The shortlist for the 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, was announced yesterday at PNBA's Fall Tradeshow in Spokane, Wash. Winners will be named in early January.
The nominees:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole (Tin House)
Seattle Samurai by Kelly Goto (Chin Music Press)
Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids by Leyna Krow (Penguin Books)
Six Seasons of Pasta by Joshua McFadden (Artisan)
I Am Wind by Rachel Poliquin (Tundra Books)
Endling by Maria Reva (Doubleday)
The Antidote by Karen Russell (Knopf)
Speechless by Aron Nels Steinke (Graphix)
Wrecked by Coll Thrush (University of Washington Press)
A Monstrous Bedtime by Kerilynn Wilson (Greenwillow Books)
Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch (Riverhead)