Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Aug. 21, 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 aren?t books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest.

Week ending Sunday, August 21, 2005

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
2. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. Long Time Gone, J.A. Jance (Order it now)
5. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
6. A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
7. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
8. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
9. Until I Find You, John Irving
10. Crusader's Cross, James Lee Burke

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
2. 1776, David McCullough
3. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau
4. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
5. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
6. New Rules, Bill Maher
7. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
8. Lance Armstrong's War, Daniel Coyle
9. The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans
10. 1491, Charles C. Mann

MASS MARKET

1. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
4. Trace, Patricia D. Cornwell
5. Day of the Dead, J.A. Jance (Order it now)
6. This Old Souse, Mary Daheim (Order it now)
7. Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich
8. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
9. Deception Point, Dan Brown
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
3. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
4. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it now)
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie Tie-in), Roald Dahl
9. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)