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Aug

5

2025

Roundabout Books’ Booker Prize Excitement

From Roundabout Books’ newsletter: [T]he 2025 longlist for The Booker Prize was announced, and since it’s one of my favorite literary lists, I thought I’d take this chance to pitch a Booker book for your late summer reading enjoyment. And yes – I said enjoyment. Officially, the Booker prize is awarded to a work of fiction written in English and published in the …

Dec

19

2024

Bestseller Spotlight: Going, Going, Gone… and Coming Back Soon!

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 year will be particularly tricky at small stores because Christmas falling on …

Dec

12

2024

Bestseller Spotlight: Give Books!

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, we notice a bevy of books from the PNBA Give Books Holiday Catalog on the …

Nov

21

2024

The Frozen River by April Lawhon (cover) a winter scene with woman in a red coat, shown from above)

Bestseller Spotlight: Winter Is Coming…

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. Some parts of our region got a lot of snow this week with the bomb cyclone. Some …

Oct

24

2024

Bestseller Spotlight: “It’s Complicated…”

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 …

Oct

10

2024

The cover of Sally Rooney's novel "Intermezzo": Yellow and gray chess board with pieces casting human shadows.

Bestseller Spotlight: Play

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, we’re focusing on books that feature some sort of play in titles or themes: games, …

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