The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards
The PNBA presents annual awards to recognize excellence in writing from authors that live in the Pacific Northwest.

2004

Hawk's Rest : A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone
, by Gary Ferguson
Cool As I Am, by Pete Fromm
Bold Spirit : Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, by Linda Lawrence Hunt
Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson
Set This House in Order : A Romance of Souls, by Matt Ruff
Jarhead : A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, by Anthony Swofford


2003

The Resurrectionists
, by Michael Collins 
The Necessary Grace to Fall, by Gina Ochsner 
Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk 
Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford, by Kim Stafford 

Children's Book Award
A Perfect Snow, by Nora Martin 

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Dumb Luck, by Sam Hamill 


2002

Himalayan Dhaba, by Craig Joseph Danner 
Standing Up to the Rock, by T. Louise Freeman-Toole 
True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff 
Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher 
Where Do I Sleep? : a Pacific Northwest lullaby, by Jennifer Blomgren, Andrea Gabriel, Illus. 


2001

How All This Started, by Pete Fromm 
Winter Range, by Claire Davis 
The Heartsong of Charging Elk, by James Welch 

Children's Book Award
John Riley's Daughter, by Kezi Matthews 

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
The Ghost Openings, by Sheryl Noethe 


2000

Letters From Yellowstone, by Diane Smith 
Isaac's Storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history, by Erik Larson 
Dreamers: On the Trail of the Nez Perce, by Martin Stadius 
A Life on the Edge: memoirs of Everest and beyond, by Jim Whittaker 

Children's Book Award
The Captain's Dog: my journey with the Lewis and Clark tribe, by Roland Smith 

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems, by David Waggoner 


1999

Homestead, by Rosina Lippi 
Lost in Translation, by Nicole Mones 
One Round River: the curse of gold and the fight for the Big Blackfoot, by Richard Manning 
Mr. White's Confession, by Robert Clark 
Unified Field Theory: stories, by Frank Soos 

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Except By Nature, by Sandra Alcosser 


1998

Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster, by Jon Krakauer
Little Miss Strange, by Joanna Rose 
Spirits of the Ordinary: a tale of Casas Grandes, by Kathleen Alcala 
Dry Rain: stories, by Pete Fromm 

Children's Book Award
A Lot of Otters, by Barbara Berger 

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Outside the School of Theology, by Teri Zipf 


1997

Bad Land: An American Romance, by Jonathan Raban 
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer 
Into the Great Wide Open, by Kevin Canty 
Into the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country, by Kim Barnes 
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk 

Children's Book Award
Grandfather's Story, by Brenda Lena Fazio 


1996

A Little Too Much Is Enough, by Kathleen Tyau
Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, by Kathleen Dean Moore 
Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River, by Robin Cody 
I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier, by Fred Moody 
The Sky Fisherman, by Craig Lesley 

Children's Book Award
Storm Boy, by Paul Owen Lewis

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Journeyman's Wages, by Clemens Starck 


1995

Columbia River Basketry: gift of the ancestors, gift of the earth, by  Mary Dodds Schlick
Field Notes: the grace note of the canyon wren, by Barry Lopez
Gifts of the Body, by Rebecca Brown
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
Reaching Home: Pacific Salmon, Pacific People, by Natalie Fobes, Tom Jay & Brad Matsen

Children's Book Award
The Sleeping Lady, by Ann Dixon & Elizabeth Johns

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Luminaries of the Humble, by Elizabeth Woody 


1994

Two Old Women: an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage, and survival, by Velma Wallis
Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: notes from Nepal, by Barbara Scot
Heart Earth, by Ivan Doig
Indian Creek Chronicles, by Pete Fromm
Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest, by Carlos A. Schwantes
Pugilist At Rest: stories, by Thom Jones

William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer, by John Haines


1993

The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
Still Loved By the Sun: a rape survivor's journal, by Migael Scherer
Santiago and the Drinking Party, by Clay Morgan
Fruit Fields in My Blood: Okie migrants in the West, by Toby F. Sonneman & Rick Steigmeyer
Graced Land, by Laura Kalpakian
Final Forest: the battle for the last great trees of the Pacific Northwest, by William Dietrich
Talking to High Monks in the Snow: an Asian American odyssey, by Lydia Montoya


1992

All But the Waltz: essays on a Montana family, by Mary Clearman Blew
The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon, by  Tom Spanbauer
The Natural History of Puget Sound Country, by Arthur Kruckeberg
Rima in the Weeds, by Deirdre McNamer

Special Award
Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, edited by Craig Lesley


1991

Runaway:a collection of stories, by Mary Clearman Blew
Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson
The Good Rain: across time and terrain in the Pacific Northwest, by Timothy Egan
The Indian Lawyer, by James Welch
The Practice of the Wild: essays, by Gary Snyder
Floating In My Mothers Palm, by  Ursula Hegi


1990

Dark Continent and Other Stories, by Laura Kalpakian
Fragile Majesty: the battle for North America's last great forest, by Keith Ervin
The Island Within, by Richard Nelson
The Jump-Off Creek, by Molly Gloss
The Magic Fan, by Keith Baker


1989

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: uncommon thoughts on common things, by Robert Fulghum
Margaret of the Imperfections: stories, by Lynda Sexson
Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson
Corner of Rife and Pacific, by Thomas Savage
Secrets of the Old Growth Forest, by David Kelly & Gary Braasch


1988

Owning It All: essays, by William Kittredge
Goddess Letters, by Carol Orlock
Dancing At the Rascal Fair, by Ivan Doig
At the Field's End: interviews with twenty Pacific Northwest writers, by Nicholas O'Connell
An Oregon Message, by William Stafford
Rock Springs: stories, by Richard Ford


1987

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1986

Always Coming Home, by Ursula Le Guin
Amy's Eyes, by Richard Kennedy
The Major, The Poacher, and the Wonderful One-Trout River, by Dayton O. Hyde
Natural Acts: a sidelong view of science and nature, by David Quammen
Seattle: An Asahel Curtis Portfolio, by Archie Satterfield
You Know What Is Right: stories, by Jim Heynen


1985

Winterkill, by Craig Lesley 
English Creek, by Ivan Doig 
Leaving the Land, by Douglas Unger 
Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems, by Richard Hugo 
Reservation Blackfeet, 1882-1945: A Photographic History of Cultural Survival, by William E. Farr 
We Are Not In This Together: stories, by William Kittredge 


1984

Cathedral: stories, by Raymond Carver 
Beyond the Far Side, by Gary Larson 
Half Interest in a Silver Dollar: The Saga of Charles E. Conrad, by James E. Murphy 
Never Sniff a Gift Fish, by Patrick F. McManus 
The River Why, by David James Duncan 
"Son:" A Psychopath and His Victims, by  Jack Olsen 



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