Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending June 5, 2005

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 Sunday, June 5, 2005.

Note that two Northwest authors continue to have books on these lists. Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted is still up there, as is Christopher Paolini's Eragon. You can buy both of these books at northwest-books.com.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
2. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
3. Zorro, Isabel Allende
4. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
5. Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk (Buy it here)
6. The Closers, Michael Connelly
7. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
8. Saturday, Ian McEwan
9. Ya-Yas in Bloom, Rebecca Wells
10. True Believer, Nicholas Sparks

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. 1776, David McCullough
2. You: The Owner's Manual, Michael F. Roizen, et al.
3. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
4. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
5. Collapse, Jared Diamond
6. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
7. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
8. Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers, Fred Rogers
9. God's Politics, Jim Wallis
10. French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano

MASS MARKET

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
2. Black Rose, Nora Roberts
3. Red Tide, G.M. Ford
4. New Spring, Robert Jordan
5. Mr. Paradise, Elmore Leonard
6. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
7. R Is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton
8. The Romanov Prophecy, Steve Berry
9. The Enemy, Lee Child
10. The Dangerous Hour, Marcia Muller

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
2. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
3. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
4. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Buy it here)
5. Girls in Pants, Ann Brashares
6. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), Eoin Colfer
7. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
8. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
9. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
10. Life of Pi (Student Edition ), Yann Martel