Alaska

Sue Harrison, Song of the River. Fiction
In the 7th century B.C., an Aleutian storyteller sets out on a journey across the frozen wastes to discover the truth about his people and his past.

Sue Henry, Murder on the Iditarod Trail. Mys
An Alaskan State Trooper investigates when top dog sledders start dying in mysterious and gruesome ways during the grueling Iditarod race.

Stan Jones, White Sky, Black Ice. Mystery
A native Alaskan state trooper comes to understand his heritage as he investigates suicides that may be the result of a shaman’s curse.

Kimberly Kafka, True North. Fiction
A woman who became a bush pilot in hopes of solitude is drawn into conflict and violence when a couple hires her for a wilderness adventure.

Jack London, The Call of the Wild. Fiction
A family dog learns to survive when he’s stolen and sent to the Klondike to become a sled dog.

Richard Parry, The Winter Wolf. Fiction
Wyatt Earp heads north for the Klondike gold rush not realizing he’s being stalked by a son he never knew he had.

Marcia Simpson, Crow in Stolen Colors. Mystery
A librarian delivering books by boat along Alaska’s coast discovers a nearly drowned boy who’s being hunted by killers.

Dana Stabenow, Breakup. Mystery
During the Alaskan spring thaw, a corpse is uncovered near Kate Shugak’s homestead.

John Straley, Cold Water Burning. Mystery
As a storm bears down on the Alaskan coast, a P.I. seeks a missing man who was accused of killing four people on a boat three years earlier.

California

Diane Abu-Jaber, Crescent. Fiction
An Iraqi-American woman works in a Los Angeles café frequented by other Arab-Americans.

Beverly Bloomberg, The Last Hollywood Romance. Fiction
Two writers paired to script a new sitcom are plagued with a paranoid director, a spoiled star, and network politics.

T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain. Fiction
The lives of a wealthy suburban couple and an illegal immigrant couple intersect after a chance encounter with harrowing results.

Leslie Brenner, Greetings from the Golden State. Fiction
Three decades in the lives of a quirky family in West Hollywood and Van Nuys.

Jan Burke, Bones. Mystery
A serial killer agrees to lead authorities to the body one of his victims in the Sierra Nevada but he has deadly surprises in store for them.

Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem. Mystery
An ex-cop investigates the death of a former lover—who was the daughter of an influential Hispanic politician—but he soon becomes a suspect.

Charlotte Freeman, Place Last Seen. Fiction
A family is devastated when their six-year-daughter who has Down syndrome disappears in the Sierra Nevada woods.

Eileen Goudge, Stranger in Paradise. Fiction
In the sleepy town of Carson Springs near Santa Barbara, a widow shocks her daughters by having an affair with a younger man.

Jean Hegland, Into the Forest. Fiction
Two sisters survive in the redwood forests of Northern California when civilization collapses and resources become scarce.

Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City. Fiction
A collection of interlocked stories about the residents of a San Francisco apartment building.

Marcia Muller, Point Deception. Mystery
Haunted by the memory of the massacre of a family that she investigated as a rookie, Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift fears the killer has returned.

Fae Ng, Bone. Fiction
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, a family strives to achieve their dreams but they are torn apart by tragedy.

Perri O’Shaughnessy, Acts of Malice. Fiction
Nina Reilly takes on the case of a man charged with killing his brother on the slopes of a Lake Tahoe ski resort owned by their family.

John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat. Fiction
The exploits of a group of Mexican Americans living on the Monterey Peninsula.

Hawaii

Deborah Atkinson, Primitive Secrets. Mystery
When strange accidents begin to plague her, a woman wonders whether her uncle’s supposedly natural death was murder.

Pamela Ball, The Floating City. Fiction
In 1895, a European woman living in Hawaii under an assumed name is drawn into a web of intrigue when she discovers a body that then disappears.

Kiana Davenport, Shark Dialogues. Fiction
Four young women are called together by their grandmother to learn the story of their family against the backdrop of the history of Hawaii.

James Houston, The Last Paradise. Fiction
A Vietnam vet is reunited with his first love when he goes to Hawaii to investigate a fire at the site of geothermal excavations near volcanic lava fields.

Paul Theroux, Hotel Honolulu. Fiction
A millionaire hires a has-been writer to manage a seedy Honolulu hotel.

Kathleen Tyau, Makai. Fiction
When her friend returns from the mainland for the first time in 30 years, a Chinese-Hawaiian woman recalls their friendship and romantic rivalries around the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers. Fiction
A Japanese-American girl growing up in Hawaii in the 1970s is torn between cultures.

Oregon

Jayne Ann Krentz, Eclipse Bay. Romance
When a woman inherits a house on the Oregon coast with a man she once saved from prison, they must solve an old crime.

Craig Lesley, The Sky Fisherman. Fiction
A teenager and his mother return to the river town where his father drowned in unexplained circumstances.

Phillip Margolin, Ties That Bind. Fiction
A Portland attorney’s client—who’s accused of killing a U.S. Senator—claims to have knowledge of a secret political cadre.

Kate Wilhelm, The Deepest Water. Fiction
When a best-selling author is murdered in his cabin in the woods, his daughter looks for clues to his killer in the manuscript he was working on.

M. K. Wren, Oh, Bury Me Not. Mystery
Bookstore owner Conan Flagg is invited to a friend’s ranch in eastern Oregon, where a feud with neighbors turns deadly.

Washington

Annie Dillard, The Living. Fiction
The inhabitants of a frontier town on Bellingham Bay near Puget Sound struggle to survive.

Earl Emerson, Deviant Behavior. Mystery
P.I. Thomas Black’s hunt for a missing privileged teenager takes him to Seattle’s Chinatown.

G. M. Ford, Black River. Mystery
A Seattle crime writer attends the trial of a Russian mobster whose shoddy building practices may have caused a children’s hospital to collapse.

Molly Gloss, Wild Life. Fiction
In 1905, a woman living near the Columbia River encounters strange humanoid creatures in the woods when she joins the search for a missing girl.

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars. Fiction
On an island in Puget Sound in 1954, a reporter covering the murder trial of a Japanese-American fisherman confronts the townspeople’s prejudice and his own feelings for the for defendant’s wife.

Kristin Hannah, Summer Island. Fiction
When a failing comedian is offered a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother—a national advice guru who abandoned her family—she agrees and heads for the family home in the San Juan islands.

Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley. Fiction
In 1939, the illegitimate daughter of a prominent businessman and his secretary is sent to a progressive girls’ school on a Puget Sound island.

Skye Moody, K Falls. Mystery
A U.S. Fish & Wildlife agent investigates bombings of dams on the Columbia River by ecoterrorists.

Ridley Pearson, Middle of Nowhere. Fiction
Seattle detective Lou Boldt thinks an assault on a fellow officer may be connected to a police strike.