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. Here are some bestsellers with one-word titles. Some have subtitles, but most of these stand alone. James …
The first 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards celebrations have taken place! More are planned! Amy Hevron— Log Life, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA 2/11/25 Tara Karr Roberts— Wild and Distant Seas, Book People, Moscow, ID 2/13/25 Cat Bohannon— Eve Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle, WA, 6:00 pm 2/26/25 Chris LaTray— Becoming Little Shell, Fact …
How do most folk end up in the jobs they’ve got? A bit like religion, parents have a lot to do with it: there’s an identity there, a self-making in the day to day ofwork. Familiarity, too, seems to matter: the idea of a life and what it could look like. It’s not just about …
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. …
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. This week, we noticed some Judeo-Christian religious terms– and one creation story main character!– …
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. This week, we’re eyeing the list with local, PNW pride. Look at all these …
This book does exactly what it says in the subtitle. It talks about the female body from the first proto-mammalian appearance of nursing all the way up to (relatively) modern history. How are women’s bodies different from men and what does that mean? What are the advantages of menstruation (humans are only one of a …
