2015 Pacific Northwest Book Awards
Shortlist Announced
November 18, 2014
PNBA is happy to announce the 2015 Book Awards Shortlist, selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. From more than 250 nominations, the committee chose the following 15 finalists, written by Northwest authors and published in 2014.
For more author and title information on the 15 finalists, visit PNBA's 2015 Shortlist page. Shortlist titles will be honored with original Book Awards Committee features onNWBookLovers.org over the next several weeks.
PNBA will announce the six winners of the 2015 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January.
The 2014 PNBA Shortlist:
Charles D'Ambrosio (Portland, OR)
Loitering: New and Collected Essays
Tin House Books
9781935639879
Anthony Doerr (Boise, ID)
All the Light We Cannot See
Scribner Book Co.
9781476746586
Renee Erickson (Seattle, WA)
A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus: Menus and Stories
Sasquatch Books
9781570619267
Kathleen Flinn (Seattle, WA)
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
Viking Books
9780670015443
Matt Fraction (Portland, OR)
Sex Criminals Volume One
Image Comics
9781607069461
Pete Fromm (Great Falls, MT)
If Not for This
Red Hen Press
9781597095389
Molly Gloss (Portland, OR)
Falling from Horses
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9780544279292
Joe Guppy (Seattle, WA)
My Fluorescent God: A Psychotherapist Confronts His Most Challenging Case--His Own
Booktrope Editions
9781620154410
Adrianne Harun (Port Townsend, WA)
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain
Penguin Books
9780670786107
Stasia Ward Kehoe (Woodinville, WA)
The Sound of Letting Go
Viking Children's Books
9780670015535
Walter Kirn (Livingston, MT)
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Liveright Publishing Corp.
9780871404510
William Ritter (Springfield, OR)
Jackaby
Algonquin Young Readers
9781616203535
David Shafer (Portland, OR)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Mulholland Books
9780316252638
Willy Vlautin (Scappoose, OR)
The Free
Harper Perennial
9780062276742
Leslye Walton (Seattle, WA)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Candlewick Press
9780763665661
2015 Shortlist
Awards Archive
About the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association:
PNBA is a non-profit trade association that supports independent bookselling, literacy and free speech in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Each year since 1965, the Pacific Northwest Book Awards have celebrated exceptional books written by Northwest authors.
Visit our NW Book Lovers blog promoting the region's authors and independent bookstores.
The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List, a weekly list of the bestselling books in the independent bookstores of our five-state region, can be reprinted for free in any publication.
For more information, contact info@pnba.org.
PNBA is happy to announce the 2015 Book Awards Shortlist, selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. From more than 250 nominations, the committee chose the following 15 finalists, written by Northwest authors and published in 2014.
For more author and title information on the 15 finalists, visit PNBA's 2015 Shortlist page. Shortlist titles will be honored with original Book Awards Committee features onNWBookLovers.org over the next several weeks.
PNBA will announce the six winners of the 2015 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January.
The 2014 PNBA Shortlist:
Charles D'Ambrosio (Portland, OR)
Loitering: New and Collected Essays
Tin House Books
9781935639879
Anthony Doerr (Boise, ID)
All the Light We Cannot See
Scribner Book Co.
9781476746586
Renee Erickson (Seattle, WA)
A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus: Menus and Stories
Sasquatch Books
9781570619267
Kathleen Flinn (Seattle, WA)
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
Viking Books
9780670015443
Matt Fraction (Portland, OR)
Sex Criminals Volume One
Image Comics
9781607069461
Pete Fromm (Great Falls, MT)
If Not for This
Red Hen Press
9781597095389
Molly Gloss (Portland, OR)
Falling from Horses
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
9780544279292
Joe Guppy (Seattle, WA)
My Fluorescent God: A Psychotherapist Confronts His Most Challenging Case--His Own
Booktrope Editions
9781620154410
Adrianne Harun (Port Townsend, WA)
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain
Penguin Books
9780670786107
Stasia Ward Kehoe (Woodinville, WA)
The Sound of Letting Go
Viking Children's Books
9780670015535
Walter Kirn (Livingston, MT)
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Liveright Publishing Corp.
9780871404510
William Ritter (Springfield, OR)
Jackaby
Algonquin Young Readers
9781616203535
David Shafer (Portland, OR)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Mulholland Books
9780316252638
Willy Vlautin (Scappoose, OR)
The Free
Harper Perennial
9780062276742
Leslye Walton (Seattle, WA)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Candlewick Press
9780763665661
2015 Shortlist
Awards Archive
About the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association:
PNBA is a non-profit trade association that supports independent bookselling, literacy and free speech in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Each year since 1965, the Pacific Northwest Book Awards have celebrated exceptional books written by Northwest authors.
Visit our NW Book Lovers blog promoting the region's authors and independent bookstores.
The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List, a weekly list of the bestselling books in the independent bookstores of our five-state region, can be reprinted for free in any publication.
For more information, contact info@pnba.org.
