Bestsellers - wk ending Oct. 23, 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 October 23, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
2. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
3. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
4. The Trouble With Poetry, Billy Collins
5. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
6. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
7. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (a northwest-books.com author)
8. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, Alexander McCall Smith
9. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
10. The March, E. L. Doctorow

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
2. Healthy Aging, Andrew Weil
3. The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
4. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
5. Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
6. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
7. A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester
8. Spook, Mary Roach
9. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
10. Collapse, Jared Diamond

MASS MARKET

1. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
2. Hour Game, David Baldacci
3. Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
4. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
5. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King
6. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
7. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
8. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
9. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (a northwest-books.com author)
10. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
2. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
3. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
4. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
6. High Rhulain (Redwall #18), Brian Jacques, David Elliot (Illus.)
7. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
8. A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy, Jon J. Muth (Illus.)
9. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
10. Flush, Carl Hiaasen