Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association announced its Book Awards Shortlist during the Fall Tradeshow in September. Selected by an Awards Committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, the 12 finalists, all written by Northwest authors, were selected from a list of nearly 300 titles submitted for consideration.

PNBA plans to announce the six winners of the 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards in early January.

This year’s Book Awards Shortlist is:

Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray (Missoula, MT), published by Milkweed Editions

Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Vancouver, BC), published by W.W. Norton & Company

Eve by Cat Bohannon (Seattle, WA), published by Alfred A. Knopf

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls (Seattle, WA), published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken (Olympia, WA), published by New Directions Publishing

Log Life by Amy Hevron (Seattle, WA), published by Beach Lane Books

Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain by Tim McNulty (Sequim, WA), published by Mountaineers Books

Table Titans Club by Scott Kurtz (Bothell, WA), published by Holiday House

The Liberators by E. J. Koh (Seattle, WA), published by Tin House

Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Seattle, WA), published by Soft Skull Press

We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons (Portland, OR), published by Alfred A. Knopf

Wild and Distant Seas, by Tara Karr Roberts (Moscow, ID), published by W.W. Norton & Company

For more information on the 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards, see pnba.org.