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Nov

13

2025

Bestseller Spotlight: Women in Nonfiction

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. This week, women authors wrote the majority of our hardcover nonfiction bestsellers: ten out of 15! Nobody’s …

Oct

23

2025

White background multicolored title and author name Good Things by Samin Nosrat

Bestseller Spotlight: Good Things

On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. This week, we want to highlight nonfiction titles that are meant to uplift. …

Dec

22

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Unusual Trim Sizes

On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. We noticed there are some books on the list that fill out the bookshelves …

Jul

21

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Chambers

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. Maybe it’s a stretch, but we couldn’t help but notice that Becky Chambers has two books on the bestseller list, the French word for rooms is “les chambres,” and hearts …

May

19

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Red Hot Covers

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. We noticed that if you face out the bestsellers, there’s a lot of red on the covers this week. (Also interesting that publishers switched from blue to red for …

Mar

10

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: PNW Unique

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Sometimes the themes come from the covers, sometimes the titles, but today we’re looking at …

Jan

20

2022

Bestseller Spotlight: Being Your Best

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. As some people work to turn over a new leaf for the new year, we noticed that a lot of the books on the bestseller list have a self-improvement theme …

Jun

15

2021

Island Books Chats with “Girls with Bright Futures” Co-Authors Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman

[It has been featured] on several most anticipated releases of 2021 lists, including Newsweek, Refinery29 and Popsugar. With an eye catching cover, a local setting and an instantly intriguing premise, Girls With Bright Futures is the book everyone is going to be talking about. Taking place in Seattle at the fictional Elliott Bay Academy, and told from three alternating points …

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