PNBA is happy to announce the 2020 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, crafted by Northwest authors and illustrators and published in 2019.
For more contributor and title information, visit PNBA's 2020 Shortlist page. Shortlist honorees will be profiled on NWBookLovers.org over the next several weeks.
PNBA will announce the six winners of the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January.
Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West David Wolman (Portland, OR) and Julian Smith (Portland, OR) William Morrow/HarperCollins
The Cassandra: A Novel Sharma Shields (Spokane, WA) Henry Holt & Company/Macmillan
The Death & Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story Aaron Bobrow-Stain (Walla Walla, WA) Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan
Deep River: A Novel Karl Marlantes (Woodinville, WA) Atlantic Monthly Press
Exhalation: Stories Ted Chiang (Seattle, WA) Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House
Fall Back Down When I Die: A Novel Joe Wilkins (McMinnville, OR) Little, Brown and Company / Hachette
Is, Is Not: Poems Tess Gallagher (Port Angeles, WA) Graywolf Press
The Merciful Crow Margaret Owen (Seattle, WA) Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan
My Heart Corinna Luyken (Olympia, WA) Dial Books / Penguin Young Readers
The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden Rachel Wada, illus. (Vancouver, BC) Orca Book Publishers
Queen of the Sea Dylan Meconis (Portland, OR) Walker Books / Candlewick Press
A Wolf Called Wander Rosanne Parry (Portland, OR) Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins
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.
