54 books
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5 voters
Northwest Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,745
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.86 — 196,569 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 — 369,555 ratings — published 2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.87 — 608,393 ratings — published 2012
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,122 ratings — published 2003
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,110 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 — 2,910 ratings — published 1990
Mink River (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,228 ratings — published 2010
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.05 — 319,280 ratings — published 2009
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,525,123 ratings — published 2022
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.07 — 884,168 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,469,550 ratings — published 2005
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.53 — 34,435 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.23 — 564,208 ratings — published 2008
Sometimes a Great Notion (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.26 — 24,343 ratings — published 1964
The Highest Tide (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,923 ratings — published 2005
The Orchardist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.80 — 48,675 ratings — published 2012
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,786 ratings — published 2022
The Cold Millions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.95 — 21,358 ratings — published 2020
West of Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.37 — 2,871 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 — 13,427 ratings — published 2014
Songs of Willow Frost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,986 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 — 10,334 ratings — published 2011
Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.71 — 38,014 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 — 18,828 ratings — published 2009
My Abandonment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,269 ratings — published 2009
Border Songs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,622 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 — 720 ratings — published 1967
The Brothers K (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,355 ratings — published 1992
Our Lady of the Forest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.01 — 4,075 ratings — published 2003
East of the Mountains (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 8 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,568 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 — 115,889 ratings — published 2019
The River Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,916 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 — 13,754 ratings — published 2005
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.72 — 81,562 ratings — published 2007
Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.84 — 698 ratings — published 1951
The Glass Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,263 ratings — published 2020
Deep River (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,409 ratings — published 2019
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,070 ratings — published 2016
Today Will Be Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.16 — 72,256 ratings — published 2016
The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,438 ratings — published 1945
Breaking Blue: A True Crime Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,516 ratings — published 1992
The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 4.12 — 93,860 ratings — published 1971
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,764 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 — 3,232 ratings — published 1961
Another Roadside Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,882 ratings — published 1971
Until Proven Guilty (J.P. Beaumont, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,465 ratings — published 1985
Reservation Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,329 ratings — published 1995
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,907,557 ratings — published 2008
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,169,846 ratings — published 2006
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as northwest)
avg rating 3.55 — 43,287 ratings — published 2025
“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












