Northwest Bestsellers - week ending April 24, 2005

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense. Most of these books arenā??t books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest. Week ending April 24, 2005

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
2. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. Saturday, Ian McEwan
5. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
6. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
7. Ya-Yas in Bloom, Rebecca Wells
8. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Sight Hound, Pam Houston
10. True Believer, Nicholas Sparks

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
2. My Life So Far, Jane Fonda
3. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
4. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
5. Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
6. Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl
7. Collapse, Jared Diamond
8. Plan B, Anne Lamott
9. God's Politics, Jim Wallis
10. And One More Thing Before You Go..., Maria Shriver

MASS MARKET

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. R Is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton
4. The Bookman's Promise, John Dunning
5. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
6. The Shifting Tide, Anne Perry
7. Guardian of the Horizon, Elizabeth Peters
8. The Game, Laurie R. King
9. Deception Point, Dan Brown
10. The Narrows, Michael Connelly

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), Eoin Colfer
2. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
3. Runny Babbit, Shel Silverstein
4. Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons, Ernest Drake
5. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
6. Because of Winn-Dixie,Kate DiCamillo
7. Girls in Pants, Ann Brashares
8. Dragonology, Ernest Drake, Helen Ward (Illus.), Douglas Carrel (Illus.)
9. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
10. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares