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Pacific Northwest Book Awards: 2018 Shortlist




2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards  
Shortlist Announced 

    
November 10, 2017

PNBA is happy to announce the 2017 Book Awards Shortlist, selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. From more than 400 nominations, the committee chose the following 12 finalists, written by Northwest authors and published in 2017.

For more author and title information on the finalists, visit PNBA's 2018 Shortlist page. Shortlist honorees will be profiled on NWBookLovers.org over the next several weeks.

PNBA will announce the six winners of the 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January.

 
2018 Shortlist:

All's Faire in Middle School
Victoria Jamieson (Portland, OR)
Penguin Random House/Dial Books for Young Readers
9780525429982 / 9780525429999

American War: A Novel
Omar El Akkad (Portland, OR)
Penguin Random House / Alfred A. Knopf
9780451493583

The Book of Mistakes
Corinna Luyken (Olympia, WA)
Penguin Random House / Dial Books for Young Readers
9780735227927

Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring (Tacoma, WA)
Penguin Random House / Sasquatch Books
9781632170576

The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness
Barbara Johns (Seattle, WA)
University of Washington Press
9780295999999

Idaho: A Novel
Emily Ruskovich (Idaho City, ID)
Penguin Random House / Random House
9781432840952 / 9780812984460

Little Blue Chair
Madeline Kloepper, Illustrator (Prince George, BC)
Penguin Random House Canada / Tundra Books
9781770497559

The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin:
Boxed Set: The Found and the Lost; The Unreal and the Real
Ursula K. Le Guin (Portland, OR)
Simon & Schuster / Saga Press
9781481489461 / 9781534404717

Speed of Life
J.M. Kelly (Gabriola Island, BC)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers
9780544747821

This Is How It Always Is: A Novel
Laurie Frankel (Seattle, WA)
Macmillan / Flatiron Books
9781250088550

Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Jonathan White (Orcas Island, WA)
Trinity University Press
9781595348050

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Sherman Alexie (Seattle, WA)
Hachette Book Group / Little, Brown and Company
9780316270755

2018 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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