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 LeGuin, David James Duncan, David Guterson, Jon Krakauer, 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 Award Committee is comprised of nine volunteer booksellers from our member stores, throughout the region. Committee members considered more than 200 titles published during 2012 for a 2013 award.A complete list of titles nominated for the 2013 Awards can be found HERE.*

*Text taken from PNBA 2013 Book Awards page.

 Here are the 2013 Winners! 

Book List

Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories (Hardcover)

By Sherman Alexie

$21.60

ISBN-13: 9780802120397
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grove Press, 10/2012

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Alexie gives the reader a blazingly straight on view of Native life while at the same time suffusing his work with powerful humor that touches the tragedy of the human condition. Blasphemy is wide ranging, wildly entertaining, and heartfelt. —PNBA Awards Committee

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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Evison

$19.16

ISBN-13: 9781616200398
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 8/2012

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Fortune has not smiled on Benjamin as of late and he's down to his last dollar when forced to take a job as a caregiver for Trevor, a 19-year-old kid confined to a wheelchair. The friendship that unexpectedly—and sometimes painfully—grows inspires an audacious adventure of healing and forgiveness. Wickedly funny, daring and heartwarming, this book will surprise you. —PNBA Awards Committee

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The Snow Child (Paperback)

By Eowyn Ivey

$11.99

ISBN-13: 9780316175661
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books, 11/2012

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Beautiful prose brings dreamlike imagery to life and vivid yearnings percolate in the minds of these finely wrought, hardscrabble homesteaders following moose tracks along glacier-fed rivers as the isolation of a woodland winter looms. This quiet, magical story is unmistakably Alaskan at its heart. — PNBA Awards Committee

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On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths (Hardcover)

By Lucia Perillo

$17.60

ISBN-13: 9781556593970
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Copper Canyon Press, 4/2012

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Lucia Perillo's relentless curiosity, deep intelligence and dark wit are all on powerful display here in poems that flow with subtle music and a deceptively casual tone. A Perillo poem may seem innocuous at first, but it soon enters the mind and the heart, expanding both. Her poetry moves gracefully from the personal to the universal, generously inviting her readers to join her as she contemplates the vagaries of nature, culture, family and the body. Fearless, wise, humorous and touching, the poems in this volume are a bracing tonic. —PNBA Awards Committee

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)

By Cheryl Strayed

$20.76

ISBN-13: 9780307592736
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf, 3/2012

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A beautiful, powerful memoir about a young woman who moves through grief by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and proves she is the daughter to make her mother proud. Strayed's love/hate relationship with her hiking boots and monstrous pack, her inner strength, and the beauty and power of her 1,100-mile trek kept us riveted. — PNBA Awards Committee

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Alif the Unseen (Hardcover)

By G. Willow Wilson

$20.00

ISBN-13: 9780802120205
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Published: Grove Press, 6/2012

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Grounded in the modern Middle East but bridging virtual reality, history, and mythology, this well-paced novel brings together a thought-provoking array of characters, each with a unique and powerful moral compass. — PNBA Awards Committee

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