2010 PNBA Book Awards

The 2010 winners of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards were announced today. The winners, which were selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, were chosen from more than 200 nominated titles, each written by a Northwest author and published in 2009. This previous blog post gives you the full list of nominated titles. And now...drum roll please...here are this year's winners:

• The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America, by Timothy Egan
• The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest, by Jack Nisbet
• Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest
• The Crying Tree, by Naseem Rakha
• All In a Day, by Cynthia Rylant & illustrated by Nikki McClure

Previous winners of the PNBA Book Award include Garth Stein, Jim Lynch, John Daniel, Gina Ochsner, Lauren Kessler, Sherman Alexie, David Biespiel, Floyd Skloot, Jess Walter, and John Laursen & Terry Toedtemeier. You can read about all of the nominated titles and previous winners at the PNBA Web site. Lots of good reads here! Congratulations to all of the nominated authors and to the winners.

PNBA Book Award Short List

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has just announced its first-ever Book Awards short list! The titles were selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. The following twelve books were chosen from a list of more than 100 nominees, all of which were written by Northwest authors and published in 2008.

• American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, by Steven Rinella (Spiegel & Grau)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein (Harper)
• Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs, by Buddy Levy (Bantam Books)
• The Eleventh Man, by Ivan Doig (Harcourt)
• The English Major, by Jim Harrison (Grove Press)
• Guernica: A Novel, by Dave Boling (Bloomsbury)
• The Jewel of Medina: A Novel, by Sherry Jones (Beaufort Books)
• Little Hoot, Jen Corace, illustrator (Chronicle Books)
• Selected Poems: 1970-2005, by Floyd Skloot (Tupelo Press)
• Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska, by Seth Kantner (Milkweed Editions)
• Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957, by Terry Toedtemeier and John Laursen (The Northwest Photography Archive & Oregon State University Press)
• The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life, by Floyd Skloot (University of Nebraska Press)

Congratulations to all of the nominees! The winners will be announced in January 2009 -- stay tuned to this blog for more information!