Bestsellers - wk ending 5/22/05

Bestsellers in the Pacific Northwest

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 aren?t books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest. Week ending May 22, 2005

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
2. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Closers, Michael Connelly
4. Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk (available on northwest-books.com)
5. Zorro, Isabel Allende
6. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
7. True Believer, Nicholas Sparks
8. Saturday, Ian McEwan
9. Acts of Faith, Philip Caputo
10. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
2. French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
3. You: The Owner's Manual, Michael F. Roizen, et al.
4. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
5. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
6. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
7. Collapse, Jared Diamond
8. Plan B, Anne Lamott
9. Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl
10. Against Depression, Peter D. Kramer

MASS MARKET

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. R Is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton
4. Doctored Evidence, Donna Leon
5. The Enemy, Lee Child
6. Pyro, Earl W. Emerson (available on northwest-books.com)
7. Just One Look, Harlan Coben
8. Liars & Thieves, Stephen Coonts
9. Sleeping Beauty, Phillip Margolin
10. Deception Point, Dan Brown

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
2. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), Eoin Colfer
3. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (available on northwest-books.com)
4. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
5. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
6. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
7. The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
8. Runny Babbit, Shel Silverstein
9. Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles, Book One), Suzanne Collins
10. Dragonology Handbook, Ernest Drake