Northwest Bestsellers - week ending May 1, 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 Sunday, May 1, 2005

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. Ya-Yas in Bloom, Rebecca Wells
5. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Saturday, Ian McEwan
7. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
8. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
9. The Innocent, Harlan Coben
10. Citizen Vince, Jess Walter (order from northwest-books.com)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

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 South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
5. Pyro, Earl W. Emerson (order from northwest-books.com)
6. The Romanov Prophecy, Steve Berry
7. Brimstone, Douglas Preston
8. The Taking, Dean R. Koontz
9. Just One Look, Harlan Coben
10. The Bookman's Promise, John Dunning

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), Eoin Colfer
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (order from northwest-books.com)
3. Dragonology Handbook, Ernest Drake
4. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
5. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
6. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
7. Runny Babbit, Shel Silverstein
8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
9. Girls in Pants, Ann Brashares
10. Skippyjon Jones in the Dog House, Judith Schachner

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