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THIRD PLACE BOOKS (SEATTLE)
Ravenna location:
Patti Harriman: The Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard · The Bell Weather, Dennis Mahoney · The Hollow Boy, Jonathan Stroud · The Curious Kid’s Science Book, Asia Citro · What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night, Refe Tuma
Alex Gholz: Dead Boys, Gabriel Squalia · Just So Happens, Fumio Obata · The Thrilling Adventure of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua · Utopia of Rules, David Graeber · Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins
Emily Mclean: Miss Hazeltine’s Home for Shy and Fearful Cats, Alicia Potter · The Thing About Jellyfish, Ali Benjamin · Bernice Gets Carried Away, Hannah Harrison · Little Elliot, Big Family, Mike Curato · The Culintary Cyclist, Anna Brones
Mark Bonney: Do No Harm, Henry Marsh · Wondering Who You Are, Sonya Lea · Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates · The Harder They Come, T.C. Boyle · The Things We Don’t Do, Andres Neuman
Christina Bearer: The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisen · A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara · Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie · Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell · God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
Michael Coy: Call My Home, Megan Kruse · Finding Winnie, Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall · Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg · Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf · Undermajordomo Minor, Patrick deWitt
Lake Forest Park location:
Anje Monte Calvo: Eileen, Otessa Moshfegh · Selfish, Shallow, and Self Absorbed, Megan Daum · Imperial Radch Trilogy, Ann Leckie · After Birth, Elisa Albert · A Little Life, Nahya Yanagihara
Nicole Cosgrove: Lenny and Lucy, Phillip K Stead · One Word from Sophia, Jim Averbeck
Chelsea Mills: Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac, Sharma Shields · Act of God, Jill Ciment · The Captive Condition, Kevin P. Keating · Unabrow, Una Lamarche · Where Women Are Kings, Christie Watson
Wesley Minter: The Folded Clock, Heidi Julavits · Eve’s Hollywood, Eve Babitz · Blackout, Sarah Hepola · Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso · Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh
Eric McDaniel: Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates · My Documents, Alejandro Zambra · Genoa, Paul Metcalf · The New and Improved Romie Futch, Julia Elliott · Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli
Emily Adams: Pieces of My Mother, Melissa Cistaro · Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg · Language Arts, Stephanie Kallos · The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi · Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss
Lish McBride: Lumberjanes, Noelle Stevenson · Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer, Kelly Jones · Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo · Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson · The Game of Love and Death, Martha Brockenbrough
Rich Harriman: The Devils Detective, Simon Unsworth · Good News About What’s Bad for You, Bad News About What’s Good for You, Jeff Wilser · Three Moments of an Explosion, China Mieville · The Hammer and the Blade, Paul Kemp · The Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe
Patti Johnson: Bug on a Bike, Chris Monroe · Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer, Kelly Jones · Wild About Shapes, Jeremie Fischer · 60 Quick Cowls, Sixth and Spring · Noro Lace, Sixth and Spring
Kalani Kapahua: Last Words from Montmartre, Qiu Miaojin · Katherine Carlyle, Rupert Thomson · Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates · Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera · The Sellout, Paul Beatty
Erin Ball: Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso · Barefoot Dogs, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho · A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara · Not Dark Yet, Berit Ellingsen · Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
Lizzie Kittle: The Day No One Was Angry, Toon Tellegen · A Reunion of Ghosts, Judith Mitchell · In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware · H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald · This is Sadie, Sarah O’Leary