For the first time, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) unveiled its Book Awards Shortlist live on the show floor at the association’s Fall Tradeshow, Sept. 30, 2024. These honorees are now being promoted throughout PNBA’s 160 store membership. Selected by an Awards Committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, the …
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. The descriptions of these bestselling hardcover novels indicate there might be either a lot going on in …
The King of Not-Cozy has a new book out. This is Chuck Palahniuk’s Shock Induction, a satirical parable about surveillance capitalism, indentured servitude, and sleazy billionaires. Kids at a highly reputable high school are disappearing, and no one wants to talk about what’s happening. That’s because everyone knows these kids are being chosen for a …
From Shelf Awareness Thursday, October 3, 2024: Obituary Note: Tom Spanbauer Author Tom Spanbauer, best known for his cult classic The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon and his award-winning final novel, I Loved You More, as well as his long-running Dangerous Writing workshop, died September 21. He was 78. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, he attended …
If you liked Justin Cronin’s vampire trilogy (starting with THE PASSAGE), I think you’ll love FEVER HOUSE and THE DEVIL BY NAME, a kind of zombie/STAND hybrid, by Keith Rosson. Big scares, big gross-outs, big fun. –Stephen King (@StephenKing) on X Oct. 5, 2024 Fever House is an Annie Bloom’s Staff Pick, and Portland author …
Here is Willy Vlautin’s The Horse, which is the story of Al Ward, a man in his final years, who finds a horse on his doorstep one morning. He’s not sure if the horse is a hallucination, but its presence triggers a lot of contemplation of life—the one he had and the one he didn’t …
This novel is like a cold shower of glacier water, brimming with icy but hopeful clarity. Science and story flow together beautifully. Jackson’s gripping prose will freeze and thaw you in turns, and show you humanity reflected in the ice. —Emily Poole, Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR Visit Tsunami Books on Tuesday September 17, 2024 for …
by Dana Haynes Don’t ask Portland novelist Michael Keefe what time period his new book, All Her Loved Ones Encoded, is set in. Better to ask what time period isn’t it set in. Keefe will take part in a book launch at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 S.W. Capitol Highway, …
What a month September is for the Pacific Northwest! We have the Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival on September 7 in Redmond, WA thanks to Brick & Mortar Books, and then the following weekend is the Sisters Festival of Books September 13-15 in Sisters, OR, thanks to the hard work of Paulina Springs Books and the …
Inside a rented house on bluff in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, I’m one of four women on a DIY writer’s retreat. A wall of tall windows shows a blue scene: a bend in the Mississippi River, cloud cover, deciduous trees, buzzards tilting just beyond our overlook. Inside, having run or walked or stretched to clear our …
