The 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist has been announced! A panel of nine booksellers from the region selected these twelve titles from over 420 nominated books.
Up to six winners will be announced in early January 2018. For some history on the awards, click here.
Here is the shortlist:
All’s Faire in Middle School
Victoria Jamieson (Portland, OR)
Penguin Random House/Dial Books for Young Readers
American War: A Novel
Omar El Akkad (Portland, OR)
Penguin Random House / Alfred A. Knopf
The Book of Mistakes
Corinna Luyken (Olympia, WA)
Penguin Random House / Dial Books for Young Readers
Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring (Tacoma, WA)
Penguin Random House / Sasquatch Books
The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness
Barbara Johns (Seattle, WA)
University of Washington Press
Idaho: A Novel
Emily Ruskovich (Idaho City, ID)
Penguin Random House / Random House
Little Blue Chair
Madeline Kloepper, Illustrator (Prince George, BC)
Penguin Random House Canada / Tundra Books
The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Boxed Set: The Found and the Lost; The Unreal and the Real
Ursula K. Le Guin (Portland, OR)
Simon & Schuster / Saga Press
Speed of Life
J.M. Kelly (Gabriola Island, BC)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers
This Is How It Always Is: A Novel
Laurie Frankel (Seattle, WA)
Macmillan / Flatiron Books
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Jonathan White (Orcas Island, WA)
Trinity University Press
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie (Seattle, WA)
Hachette Book Group / Little, Brown and Company
PNBA is a non-profit trade association that supports independent bookselling, literacy and free speech in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Each year since 1965, the Pacific Northwest Book Awards have celebrated exceptional books written by Northwest authors. For a report from the Awards Committee about books they loved from the nominees, click here.