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2019 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 400 nominated titles published during 2018 for a 2019 award.

​These titles, announced in early November, comprise the list from which up to six 2019 winners will be selected. Winners be announced in early January and promoted by our member stores during the winter and spring of 2019.

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A False Report
A True Story of Rape in America

Ken Armstrong
​(and T. Christian Miller)

Seattle, WA


Crown Publishing Group
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Vanishing Twins
A Marriage

Leah Dieterich

Portland, OR

Soft Skull Press
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Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

Victoria, B.C.

Alfred A. Knopf
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So Lucky
A Novel

Nicola Griffith

Seattle, WA
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Buzz
The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Thor Hanson

Friday Harbor, WA

Basic Books
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Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse

Corinna Luyken, illus.
(Marcy Campbell, author)

Olympia, WA

Dial Books / Penguin Young Readers
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Blood Water Paint

Joy McCullough

Seattle, WA

Dutton Books / Penguin Random House
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The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

Colin Meloy / Carson Ellis, illus.

Portland, OR

Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins
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So You Want To Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

Olympia, WA

Seal Press
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Rising Out of Hatred
The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

Eli Saslow

Portland, OR

Doubleday / Penguin Random House
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Terrarium
New and Selected Stories

Valerie Trueblood

Seattle, WA

Counterpoint
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   Libba
The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten

Laura Veirs
(illus. by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh)

Portland, OR

Chronicle Books
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