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2017 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 325 nominated titles published during 2016 for a 2017 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 2017 and promoted by our member stores during the winter and spring of 2017.


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Thunder Boy Jr.

Sherman Alexie

Seattle, WA


Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Owl
A Year in the Lives of North American Owls

Paul Bannick

Seattle, WA

Braided River/Mountaineers Books

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Bitch Planet
Book One: Extraordinary Machine

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Portland, OR

Image Comics

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The Immortal Irishman
The Irish Revolutionary Who Became An American Hero

Timothy Egan

Seattle, WA

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle

Janet Fox

Bozeman, MT

Viking

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To The Bright Edge Of The World

Eowyn Ivey


Palmer, AK

Little Brown
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The Summer Dragon

Todd Lockwood

Bonney Lake, WA

DAW Books

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On Trails
An Exploration

Robert Moor

Halfmoon Bay, BC

Simon & Schuster
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A None's Story
Searching For Meaning Inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism & Islam

Corinna Nicolaou

Pullman, WA

Columbia University Press

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Barkskins

Annie Proulx


Carnation, WA

Scribner
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Temperance Creek
a memoir

Pamela Royes

Joseph, OR

Counterpoint

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   Marrow Island

Alexis M. Smith

Portland, OR

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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   Violation
Collected Essays

Sallie Tisdale

Portland, OR

Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts

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   Daredevils

Shawn Vestal

Spokane, WA

Penguin Press

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Shrill
Notes from a Loud Woman

Lindy West

Seattle, WA

Hachette Books

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