Two books by Bainbridge Island authors, Kristin Hannah’s “The Nightingale” and Jonathan Evison’s “This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!” have been included on the shortlist for the 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Awards by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.

Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula LeGuin, David James Duncan, David Guterson, Erik Larson, Chuck Palahniuk and Sherman Alexie.

The PNBA is a nonprofit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states — Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska — that produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free speech and author promotional vehicles.

The ultimate winners of the 2016 award were Megan Kruse’s “Call Me Home,” Brian Doyle’s “Children & Other Wild Animals,” Martha Brockenbrough’s “The Game of Love and Death,” Thor Hanson’s “The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History,” Patrick de Witt’s “Undermajordomo Minor” and Dana Simpson’s “Unicorn on a Roll: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure.”