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.
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
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.
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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.
