Yesterday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association announced the shortlist for the PNBA 2014 Book Award. The judges for the award are booksellers.

To be eligible for nomination, books had to published in the last year and written by an author living in the Pacific Northwest.

Up to six of the books will be chosen as winners in January.

For comments from the award committee about the selections, please click here.

Congratulations, shortlist authors!

• Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems by Robert Wrigley (Penguin Books)
• Antigoddess by Kendare Blake (Tor Books)
• Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin (Random House)
• The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme  by Joe Sacco (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Incarnadine by Mary Szybist (Graywolf Press)
• The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America by Langdon Cook (Ballantine Books)
• Search Party: Stories of Rescue by Valerie Trueblood (Counterpoint)
• Sunland by Don Waters (University of Nevada Press)
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Viking Books)
• We Live in Water by Jess Walter (Harper Perennial)
• Wolves in the Land of Salmon by David Moskowitz (Timber Press)
• Written in Stone by Rosanne Parry (Random House)