The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2025 Northwest Book Awards have been announced.
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, David James Duncan, Cheryl Strayed, Molly Gloss, Brian Doyle, Chuck Palahniuk, and Pete Fromm. Many of these authors were honored by PNBA before they received national attention. A history of past winners of the Pacific Northwest Book Award can be viewed on the Pacific Northwest Book Awards homepage. Nwbooklovers.org has coverage of books from past shortlists as well as coverage of and essays from past award winners.
PNBA’s Awards Committee is comprised of volunteer booksellers from throughout our member region. This year’s Committee considered nominated titles published during 2024 for a 2025 award. Here is the shortlist, which was announced in November.
Original essays by winning authors will be published on this blog over the next several weeks, beginning this week.
We will also announce the celebration events for each author at their local, independent bookstores.
2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Winners:
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon (Seattle, WA)
Alfred A. Knopf
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
Anne de Marcken (Olympia, WA)
New Directions Publishing
Amy Hevron (Seattle, WA)
Beach Lane Books
Billy-Ray Belcourt (Vancouver, BC)
W.W. Norton & Company
Chris La Tray (Missoula, MT)
Milkweed Editions
Tara Karr Roberts (Moscow, ID)
W.W. Norton & Company
