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2020 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 2019 for a 2020 award.

​These titles, announced in early November, comprise the list from which up to six 2020 winners will be selected.
Winners be announced in early January and promoted by our member stores during the winter and spring of 2020.

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The Death & Life of Aida Hernandez
A Border Story

Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Walla Walla, WA

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Exhalation
Stories

Ted Chiang

Seattle, WA

Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House
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Is, Is Not
Poems

Tess Gallagher

Port Angeles, WA

Graywolf Press
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My Heart

Corinna Luyken

Olympia, WA
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Dial Books / Penguin Young Readers
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Deep River
A Novel

Karl Marlantes

Woodinville, WA

Atlantic Monthly Press
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Queen of the Sea

Dylan Meconis

Portland, OR

Walker Books / Candlewick
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The Merciful Crow

Margaret Owen
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Seattle, WA

Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
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A Wolf Called Wander

Rosanne Parry

Portland, OR

Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins
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The Cassandra
A Novel
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Sharma Shields

Spokane, WA

Henry Holt & Co.
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The Phone Booth in
Mr. Hirota's Garden


Rachel Wada, illus.
(Heather Smith, author)

Vancouver, BC

Orca Book Publishers
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Fall Back Down When I Die
A Novel

Joe Wilkins

McMinnville, OR

Little, Brown / Hachette
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Aloha Rodeo

David Wolman and Julian Smith
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Portland, OR

William Morrow / HarperCollins
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