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FROM THE SHELF
JANUARY 19�26, 2022
CHECKING OUT THE
WORLD OF BOOKS
Pacifi c Northwest Booksellers Association
announces 2022 book awards recipients
Go! staff
Time is a Flower
he Pacifi c Northwest Booksellers
Association recently announced
the recipients of the 2022 Pacifi c
Northwest Book Awards. A volunteer
committee of independent booksell-
ers selected the winners from more
than 400 nominated titles published
in 2021.
Original essay features from this
year’s winning authors will be pub-
lished on the NWBookLovers blog.
PNBA and its member stores will
host the 2022 Pacifi c Northwest Book
Awards Celebration, a virtual event fea-
turing this year’s winners, at 6 p.m. Feb.
8. Registration for this free public event
is available at NWBookLovers.org.
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2022 WINNERS:
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr (Boise, ID)
Scribner
Funeral for Flaca
Emilly Prado (Portland, OR)
Future Tense Books
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao (Vancouver, BC)
Penguin Teen
Julie Morstad (Vancouver, BC)
Unfollow Me
Jill Louise Busby (Olympia, WA)
Bloomsbury Publishing
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad (Portland, OR)
Knopf Publishing Group
ABOUT
The Pacifi c Northwest Booksellers
Association is a non-profi t trade as-
sociation that supports independent
bookselling in Alaska, Idaho, Mon-
tana, Oregon and Washington. Each
year since 1965, the Pacifi c North-
west Book Awards have celebrated
exceptional books written by North-
west authors.
To learn more, visit the NWBook-
Lovers blog, which promotes the au-
thors and independent bookstores
of the Northwest region, and also
hosts the Pacifi c Northwest Inde-
pendent Bestseller List, a weekly
presentation of the bestselling
books in the independent book-
stores of the fi ve-state region.
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