Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Aug. 7, 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 August 7, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
2. Long Time Gone, J.A. Jance (Order it here)
3. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
4. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
5. Until I Find You, John Irving
6. Crusader's Cross, James Lee Burke
7. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
8. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
9. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
10. The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. 1776, David McCullough
2. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
3. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
4. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
5. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Perricone Promise, Nicholas Perricone, M.D.
7. Lance Armstrong's War, Daniel Coyle
8. Collapse, Jared Diamond
9. French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
10. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau

MASS MARKET

1. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. Day of the Dead, J.A. Jance (Order it here)
4. Absolute Friends, John Le Carre
5. Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich
6. One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
7. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
8. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
9. This Old Souse, Mary Daheim (Order it here)
10. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown

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. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie Tie-in), Roald Dahl
6. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
8. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)