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14/10/2025

In this month’s Borrowed Copy feature on the NW Booklovers blog, writer shares insights into the writing and publishing of his novel, TRANSPLANTS, released May 13 by / Simon & Schuster. The novel was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and a Book Club selection. This interview first appeared in the “Debut Diary” column of ALL ARTS.

Read the article on our blog : nwbooklovers.org !

07/10/2025

New on our blog: A Conversation with Peter Mountford On His New Short Story Collection - by Eric Olson

“More than a decade after Tin House released his second novel The Dismal Science, Seattle fiction fixture and 2012 Washington State Book Award winner Peter Mountford returns with the story collection Detonator, a darkly funny gaggle of ten works spanning his career. These tales appear in all sorts of highbrow landmarks – The Paris Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Missouri Review – and form a thematically consistent (if, it must be said, tinted) window into the human condition. Dropping readers into Ecuador, Sri Lanka, and Scotland, Detonator echoes Mountford’s worldly childhood and his time spent in both Washingtons, the state and D.C.”

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16/09/2025

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REPOST• September 15th marks the beginning of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month! This month we celebrate and honor the voices of those whose stories stem from generations across Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Spain.

20/08/2025

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August 19th is National Photography Day! Today we celebrate the art, craft, science, and history of photography, as well as its powerful role in storytelling.

17/08/2025

This week’s FACE OUT on our blog features the book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid w.norton

“Al-Rashid dives into the actual historical records left by the peoples who lived, loved, and died in the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, providing us with delightful snaphots of daily life circa 1900 BCE. Folks had collicky babies, needed recipes for beer, and wanted to exorcise ghosts. Preschoolers had terrible handwriting. There was inequality among social classes. Moms were juggling too many things with too few hands. Life was, well, life. Recommended.”

–A Good Book, Sumner, WA

Read more about the book: https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/08/15/between-two-rivers-ancient-mesopotamia-and-the-birth-of-history-by-moudhy-al-rashid/

17/08/2025

Last week’s Thursday Theme for bestsellers was: Well, that’s just silly!

A new-to-the-list picture book that makes us giggle inspired this week’s theme. Try to say these three silly titles without smiling. Whether you smile or not, you should probably just keep reading these because it’s fun to play with language.

Read more and see all of the books on the list: https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/08/14/bestseller-spotlight-well-thats-just-silly/

Stay tuned this coming Thursday, to find out what this week’s bestsellers will have in common!
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.

09/08/2025

Happy and !! To celebrate both, has put together this amazing slideshow! 🩷🩷🩷
Be sure to check out your local indie bookstore today to see what they’ve got planned!

REPOST• It’s Bookstore Romance Day!😍 We’ve put together a slide of different tropes. See any of your favorites?
Don’t forget to check out for a fantastic sale!!

09/08/2025

Happy and Book Lovers Day!
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Be sure to check out the many love-themed events and giveaways happening today at your local Pacific Northwest indie bookstores!

03/07/2025

This week, every book in the Wild Robot series by author/illustrator , including the new picture book, made the Bestsellers List!

It reminded us that “Robots!” is one of the Book Bingo squares on this summer’s Kids’ Summer Book Bingo.

(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.)

https://nwbooklovers.org/2025/07/03/thursday-theme-a-wild-robot-sweep/

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

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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/

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