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 look for something special to showcase. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. We can tell people have been shopping for loved …
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty follows Feyi’s journey to find love years after a traumatizing accident upends her life. Decadent food descriptions and a lavish background make this book […] so hard to put down. –Alex, Browsers Books, Olympia, WA Treat yourself to books you can’t put down from Browsers Books …
What does a meaningful life consist of? One answer is the tender and thoughtful story of family told in the new novel by Jonathan Evison that explores the beautiful complexities of long term companionship. –Robert Sindelar, Third Place Books, Seattle, WA Johnathan Evison will tour starting tonight, January 7, 2025, with a launch party at …
This love story is an endearing mix of a daydream and a fever dream. Written in the 1970s, it takes place in New York and centers around two best friends (and third cousins!) and the two incredible women they fall in love with. It’s smart, funny, satisfying, and often completely silly. One of our most …
Until We Meet Again is an amazing book! Set in the present day, it follows a girl named Cassandra as she spends the summer at a beach house in Massachusetts. Cassandra meets Lawrence on the house’s private beach–except he claims that it is his private beach, and that the year is 1925! Cassandra soon finds that Lawrence’s life …
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages is a remarkably restful piece of quiet fantasy that I can’t recommend enough. Set in the queer quarters of 1940 San Francisco, we follow the budding romance between two women: an artist for the pulps and a singer newly arrived trying to find a place to belong. That’s it. And …
