukuelige sind af John Steinbeck | General Literature, Silver, 1936 |
| The early Stuarts, 1603-1660 af Godfrey Davies | Scholarship, Silver, 1937 |
| The Education of Hyman Kaplan af Leonard Q. Ross | General Literature, Silver, 1937 |
| Men of Mathematics af E. T. Bell | Scholarship, Gold, 1937 |
| The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific af Oscar Lewis | Scholarship, Silver, 1938 |
| East of the Giants af George R. Stewart | General Literature, Silver, 1938 |
| Enchanted Vagabonds af Dana Lamb | Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1938 |
| Bright heritage af Mary Virginia Provines | General Literature, Silver, 1939 |
| Flowering Earth af Donald Culross Peattie | Scholarship, Silver, 1939 |
| Land Below the Wind af Agnes Newton Keith | Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1939 |
| San Francisco's Literary Frontier af Franklin Walker | Scholarship, Gold, 1939 |
| The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts af William Saroyan | General Literature, Silver, 1939 |
| Vredens druer af John Steinbeck | General Literature, Silver, 1939 |
| Blue Willow af Doris Gates | Juvenile, Silver, 1940 |
| A Diplomatic History of the American People af Thomas A. Bailey | Scholarship, Gold, 1940 |
| The March of the Barbarians af Harold Lamb | Scholarship, Silver, 1940 |
| My Name Is Aram af William Saroyan | Nonfiction-Memoir, Silver, 1940 |
| The Structure of Art af Carl Thurston | Scholarship, Gold, 1940 |
| Wild Geese Calling af Stewart Edward White | General Literature, Silver, 1940 |
| Anybody's Gold: The Story of California's Mining Towns af Joseph Henry Jackson | General Literature, Silver, 1941 |
| Lord of Alaska; Baranov and the Russian Adventure af Hector Chevigny | Nonfiction, Gold, 1941 |
| Many Mexicos af Lesley Byrd Simpson | Scholarship, Gold, 1941 |
| A history of historical writing af James Westfall Thompson | Scholarship, Gold, 1942 |
| The Man Who Killed the Deer af Frank Waters | Fiction, Silver, 1942 |
| Proud Riders, and Other Poems af H.L. Davis | Poetry, 1942 |
| I Remember Christine: (A Novel) af Oscar Lewis | General Literature, Silver, 1942 |
| The Stranger in Big Sur af Lillian Bos Ross | Fiction, Silver, 1942 |
| Brothers under the skin af Carey McWilliams | Nonfiction, Gold, 1943 |
| The Legacy of Nazism: The Economic and Social Consequences of Totalitarianism af Frank Munk | Scholarship, Gold, 1943 |
| Spurs for Antonia af Katherine Wigmore Eyre | Juvenile, Silver, 1943 |
| Trio af Dorothy Baker | General Literature, Silver, 1943 |
| Wide is the Gate af Upton Sinclair | Fiction, Silver, 1943 |
| Caesar and Christ af Will Durant | Nonfiction, Gold, 1944 |
| Captain Retread af Donald Hough | Fiction, Silver, 1944 |
| Mystery at Thunderbolt House af Howard Pease | Juvenile, Silver, 1944 |
| One Day on Beetle Rock af Sally Carrighar | General Literature, Silver, 1944 |
| Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace af Thomas A. Bailey | Scholarship, Gold, 1944 |
| The Epic of Latin America af John A. Crow | Scholarship, Gold, 1945 |
| High Bonnet af Idwal Jones | Fiction, Silver, 1945 |
| A Lion Is in the Streets af Adria Locke Langley | General Literature, Silver, 1945 |
| Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood af John Jenkins Espey | Nonfiction, Gold, 1945 |
| The Singing Cave af Margaret Carver Leighton | Juvenile, Silver, 1945 |
| South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce af Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen | Nonfiction, Silver, 1945 |
| Big Tree af Mary Buff | Fiction, Gold, 1946 |
| The Christian heritage in America af George Percy Hedley | Nonfiction, Silver, 1946 |
| Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement af George E. Mowry | Nonfiction, Silver, 1946 |
| The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization, 1607-1763 af Louis B. Wright | Scholarship, Gold, 1947 |
| Blood Brother af Elliott Arnold | Fiction, Gold, 1947 |
| The great forest af Richard Gordon Lillard | Nonfiction, Silver, 1947 |
| The Trial of Sören Qvist af Janet Lewis | General Literature, Silver, 1947 |
| The Age of the Great Depression 1929-1941: A History of American Life af Dixon Wecter | Scholarship, Gold, 1948 |
| The Big Divide af David Lavender | Nonfiction, Silver, 1948 |
| The Legend of Henry Ford af Keith Sward | Nonfiction, Silver, 1948 |
| The Nine Brides and Granny Hite af Neill Compton Wilson | Fiction, Silver, 1948 |
| Seabird af Holling C. Holling | Juvenile, Silver, 1948 |
| The Sky and the Forest af C. S. Forester | Fiction, Gold, 1948 |
| Woman with a Sword af Hollister Noble | General Literature, Silver, 1948 |
| At The Palace Gates af Helen Rand Parish | Juvenile, Silver, 1949 |
| The beast in his hunger; poems af Harry Brown | Poetry, Silver, 1949 |
| Epicurus My Master af Max Radin | Fiction, Silver, 1949 |
| The Journey of Simon McKeever af Albert Maltz | Fiction, Gold, 1949 |
| Revolt in San Marcos af Robert Carver North | Fiction, Silver, 1949 |
| To Hell and Back af Audie Murphy | Nonfiction, Silver, 1949 |
| About Mrs. Leslie af Viña Delmar | Fiction, Silver, 1950 |
| Bridal Journey af Dale Van Every | Fiction, Gold, 1950 |
| Fifth Chinese Daughter af Jade Snow Wong | Nonfiction, Silver, 1950 |
| Sea Road to the Indies: An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count Vidigueira af Henry Hersch Hart | Nonfiction, Gold, 1950 |
| Thomas and the Red Headed Angel af Marion Garthwaite | Juvenile, Silver, 1950 |
| Ark of Empire af Idwal Jones | Nonfiction, Silver, 1951 |
| The Negro and the Communist Party af Wilson Record | Nonfiction, Silver, 1951 |
| Sandra and the Right Prince af Mildred Napier Anderson | Fiction, Gold, 1951 |
| Tracy's Tiger af William Saroyan | Fiction, Silver, 1951 |
| The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements af Eric Hoffer | Nonfiction, Gold, 1951 |
| Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution (Cal 138) af Walton Bean | Nonfiction, Gold, 1952 |
| Winds of Morning af H.L. Davis | Fiction, Silver, 1952 |
| Fahrenheit 451 af Ray Bradbury | Fiction, Silver, 1953 |
| Ingen vej tilbage af Ernest K. Gann | Fiction, Gold, 1953 |
| It's good to be black af Ruby Berkley Goodwin | Nonfiction, Gold, 1953 |
| Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West af Wallace Stegner | Nonfiction, Silver, 1954 |
| Beyond the Hungry Country af Louise A. Stinetorf | Fiction, Silver, 1954 |
| The Epics of Everest af Leonard Wibberley | Fiction, Silver, 1954 |
| Glory, God and Gold: A Narrative History of the Southwest af Paul I. Wellman | Nonfiction, Silver, 1954 |
| Howells and the age of realism af Everett Carter | Nonfiction, Gold, 1954 |
| The Nightmare af C. S. Forester | Fiction, Gold, 1954 |
| Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 af Carl Bridenbaugh | Nonfiction, Gold, 1955 |
| The Genius and the Goddess af Aldous Huxley | Fiction, Silver, 1955 |
| Den gode hyrde af C. S. Forester | Fiction, Silver, 1955 |
| Notre-Dame of Paris af Allan Temko | Nonfiction, Gold, 1955 |
| The Streets of San Francisco af Samuel Dickson | Nonfiction, Silver, 1955 |
| James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798 af Page Smith | Nonfiction, Silver, 1956 |
| The Long Watch af Elizabeth Linington | Fiction, Silver, 1956 |
| Men of the Western Waters af Dale Van Every | Californiana, Silver, 1956 |
| The Nun's Story af Kathryn Hulme | Nonfiction, Gold, 1956 |
| Spook, the Mustang af Harlan Thompson | Fiction, Silver, 1956 |
| The Braintree Mission af Nicholas E. Wyckoff | Fiction, Silver, 1957 |
| David and the Phoenix af Edward Ormondroyd | Juvenile, Silver, 1957 |
| Elizabethans at Home af Lu Emily Pearson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1957 |
| The Flower Drum Song af C. Y. Lee | Fiction, Silver, 1957 |
| Knock and Wait a While af William Rawle Weeks | Fiction, Silver, 1957 |
| San Francisco Bay af Harold Gilliam | Californiana, Silver, 1957 |
| The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 af George E. Mowry | Nonfiction, Silver, 1958 |
| Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950 af David Lavender | Nonfiction, Silver, 1958 |
| Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël af J. Christopher Herold | Nonfiction, Gold, 1958 |
| Montgomery and the Portsmouth af Fred Blackburn Rogers | Californiana, Silver, 1958 |
| Sergenten af Dennis Murphy | Fiction, Silver, 1958 |
| Warlock af Oakley Hall | Fiction, Gold, 1958 |
| Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox af John Chester Miller | Nonfiction, Gold, 1959 |
| The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned af William Bronson | Californiana, Silver, 1959 |
| The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917 af Henry Farnham May | Nonfiction, Silver, 1959 |
| Flight from Ashiya af Elliott Arnold | Fiction, Gold, 1959 |
| Thaddeus Stevens : Scourge of the South af Fawn M. Brodie | Nonfiction, Silver, 1959 |
| The Thirteenth Apostle af Eugene Vale | Fiction, Silver, 1959 |
| This Is The Desert story of America's Arid Region af Phil Ault | Juvenile, Silver, 1959 |
| Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 af George Dangerfield | Nonfiction, Gold, 1960 |
| Hawaii, The Aloha State af Helen Bauer | Juvenile, Silver, 1960 |
| A Shooting Star af Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1960 |
| The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 af Allan Nevins | Nonfiction, Silver, 1960 |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo af Irving Stone | Fiction, Silver, 1961 |
| Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 af Dale Van Every | Nonfiction, Silver, 1961 |
| The Gray Sea Raiders af Gordon D. Shirreffs | Juvenile, Silver, 1961 |
| Ishi in Two Worlds af Theodora Kroeber | Californiana, Silver, 1961 |
| Mila 18. (Efter den amerikanske orig.: Mila 18) af Leon Uris | Fiction, Gold, 1961 |
| Sinclair Lewis: An American Life af Mark Schorer | Nonfiction, Gold, 1961 |
| Adolph Sutro, a biography af Robert E. Stewart | Nonfiction, Silver, 1962 |
| The Everlasting Fire af Jonreed Lauritzen | Fiction, Silver, 1962 |
| First woman ambulance surgeon, Emily Barringer af Iris Noble | Juvenile, Silver, 1962 |
| Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox [Revised and Expanded Edition] af Heinz Politzer | Nonfiction, Gold, 1962 |
| Heart of the Wild af Chet Schwarzkopf | Fiction, Silver medal, 1962 |
| John Adams af Page Smith | Nonfiction, Gold, 1962 |
| Ah, Julian! A memoir of Julian Brodetsky af Leonard Wibberley | Nonfiction, Silver, 1963 |
| A History of Russia af Nicholas V. Riasanovsky | Nonfiction, Gold, 1963 |
| James Gibbons Huneker, critic of the seven arts af Arnold T. Schwab | Nonfiction, Silver, 1963 |
| The Keys and the Candle af Maryhale Woolsey | Juvenile, Silver, 1963 |
| South from San Francisco af Frank Merriman Stanger | Californiana, Silver, 1963 |
| Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 af C. D. O'Malley | Nonfiction, Gold, 1964 |
| Armageddon / Omsl.: Ib Jørgensen) : (1-2) af Leon Uris | Fiction, Silver, 1964 |
| The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail af Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1964 |
| The Man af Irving Wallace | Fiction, Silver, 1964 |
| Sarah & the Senator af Robert Henry Kroninger | Californiana, Silver, 1964 |
| A Spell is Cast af Eleanor Cameron | Juvenile, Silver, 1964 |
| Arfive af A.B. Jr Guthrie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1965 |
| Campion Towers af John Louis Beatty | Juvenile, Silver, 1965 |
| The Final Challenge: The American Frontier, 1804-1845 af Dale Van Every | Nonfiction, Silver, 1965 |
| Mein Cello und ich und unsere Begegnungen af Gregor Piatigorsky | Nonfiction, Silver, 1965 |
| Oil, land, and politics; the California career of Thomas Robert Bard af W. H. Hutchinson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1965 |
| Selected Poems af Louis Simpson | Poetry, Silver, 1965 |
| The Year of the Death af Reuben Merliss | Fiction, Silver, 1965 |
| All the Little Heroes af Herbert Wilner | Fiction, Silver, 1966 |
| The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster af Wilfred Stone | Nonfiction, Gold, 1966 |
| Chancy and the Grand Rascal af Sid Fleischman | Californiana, Silver, 1966 |
| Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 af Leonard Pitt | Nonfiction, Silver, 1966 |
| The ordeal of the Constitution; the antifederalists and the ratification struggle of 1787-1788 af Robert Allen Rutland | Nonfiction, Silver, 1966 |
| The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers af Melba Berry Bennett | Nonfiction, Gold, 1966 |
| All the Little Live Things af Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1967 |
| Fathers af Herbert Gold | Nonfiction, Silver, 1967 |
| Fool's Gold A Biography of John Sutter af Richard Dillon | Californiana, Silver, 1967 |
| A Night of Watching af Elliott Arnold | Fiction, Gold, 1967 |
| Robert E. Lee: A Portrait af Margaret Sanborn | Nonfiction, Gold, 1967 |
| The rose of solitude af William Everson | Poetry, Silver, 1967 |
| Silent ship, silent sea af Robb White | Juvenile, Silver, 1967 |
| The young Stalin; the early years of an elusive revolutionary af Edward Ellis Smith | Nonfiction, Silver, 1967 |
| Airport af Arthur Hailey | Fiction, Silver, 1968 |
| Edward L. Thorndike: The Sane Positivist af Geraldine JonCich Clifford | Nonfiction, Gold, 1968 |
| Everyman's Eden; a history of California af Ralph Joseph Roske | Californiana, Silver, 1968 |
| Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation af William Weber Johnson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1968 |
| Westward the Immigrants: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America af Andrew F. Rolle | Nonfiction, Silver, 1968 |
| The Cay af Theodore Taylor | Juvenile, Silver, 1969 |
| The Great Betrayal af Audrie Girdner | Californiana, Silver, 1969 |
| The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books af Eleanor Cameron | Juvenile, Silver, 1969 |
| With Bold Knife and Fork af M. F. K. Fisher | Nonfiction, Gold, 1969 |
| Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India af Stephen N. Hay | Nonfiction, Gold, 1970 |
| Crimson Ramblers of the World, Farewell af Jessamyn West | Fiction, Silver, 1970 |
| The El Dorado Trail af Ferol Egan | Californiana, Silver, 1970 |
| Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time af Will Durant | Nonfiction, Silver, 1970 |
| Jonah and the great fish af Clyde Robert Bulla | Juvenile, Silver, 1970 |
| The Rise of Modern China af Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü | Nonfiction, Silver, 1970 |
| Annie and the Old One af Miska Miles | Juvenile, Silver, 1971 |
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman af Ernest J. Gaines | Fiction, Silver, 1971 |
| Exorcisten af William Peter Blatty | Fiction, Gold, 1971 |
| The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California af Alexander Saxton | Californiana, Silver, 1971 |
| More under Saturn (The Wesleyan poetry program v. 58) af William Dickey | Poetry, Silver, 1971 |
| Textile Art in the Church af Marion P. Ireland | Nonfiction, Silver, 1971 |
| Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill af Travis Bogard | Nonfiction, Gold, 1972 |
| Monterey af Augusta Fink | Californiana, Silver, 1972 |
| The Pound Era af Hugh Kenner | Fiction, Silver, 1972 |
| Samurai of Gold Hill af Yoshiko Uchida | Juvenile, Silver, 1972 |
| Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 af Ferol Egan | Nonfiction, Silver, 1972 |
| Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 af Kevin Starr | Nonfiction, Gold, 1973 |
| Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 af Jay Monaghan | Californiana, Silver, 1973 |
| The Cowboy and the Cossack af Clair Huffaker | Fiction, Silver, 1973 |
| Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy af John Niven | Nonfiction, Silver, 1973 |
| Living together : new and selected poems af Edgar Bowers | Poetry, Silver, 1973 |
| Steinbeck Country af Steve Crouch | Nonfiction, Gold, 1973 |
| Yours, And Mine af Judith Rascoe | Fiction, Silver, 1973 |
| Against the law;: The Nixon Court and criminal justice af Leonard W. Levy | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| The Ascent of Man af Jacob Bronowski | Nonfiction, Gold, 1974 |
| The Connoisseur af Evan S. Connell | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| An Everyday History of Somewhere af Ray Raphael | Californiana, Gold, 1974 |
| Love Out of Season af Ella Leffland | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| The paper party af Don Freeman | Juvenile, Silver, 1974 |
| A Time for Titans af Viña Delmar | Fiction, Silver, 1974 |
| The Age of Napoleon af Will Durant | Nonfiction, Silver, 1975 |
| Nothing seemed impossible: William C. Ralston and early San Francisco (Western biography series) af David Sievert Lavender | Californiana, Silver, 1975 |
| The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar af Peter Ward Fay | Nonfiction, Silver, 1975 |
| The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated af Brian M. Fagan | Nonfiction, Gold, 1975 |
| Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed af Robert A. Rosenstone | Nonfiction, Silver, 1975 |
| Det store togrøveri af Michael Crichton | Fiction, Silver, 1975 |
| Adult Bookstore af Karl Shapiro | Poetry, Silver, 1976 |
| Jack Straw's Castle af Thom Gunn | Poetry, Gold, 1976 |
| A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution af Page Smith | Nonfiction, Gold, 1976 |
| Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 af Eugen Weber | Nonfiction, Silver, 1976 |
| The Spectator Bird af Wallace Stegner | Fiction, Silver, 1976 |
| Botanical Prints af Henry Evans | Nonfiction, Silver, 1977 |
| Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation af Ferol Egan | Nonfiction, Silver, 1977 |
| Haywire af Brooke Hayward | Nonfiction, Silver, 1977 |
| In Mediterranean Air af Ann Stanford | Poetry, Silver, 1977 |
| The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived af Ingrid Rimland | First Fiction, Gold, 1977 |
| The Dark Range af David Rains Wallace | Californiana, Silver, 1978 |
| Germany 1866-1945 af Gordon A. Craig | Nonfiction, Silver, 1978 |
| Max Perkins: Editor of Genius af A. Scott Berg | Fiction, Gold, 1978 |
| North of Danger af Dale Fife | Juvenile, Silver, 1978 |
| Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend af Charles W. Jones | Nonfiction, Silver, 1978 |
| A Woman of Independent Means af Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey | First Fiction, Silver, 1978 |
| Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery af Leon F. Litwack | Nonfiction, Silver, 1979 |
| The Fool and the Dancing Bear af Pamela Stearns | Juvenile, Silver, 1979 |
| The Morning Star af Kenneth Rexroth | Poetry, Silver, 1979 |
| Sea Glass af Laurence Yep | Juvenile, Silver, 1979 |
| Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China af Michael Sullivan | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1979 |
| The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution af Gary B. Nash | Nonfiction, Silver, 1979 |
| The Year of the French af Thomas Flanagan | First Fiction, Gold, 1979 |
| Flight of the Sparrow af Julia Cunningham | Juvenile, Gold, 1980 |
| The Half-a-Moon Inn af Paul Fleischman | Juvenile, Silver, 1980 |
| The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War af Kenneth M. Stampp | Nonfiction, Silver, 1980 |
| impossible appetites af James Fetler | Fiction, Silver, 1980 |
| A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 af Charles Royster | Nonfiction, Silver, 1980 |
| Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu af John Felstiner | Nonfiction, Gold, 1980 |
| Family: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir af Herbert Gold | Fiction, Silver, 1981 |
| Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez af Richard Rodriguez | Nonfiction, Gold, 1981 |
| A Jar of Dreams af Yoshiko Uchida | Juvenile, Silver, 1981 |
| Poems Old and New: 1918-1978 af Janet Lewis | Poetry, Silver, 1981 |
| Will's Boy: A Memoir af Wright Morris | Nonfiction, Silver, 1981 |
| The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience af J. S. Holliday | Californiana, Gold, 1981 |
| The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 af Robert Middlekauff | Nonfiction, Gold, 1982 |
| The Infinite Passion of Expectation af Gina Berriault | Fiction, Silver, 1982 |
| Spacks Street : new & selected poems af Barry Spacks | Poetry, Silver, 1982 |
| Story for a Black Night af Clayton Bess | First Fiction, Silver, 1982 |
| Winemaking in California af Ruth Teiser | Californiana, Gold, 1982 |
| Collected Poems, 1930-83 af Josephine Miles | Poetry, Silver, 1983 |
| Cry of the Kalahari af Mark Owens | Juvenile, Silver, 1983 |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw af Beverly Cleary | Juvenile, Silver, 1983 |
| A Dime to Dance By af Walter Walker | First Fiction, Silver, 1983 |
| The First Elizabeth af Carolly Erickson | Nonfiction, Gold, 1983 |
| French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries af Jean V. Bony | Nonfiction, Gold, 1983 |
| A Gathering of Old Men af Ernest J. Gaines | Fiction, Silver, 1983 |
| The Klamath Knot af David Rains Wallace | Californiana, Silver, 1983 |
| Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet af Galen Rowell | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1983 |
| Above Paris af Pierre Salinger | Nonfiction, Silver, 1984 |
| Celebrating Italy af Carol Field | Notable Contribution to Publishishing, Silver, 1984 |
| European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries (New Directions Paperback) af Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry, Silver, 1984 |
| The Hill Towns of Italy af Carol Field | Notable Contribution to Publishishing, Silver, 1984 |
| Monkey Puzzle and Other Poems af Myra Cohn Livingston | Juvenile, Silver, 1984 |
| Stones for Ibarra af Harriet Doerr | Fiction, Silver, 1984 |
| Tapping the Source af Kem Nunn | First Fiction, Silver, 1984 |
| The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine af Doris Muscatine | Californiana, Gold, 1984 |
| Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 af Thomas Albright | California, Gold, 1985 |
| Early light (University of Utah Press poetry series) af W. S. Di Piero | Poetry, Silver, 1985 |
| Face af Cecile Pineda | Fiction, Silver, 1985 |
| Greasy Lake: and Other stories af T. Coraghessan Boyle | Fiction, Silver, 1985 |
| A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals af Spiro Kostof | Nonfiction, Gold, 1985 |
| Reasons to Live af Amy Hempel | Fiction, Silver, 1985 |
| Willow Maiden af Meghan Collins | Juvenile, Silver, 1985 |
| Birds Landing af Ernest Finney | Fiction, Silver, 1986 |
| France, Fin de Siècle af Eugen Weber | Nonfiction, Gold, 1986 |
| Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence af Gene Brucker | Nonfiction, Silver, 1986 |
| The Golden Gate af Vikram Seth | Californiana, Gold, 1986 |
| Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1985 af Gary Snyder | Poetry, Silver, 1986 |
| Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape af Galen A. Rowell | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1986 |
| Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems af Timothy Steele | Poetry, Silver, 1986 |
| Small Business (Contemporary American Fiction) af Tom Parker | First Fiction, Silver, 1986 |
| And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic af Randy Shilts | Nonfiction, Silver, 1987 |
| Bitter Melon af Jeff Gillenkirk | Californiana, Silver, 1987 |
| Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World af Donald R. Howard | Nonfiction, Gold, 1987 |
| Imagining Argentina af Lawrence Thornton | First Fiction, Silver, 1987 |
| Nell's Quilt af Susan Terris | Juvenile, Silver, 1987 |
| Unremembered Country af Susan Griffin | First Fiction, Silver, 1987 |
| Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific af Lynne Withey | Nonfiction, Silver, 1987 |
| World's End af T. C. Boyle | Fiction, Silver, 1987 |
| The Collected Poems af Czesław Miłosz | Poetry, Silver, 1988 |
| Green Architecture & The Agrarian Garden af Barbara Stauffacher Solomon | Nonfiction, Silver, 1988 |
| Julia Morgan, Architect af Sara Holmes Boutelle | Californiana, Gold, 1988 |
| Of Gravity and Angels af Jane Hirshfield | Poetry, Silver, 1988 |
| Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings af Herschel B. Chipp | Nonfiction, Silver, 1988 |
| Step into the Night af Joanne Ryder | Juvenile, Silver, 1988 |
| The Way to the Western Sea af David Lavender | Nonfiction, Silver, 1988 |
| What is It Then Between Us?: Stories (Collier Fiction) af Ehud Havazelet | Fiction, Silver, 1988 |
| Dead Languages af David Shields | Poetry, Silver, 1989 |
| Denial of Disaster af Gladys C. Hansen | Californiana, Gold, 1989 |
| Fortress (Wesleyan Poetry) af Brenda Hillman | Poetry, Silver, 1989 |
| Human Wishes af Robert Hass | Poetry, Silver, 1989 |
| Klub Held og Glæde af Amy Tan | Fiction, Silver, 1989 |
| Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans af Ronald Takaki | Nonfiction, Gold, 1989 |
| America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink af Kenneth M. Stampp | Nonfiction, Silver, 1990 |
| Babushka's Doll af Patricia Polacco | Juvenile, Silver, 1990 |
| Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 af Caroline A. Jones | Californiana, Gold, 1990 |
| O California! : nineteenth and early twentieth century California landscapes and observations af Stephen Vincent | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1990 |
| Even Now af Michelle Latiolais | Fiction, Silver, 1990 |
| The Knight, Death and the Devil af Ella Leffland | Nonfiction, Silver, 1990 |
| Limbo River af Rick Hillis | Fiction, Silver, 1990 |
| Sacred Mountains of the World af Edwin Bernbaum | Nonfiction, Gold, 1990 |
| Anne Sexton: A Biography af Diane Middlebrook | Nonfiction, Gold, 1991 |
| Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women af Susan Faludi | Nonfiction, Silver, 1991 |
| Farming on the Edge af John Hart | Californiana, Gold, 1991 |
| Fly Away Home af Eve Bunting | Juvenile, Silver, 1991 |
| Jayhawker af Patricia Beatty | Juvenile, Silver, 1991 |
| Mariette in Ecstasy af Ron Hansen | Fiction, Silver, 1991 |
| Provinces af Czesław Miłosz | Poetry, Silver, 1991 |
| Sarah Canary af Karen Joy Fowler | Fiction, Silver, 1991 |
| What Work Is af Philip Levine | Poetry, Silver, 1991 |
| A Bowl of Mischief af Ellen Kindt McKenzie | Juvenile, Silver, 1992 |
| Cantora af Sylvia Lopez-Medina | First Novel, Silver, 1992 |
| Chicken Sunday af Patricia Polacco | Juvenile, Silver, 1992 |
| Da Nietzsche græd af Irvin D. Yalom | Fiction, Gold, 1992 |
| Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father af Richard Rodriguez | Nonfiction, Silver, 1992 |
| Earthquake at Dawn af Kristiana Gregory | Juvenile, Silver, 1992 |
| Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard af Robert V. Hine | Californiana, Gold, 1992 |
| Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy 1800-1814 af Proctor Patterson Jones | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1992 |
| Red Square af Martin Cruz Smith | Fiction, Silver, 1992 |
| Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People af Ramon Eduardo Ruiz | Nonfiction, Gold, 1992 |
| The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life af Kenneth R. Trapp | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1993 |
| Bull Run af Paul Fleischman | Juvenile, Silver, 1993 |
| Dragon's Gate af Laurence Yep | Juvenile, Silver, 1993 |
| Grandfather's Journey af Allen Say | Juvenile, Silver, 1993 |
| The Great Central Valley af Stephen Johnson | Californiana, Silver, 1993 |
| Lost Body (National Poetry Series) af Terry Ehret | Poetry, Silver, 1993 |
| No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture af Allan Temko | Nonfiction, Silver, 1993 |
| Opera in America: A Cultural History af John Dizikes | Nonfiction, Gold, 1993 |
| Tuscaloosa: A novel af W. Glasgow Phillips | First Novel, Silver, 1993 |
| Catherine, Called Birdy af Karen Cushman | Juvenile, Silver, 1994 |
| The October Palace: Poems af Jane Hirshfield | Poetry, Silver, 1994 |
| The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War af Peter N. Carroll | Juvenile, Silver, 1994 |
| Paladstyven - fortællinger af Ethan Canin | Fiction, Silver, 1994 |
| The Philosopher's Club af Kim Addonizio | Poetry, Silver, 1994 |
| Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap af Peggy Orenstein | Nonfiction, Silver, 1994 |
| Smoky Night af Eve Bunting | Juvenile, Silver, 1994 |
| Two Eagles / Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the United States-Mexico Borderlands af Tupper Ansel Blake | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1994 |
| The ZOO WHERE YOU'RE FED TO GOD: A NOVEL af Michael Ventura | Fiction, Silver, 1994 |
| Canto Familiar af Gary Soto | Juvenile, Silver, 1995 |
| The Faithful Friend af Robert D. San Souci | Juvenile, Silver, 1995 |
| Jackson Street af John A. Miller | First Work, Gold, 1995 |
| Lights & Mysteries af Thomas Centolella | Poetry, Silver, 1995 |
| Naming the Spirits af Lawrence Thornton | Fiction, Silver, 1995 |
| Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic af Galen Rowell | Nonfiction, Silver, 1995 |
| Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America af Mike Rose | Nonfiction, Silver, 1995 |
| Reckless Driver af Lisa Vice | First Work, Silver, 1995 |
| Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow af August Kleinzahler | Poetry, Silver, 1995 |
| A Time for Dancing af Davida Wills Hurwin | Juvenile, Silver, 1995 |
| Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995 af Carolyn Kizer | Poetry, Silver, 1996 |
| Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir af D. J. Waldie | Nonfiction, Gold, 1996 |
| Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics af Ruth Lewin Sime | Nonfiction, Silver, 1996 |
| Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman af Alan Schroeder | Juvenile, Silver, 1996 |
| Pigen de kaldte Ulykke af Nancy Farmer | Juvenile, Silver, 1996 |
| Sacred Dust af David Hill | First Work of Fiction, Silver, 1996 |
| Storm over Mono af John Hart | Californiana, Gold, 1996 |
| Sun Under Wood af Robert Hass | Poetry, Silver, 1996 |
| Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories af Gina Berriault | Fiction, Silver, 1996 |
| Circumnavigation af Steve Lattimore | First Fiction, Silver, 1997 |
| Creek Walk and Other Stories af Molly Giles | Fiction, Silver, 1997 |
| Le Divorce af Diane Johnson | Fiction, Gold, 1997 |
| The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s af Kevin Starr | Californiana, Silver, 1997 |
| A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions Paperbook) af Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Poetry, Silver, 1997 |
| The Hired Hand af Robert D. San Souci | Juvenile, Silver, 1997 |
| Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature af Harry W. Greene | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1997 |
| Vejen til verden af i dag af Jared Diamond | Nonfiction, Gold, 1997 |
| All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery af Henry Mayer | Nonfiction, Silver, 1998 |
| The Art of the Lathe af B. H. Fairchild | Poetry, Silver, 1998 |
| Goodnight, Nebraska af Tom McNeal | Fiction, Silver, 1998 |
| Harvest Son af David Mas Masumoto | Californiana, Silver, 1998 |
| Hunger af Lan Samantha Chang | First Fiction, Silver, 1998 |
| Kong Leopolds arv : en fortælling om grådighed, terror og heroisme i kolonitidens Afrika af Adam Hochschild | Nonfiction, Gold, 1998 |
| Lost Lake: Stories af Mark Slouka | Fiction, Silver, 1998 |
| Mrs. Dumpty af Chana Bloch | Poetry, Silver, 1998 |
| I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade af Diane Lee Wilson | Juvenile, Silver, 1998 |
| Sitting Ducks af Michael Bedard | Juvenile, Silver, 1998 |
| The Artist of the Missing: A Novel af Paul La Farge | First Fiction, Silver, 1999 |
| Crooked af Laura McNeal | First Fiction, Silver, 1999 |
| Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 af David M. Kennedy | Nonfiction, Gold, 1999 |
| Leaving Pico af Frank X. Gaspar | Fiction, Silver, 1999 |
| Little Bo af Julie Andrews | Young Adult, Silver, 1999 |
| The Mercy: Poems af Philip Levine | Poetry, Silver, 1999 |
| The Oxygen Man af Steve Yarbrough | First Fiction, Gold, 1999 |
| Rush for Riches af J. S. Holliday | Californiana, Silver, 1999 |
| Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe af Brad S. Gregory | Nonfiction, Silver, 1999 |
| At the Sign of the Star af Katherine Sturtevant | Young Adult, Silver, 2000 |
| California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940 af K. D. Kurutz | Publishing, Silver, 2000 |
| Jubal's Wish af Audrey Wood | Juvenile, Silver, 2000 |
| The literature of California / 1, Native American beginnings to 1945 af Jack Hicks | Californiana, Silver, 2000 |
| Million dollar baby og andre historier fra ringhjørnet af F. X. Toole | First Fiction, Silver, 2000 |
| Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 af A. J. Langguth | Nonfiction, Gold, 2000 |
| The Royal Family af William T. Vollmann | Fiction, Silver, 2000 |
| Selected Poems af Fanny Howe | Poetry, Gold, 2000 |
| Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay af Michael Chabon | Fiction, Gold, 2000 |
| American Colonies: The Settling of North America af Alan Taylor | Nonfiction, Gold, 2001 |
| Capturing Light af Drew Heath Johnson | Californiana, Silver, 2001 |
| Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 af Carolyn Kizer | Poetry, Silver, 2001 |
| Edgewater Angels: A Novel af Sandro Meallet | First Fiction, Silver, 2001 |
| Haussmann, or the Distinction: A Novel af Paul La Farge | Fiction, Silver, 2001 |
| Highwire Moon af Susan Straight | Fiction, Gold, 2001 |
| New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 af Czesław Miłosz | Poetry, Gold, 2001 |
| Notes from a Liar and Her Dog af Gennifer Choldenko | Young Adult, Silver, 2001 |
| Splendide Californie!: Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900 af Claudine Chalmers | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2001 |
| American Law in the Twentieth Century af Lawrence M. Friedman | Nonfiction, Silver, 2002 |
| Brown: The Last Discovery of America af Richard Rodriguez | Nonfiction, Gold, 2002 |
| Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems af B. H. Fairchild | Poetry, Gold, 2002 |
| Her fra min himmel : roman af Alice Sebold | First Fiction, Silver, 2002 |
| The High Sierra of California af Gary Snyder | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2002 |
| The Last Good Chance: A Novel af Tom Barbash | First Fiction, Silver, 2002 |
| The Miracle: A Novel af John L'Heureux | Fiction, Gold, 2002 |
| This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) af Elizabeth Partridge | Young Adult, Silver, 2002 |
| When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson af Pam Muñoz Ryan | Juvenile, Silver, 2002 |
| Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology af David L. Ulin | Californiana, Silver, 2002 |
| American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 af Bram Dijkstra | Nonfiction, Silver, 2003 |
| The City of Ember af Jeanne DuPrau | Young Adult, Silver, 2003 |
| Drinking Coffee Elsewhere af ZZ Packer | First Fiction, Silver, 2003 |
| Evidence of Things Unseen af Marianne Wiggins | Fiction, Gold, 2003 |
| Just a Minute! A Trickster Tale and Counting Book af Yuyi Morales | Juvenile, Silver, 2003 |
| The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire af Mark Arax | Californiana, Silver, 2003 |
| Old School af Tobias Wolff | Fiction, Silver, 2003 |
| Parasites Like Us af Adam Johnson | Fiction, Silver, 2003 |
| Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} af William T. Vollmann | Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2003 |
| River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West af Rebecca Solnit | Nonfiction, Gold, 2003 |
| The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems af August Kleinzahler | Poetry, Gold, 2003 |
| Where I Was From af Joan Didion | Special Acknowledgement, Silver, 2003 |
| Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 af Richard Steven Street | Californiana, Silver, 2004 |
| Every Night Is Ladies' Night: Stories af Michael Jaime-Becerra | First Fiction, Silver, 2004 |
| Graceland af Chris Abani | Fiction, Silver, 2004 |
| Happy Baby af Stephen Elliott | Fiction, Silver, 2004 |
| Max Tivoli af Andrew Sean Greer | Fiction, Gold, 2004 |
| The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 af Adrienne Rich | Poetry, Gold, 2004 |
| The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic af Chalmers Johnson | Nonfiction, Gold, 2004 |
| Walt Whitman: Words for America af Barbara Kerley | Juvenile, Silver, 2004 |
| Worth af A. LaFaye | Young Adult, Silver, 2004 |
| Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves af Adam Hochschild | Nonfiction, Gold, 2005 |
| The Cloud Chamber af Joyce Maynard | Young Adult, Silver, 2005 |
| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed af Jared Diamond | Nonfiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Efter tusind års fromme bønner : noveller af Yiyun Li | First Fiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Europe Central af William T. Vollmann | Fiction, Gold, 2005 |
| The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 af Philip L. Fradkin | Californiana, Silver, 2005 |
| The Niagara River: Poems af Kay Ryan | Poetry, Gold, 2005 |
| Nice Big American Baby af Judy Budnitz | Fiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Sneblomst og den hemmelige vifte af Lisa See | Fiction, Silver, 2005 |
| Terrific af Jon Agee | Juvenile, Silver, 2005 |
| Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery) af James Greer | First Fiction, Silver, 2006 |
| Enrique's Journey af Sonia Nazario | Nonfiction, Silver, 2006 |
| The Great Black Way af RJ Smith | Californiana, Silver, 2006 |
| Landed af Milly Lee | Juvenile, Silver, 2006 |
| New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 af Ishmael Reed | Poetry, Gold, 2006 |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals af Michael Pollan | Nonfiction, Gold, 2006 |
| Talk talk af T. C. Boyle | Fiction, Silver, 2006 |
| A True and Faithful Narrative af Katherine Sturtevant | Young Adult, Silver, 2006 |
| Wizard of the Crow af Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Fiction, Gold, 2006 |
| Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems af W. S. Di Piero | Poetry, Gold, 2007 |
| Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella af Paul Fleischman | Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2007 |
| Det jiddische politiforbund : roman af Michael Chabon | Fiction, Gold, 2007 |
| Ralph Ellison: A Biography af Arnold Rampersad | Nonfiction, Gold, 2007 |
| Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City af Robert Gottlieb | Californiana, Silver, 2007 |
| Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party af Ying Chang Compestine | Young Adult, Silver, 2007 |
| Sons and Other Flammable Objects af Porochista Khakpour | First Fiction, Silver, 2007 |
| Thirteen Reasons Why af Jay Asher | Young Adult, Silver, 2007 |
| What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 af Daniel Walker Howe | Nonfiction, Silver, 2007 |
| Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 af Gordon Chang | Contribution to Publishing, Gold, 2008 |
| The End of the Jews: A Novel af Adam Mansbach | Fiction, Gold, 2008 |
| Fortælling om et selvmord af David Vann | First Fiction, Silver, 2008 |
| Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life af John Adams | Nonfiction, Gold, 2008 |
| Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West af Deanne Stillman | Nonfiction, Silver, 2008 |
| Practice af Dan Bellm | Poetry, Silver, 2008 |
| Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected af August Kleinzahler | Poetry, Gold, 2008 |
| Telex from Cuba af Rachel Kushner | First Fiction, Gold, 2008 |
| We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball af Kadir Nelson | Juvenile, Gold, 2008 |
| White Sands, Red Menace af Ellen Klages | Young Adult, Gold, 2008 |
| The Bigness of the World: Stories af Lori Ostlund | First Fiction, Gold, 2009 |
| De hjemløse af Yiyun Li | Fiction, Gold, 2009 |
| Lucky Breaks af Susan Patron | Juvenile, Gold, 2009 |
| A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster af Rebecca Solnit | Nonfiction, Gold, 2009 |
| Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 af Mark Twain | Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2010 |
| Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History af Yunte Huang | Nonfiction, Gold, 2010 |
| Grandma's Gloves af Cecil Castellucci | Juvenile, Gold, 2010 |
| The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America af Don Lattin | Nonfiction, Silver, 2010 |
| I Hotel af Karen Tei Yamashita | Fiction, Gold, 2010 |
| The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel af Zachary Mason | First fiction, Gold, 2010 |
| Model Home af Eric Puchner | Fiction, 2010 |
| Mortal Geography (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) af Alexandra Teague | Poetry, Gold, 2010 |
| State of Change, A: Forgotten Landscapes of California af Laura Cunningham | Californiana, Gold, 2010 |
| Suck on the Marrow af CAMILLE DUNGY | Poetry, Silver, 2010 |
| The Things a Brother Knows af Dana Reinhardt | Young Adult, Gold, 2010 |
| The Apothecary af Maile Meloy | Young Adult, Gold, 2011 |
| Ascension af Giovanni Singleton | Poetry, Gold, 2011 |
| The Barbarian Nurseries af Héctor Tobar | Fiction, Gold, 2011 |
| Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum af Jason Felch | Nonfiction, Gold, 2011 |
| Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California's Desert af David Rains Wallace | Californiana, Gold, 2011 |
| The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. af Jonathan Lethem | Nonfiction, Silver, 2011 |
| Love and Shame and Love af Peter Orner | Fiction, Silver, 2011 |
| One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street af Joanne Rocklin | Juvenile, 2011 |
| Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 af Chris Carlsson | Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2011 |
| Turn of Mind af Alice LaPlante | First Fiction, 2011 |
| God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine af Victoria Sweet | Nonfiction, Gold, 2012 |
| The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer af Anne-Marie O'Connor | Nonfiction, Silver, 2012 |
| Masha'allah and Other Stories af Mariah K. Young | First fiction, Silver, 2012 |
| The One and Only Ivan af Katherine Applegate | Juvenile, Gold, 2012 |
| A Partial History of Lost Causes af Jennifer DuBois | First fiction, Gold, 2012 |
| Sea and Fog (Lambda Literary Award - Lesbian Poetry) af Etel Adnan | Poetry, Gold, 2012 |
| Second Chance Summer af Morgan Matson | Young Adult, Gold, 2012 |
| A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero af Marissa Moss | Young adult, Silver, 2012 |
| De stjålne liv af Adam Johnson | Fiction, 2012 |
| Valley of Shadows and Dreams af Melanie Light | contribution to publishing, Gold, 2012 |
| Barbed Wire Baseball af Marissa Moss | Juvenile, Gold, 2013 |
| The Boss (McSweeney's Poetry Series) af Victoria Chang | Poetry, Silver, 2013 |
| Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety af Eric Schlosser | Nonfiction, Gold, 2013 |
| A Constellation of Vital Phenomena af Anthony Marra | First Fiction, Gold, 2013 |
| Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti af Amy Wilentz | Nonfiction, Silver, 2013 |
| Scrape the Willow Until It Sings: The Words and Work of Basket Maker Julia Parker af Deborah Valoma | Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2013 |
| Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan Poetry Series) af Brenda Hillman | Poetry, Gold, 2013 |
| We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves af Karen Joy Fowler | Fiction, Gold, 2013 |
| The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography af Miriam Pawel | Gold Nonfiction, 2014 |
| Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free af Héctor Tobar | Nonfiction, Silver, 2014 |
| Far Far Away af Tom McNeal | Young Adult, Gold, 2014 |
| The Feel Trio af Fred Moten | Poetry, 2014 |
| The Fourteenth Goldfish af Jennifer L. Holm | Juvenile, 2014 |
| Gabi, a Girl in Pieces af Isabel Quintero | Young Adult, 2014 |
| The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin : the damn good times of a fiercely independent publisher af Kim Bancroft | Contribution to Publishing, 2014 |
| Orfeo af Richard Powers | Silver, 2014 |
| San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 af Laura A. Ackley | Californiana, Gold, 2014 |
| The UnAmericans: Stories af Molly Antopol | First Fiction, Silver, 2014 |
| An Unnecessary Woman af Rabih Alameddine | Gold Fiction, 2014 |
| Waiting for the Electricity: A Novel af Christina Nichol | First Fiction, Gold, 2014 |
| The Alex Crow af Andrew Smith | Young Adult, Silver, 2015 |
| California's Wild Edge af Tom Killion | Californiana, 2015 |
| Challenger Deep af Neal Shusterman | Young Adult, Gold, 2015 |
| The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume One, 1890-1930 af James Karman | Contribution to Publishing, 2015 |
| George af Alex Gino | Juvenile, 2015 |
| Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America af Jill Leovy | Nonfiction, Gold, 2015 |
| A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories af Lucia Berlin | Fiction, Gold, 2015 |
| NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity af Steve Silberman | Nonfiction, Silver, 2015 |
| The Sympathizer af Viet Thanh Nguyen | First Fiction, Gold, 2015 |
| Cloud and Wallfish af Anne Nesbet | Juvenile, 2016 |
| Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) af Melissa Yancy | First Fiction, 2016 |
| Ecosystems of California af Harold A. Mooney | Contribution to publishing, 2016 |
| Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature af Jordan Fisher Smith | Nonfiction, Silver, 2016 |
| The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America af Andrés Reséndez | Nonfiction, Gold, 2016 |
| The Portable Veblen af Elizabeth McKenzie | Fiction, Silver, 2016 |
| An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 af Benjamin Madley | Californiana, Gold, 2017 |
| Buck Studies af Douglas Kearney | Poetry, Silver, 2017 |
| Moonglow af Michael Chabon | Fiction, Gold, 2017 |
| Restless Continent af Aja Couchois Duncan | Poetry, Gold, 2017 |
| The Sun Is Also a Star af Nicola Yoon | Gold, Young Adult, 2017 |
| The 57 Bus af Dashka Slater | Young Adult, 2018 |
| The Age of Perpetual Light af Josh Weil | Gold, Fiction, 2018 |
| The California Field Atlas af Obi Kaufmann | Contribution to Publishing, 2018 |
| The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America af Richard Rothstein | Gold, Nonfiction 2018 |
| The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life af Lauren Markham | Silver, Nonfiction 2018 |
| Goodbye, Vitamin af Rachel Khong | First Fiction, 2018 |
| Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) af Tongo Eisen-Martin | Poetry, 2018 |
| Maya Lin af Susan Goldman Rubin | Juvinile, 2018 |
| The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age af Robert Aquinas McNally | Californiana, 2018 |
| So Much Blue af Percival Everett | Silver, Fiction, 2018 |
| American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment af Shane Bauer | Silver, Nonfiction, 2019 |
| The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation af Miriam Pawel | Gold, Californiana, 2019 |
| Fruit of the Drunken Tree af Ingrid Rojas Contreras | Silver, First Fiction, 2019 |
| The Language of Spells af Garret Weyr | Gold, Juvenile, 2019 |
| The Library Book af Susan Orlean | Gold, Nonfiction, 2019 |
| The Mars Room af Rachel Kushner | Gold, Fiction, 2019 |
| Picture Us In The Light af Kelly Loy Gilbert | Young Adult, 2019 |
| There There af Tommy Orange | Gold Medal, Fist Fiction, 2019 |
| Total Recall af Samantha Giles | Gold, Poetry, 2019 |
| Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel af Anne Raeff | Silver, Fiction, 2019 |
