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2015 Book Awards Shortlist

PNBA offers our sincere congratulations to the authors of these Shortlist books, and we encourage our member stores to give these books the extra attention they so deserve.

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free speech and author promotional vehicles through its member stores. Since 1965, our annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula LeGuin, David James Duncan, David Guterson, Jonathan Evison, Erik Larson, Chuck Palahniuk, and Sherman Alexie. Many of these authors were honored by PNBA before they received national attention. A history of past winners of the Pacific Northwest Book Award can be viewed on the Book Awards homepage.

PNBA's Award Committee is comprised of nine volunteer booksellers from our member stores, throughout the region. Committee members considered more than 300 nominated titles published during 2014 for a 2015 award. In early November the Committee chose these fifteen titles, from which the winners will be selected. The winners, a maximum of six books, will be determined by the Awards Committee in December. They will then be announced in January 2015 and promoted by our member stores during the winter and spring of 2015.

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A Boat, A Whale & A Walrus

Renee Erickson


Seattle, WA

Sasquatch Books
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A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain

Adrianne Harun

Port Townsend, WA

Penguin Books
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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Boise, ID

Scribner
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Blood Will Out

Walter Kirn

Livingston, MT

Liveright / Norton
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Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good

Kathleen Flinn

Seattle, WA

Viking Press
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Falling From Horses

Molly Gloss

Portland, OR

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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If Not For This

Pete Fromm

Great Falls, MT

Red Hen Press
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Jackaby

William Ritter

Springfield, OR

Algonquin Young Readers
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Loitering

Charles D'Ambrosio

Portland, OR

Tin House Books
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My Fluorescent God

Joe Guppy

Seattle, WA

Booktrope Editions
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Sex Criminals Volume One

Matt Fraction

Portland, OR

Image Comics
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Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Leslye Walton

Seattle, WA

Candlewick Press
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The Free

Willy Vlautin

Scappoose, OR

Harper Perennial
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The Sound of Letting Go

Stasia Ward Kehoe

Woodinville, WA

Viking Press
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

David Shafer

Portland, OR

Mulholland Books / Little, Brown
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