Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending June 12, 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 June 12, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
2. A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
3. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
4. Zorro, Isabel Allende
5. Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk (Buy it at northwest-books.com)
6. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
7. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
8. The Closers, Michael Connelly
9. Saturday, Ian McEwan
10. Specimen Days, Michael Cunningham

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

MASS MARKET

1. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
2. New Spring, Robert Jordan
3. Black Rose, Nora Roberts
4. Mr. Paradise, Elmore Leonard
5. R Is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton
6. Red Tide, G.M. Ford
7. Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson
8. The Shop on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber
9. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
10. The Romanov Prophecy, Steve Berry

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
2. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
3. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
4. The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, Book 4), Eoin Colfer
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Buy it at northwest-books.com)
6. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
7. Girls in Pants, Ann Brashares
8. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
10. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers, Louise Rennison