Bestsellers - wk ending Sept. 18, 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 18, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (A northwest-books.com author)
2. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
3. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
4. Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
5. The Painted Drum, Louise Erdrich
6. Thud!, Terry Pratchett
7. Long Time Gone, J. A. Jance (A northwest-books.com author)
8. Straken, Terry Brooks
9. The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
10. The Summer He Didn't Die Jim Harrison

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Wild Ducks Flying Backward, Tom Robbins (A northwest-books.com author)
2. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
3. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
4. 1776, David McCullough
5. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6. Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich
7. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
8. Burning Fence, Craig Lesley
9. On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
10. New Rules, Bill Maher

MASS MARKET

1. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
2. Double Shot, Diane Mott Davidson
3. A Taint in the Blood, Dana Stabenow
4. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
5. Dune: The Battle of Corrin, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
6. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
9. Hour Game, David Baldacci
10. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
5. Flush, Carl Hiaasen
6. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
8. Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book, Simon Spotlight (Eds.)
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
10. The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau