Sure, the New York Times released its 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. But the list we’re really excited about is Phinney Books’ 100 bestselling books from their first ten years. From Phinney Books, Seattle, WA: You can see the top 10 displayed here, and the full top 100 on our website. Such …
From Phinney Books’ store owner, Tom Nissley: Hello many friends of Phinney Books— We are turning ten years old (!!) this week—on Thursday, June 20, to be specific—and we are celebrating that evening with a little party at the store. After we close at 7 pm, our door will stay open to visit with friends …
Sashiko’s Stitches is a new picture book from local favorite Sanae Ishida (Little Kunoichi: The Ninja Girl). Sashiko is a little girl with overwhelming fears and worries. One day, her mother teaches her about a style of decorative traditional Japanese stitching also called sashiko, which was originally used to repair fishermen’s clothes. As Sashiko begins …
It opens with the typical hook: a missing child. Tom Hargreaves, newbie tabloid hack, takes the bait and is formulating lurid headlines before he even gets to the scene. He plies the suspect’s family with money, alcohol, and fake sympathy, but fails to elicit a tale black and white enough for newsprint. I won’t lie—I …
The 2024 PNBA Book Awards Committee recognized the life and works of late author and artist Chandler O’Leary, whose books included 2023 bestseller On Island Time, The Best Coast, and Dead Feminists, a 2018 PNBA Award Winner. Chandler’s publisher, Sasquatch Books, created a slideshow that will be presented at the Book Awards virtual celebration on Zoom Feb …
I picked up this book (at New York’s McNally Jackson bookstore) because it didn’t look like anything else on the shelf, and inside it doesn’t read like anything else either. Mostly, it’s a biography of the Seattle-born architect Minoru Yamasaki, known to us as the designer of what is now the Pacific Science Center but …
Phinney Books welcomes you to the 14th annual Holiday Bookfest featuring dozens of authors signing their books. Along with the author signings, a selection of authors will be reading from their books, and Greenwood’s Bureau of Fearless Ideas tutoring center will create an interactive Bookmakers Space, where new or seasoned writers can put together a …
As someone who opts to read few books written by straight white men, I’m the kind of reader Dr. Oliver Harding—a 56-year-old white male English professor who fears becoming obsolete and who would definitely make a point of capitalizing White here—would balk at. And yet, I agreed to trust Jha and spend approximately 300 pages …
From 2018-2019 Iris Graville served as the first writer-in-residence aboard the Washington State Ferries, spending a couple days a week writing on the route that travels between Lopez, Orcas, Shaw, and San Juan islands. The subtitle for her book Writer in a Life Vest: Essays from the Salish Sea is quite literal, as much of the book …
If, like me, you loved Murphy’s first book, the truck-driving memoir The Long Haul, you might have wondered what he’s been doing since he retired from the road. The answer: trying to cash in on the supposed hemp boom in his adopted state of Colorado. First he buys a chunk of farmland, then he spies …
