4.22 avg rating — 82 ratings

"A story of a fisherman based in Seattle"

4.39 avg rating — 360,992 ratings

"Story of UW crew team From Next 5 librarian:focuses on the University of Washington's men's rowing team, and their quest to make the Olympic team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Brown, however, manages to fold in so much more detail on the Seattle of that era! Parallel to the story of the team, he tells the personal history of one of its members, Joe Rantz, and his life growing up on the Olympic Peninsula and Idaho, so the reader really gets the sense of what this region was like from 1915-1935.
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3.86 avg rating — 194,189 ratings

"Set on "San Piedro Island", but it's really Bainbridge, just west of downtown Seattle. Murder mystery, the repercussions of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII."

4.05 avg rating — 314,966 ratings

"A lovely romance set in Seattle's International District. The tragic history of the Japanese Internment is the backstory. Did you know that this neighborhood was the center of the jazz music scene in Seattle before and during WWII?"

3.48 avg rating — 708 ratings

"A Seattle history classic. Anyone who has been on the Underground tour in Seattle knows about this book."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,344 ratings

"Haven't read it yet, but sounds fascinating. Also, a good suspense story."

4.01 avg rating — 1,470 ratings

"Not sure if this works here, but I do know the Yukon Gold rush was a critical factor in establishing Seattle - Nordstrom and Bartell both were founded during this time because Seattle was the last American city before crossing the Canadian border. The Canadians required prospectors to cross the border with a minimum of equipment for survival in the harsh environment of the Yukon."

3.80 avg rating — 769 ratings

"Can't ignore the Columbia!"

4.23 avg rating — 407 ratings

"The spotted owl controversy."

4.06 avg rating — 284,710 ratings

"Read this out to my younger son when he was in 5th grade. Not for the faint of heart but Alexie has written a remarkable character and from a perspective we rarely get to hear. Alexie is a local fixture, writer and hero."

4.05 avg rating — 3,053 ratings

"This book takes place up in BC, but is an unforgettable read. I read it on our annual summer cruise to the San Juans/Gulf Islands. I was feeling whiney that day about the lack of creature comforts but was brought up short by this woman, her five kids and her pioneer spirit (dinner was caught with a bent pin; during one fishing event, she had to rescue her children from a bear)"

3.85 avg rating — 168 ratings

"A memoir of life on Patos Island in the San Juans. Patos is as remote today as it was then; I can't imagine raising a family there."

3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings

"The reason San Juan Island has American Camp and British Camp
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3.50 avg rating — 32 ratings

"A YA book that could be a fun read."

4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings

"What book list of Seattle history would be complete without the Space Needle?
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3.01 avg rating — 136 ratings

3.84 avg rating — 674 ratings

"from next 5 librarian: a story of Seattle during its first 100 years told through the lives of its early settlers; it's informative with lots of style and some sharp wit."

3.34 avg rating — 1,677 ratings

"From Next 5 librarian: features a storyline which jumps from 2001 Seattle to the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. In a review, Library Journal wrote that "Lynch uses the World's Fair effectively as an entertaining atmosphere, introducing futurist thinking and bedazzling technologies, while illustrating the concealed, darker political moves that often push a city forward." Lynch, a former reporter for both the Seattle Times and the Oregonian, has written a number of novels set Seattle and the Pacific Northwest that are worth checking out (The Highest Tide would be another good place to start)."

3.77 avg rating — 148 ratings

"from Next 5 librarian: set in Seattle in the wake of the Alaska Gold Rush, and focuses on character Maddie Ingram and the tenants of her boarding house at the dramatic moment of the Denny Hill re-grade. A significant historical moment, well dramatized."

3.84 avg rating — 342 ratings

"The final book on your list brings us nearly up to present day: How the Mistakes Were Made by Tyler McMahon does a great job of recreating the feel of the Seattle music scene in the 1980s and 90s."

3.88 avg rating — 10,267 ratings

"about living on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington in the 30's and 40's."

3.85 avg rating — 7,793 ratings