Last evening, at the PNBA Tradeshow, underway in Portland, Ore., the shortlisted titles for the 2025 PNBA Book Awards were unveiled live--the first time the organization has done so.
The titles: Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions); Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain by Tim McNulty (Mountaineers Books); We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons (Knopf); Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls (FSG); Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts (Norton); Table Titans Club by Scott Kurtz (Holiday House); Log Life by Amy Hevron (Simon & Schuster); The Liberators by E.J. Koh (Tin House); Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Norton); Eve by Cat Bohannon (Knopf); It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken (New Directions); Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Soft Skull).
Pictured: (from left) awards committee members Nathaniel Hattrick (Saltwater Bookshop, Kingston, Wash.); Julie Graham (Yakima Valley Libraries, Yakima, Wash.); Blanca Noriega (King’s Books, Olympia, Wash.); Zac Fletcher (Third Place Books, Seattle, Wash.), Rafe Posey (Third Place Books, Ravenna, Wash.), Chelsia A. Rice (Montana Book Company Redux, Helena, Mont.); Tiffany LaSalle (program support for PNBA)