Bestsellers - wk ending Sept. 11, 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 September 11, 2005

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
2. A Sudden Country, Karen Fisher
3. Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
4. The Painted Drum, Louise Erdrich
5. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
6. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (a northwest-books.com author)
7. Straken, Terry Brooks
8. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
9. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
10. Long Time Gone, J. A. Jance (a northwest-books.com author)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. You: The Owner's Manual, Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
2. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
3. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
4. 1776, David McCullough
5. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau
7. Collapse, Jared Diamond
8. Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich
9. Wild Ducks Flying Backward, Tom Robbins (a northwest-books.com author)
10. Burning Fence, Craig Lesley

MASS MARKET

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
3. Double Shot, Diane Mott Davidson
4. A Taint in the Blood, Dana Stabenow
5. Hour Game, David Baldacci
6. Dune: The Battle of Corrin, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
7. Trace, Patricia D. Cornwell
8. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
9. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
10. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
6. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
8. The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie Tie-in), Roald Dahl