Washington | American Stories: A Reading Road Trip Episode 108 Congratulations to Auntie’s Bookstore of Spokane and Elliott Bay Book Company of Seattle for being part of PBS’s Reading Road Trip! Big thanks to Sara Peté of the Washington State Library for sending us the news.
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. Two of these books were on our bestseller list in 2021, too. Nevertheless, we persist. Lessons from …
Palaver centers on the relationship between a queer Black man living in Japan and his mother, who unexpectedly visits from the US. The book explores the hurt we accumulate and carry with us as adults. It looks at the difficulties of tending to that hurt while living our day-to-day lives and the hard work of …
Two Face Outs/ “walk me to the shelf” recs for Brian Juenemann, the Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, from India at Spoke & Word Books in Milwaukie, OR: Klan members are turning into nasty little monsters (their outsides matching their insides) called ku kluxes. Our trio of badasses is unaliving them in …
A history of humanity in picture book form. This book is poetry and art – it is stunning and incredibly moving. More than all that, it’s also a book that seeks to remind us that we are a “we” – that we have more in common than we often think. It’s a celebration of humanity. …
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 …
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 …
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? …
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 …
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 …
