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2016 Pacific Northwest Book Awards  
Shortlist Announced 

    
November 19, 2015

PNBA is happy to announce the 2016 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 12 finalists, written by Northwest authors and published in 2015.

For more author and title information on the finalists, visit PNBA's 2016 Shortlist page. Shortlist titles will be honored with original Book Awards Committee features on NWBookLovers.org over the next several weeks.

PNBA will announce the six winners of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January.


The 2016 PNBA Shortlist:

Call Me Home
by Megan Kruse (Seattle, WA)
Hawthorne Books
9780990437000

The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness
by Gary Ferguson (Red Lodge, MT)
Counterpoint
9781619024489 / 9781619025837

Children & Other Wild Animals
by Brian Doyle (Portland, OR)
Oregon State Univ. Press
9780870717543

The Game of Love and Death
by Martha Brockenbrough (Seattle, WA)
Arthur A. Levine Books
9780545668347

If I Fall, If I Die
by Michael Christie (Galiano Island, BC)
Hogarth
9780804140805 / 9780804140829

The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah (Bainbridge Island, WA)
St. Martin's Press
9780312577223

Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson (Seattle, WA)
William Morrow
9780062190376

This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
by Jonathan Evison (Bainbridge Island, WA)
Algonquin Books
9781616202613

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips
Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by Thor Hanson (San Juan Island, WA)
Basic Books
9780465055999

Undermajordomo Minor
by Patrick deWitt (Portland, OR)
Ecco Press
9780062281203

Unicorn on a Roll: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure
by Dana Simpson (Auburn, WA)
Andrews McMeel
9781449470760

Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
by Bruce Barcott (Seattle, WA)
Time Home Entertainment
9781618931405 / 9781618934215

2016 Shortlist

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      About 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 site also hosts the Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List, a weekly presentation of the bestselling books in the independent bookstores of our five-state region. The list may be reprinted in any publication.

For more information, contact info@pnba.org.
  
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Eugene, Oregon 97401-3062



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