Bestsellers - wk ending Oct. 16, 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 of October 16, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
2. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
3. The March, E. L. Doctorow
4. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
5. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
6. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch
7. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
8. The Painted Drum, Louise Erdrich
9. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, Alexander McCall Smith
10. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
2. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
3. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
4. 1491, Charles C. Mann
5. A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester
6. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
7. The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
8. 1776, David McCullough
9. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
10. Julie and Julia, Julie Powell

MASS MARKET

1. Melancholy Baby, Robert B. Parker
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
4. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
5. London Bridges, James Patterson
6. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
7. Deception Point, Dan Brown
8. Metro Girl, Janet Evanovich
9. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King
10. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
3. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
5. High Rhulain (Redwall #18), Brian Jacques, David Elliot (Illus.)
6. Junie B., First Grader: Boo...and I Mean It!, Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus (Illus.)
7. Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book, Simon Spotlight (Eds.)
8. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling, Scholastic
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling