Collection Bibliographies

These bibliographies highlight books from the collections of the Washington State Library.  Most contain a mixture of fiction and non-fiction titles. 

For a complete list of titles on any subject, please search our online catalog.

 

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Children & Young Adult

Fiction

Genealogy

Lewis & Clark

Pacific Northwest History, People & Places

Selections for all ages from former State Librarian Jan Walsh (2003 - 2010)

 

 

 

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Children & Young Adult

• Children's Picture Books Set in the Northwest
• Courage
• Go West Young Reader
• A Kids' Whodunit in Washington
• Romp with Pomp, Books for Kids about the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Whitman and Sager Stories for the Young Reader

 

Fiction

• Beach Reads
• Fiction Set in the Northwest
• Mysteries of Washington State
• Romances Set in the Northwest
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Set in the Northwest
• Washington Screams
• Westerns Set in the Northwest
• Whodunit in Spokane
• Whodunit in the San Juan Islands
• Whodunit in Washington State 

 

Lewis & Clark

• 100 Books, 200 Years "The one hundred most significant books about the Lewis and Clark Expedition"
• 150 Books, 200 Years In Honor of The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial 
• 200 Books, 200 Years a Lewis and Clark Expedition Bibliography
• Lewis, Clark, and Seaman
• Romp with Pomp, Books for Kids about the Lewis and Clark Expedition

 

Pacific Northwest History, People & Places

• African Americans in the Pacific Northwest: A Select Bibliography
• All About Washington Territory: The Pennsylvania of the West
• Artists of Washington
• Brooding Heron Press and Jawbone Press
• The Columbia River through Washington History
• Disasters
• Diversity
• Exploring Washington
• First Peoples of Washington State
• Geology of Washington State
• Hidden People
• Mount St. Helens
• Northwest Winters
• Of Beaches and the Sea
• Olympic Peninsula
• Oregon Trail
• Outstanding & Fun books with Pacific Northwest Settings
• Pacific Northwest Reads
• Pullman Primer, 1911
• A Sampling of Books About Washington
• Selected Indexes, Union Lists, Catalogues and Bibliographies for Western Americana and Pacific Northwest Research
• Spokane and the Inland Empire
• St. Paul’s School for Girls
• Tastes of Washington
• Washington Territorial Days
• Washington Territory Treaties Sesquicentennial: A Selected Bibliography
• Washington through the Photographers' Lens
• Washington's Counties, Yesterday & Today: A Selected Bibliography
• Washington's Native People
• Washington Works
• Ye Galleon Press