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2018 Book Awards Shortlist

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 K. Le Guin, David James Duncan, Cheryl Strayed, 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 Awards Committee is comprised of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our member region. This year's Committee considered more than 420 nominated titles published during 2017 for a 2018 award. These titles, announced in early November, comprise the list from which up to six 2018 winners will be selected. Winners be announced in early January and promoted by our member stores during the winter and spring of 2018.


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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
A Memoir

Sherman Alexie

Seattle, WA


Hachette Book Group / Little, Brown and Company
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American War
A Novel

Omar El Akkad

Portland, OR

Penguin Random House / Alfred A. Knopf

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This Is How It Always Is
A Novel

Laurie Frankel

Seattle, WA

Macmillan / Flatiron Books
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All's Faire in Middle School

Victoria Jamieson

Portland, OR
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Penguin Random House / Dial Books for Young Readers
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The Hope of Another Spring
Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness

Barbara Johns

Seattle, WA

University of Washington Press
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Speed of Life

J.M. Kelly

Gabriola Island, BC

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers
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Little Blue Chair

Madeline Kloepper, Illustrator
(words by Cary Fagan)

Prince George, BC

Penguin Random House Canada / Tundra Books

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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
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The Book of Mistakes

Corinna Luyken

Olympia, WA

 Penguin Random House / Dial Books for Young Readers
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Dead Feminists
Historic Heroines in Living Color

Chandler O'Leary and  Jessica Spring

Tacoma, WA

Penguin Random House / Sasquatch Books
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Idaho
A Novel

Emily Ruskovich

Idaho City, ID

Penguin Random House / Random House
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   Tides
The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

Jonathan White

Orcas Island, WA

Trinity University Press
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