The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, a trade association of independent booksellers, publishers, authors, and librarians, announced the 2019 Northwest Book Awards Shortlist, selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. From more than 400 nominations, the committee chose the following 12 finalists, written or illustrated by creators from the Pacific Northwest and published in 2018.
PNBA will announce the six winners of the 2019 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January. Watch this blog for bookseller blurbs for each of the shortlist titles.
The 2019 Shortlist:
Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse
Corinna Luyken, illustrator (Olympia, WA)
Penguin Random House/Dial Books for Young Readers
Blood Water Paint
Joy McCullough (Seattle, WA)
Penguin Random House / Dutton Books for Young Readers
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson (Friday Harbor, WA)
Hachette Book Group / Basic Books
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
Ken Armstrong (Seattle, WA)
Penguin Random House / Crown Publishing Group
Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten
Laura Veirs (Portland, OR)
Chronicle Books
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Eli Saslow (Portland, OR)
Penguin Random House / Doubleday
So Lucky
Nicola Griffith (Seattle, WA)
Macmillan / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo (Olympia, WA)
Hachette Book Group / Seal Press
Terrarium: New and Selected Stories
Valerie Trueblood (Seattle, WA)
PGW / Counterpoint
Vanishing Twins: A Marriage
Leah Dieterich (Portland, OR)
PGW / Soft Skull
Washington Black
Esi Edugyan (Victoria, BC)
Penguin Random House / Alfred A. Knopf
The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid
Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, illustrator (Portland, OR)
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Children’s