On the livestreaming event celebrating the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award Winners, an audience member asked the authors for book recommendations. Here are some of the books that came up, some literally pulled from stacks near the authors for show and tell:
Entangled Life (recommended by Silvia Morena-Garcia)
The Gilded Ones (recommended by Kim Johnson. heartily seconded by Aiden Thomas)
Legendborn (recommended by Aiden Thomas)
Mexican Gothic (recommmeded by Donna Barba Higuera)
Everything Sad Is Untrue (recommended by Donna Barba Higuera)
White Magic (recommended by Tina Ontiveros)
How to Make a Slave (also recommended by Tina Ontiveros)
The Magical Language of Others (also recommended by Tina Ontiveros)
Survivor Cafe (recommended by E. J. Koh)
… and the whole 2021 PNBA Book Award list (recommended by E. J. Koh and audience members)