The 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist has been announced! A panel of nine booksellers from the region whittled the list to twelve from nearly 300 nominations.
Five previous shortlisted authors (indicated with a *), including one two-time winner (with a +), made the cut. Up to six winners will be announced in early January. Here are the hopeful dozen:
Call Me Home by Megan Kruse
(Seattle, WA)
The Carry Home by Gary Ferguson* (winner-2004)
(Red Lodge, MT)
Children & Other Wild Animals by Brian Doyle
(Portland, OR)
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
(Seattle, WA)
If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie
(Galiano Island, BC)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
(Bainbridge Island, WA)
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson*(shortlist-2012)
(Seattle, WA)
This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison*+ (winner-2013, 2012)
(Bainbridge Island, WA)
The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson* (winner-2012)
(San Juan Island, WA)
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt* (winner-2012)
(Portland, OR)
Unicorn on a Roll by Dana Simpson
(Auburn, WA)
Weed the People by Bruce Barcott
(Seattle, WA)
Look for these books at your local independent bookstore!
Seattle folk, you can meet nominee Thor Hanson this Saturday, 11/21/15 at the Seattle7Writers Holiday Bookfest at the Phinney Ridge Community Center(presenting 3:45- 4:00) and for a longer presentation that evening at Queen Anne Book Company from 6:00- 8:00.
Coming Tuesday to nwbooklovers: a very special article about the nominees by Billie Bloebaum, Turning Pages columnist and the chair of the 2016 PNBA Book Awards panel.
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