| Titles | Order |
| The long ships passing : the story of the Great Lakes by Walter Havighurst | Nonfiction, 1942 |
| Prelude to Victory by James B. Reston | Nonfiction, 1942 |
| Washington is like that by W. M. Kiplinger | Nonfiction, 1942 |
| Bibi, the Baker's Horse by Anna Bird Stewart | Juvenile Literature, 1943 |
| Climate makes the man by Clarence Alonzo Mills | Nonfiction, 1943 |
| No Royal Road: Luca Pacioli and His Times (Dimensions of Accounting Theory and Practice) by R. Emmett Taylor | Nonfiction, 1943 |
| The Story of the Great Lakes by Marie Emilie Gilchrist | Juvenile Literature, 1943 |
| Time of Peace by Ben Ames Williams | Fiction, 1943 |
| Bayou Suzette by Lois Lenski | Juvenile Literature, 1944 |
| Burma surgeon by Gordon S. Seagrave | War, 1944 |
| Cloth of the Tempest by Kenneth Patchen | Poetry, 1944 |
| Ohio comes of age, 1873-1900 by Philip D. Jordan | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1944 |
| The Wright Brothers: A Biography by Fred C. Kelly | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1944 |
| The Bells of Saint Ivan's by Robert Spencer Carr | Fiction - 2nd Place, 1945 |
| Date with destiny by Ralph W. Sockman | Nonfiction, 1945 |
| Deep river by Henrietta Buckmaster | Fiction, 1945 |
| The Great Quillow by James Thurber | Juvenile Literature, 1945 |
| I Never Left Home by Bob Hope | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Humor, 1945 |
| One God; the ways we worship Him by Florence Mary Fitch | Juvenile Literature, 1945 |
| The Queen Was in the Kitchen by Daphne Alloway McVicker | Fiction - Humor, 1945 |
| The road to Teheran,: The story of Russia and America, 1781-1943 by Foster Rhea Dulles | Nonfiction, 1945 |
| Against the current: The life of Karl Heinzen (1809-80) by Carl Frederick Wittke | Nonfiction - Biography, 1946 |
| The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | History, 1946 |
| Auguste Rodin by Philip Adams | Nonfiction Biography - Honorable Mention, 1946 |
| Florestan: The Life and Work of Robert Schumann by Robert Haven Schauffler | Nonfiction Biography - Honorable Mention, 1946 |
| Lake Erie by Harlan Hatcher | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Honorable Mention, 1946 |
| Life, Love and the Weather by Ted Robinson | Poetry - Honorable Mention, 1946 |
| MAN AGAINST PAIN: THE EPIC OF ANAESTHESIA. by Howard Riley Raper | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1946 |
| The Mystery of the Creaking Windmill by Harriet Evatt | Juvenile Literature, 1946 |
| Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom | Poetry - Honorable Mention, 1946 |
| The White Deer by James Thurber | Juvenile Literature, 1946 |
| John Henry Newman; an expository and critical study of his mind, thought and art by Charles Frederick Harrold | Nonfiction - Honorable Mention, 1947 |
| Journey Through My Years by James M. Cox | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1947 |
| Land of promise; the story of the Northwest territory by Walter Havighurst | About Ohio or an Ohioan - History, 1947 |
| The lost Americans by Frank C. Hibben | Nonfiction History - Honorable Mention, 1947 |
| Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer by Charlotta M. Bebenroth | Juvenile Literature, 1947 |
| Nowhere was somewhere: How history makes utopias and how utopias make history by Arthur E. Morgan | Nonfiction Philosophy - Honorable Mention, 1947 |
| Peace of mind by Joshua Loth Liebman | Nonfiction - Religion, 1947 |
| Wasteland by Jo Sinclair | Fiction, 1947 |
| David Livingstone: Foe of Darkness by Jeanette Eaton | Juvenile Literature, 1948 |
| George Crile - An Autobiography, In Two Volumes by Grace George edited by Crile Crile | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1948 |
| Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger | Juvenile Literature, 1948 |
| Mahan on Sea Power by William Livezey | Nonfiction - Honorable Mention, 1948 |
| Roseanna McCoy by Alberta Hannum | Fiction - Honorable Mention, 1948 |
| Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey | Juvenile Literature, 1949 |
| Boom Town Boy by Lois Lenski | Juvenile Literature, 1949 |
| The British Post Office: a History by Howard Robinson | Nonfiction - History, 1949 |
| Children and Books by May Hill Arbuthnot | Nonfiction - 1949 |
| The court wits of the Restoration; an introduction by John Harold Wilson | Nonfiction - Honorable Mention, 1949 |
| The Insect World by Hilda T. Harpster | Juvenile Literature, 1949 |
| The letters of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe | Nonfiction - Critical, 1949 |
| Light in the Sky by Agatha Young | Fiction - Honorable Mention, 1949 |
| Niles' weekly register, news magazine of the nineteenth century by Norval Neil Luxon | Nonfiction History - Honorable Mention, 1949 |
| One Day at Teton Marsh by Sally Carrighar | Juvenile Literature, 1949 |
| Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language by Sister Miriam Joseph | Nonfiction, 1949 |
| The Story of John Hope by Ridgely Torrence | Biography, 1949 |
| Cannon Hill by Mary Deasy | Fiction - Honorable Mention, 1950 |
| A Guide to Confident Living by Norman Vincent Peale | Nonfiction - Religion, 1950 |
| The hours and the ages; a sequence of Americans by Edward Nicholas | Nonfiction - History, 1950 |
| Island Summer by Hazel Wilson | Juvenile Literature, 1950 |
| John Milton, Englishman by James Holly Hanford | Nonfiction Biography - Honorable Mention, 1950 |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey: A story of American plant sciences by Andrew Denny Rodgers | Nonfiction - Biography, 1950 |
| Little Squire Jim by Robert K. Marshall | Fiction, 1950 |
| Paths to the present by Arthur M. Schlesinger | Nonfiction History - Honorable Mention, 1950 |
| Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter Havighurst | Juvenile Literature, 1950 |
| Sword in sheath by Andre Norton | Juvenile Literature, 1950 |
| Congo Eden; a comprehensive portrayal of the historical background and scientific aspects of the great game sanctuaries of the Belgian Congo with the story of a six months pilgrimage throughout that most primitive region in the heart of the African Continent by Mary L. Jobe Akeley | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1951 |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy R. Kelly | Fiction, 1951 |
| The Scholar Adventurers by Richard D. Altick | Juvenile Literature, 1951 |
| Enter David Garrick by Anna Bird Stewart | Juvenile Literature, 1952 |
| Luther and His Times: The Reformation from a New Perspective by Ernest George Schwiebert | Nonfiction - Biography, 1952 |
| Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton | Nonfiction - History, 1952 |
| A Socialist's Faith (Kennikat Press scholarly reprints. Series in American history and culture in the twentieth century) by Norman Thomas | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1952 |
| The Bounty Lands by William Donohue Ellis | Fiction, 1953 |
| The Extraordinary Mr. Morris by Howard Swiggett | Biography, 1953 |
| Making prayer real by Lynn James Radcliffe | Nonfiction - Philosophy, 1953 |
| The Republic and The Person by Gordon Keith Chalmers | Nonfiction, 1953 |
| Christianity and the problem of history by Roger Lincoln Shinn | Nonfiction - Religion, 1954 |
| Grant and His Generals by Clarence Edward Noble Macartney | About Ohio or an Ohioan - History, 1954 |
| Tinker's Tim and the Witches by Bertha C. Anderson | Juvenile Literature, 1954 |
| Clown of Gods by Agatha Young | Fiction, 1955 |
| Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History by Arthur Loesser | Nonfiction, 1955 |
| Prehistoric Animals by William E. Scheele | Juvenile Literature, 1955 |
| The Changelings by Jo Sinclair | Fiction, 1956 |
| The Fabulous Firework Family by James Flora | Juvenile Literature, 1956 |
| The Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia by John F. Cady | Nonfiction, 1956 |
| Knight's Castle by Edward Eager | Juvenile Literature, 1957 |
| The Man Who Was Not With It (Second Edition Books) by Herbert Gold | Fiction, 1957 |
| So Fell the Angels: The Story of Chase, Lincoln's Ambitious Chief Justice, His Bold Designing Daughter, and the Husband Who Could Finance Her Plans by Thomas Graham Belden | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1957 |
| This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton | Nonfiction, 1957 |
| The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | Nonfiction, 1958 |
| The Hell Bent Kid by Charles O. Locke | Fiction, 1958 |
| Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey | Juvenile Literature, 1958 |
| Warwick the Kingmaker by Paul Murray Kendall | Biography, 1958 |
| America's Own Mark Twain by Jeanette Eaton | Juvenile Literature, 1959 |
| The Darkest Bough by Anne Chamberlain | Fiction, 1959 |
| Moonlight at midday by Sally Carrighar | Nonfiction, 1959 |
| Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776 by Arthur M. Schlesinger | Nonfiction, 1959 |
| Thomas Worthington : father of Ohio statehood by Alfred Byron Sears | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1959 |
| Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa | Nonfiction, 1960 |
| The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall | Juvenile Literature, 1960 |
| Happy families are all alike; a collection of stories by Peter Hillsman Taylor | Fiction, 1960 |
| In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1960 |
| Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev by Nelson Glueck | Nonfiction, 1960 |
| Saint Judas by James Arlington Wright | Poetry, 1960 |
| Anna Teller by Jo Sinclair | Fiction, 1961 |
| The Crusade against Slavery, 1830-1860 by Louis Filler | Nonfiction, 1961 |
| Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer | Juvenile Literature, 1961 |
| The Skylark, and other poems by Ralph Hodgson | Poetry, 1961 |
| The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton | Nonfiction, 1962 |
| A Lost King (Black Squirrel Books) by Raymond Decapite | Fiction, 1962 |
| Ships, shoals, and amphoras; the story of underwater archaeology by Suzanne De Borhegyi | Juvenile Literature, 1962 |
| The Hands of Esau by Hiram Haydn | Fiction, 1963 |
| Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager | Juvenile Literature, 1963 |
| The Western Book Trade: Cincinnati as a Ninteenth-Century Publishing and Book-Trade Center by Walter Sutton | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1963 |
| The Yorkist Age: Daily Life During the Wars of the Roses by Paul Murray Kendall | Nonfiction, 1963 |
| The dark traveler by Josephine Winslow Johnson | Fiction, 1964 |
| Hill towns of Italy by Lucy Lilian Notestein | Nonfiction, 1964 |
| Viva Juárez ! - A Biography by Charles Allen Smart | Nonfiction, 1964 |
| William McKinley and His America by H. Wayne Morgan | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1964 |
| Bitter Knowledge by Jack Matthews | Fiction, 1965 |
| A history of Far Eastern art by Sherman E. Lee | Nonfiction, 1965 |
| The Great American Forest by Rutherford Hayes Platt | Nonfiction, 1966 |
| Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel | Fiction, 1966 |
| Starlight Nights: The Adventures of a Star-Gazer by Leslie C. Peltier | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1966 |
| William Howard Taft, Chief Justice by Alpheus Thomas Mason | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1966 |
| Overtaken by Events: The Dominican Crisis from the Fall of Trujillo to the Civil War by John Bartlow Martin | Nonfiction, 1967 |
| Unknown Edwin Markham His Mystery and Its Significance by Louis Filler | Nonfiction - Biography, 1967 |
| Walk a narrow bridge by Dale Fife | Juvenile Literature, 1967 |
| Ambrose Bierce: A Biography by Richard O'Connor | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1968 |
| Focus the bright land by Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood | Juvenile Literature, 1968 |
| The Frontiersmen: A Narrative by Allan W. Eckert | History, 1968 |
| The Peddler and Other Domestic Matters by Hollis Summers | Poetry, 1968 |
| Crossroads : An Auotbiographical Novel by James McConkey | Fiction, 1969 |
| The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton | Juvenile Literature, 1969 |
| The river Jordan by Nelson Glueck | Nonfiction, 1969 |
| Chalk Dust on My Shoulder by Charles G. Rousculp | Nonfiction, 1970 |
| The Edison album; a pictorial biography of Thomas Alva Edison by Lawrence A. Frost | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Scene, 1970 |
| Hero In Spite of Himself: Brand Whitlock In Art, Politics, and War by Robert Morse Crunden | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1970 |
| The Norman Rockwell storybook by Jan Wahl | Juvenile Literature, 1970 |
| The Xavier Affair by Robert L. Pike | Fiction, 1970 |
| Blackthink; My Life as Black Man and White Man by Jesse Owens | Nonfiction - Biography, 1971 |
| Dave's Song by Robert McKay | Juvenile Literature, 1971 |
| Ohio by Marion Renick | Juvenile Literature, 1971 |
| TR and Will; a friendship that split the Republican Party by William Manners | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Scene, 1971 |
| Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane by John Eugene Unterecker | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1971 |
| Garfield of Ohio,: The available man by John M. Taylor | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Scene, 1972 |
| Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own! by Erma Bombeck | Fiction, 1972 |
| William Dean Howells: An American life by Kenneth S. Lynn | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Letters, 1972 |
| Winds by Mary Le Duc O'Neill | Juvenile Literature, 1972 |
| Yankee Quaker, Confederate general: The curious career of Bushrod Rust Johnson by Charles M Cummings | Biography, 1972 |
| The dead of the house by Hannah Green | Fiction, 1973 |
| Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft by James T. Patterson | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1973 |
| The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes by Kenneth E. Davison | About Ohio or an Ohioan - History, 1973 |
| The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems, by Mary Oliver | Poetry, 1973 |
| The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry by J. Allen Hynek | Nonfiction, 1973 |
| The eight; the realist revolt in American painting by Mahonri Sharp Young | Nonfiction - Arts, 1974 |
| Guerrilla Warrior: The Early Life of John J. Pershing by Donald Smythe | Biography, 1974 |
| The paintings of George Bellows by Mahonri Sharp Young | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Arts, 1974 |
| Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children by Kenneth Koch | Poetry, 1974 |
| William Howard Taft: A Conservative Conception of the Presidency by Donald F. Anderson | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Scene, 1974 |
| Day of Shame: The Truth About the Murderous Happenings Aboard the Cutter Vigilant During the Russian-American Confrontation Off Martha's Vineyard. by Algis Ruksenas | Nonfiction, 1975 |
| Stars in the water;: The story of the Erie Canal by George E. Condon | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Scene, 1975 |
| Sula by Toni Morrison | Fiction, 1975 |
| Water Well Technology by Jay H. Lehr | Nonfiction - Science, 1975 |
| George Eliot: The Emergent Self by Ruby V. Redinger | Biography, 1976 |
| The Rose and the Thorn: The Lives of Mary and Margaret Tudor by Nancy Lenz Harvey | Fiction, 1976 |
| SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION BUILDERS OF A NATION SERIES BOOK TWO by Ed Mason | Nonfiction - Bicentennial Award, 1976 |
| Signers of the Declaration of Independence by Ed Mason | Nonfiction - Bicentennial Award, 1976 |
| Tornado by Polk Laffoon | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Scene, 1976 |
| Witch of the Cumberlands by Mary Jo Stephens | Juvenile Literature, 1976 |
| Deep in the Forest (Picture Puffins) by Brinton Turkle | Juvenile Literature, 1977 |
| A highly ramified tree by Robert Canzoneri | Fiction - Autobiography, 1977 |
| Island Time by Bette Lamont | Juvenile Literature, 1977 |
| This Is Ragtime by Terry Waldo | Nonfiction - Social History, 1977 |
| The World and Warren's Cartoons by Walter Consuelo Langsam | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Social History Award, 1977 |
| The Americans by John Jakes | Fiction, 1978 |
| The mapping of Ohio : the delineation of the State of Ohio through the use of manuscript maps, printed maps, and plats, sketches and plans from original map makers with a narrative which describes each map from contemporary sources by Thomas H. Smith | About Ohio or an Ohioan - History, 1978 |
| Poor Tom's Ghost by Jane Louise Curry | Juvenile Literature, 1978 |
| Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective by Paul A. Colinvaux | Nonfiction - Science, 1978 |
| The brasspounder by Donald G. Sanders | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Ohio Scene, 1979 |
| Garfield by Allan Peskin | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1979 |
| The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 by John D. Unruh | History, 1979 |
| The Summer Soldier by Nicholas Guild | Fiction, 1979 |
| The Hanging Garden by David Wagoner | Fiction - Miscellaneous, 1980 |
| Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill | Fiction, 1980 |
| Ohio's Natural Heritage by Michael B. Lafferty | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Science, 1980 |
| Steinbeck and Covici: The Story of a Friendship by Thomas Fensch | Nonfiction - Biography, 1980 |
| Idle Weeds by David Rains Wallace | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Science, 1981 |
| The Liberation of Tansy Warner by Stephanie S. Tolan | Juvenile Literature, 1981 |
| Minerva's turn by Helen Faye Rosenblum | Fiction, 1981 |
| Semper fidelis : the history of the United States Marine Corps by Allan R. Millett | History, 1981 |
| The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980 by Jacob Rader Marcus | History, 1982 |
| Another Heaven, Another Earth by H. M. Hoover | Juvenile Literature, 1982 |
| The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century by Milton Allan Rugoff | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1982 |
| Reinhart's Women by Thomas Berger | Fiction, 1982 |
| ...And the Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer | Fiction, 1983 |
| Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in Antebellum American Abolitionism, 1830-1870 by Lawrence J. Friedman | History, 1983 |
| Ohio by James Westwater | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1983 |
| The Headmaster's Papers by Richard A. Hawley | Fiction, 1984 |
| The Shawnee Prophet by R. David Edmunds | Nonfiction - Biography, 1984 |
| Chikara!: A Sweeping Novel of Japan and America from 1907 to 1983 by Robert Skimin | Fiction, 1985 |
| The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott | Nonfiction - Biography, 1985 |
| Wood, Brick and Stone, the North American Settlement Landscape: Houses by Allen G. Noble | History, 1985 |
| The architecture of migration : log construction in the Ohio country, 1750-1850 by Donald A. Hutslar | History, 1986 |
| Colonel Coggeshall: The Man Who Saved Lincoln by Freda Postle Koch | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Biography, 1986 |
| The Rearrangement by Nancy Pelletier | Fiction, 1986 |
| The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson | Fiction, 1986 |
| Booking in the Heartland (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by Jack Matthews | About Ohio or an Ohioan - Essays, 1987 |
| The Earth Abideth by George Dell | Fiction, 1987 |
| The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825 by Andrew R. L. Cayton | History, 1987 |
| The Lotus Cup by Jane Louise Curry | Juvenile Literature, 1987 |
| The Ideal, Genuine Man by Don Robertson | Fiction, 1988 |
| Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles by Nikki Giovanni | Nonfiction - Essays, 1988 |
| Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics by Frederick J. Blue | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1988 |
| Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years by Geoffrey J. Giglierano | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1989 |
| The Discovery of Fire by David Shevin | Poetry, 1989 |
| Life Being the Best & Other Stories (A Revived Modern Classic) by Kay Boyle | Fiction, 1989 |
| Magpie rising: sketches from the Great Plains by Merrill Gilfillan | Nonfiction, 1989 |
| The Tsar and the Amazing Cow (Dial Books for Young Readers) by J. Patrick Lewis | Juvenile Literature, 1989 |
| Birds of Ohio by Bruce G. Peterjohn | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1990 |
| Bulow Hammock: Mind in a Forest by David Rains Wallace | Nonfiction, 1990 |
| But I'll Be Back Again by Cynthia Rylant | Juvenile Literature, 1990 |
| Dreams of Distant Lives by Lee K. Abbott | Fiction, 1990 |
| Grace Notes: Poems by Rita Dove | Poetry, 1990 |
| A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward | Nonfiction, 1991 |
| The House of Memory by David Citino | Poetry, 1991 |
| Inside Looking Out: The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924 by Gary Edward Polster | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1991 |
| The People I Know: Stories by Nancy Zafris | Fiction, 1991 |
| With a Name Like Lulu, Who Needs More Trouble? by Tricia Springstubb | Juvenile Literature, 1991 |
| Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant | Juvenile Literature, 1992 |
| Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene | Nonfiction, 1992 |
| Quilts in Community: Ohio's Traditions by Ricky Clark | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1992 |
| Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky: Poems by Thylias Moss | Poetry, 1992 |
| Worry Beads by Kay Sloan | Fiction, 1992 |
| Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place by Charles Burchfield | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1993 |
| The Falcon's Wing by Dawna Lisa Buchanan | Juvenile Literature, 1993 |
| New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver | Poetry, 1993 |
| Plain Jane by Eve Horowitz | Fiction, 1993 |
| Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order by John F. Marszalek | Nonfiction, 1993 |
| Are You Mine? by Abby Frucht | Fiction, 1994 |
| In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming | Juvenile Literature, 1994 |
| Selected Poems by Rita Dove | Poetry, 1994 |
| Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World by Scott Russell Sanders | Nonfiction, 1994 |
| Way up north in Dixie : a Black family's claim to the Confederate anthem by Howard L. Sacks | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1994 |
| Family by Ian Frazier | Nonfiction, 1995 |
| Jericho by Janet Hickman | Juvenile Literature, 1995 |
| John A. Ruthven : in the Audubon tradition by George Laycock | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1995 |
| Like Most Revelations by Richard Howard | Poetry, 1995 |
| Sworn Before Cranes by Merrill Gilfillan | Fiction, 1995 |
| Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur | Fiction, 1996 |
| The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965 by Dawn Powell | Nonfiction, 1996 |
| The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder | Juvenile Literature, 1996 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President by Ari Hoogenboom | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1996 |
| Swimming At Midnight: Selected Shorter Poems by John Matthias | Poetry, 1996 |
| Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton | Juvenile Literature, 1997 |
| Lies of the Saints by Erin McGraw | Fiction, 1997 |
| The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings by Emily Foster | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1997 |
| The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen | Nonfiction, 1997 |
| Walt Whitman Bathing: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series) by David Wagoner | Poetry, 1997 |
| Broken Symmetry by David Citino | Poetry, 1998 |
| Great Houses of the Queen City: Two Hundred Years of Historic & Contemporary Architecture & Interiors in Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky by Walter Langsam | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1998 |
| The Haygoods of Columbus: a Love Story by Wil Haygood | Nonfiction,1998 |
| The Heart is Big Enough by Michael J. Rosen | Juvenile Literature, 1998 |
| Hope Mills by Constance Pierce | Fiction, 1998 |
| Beaded Moccasins by Lynda Durrant | Juvenile Literature, 1999 |
| Ellis Island Interviews: Immigrants Tell Their Stories In Their Own Words by Peter Morton Coan | Nonfiction, 1999 |
| Paradise by Toni Morrison | Fiction, 1999 |
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 1999 |
| The Truth About Small Towns: Poems by David Baker | Poetry, 1999 |
| The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane by Paul Mariani | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2000 |
| Glass Hearts by Terri Paul | Fiction, 2000 |
| John Glenn: A Memoir by John H. Glenn | Nonfiction, 2000 |
| The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires | Juvenile Literature, 2000 |
| On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems by Rita Dove | Poetry, 2000 |
| Betsy Zane, The Rose of Fort Henry by Lynda Durrant | Juvenile Literature, 2001 |
| Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees (American Indian Lives) by John Sugden | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2001 |
| The GI Generation: A Memoir by Frank F. Mathias | Nonfiction, 2001 |
| In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George | Fiction, 2001 |
| One Above & One Below by Erin Belieu | Poetry, 2001 |
| The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Cross Giblin | Juvenile Literature, 2002 |
| Among the Missing by Dan Chaon | Fiction, 2002 |
| Chester Himes: A Life by James Sallis | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2002 |
| Finding Fish: A Memoir by Antwone Q. Fisher | Nonfiction, 2002 |
| Facing the Wind: A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation by Julie Salamon | Nonfiction, 2003 |
| Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems by Elizabeth Spires | Poetry, 2003 |
| Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait by Stephen Ostrander | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2003 |
| The Shell Collector: Stories by Anthony Doerr | Fiction, 2003 |
| Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall | Juvenile Literature, 2003 |
| Ascending Order by William Greenway | Poetry, 2004 |
| Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad by Ann Hagedorn | Nonfiction, 2004 |
| East by Edith Pattou | Juvenile Literature, 2004 |
| Love by Toni Morrison | Fiction, 2004 |
| An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland by Michael Dirda | Nonfiction, 2004 |
| Rix Mills Remembered: An Appalachian Boyhood by Paul W. Patton | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2004 |
| About Grace by Anthony Doerr | Fiction, 2005 |
| The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden | Juvenile Literature, 2005 |
| Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher | Poetry, 2005 |
| Rambam's Ladder by Julie Salamon | Nonfiction, 2005 |
| Trains in the distance by Paul Zimmer | Nonfiction, 2005 |
| Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America by William Souder | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2005 |
| Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2006 |
| Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin | Juvenile Literature, 2006 |
| Here and Hereafter: Poems (Arkansas Poetry Award) by Elton Glaser | Poetry, 2006 |
| Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham | Fiction, 2006 |
| A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright by James Wright | Nonfiction, 2006 |
| Blue Front: Poems by Martha Collins | Poetry, 2007 |
| Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper | Juvenile Literature, 2007 |
| Declension in the Village of Chung Luong by Bruce Weigl | Poetry, 2007 |
| The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley | Nonfiction, 2007 |
| Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community by Gary Harwood | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2007 |
| The Lemon Sisters by Andrea Cheng | Juvenile Literature, 2007 |
| The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery | Fiction, 2007 |
| Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead | Fiction, 2008 |
| Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems by Paul Zimmer | Poetry, 2008 |
| George Bellows: An Artist in Action by Mary Sayre Haverstock | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2008 |
| Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 by Ann Hagedorn | Nonfiction, 2008 |
| Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix | Juvenile Literature, 2008 |
| All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House by David Giffels | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2009 |
| Baghdad at Sunrise: a Brigade Commander's War in Iraq by Peter R. Mansoor | Nonfiction, 2009 |
| Beneath My Mother's Feet by Amjed Qamar | Juvenile Literature, 2009 |
| Everywhere at Once by William Greenway | Poetry, 2009 |
| Gone Tomorrow by P.F. Kluge | Fiction, 2009 |
| Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon | Fiction, 2010 |
| The Cuckoo's Haiku: and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. Rosen | Juvenile Literature, 2010 |
| Sonata Mulattica: Poems by Rita Dove | Poetry, 2010 |
| When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins | Nonfiction, 2010 |
| Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage by James S. McCormac | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2010 |
| Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems by David Young | Poetry, 2011 |
| Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr | Fiction, 2011 |
| A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness—and a Trove of Letters—Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted Gup | Nonfiction, 2011 |
| Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, and Conversations by Virginia Hamilton | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2011 |
| What Happened on Fox Street by Tricia Springstubb | Juvenile Literature, 2011 |
| Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2012 |
| The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson | Young Adult Literature, 2012 |
| The Paris Wife by Paula McLain | Fiction, 2012 |
| Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean | Nonfiction, 2012 |
| Weather (The VQR Poetry Series) by Dave Lucas | Poetry, 2012 |
| Where Do You Stay? by Andrea Cheng | Juvenile Literature, 2012 |
| America's Other Audubon by Joy M. Kiser | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2013 |
| The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds by Julie Zickefoose | Nonfiction, 2013 |
| The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead | Fiction, 2013 |
| His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg by Louise Borden | Juvenile Literature, 2013 |
| The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier | Fiction Set In Ohio, 2013 |
| White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series) by Martha Collins | Poetry, 2013 |
| The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2014 |
| Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet by Andrea Cheng | Juvenile Literature, 2014 |
| Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman | Fiction, 2014 |
| Sky Ward (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Kazim Ali | Poetry, 2014 |
| Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster---the Creators of Superman by Brad Ricca | Nonfiction, 2014 |
| All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | Fiction, 2015 |
| Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson | Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature, 2015 |
| Floating Heart by Stuart Friebert | Poetry, 2015 |
| Harlem Hellfighters by J. Patrick Lewis | Juvenile Literature, 2015 |
| The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security by Ann Hagedorn | Nonfiction, 2015 |
| James A. Rhodes, Ohio Colossus by Tom Diemer | About Ohio, 2015 |
| Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell | Fiction, 2016 |
| Little Tree by Loren Long | Juvenile Literature, 2016 |
| The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall | Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature, 2016 |
| Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood | Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Why God Is a Woman (American Poets Continuum) by Nin Andrews | Poetry, 2016 |
| The Wright Brothers by David McCullough | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2016 |
| Haint: poems by Teri Ellen Cross Davis | Poetry, 2017 |
| Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance | About Ohio/Ohioan, 2017 |
| Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Sally Derby | Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature, 2017 |
| Little Nothing by Marisa Silver | Fiction, 2017 |
| Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy | Juvenile Literature, 2017 |
| Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America by Douglas Brinkley | Nonfiction, 2017 |
| The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel | Reader's Choice, 2017 |
| Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill by Deanne Stillman | Nonfiction, 2018 |
| Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town by Brian Alexander | About Ohio/An Ohioan, 2018 |
| Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng | Fiction, 2018 |
| A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices by Sally Derby | Juvenile Literature, 2018 |
| Set to Music a Wildfire by Ruth Awad | Poetry, 2018 |
| Walking with Miss Millie by Tamara Bundy | Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature and Reader's Choice, 2018 |
| The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson | Juvenile Literature, 2019 |
| Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life by David Giffels | Nonfiction, 2019 |
| Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley | Reader's Choice, 2019 |
| Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages | Middle Grade / Young Adult, 2019 |
| Pardon My Heart: Poems by Marcus Jackson | Poetry, 2019 |
| Sadness Is a White Bird: A Novel by Moriel Rothman-Zecher | Fiction, 2019 |
| Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil Haygood | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2019 |
| A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib | Poetry, 2020 |
| Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga | Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature, 2020 |
| The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2020 |
| Saturday by Oge Mora | Juvenile Literature, 2020 |
| A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration by Kenn Kaufman | Reader's Choice, 2020 |
| Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco | Nonfiction, 2020 |
| The Volunteer: A Novel by Salvatore Scibona | Fiction, 2020 |
| All Heathens by Marianne Chan | Poetry, 2021 |
| Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson | Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature, 2021 |
| Betty by Tiffany McDaniel | Readers' Choice, 2021 |
| The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels | Fiction, 2021 |
| Raggin' on: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's House and Journals by Carole M Genshaft | About Ohio or an Ohioan, 2021 |
| Sugar in Milk by Thrity Umrigar | Juvenile Literature, 2021 |
| World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Nonfiction, 2021 |
