Each year since 1965, the Pacific Northwest Book Awards have celebrated exceptional books written by Northwest authors. PNBA is proud to announce the 2022 Book Awards Shortlist, selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. This year’s committee chose the following 12 finalists, crafted by Northwest authors, from a list of more than 400 nominated titles published in 2021.
For more information on these books and contributors, visit PNBA’s 2022 Shortlist page on the association’s website.
PNBA will announce the six winners of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January.
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
Jill Louise Busby (Olympia, WA)
Bloomsbury Publishing
The Sea in Winter
Christine Day (Lake Stevens, WA)
Heartdrum
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr (Boise, ID)
Scribner Book Company
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad (Portland, OR)
Knopf Publishing Group
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Thor Hanson (Friday Harbor, WA)
Basic Books
Odessa
Jonathan Hill (Portland, OR)
Oni Press
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
Kate Lebo (Spokane, WA)
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Time is a Flower
Julie Morstad (Vancouver, BC)
Tundra Books
Funeral for Flaca: Essays
Emilly Prado (Portland, OR)
Future Tense Books
Guard the Mysteries
Cedar Sigo (Poulsbo, WA)
Wave Books
Mel Fell
Corey R. Tabor (Seattle, WA)
Balzer + Bray
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao (Vancouver, BC)
Penguin Teen