Pacific Northwest Bestsellers

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and PNBA, for the week ended Sunday, December 5, 2004. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense. Find many of these books through northwest-books.com.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
2. The Stupidest Angel, Christopher Moore
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
5. A Salty Piece of Land, Jimmy Buffett
6. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
7. The Final Solution, Michael Chabon
8. The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith
9. I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
10. Runaway, Alice Munro

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. America (The Book), Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Staff
2. Chronicles, Bob Dylan
3. Little Book of Snowflakes, Kenneth Libbrecht
4. What's the Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank
5. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
6. The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, Robert Mankoff (Ed.)
7. His Excellency, Joseph J. Ellis
8. Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt
9. He's Just Not That Into You, Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
10. The Perricone Promise, Nicholas Perricone, M.D.

MASS MARKET

1. The Sinister Pig, Tony Hillerman
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. Kiss Me, Kill Me, Ann Rule
4. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
5. Pompeii, Robert Harris
6. Skipping Christmas, John Grisham
7. Trojan Odyssey, Clive Cussler
8. Deception Point, Dan Brown
9. DVD & Video Guide 2005, Mick Martin, Marsha Porter
10. 1984, George Orwell

CHILDREN'S FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED

1. The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
2. The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events #11), Lemony Snicket
3. Dragon Rider, Cornelia Funke
4. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
5. The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events #3), Lemony Snicket
6. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
7. Dragonology, Ernest Drake, Helen Ward (Illus.), Douglas Carrel (Illus.)
8. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
9. Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
10. Egyptology, Emily Sands, Nick Harris (Illus.)