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Top Reads of 2025 from Third Place Books on New Day Northwest

Third Place Books’ Robert Sindelar shared some of the store’s favorite books of 2025 on New Day Northwest with Kelly. The Wayfinder Sky Daddy  Automatic Noodle Is a River Alive? One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This They also mention What We Can Know My Friends (a Kelly’s Book Club pick) As TV personality Kelly says, recommendations like these can “broaden your horizons!” Visit Third Place Books in their Lake Forest Park, Ravenna, or Seward Park locations– or …

Jan 30, 2026

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2026

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Quantitative Titles

On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we look for something special to showcase. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. We discovered a math-like theme to some titles this …

Jan

28

2026

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A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, edited by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick

This is the book you give to The Reader in your life. This isn’t just a love letter to books-this is 121 love letters to books! Each letter by an author, historian, journalist, musician, scientist, explorer, director, etc. is paired with an art piece from a different creator. That relative who only talks about literature? …

Jan

27

2026

Award Winners

An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA
Book Award Winner Karen Russell

Several lifetimes ago, when I was finishing my first novel, Swamplandia!, I had a kind of waking dream, something more vivid and mysterious than an idea—I still have no idea where it came from. A woman was seated in a bare room, holding up a green earhorn, an antique hearing aid. It looked like a …

Jan

26

2026

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Football by Chuck Klosterman

Here is Chuck Klosterman’s Football, a book about the singular force that shapes American life. That’s Chuck’s phrase, not ours, but it doesn’t take long to get swept up in his worldview. This is a book for both folks who like football—who will find much to agree with here—and those who don’t understand what the …

Jan

23

2026

Award Winners

Attention: An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA Book Award Winner Omar El Akkad

In January of 2025, about a month before One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was set to be published in North America, I received an email from my editor. He said he was worried: we’d gotten no confirmed major media at that point. By this he meant national radio, morning TV, that …

Jan

22

2026

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Historical Perspective and Current Events

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. This week’s bestseller list has a Pacific Northwest Book Award winner at #1 on hardcover nonfiction. (Watch …

Jan

21

2026

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Loved One: A Novel by Aisha Muharrar

From the writer of some of the best recent TV shows (“The Good Place,” “Parks & Rec”), comes Loved One, a debut novel just as smart, perceptive, funny, tender, and quixotic as Aisha Muharrar’s scripts. In another writer’s hands, the story of two former girlfriends of a dead rock star trying to get along could …

Jan

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2026

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Award Winners

An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA Book Award Winner Leyna Krow

Before I was an author I was, briefly, a bookseller. The summer between finishing graduate school and getting my first teaching job, I worked a Spokane’s gorgeous downtown bookstore, Auntie’s. The story I want to tell is about something that happened on my first day. I had just been trained on how to answer the …

Jan

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2026

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In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Some bookstores may be closed in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 19, 2026, but many are open and ready to help you find inspiring and informative books about Dr. King and his fight for Civil Rights.

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