HOLIDAY BOOKFEST 2026

Phinney Neighborhood Center, Saturday, November 21, 2-4 pm

Come join us at the 17th edition of our neighborhood tradition: the Holiday Bookfest, where local readers get to meet more than two dozen local writers and purchase signed books for themselves and everyone on your holiday shopping list. Our wonderful lineup includes fiction and nonfiction, cookbooks, picture books, and more. It’s two fun and fairly frenzied hours that bring Seattle’s fabulous readers together with some of Seattle’s most beloved writers.

Along with the author signings, a selection of authors will be reading from their books. We at Phinney Books will be handling book sales, and a portion of the day's sales will be donated to our nonprofit partners, the Bureau of Fearless Ideas and the Phinney Neighborhood Association.

This Year’s Author Lineup

We have 27 local authors scheduled to join us at the 2026 Holiday Bookfest, some familiar faces from Fests past, and some making their first appearances. All authors will be signing books in Room 7, upstairs at the PNA, for the full two hours (unless they step away for a scheduled reading in our reading room across the hall):

Fiction:

Dane Bahr, Dave Boling, Laurie Frankel, Kim Fu, Elizabeth George, David Guterson, Moira Macdonald, Alexandra Oliva, Lucy Tan, Neena Viel, Siamak Vossoughi

Nonfiction:

Matthew Broussard, Claudia Castro Luna, Paul De Barros, Maria Dolan and Kathryn True, Natalie Hammerquist, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Peter Hendrickson, Evelyn Iritani, Ken Jennings, Tamiko Nimura, Steven Reddy, Kristen Millares Young

Kids’ Books:

Tom Crestodina, Nikki McClure, Keith Negley