Recent Award Winners

The Cold Millions: A Novel (Paperback)

By Jess Walter

$17.00

ISBN: 9780062868091

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Published: Harper Perennial - October 5th, 2021

2021 Washington State Book Awards: Fiction. More information here.

Piranesi (Paperback)

By Susanna Clarke

$17.00

ISBN: 9781635577808

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 28th, 2021

2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Winner!

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Mexican Gothic (Paperback)

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

$17.00

ISBN: 9780525620808

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Published: Del Rey - June 15th, 2021

2021 Winner Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards.

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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! (Paperback)

By Sarah Kapit

$8.99

ISBN: 9780525554196

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Published: Dial Books - June 8th, 2021

2021 Washington State Book Awards: Books for Young Readers. More information here.

Hamnet (Paperback)

By Maggie O'Farrell

$16.95

ISBN: 9781984898876

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Published: Vintage - May 18th, 2021

3/25/2021: The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Fiction.
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9/9/2020: 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honouring fiction written by women.
Founded in 1996, the Prize was set up to celebrate originality, accessibility & excellence in writing by women and to connect world-class writers with readers everywhere. All kinds of information, here.

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel Cover Image

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel (Paperback)

By Deepa Anappara

$18.00

ISBN: 9780593129289

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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 11th, 2021

2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner: Best Novel.

Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic Cover Image

Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (Paperback)

By Eric Eyre

$17.00

ISBN: 9781982105327

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Published: Scribner - April 6th, 2021

2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner: Best Fact Crime.

The Night Watchman: A Novel (Paperback)

By Louise Erdrich

$18.00

ISBN: 9780062671196

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Published: Harper Perennial - March 23rd, 2021

2021 Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction.

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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Paperback)

By Cathy Park Hong

$18.00

ISBN: 9781984820389

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Published: One World - March 2nd, 2021

2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist in General Nonfiction.
2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Autobiography.

What I Carry (Paperback)

By Jennifer Longo

$9.99

ISBN: 9780553537741

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Published: Ember - January 26th, 2021

2021 Washington State Book Awards: Young Adult Literature. More information here.

Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Cover Image

Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (Paperback)

By David Zucchino

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ISBN: 9780802148650

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Published: Grove Press - January 19th, 2021

2021 Pulitzer Prize winner in General Nonfiction.

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The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Paperback)

By E. J. Koh

$16.95

ISBN: 9781951142278

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Published: Tin House Books - January 19th, 2021

2021 Washington State Book Awards: Biography/Memoir. More information here.

2021 Winner Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards.

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Paperback)

By Marcia Chatelain

$18.95

ISBN: 9781631498701

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Published: Liveright - January 19th, 2021

2021 Pulitzer Prize winner in History.

Think Black: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Clyde W. Ford

$16.99
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ISBN: 9780062890573

Published: Amistad - December 8th, 2020

2021 Washington State Book Awards: Creative Nonfiction. More information here.

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover Image

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Charles Yu

$16.00

ISBN: 9780307948472

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Published: Vintage - November 17th, 2020

2020 National Book Award for Fiction.

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Hardcover)

By Les Payne, Tamara Payne

$35.00

ISBN: 9781631491665

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Published: Liveright - October 20th, 2020

2021 Pulitzer Prize winner in Biography.
2020 National Book Award for NonFiction.

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Paperback)

By Les Payne, Tamara Payne

$21.95

ISBN: 9781324091059

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Published: Liveright - October 19th, 2021

2021 Pulitzer Prize winner in Biography.
2020 National Book Award for NonFiction.

Please See Us (Paperback)

By Caitlin Mullen

$16.99

ISBN: 9781982127497

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Published: Gallery Books - October 13th, 2020

2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner: Best First Novel by an American Author.

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Cover Image

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) (Paperback)

By Douglas Stuart

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ISBN: 9780802148506

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Published: Grove Press - October 13th, 2020

2020 Booker Prize winner.

Washington Post review here.

Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1) Cover Image

Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1) (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth C. Bunce

$17.95

ISBN: 9781616209186

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Published: Algonquin Young Readers - October 6th, 2020

2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner: Best Juvenile.

rough house: a memoir (Paperback)

By Tina Ontiveros

$18.95

ISBN: 9780870710339

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Published: Oregon State University Press - September 30th, 2020

2021 Winner Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards.

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The Awkward Black Man (Hardcover)

By Walter Mosley

$26.00

ISBN: 9780802149565

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Published: Grove Press - September 15th, 2020

2020 National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a lifetime achievement award: Walter Mosley.

Lupe Wong Won't Dance (Hardcover)

By Donna Barba Higuera

$17.99

ISBN: 9781646140039

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Published: Levine Querido - September 8th, 2020

2021 Winner Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards.

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Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 Cover Image

Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 (Paperback)

By Jennifer Haupt (Editor), Garth Stein, Jenna Blum, Kwame Alexander

$16.99

ISBN: 9781771682282

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Published: Central Avenue Publishing - September 1st, 2020

2021 Washington State Book Awards: General Nonfiction. More information here.

Cemetery Boys (Hardcover)

By Aiden Thomas

$17.99

ISBN: 9781250250469

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Published: Swoon Reads - September 1st, 2020

2021 Winner Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards.

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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Cover Image

When No One Is Watching: A Thriller (Paperback)

By Alyssa Cole

$16.99

ISBN: 9780062982650

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - September 1st, 2020

2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner: Best Paperback Original.

The Companion (Hardcover)

By Katie Alender

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ISBN: 9780399545917

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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - August 25th, 2020

2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner: Best Young Adult.

The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne: A Mystery Cover Image

The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne: A Mystery (Hardcover)

By Elsa Hart

$26.99

ISBN: 9781250142818

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Published: Minotaur Books - August 4th, 2020

Winner 2021 The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award. Mystery Writers of America.

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: The winner will be selected by a Special MWA Committee for the book most closely written in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition according to guidelines set forth by Mary Higgins Clark. Award is given by Simon & Schuster.

The protagonist is a nice young woman whose life is suddenly invaded.

She’s self-made and independent, with primarily good family relationships.

She has an interesting job.

She is not looking for trouble–she is doing exactly what she should be doing and something cuts across her bow.

She solves her problem by her own courage and intelligence.

The story has no on-scene violence

The story has no strong four-letter words or explicit sex scenes.

Luster: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Raven Leilani

$26.00

ISBN: 9780374194321

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 4th, 2020

The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: The John Leonard First Book Prize

Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems Cover Image

Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems (Hardcover)

By francine j. harris

$25.00

ISBN: 9780374168841

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 4th, 2020

The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Poetry.

This Is My America (Hardcover)

By Kim Johnson

$17.99

ISBN: 9780593118764

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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers - July 28th, 2020

2021 Winner Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards.

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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Cover Image

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Hardcover)

By Amy Stanley

$28.00

ISBN: 9781501188527

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Published: Scribner - July 14th, 2020

The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Biography.

A Prayer for Travelers: A Novel Cover Image

A Prayer for Travelers: A Novel (Paperback)

By Ruchika Tomar

$17.00
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ISBN: 9780525537021

Published: Riverhead Books - July 7th, 2020

2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for best debut novel, honoring books published in 2019.

Tokyo Ueno Station: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Yu Miri

$25.00

ISBN: 9780593088029

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Published: Riverhead Books - June 23rd, 2020

2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery (A Vera Kelly Story #2) Cover Image

Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery (A Vera Kelly Story #2) (Paperback)

By Rosalie Knecht

$15.95

ISBN: 9781947793798

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Published: Tin House Books - June 16th, 2020

Edgars.
Winner 2021 G. P. Putnams' Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award. Mystery Writers of America.

Honoring the Best Novel in a Series featuring a female protagonist that also has the hallmarks of Sue’s writing and Kinsey’s character: a woman with quirks but also with a sense of herself, with empathy but also with savvy, intelligence, and wit.