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16/06/2025

The latest featured Face Out on our blog:

“This is my all-time favorite graphic novel– it’s the perfect blend of funny, heartfelt, and subversive. I cannot recommend it enough. If you haven’t read it, you’re in for a treat!”

–Jess, on Hawthorne, Portland, OR

Last week, during Portland Book Week, booksellers, authors, illustrators, and publishing folk from around the country gathered in Portland for the American Booksellers Association Children’s Institute, an annual education conference held in different cities around the country. Some attendees were able to do organized bus tours of a select itinerary of independent bookstores, and author and illustrator N. D. Stevenson, the creator of Nimona, was a speaker.

Find this book at Powell’s and other independent bookstores. (This version- The 10th anniversary limited edition with deluxe edges and bonus content- is only while supplies last! The standard edition is also available.)

https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/06/16/nimona-by-nd-stevenson/

10/06/2025

Latest blog post: Huckleberries and Nightshade: Beauty and Terror in Northwest Roots - an essay by Brittney Micka-Foos, author of the soon-to-be published collection of short stories, It’s Not Fun Anymore.

Attend the book launch event at Village Books in Bellingham July 3, 2025 at 6:00 pm.

Brittany is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of the short story collection It’s No Fun Anymore ( , June 17, 2025)

Read more on nwbooklovers.org

https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/06/10/huckleberries-and-nightshade/

22/05/2025

On our blog:

KUOW, Seattle’s NPR station, reported on Tuesday that the trade books section of University Book Store in Seattle’s U District will soon be taken over by Barnes & Noble.

From the KUOW article: “ A spokesperson for the University Book Store confirmed the news Tuesday, but said it’s not going anywhere. Rather, the store, which has been around since 1900, will continue to independently run all operations except for the trade books department.

Trade books” is a publishing industry term that refers to books intended for general readership (i.e. not academic or specialized books) and retail distribution.”

According to KUOW, a formal announcement is being planned by the two stores next week.

Read the full article as well as our tribute to the long history of that we published for its 120th anniversary in January 2020.

You can explore more University Book Store content by following the University Book Store tag on our NW Booklovers site. The store has been a beloved fixture in the independent bookstore world.

https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/05/21/kuow-reports-barnes-noble-to-take-over-university-book-store-space-in-seattles-u-district/

08/05/2025

Join for the Freedom Read-In, a free, all-day assembly of award-winning children’s book authors reading from their own work to bring attention to and raise support for Freedom to Read bills that are active in twelve states. Twenty acclaimed authors from across the United States will each present for fifteen minutes on May 9th, during Children’s Book Week, to honor the need for diversity of American children’s literature. Drop in for one 15-minute session, or stream the whole event, from 10:00AM-12:45PM and 1:00PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time.

Check out the full line-up on , including two PNBA region members of Authors Against Book Bans, and !

07/05/2025

Congratulations to the winners of the 37th annual Triangle Awards, which honor the year’s best LGBTQ literature published in 2024!

A special shout out to ‘ own Charlie J. Stephens ( ) who won the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature for A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest ( )

CHARLIE J. STEPHENS is a q***r, non-binary, mixed-race writer from the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, and currently living in Port Orford on the southern Oregon coast, they are the owner of (Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center) . Charlie’s short fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Best Small Fictions 2020, New World Writing, and Original Plumbing (Feminist Press).

Read more on our blog: nwbooklovers.org

23/04/2025

Happy from our !!

REPOST• It’s World Book Day 📚
Come check out our stacks and celebrate with something new or used!

07/04/2025

REPOST• One Day. Fifty States. 1600+ Bookstores.

Independent Bookstore Day is on Saturday, April 26!

Not familiar with this bookish holiday? 📚

is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is different.

Head to the link in our bio to find participating stores near you!

24/03/2025

“Thank goodness. Our chickens are all going to sleep more securely tonight, knowing that Mr. Bakeley’s timeless advice is once again readily available to the lay person. That’ll show those pesky gnomes!”

–A Good Book, Sumner, WA

As PNBA’s Executive Director Brian says, “Who can afford to lose a single egg, let alone a whole chicken! 🐓

FACE OUT FEATURE ON OUR BLOG: Reginald Bakeley’s classic Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop: And Other Practical Advice in Our Campaign Against Fairies, Gnomes, Goblins, and Other Nasty Members of the Fairy Kingdom is back in print!

https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/03/24/goblinproofing-ones-chicken-coop-and-other-practical-advice-in-our-campaign-against-fairies-gnomes-goblins-and-other-nasty-members-of-the-fairy-kingdom-by-reginald-bakeley/

21/03/2025

Face Out Feature on our blog: Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch (blurb by bookseller Melissa at Trails End Bookstore in Winthrop, WA

What do you get when you cross a grumpy old vengeful pony with a murder mystery targeting his former owner, Penny? A laugh-out-loud and heartfelt adventure you won’t want to put down. Don’t like horses? No problem! Pony will still worm his grumpy little way into your heart.

–Melissa, Trail’s End Bookstore, Winthrop, WA

Load up on books that make your heart sing; visit and other amazing

https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/03/21/pony-confidential-by-christina-lynch/

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20/03/2025

Bestseller Spotlight this week: PNW Connections

Check out the full list of Pacific Northwest bestsellers on our blog:
https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/03/20/bestseller-spotlight-pnw-connections/

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 ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes.

14/03/2025

Here’s the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestsellers list for this week!
Bestseller Spotlight: Start Something (and by “Something,” I mean “a new series

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 ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes.

Looking for something to look forward to? Starting a new book series or duology is a one way to give yourself a sense of joyous expectation. See which first books lots Pacific Northwest Readers are starting.

Check out the list here:
https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/03/06/bestseller-spotlight-start-something-and-by-something-i-mean-a-new-series/

01/03/2025

As we say goodbye to February, and , please check out our latest post celebrating Portland’s Third Eye Books, a Black-owned bookstore! They were featured on KATU news.

https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/02/28/celebrating-third-eye-books-and-black-history-month/

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