Bestsellers - wk ending Oct. 2, 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, October 2, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
3. The March, E. L. Doctorow
4. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
5. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
6. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, Alexander McCall Smith
7. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (a northwest-books.com author)
8. Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
9. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
10. The Painted Drum, Louise Erdrich

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
2. The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
3. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
4. Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich
5. Burning Fence, Craig Lesley
6. 1776, David McCullough
7. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau
8. The Shame of the Nation, Jonathan Kozol
9. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
10. Collapse, Jared Diamond

MASS MARKET

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. London Bridges, James Patterson
3. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
4. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
5. Hour Game, David Baldacci
6. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
7. Winter House, Carol O'Connell
8. A Taint in the Blood, Dana Stabenow
9. 1984, George Orwell
10. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy G. Schaffer (Ed.)

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-book.com author)
3. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
4. Flush, Carl Hiaasen
5. High Rhulain (Redwall #18), Brian Jacques, David Elliot (Illus.)
6. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie Tie-in), Ann Brashares
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
8. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
9. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling