There is so much to love about the Pacific Northwest. Of course we love the rain and the forests, but maybe most of all: we love our local authors. We thought it would be fun to celebrate this writerly ecosystem by putting a selection of books by local authors on sale. On this list, you’ll find stories about music and beauty, haunted houses and the wilderness. There are historic epics, mysteries, romances… Everything you could possibly ask for! And all locally grown. For a limited time, select books are 20% off.
Offer good on new and used copies of select titles, in the featured edition only.
Kesha Ajọsẹ Fisher
“No God Like the Mother is the sort of story collection that comes along very rarely — honest, precise, and meticulous in its emotional and physical detail. These globe-spanning stories — so often set at the intersection of nurture and abandonment, of intimacy and great emptying distance — are each a pristine act of storytelling, an immersion. Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher is a brilliant new talent, and No God Like the Mother the beginning of an equally brilliant literary career.” – Omar El Akkad
Juhea Kim
“Juhea Kim’s sweeping debut is pure reading pleasure. Rapturous, ravishing, and gorgeously rendered, Beasts of a Little Land is a portal to a whole world teeming with life, so full of wonders I wanted it never to end.” – Catherine Chung
Ling Ling Huang
“A surreal, dreamlike thriller where art and darkness are woven together in unexpected ways. The main character is tortured and brilliant, and possesses immense appeal and heartbreak. The cinematic storytelling shows what happens when businesses trade on the most extreme levels of human desires. Gripping!” – Frances Cha
Jon Raymond
“I haven’t read anything like this before. Jon Raymond has taken climate fiction in a new and exciting direction. In this post-apocalyptic world, the apocalypse itself has receded and the strange, maddening work of climate reparations has begun. This exhilarating novel is as fast-paced as a thriller, but the mystery at the heart of it is not who committed the crime but how to live in its eerie aftermath.” – Jenny Offill
Fonda Lee
“Fonda Lee weaves an enchanted world of giant majestic birds, those who would bond with them, and the terrifying monsters they must pursue. In this beautifully spun tale, a woman driven by loss and the pursuit of justice will be tested by the limits of her endurance, and how much she is willing to sacrifice.” – P. Djèlí Clark
Jonathan Evison
“This is more than a sprawling, big-hearted, blue-collar novel, it’s a Dickensian saga on a grand American scale, filled with beauty and violence, tragedy and redemption. This is the kind of historical fiction that keeps you up all night, burning in your veins like kerosene.” – Jamie Ford
Kevin Maloney
“The Red-Headed Pilgrim is a revelation that achieves starry dynamo-level energy from the jump. Maloney’s prose is sharp and vivid, full of trippy precision, and his story is funny, wild, painful and wise. When the road of On the Road runs into shattered middle age, this book is waiting for you.” – Sam Lipsyte
Jules Ohman
“Body Grammar is gorgeously written; it’s chic, vivid, and glittering. It’s also sticky with big truths and stinging heartaches. Jules Ohman is a real talent.” – Jami Attenberg
Lydia Kiesling
“The Golden State is a perfect evocation of the beautiful, strange, frightening, funny territory of new motherhood. Lydia Kiesling writes with great intelligence and candor about the surreal topography of a day with an infant, and toggles skillfully between the landscape of Daphne’s interior and the California desert, her postpartum body and the body politic. A love story for our fractured era.” – Karen Russell
Sonora Jha
“Sonora Jha expertly inhabits the perspective of a man so terrified of the old world slipping away, he can’t see the ground shifting beneath his feet. A deliciously sharp, mercilessly perceptive exploration of power, The Laughter explores how ‘otherness’ is both fetishized and demonized, and what it means to love something — a person, a country — that does not love you back.” – Celeste Ng
Willy Vlautin
“Remarkable, real, and tender, The Night Always Comes is a story of America, of the disenfranchised and the still hopeful, of a world littered with artifacts and so little opportunity. Willy Vlautin’s characters blaze with honesty, fighting for their slim chance at the American dream, leaving us to wonder if it was all a charade. An amazing achievement.” – Rene Denfeld
Emme Lund
“Lund has created a fable for our age: a modern coming of age full of love, desperation, heartache and magic. An honest celebration of life and everything we need right now in a book.” – Andrew Sean Greer
Omar El Akkad
“It is one thing to put a human face on a migrant crisis and another to do so in so compelling a way that a reader simply cannot put your book down. I read this in one sitting, my heart pounding the whole way — in a strange paradise, you might say. Marvelous.” – Gish Jen
Peter Rock
“An eerie account of the attempted reconciliation between an estranged father and daughter...Rock draws on the mountain scenery to create a surreal atmosphere, culminating in a haunting scene of disaster.” – Publishers Weekly
Anita Kelly
“A heart-tugging triumph! Every step Ben and Alexei take on the Pacific Coast Trail reverberates with vulnerability, adventure, and sweaty, crackling tension. Something Wild & Wonderful is the rare romance where the characters feel like new friends and also kindred souls you’ve known your whole life. Kelly never fails to bring the perfect combination of humor, swoons, and grounded emotion.” – Timothy Janovsky
Karelia Stetz-Waters
“Stetz-Waters balances humor with a touch of charming satire; the words sweet and earnest are just the start to describing this slow-burn romance. A delight from start to finish.” – Kirkus Reviews
Sarah Hawley
“Whimsically sexy, charmingly romantic, and magically hilarious. This book put a spell on me and bewitched me, body and soul!” – Ali Hazelwood
Scotto Moore
“Throughout this sprawling, ambitious romp, Moore draws from numerous perspectives and gleefully embraces the inherent absurdity of both setting and premise... Readers are in for a rollicking trip through the fun house.” – Publishers Weekly
Kimberly King Parsons
“The bad-ass gals in these terrific stories are all attitude, and as funny and appealing in their imperfection and thwarted desire as you’ll find in any fiction out there. Parsons opens and ends stories brilliantly. I just finished this book, and I’m going to read it again right away.” – Amy Hempel
Morgan Thomas
“Morgan Thomas is an artist of landscape, from the humid peculiarities of the American South, to the bodies and imaginations of these urgent, searching characters. I was awed by the kinetic, alive, innovative, and spell-casting stories in Manywhere, a debut collection that reads like an magnum opus.” – Laura van den Berg
Taylor Koekkoek
“A rip-roaring ride. Koekkoek delivers thrills and laughter-inducing shocks of insight via electric prose and some of the most unpredictable characters in literature. Hands down the sharpest sentences I’ve read in years. Thrillville, USA is storytelling at its finest.” – Jonathan Escoffery
Roxana Arama
“With an empathetic hand, Roxana Arama brings characters to life by weaving the alarming injustice of the immigrant struggle into a gritty, page-turning plot. A bold, thrilling story.” – Karen Hugg
Kate Alice Marshall
“Utterly riveting. What Lies in the Woods is a stunner — dark, unflinching, and as twisty and sharp as a tangle of thorns.” – Riley Sager
Chelsea Bieker
“Heartbroke made me feel as though I were watching a great dancer who has gone really deep into the music, all vitality and grace and a sense of dazzling risk. Chelsea Bieker is an absolutely crackling talent.” – Lauren Groff
Leni Zumas
“Move over Atwood, Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks is a gender roaring tour de force. The bodies of women in Red Clocks are each the site of resistance and revolution. I screamed out loud. I pumped my fist in the air. And I remembered how hope is forged from the ground up, through the bodies of women who won’t be buried.” – Lidia Yuknavitch
Waka T. Brown
“Annie’s voice is so sweet, charming, and absorbingly addictive. I was mesmerized by her story, her troubles, and all of her dreams. I wish the book had never ended, but I know that she’ll stick with me long after the last pages.” – Van Hoang
Martha Freeman
“A delightful mystery that will lure in young sleuths.” – Kirkus Reviews
J. C. Geiger
“J.C. Geiger’s The Great Big One is a love song to the people and places that define us, a punk rock anthem of adolescence — a sweeping symphony that picks the reader up like a powerful wave and carries them away in its pages. It is beautiful, dangerous (as all good literature should be), and perhaps most importantly, a challenge to embrace the mysterious.” – Bryan Bliss
Megan Paasch
“Dream to Me is an enchanting and ensnaring gift from a fresh voice in YA. Equal parts grief and magic, Paasch’s writing will cradle you close, leaving you both hurt and healed.” – Courtney Gould
Kelly McWilliams
“Steeped in atmosphere, equal parts ghost and sororal love story, McWilliams has written a pitch-perfect southern gothic thriller about race, family, and what it means to call a place home.” – Christina Hammonds Reed
Renée Watson
“One of the most radical things a Black girl can do is know that she is both worthy of love and deserving of joy. In Love Is a Revolution, Watson takes us on Nala’s journey to claim her right to decide who she wants to be in a world that so often tries to fit Black girls into metaphorical boxes. It is deftly crafted, big-hearted, beautiful, funny, honest, and inspiring.” – Nicola Yoon
Amy Zhang
“This arresting, heartbreaking, and meditative novel examines the desperation of anxiety and shows how, though difficult, gaining control of one’s life can lead both to living one’s best life and living life the best one can.” – Booklist (starred review)
Ripley Jones
“Missing Clarissa is a sharp, smart, compelling read. Ripley Jones has written a fascinating mystery that never lets the reader forget the people at its heart. A keen look at true crime and the ripples that absence leaves. I devoured this book.” – Kat Howard
April Henry
“Suspense, intrigue, and isolation converge in this perfect storm of a thriller.” – Mindy McGinnis
Tracy Subisak
“A sensitive, gracefully wrought portrait of compassion.” – Publishers Weekly
Breena Bard
“With its bright summer-in-the-woods palette, this graphic novel offers a lively story of mischief gone awry... Adventure seekers will enjoy the outdoorsy antics, while genre lovers will appreciate the mystery within a mystery plotline.” – Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Jonathan Case
“This graphic novel packs a punch, expertly balancing science fiction with the looming environmental crisis, highlighting the delicate balance of every aspect of our planet’s relationship with the sun and our ecosystem.” – School Library Journal
Susan Hill Long
“...an honest, accessibly written look at family and the challenges of loving people who may prove hurtful, one that’s both raw and warm in its compassionate telling.” – Publishers Weekly
Zoey Abbott
“A cautionary tale about overreliance on devices that’s sure to be the apple of many readers’ eyes.” – Kirkus Reviews
Dane Liu and Lynn Scurfield
“At once culturally nuanced and universally heartfelt, this picture book debut will resonate with anyone who has ever had to leave a friend behind — and managed to make a new one.” – Publishers Weekly