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Northwest Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,735
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.86 — 195,954 ratings — published 1994
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.39 — 367,279 ratings — published 2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.87 — 605,530 ratings — published 2012
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,108 ratings — published 2003
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.05 — 287,283 ratings — published 2007
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 17 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,884 ratings — published 1990
Mink River (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,167 ratings — published 2010
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,423,186 ratings — published 2022
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.05 — 318,121 ratings — published 2009
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 878,896 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,421,325 ratings — published 2005
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.53 — 34,357 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.23 — 560,988 ratings — published 2008
Sometimes a Great Notion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.26 — 24,207 ratings — published 1964
The Highest Tide (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,876 ratings — published 2005
The Orchardist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.80 — 48,507 ratings — published 2012
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,756 ratings — published 2022
The Cold Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,151 ratings — published 2020
West of Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.37 — 2,866 ratings — published 2011
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,232 ratings — published 2014
Songs of Willow Frost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,885 ratings — published 2013
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,285 ratings — published 2011
Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,244 ratings — published 2011
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,668 ratings — published 2009
My Abandonment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,232 ratings — published 2009
Border Songs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,616 ratings — published 2009
Sons of the Profits or There's No Business Like Grow Business: The Seattle Story 1851-1901 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.49 — 717 ratings — published 1967
The Brothers K (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,232 ratings — published 1992
Our Lady of the Forest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.01 — 4,059 ratings — published 2003
East of the Mountains (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,487 ratings — published 1999
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,126 ratings — published 2019
The River Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,827 ratings — published 1983
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,501 ratings — published 2005
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.72 — 81,228 ratings — published 2007
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 694 ratings — published 1951
The Glass Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.69 — 199,658 ratings — published 2020
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,012 ratings — published 2016
Today Will Be Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.16 — 71,826 ratings — published 2016
The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,391 ratings — published 1945
Breaking Blue: A True Crime Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,495 ratings — published 1992
The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.13 — 92,075 ratings — published 1971
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,204 ratings — published 1989
The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,178 ratings — published 1961
Another Roadside Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,810 ratings — published 1971
Until Proven Guilty (J.P. Beaumont, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,295 ratings — published 1985
Reservation Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,310 ratings — published 1995
Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,897,492 ratings — published 2008
New Moon (Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,157,533 ratings — published 2006
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.55 — 40,335 ratings — published 2025
Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.22 — 19,738 ratings — published 2024
“Hating the Rain
She hates the ever-falling winter rain,
the gray and endless humidity
that bites to the bone and stings
even after the hot bath and stiff
struggle into bed and under the quilts,
but the winter ferns, and the way they
wave in a slight breeze as though happy
like grandmother’s lace curtains
can’t be abandoned or lived without.
She hates the endless dripping
like a clock ticking away life
and the heavy fog that swallows light
as though life itself were vanishing,
but the tree frogs with their songs
and their clinging to matching green
like family holding together
stitch her thoughts back to July picnics.
She hates her complaining voice
that discourages her children’s calls
and encourages their urgings that she
move, maybe to Florida citrus sun,
but gray day softness steeps her
patience and quiets her fear of loss
into something like gratitude
clinging like green to summer moss
and this she knows: she loves the rain.”
― How Many Words for Rain
She hates the ever-falling winter rain,
the gray and endless humidity
that bites to the bone and stings
even after the hot bath and stiff
struggle into bed and under the quilts,
but the winter ferns, and the way they
wave in a slight breeze as though happy
like grandmother’s lace curtains
can’t be abandoned or lived without.
She hates the endless dripping
like a clock ticking away life
and the heavy fog that swallows light
as though life itself were vanishing,
but the tree frogs with their songs
and their clinging to matching green
like family holding together
stitch her thoughts back to July picnics.
She hates her complaining voice
that discourages her children’s calls
and encourages their urgings that she
move, maybe to Florida citrus sun,
but gray day softness steeps her
patience and quiets her fear of loss
into something like gratitude
clinging like green to summer moss
and this she knows: she loves the rain.”
― How Many Words for Rain
“Blackpool is the Las Vegas of northwest England.”
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