Bestsellers - wk ending Oct. 9, 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 9, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
3. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
4. The March, E. L. Doctorow
5. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
6. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, Alexander McCall Smith
7. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
8. The Painted Drum, Louise Erdrich
9. Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
10. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
2. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
3. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
4. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
5. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
6. A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester
7. Don't Get Too Comfortable, David Rakoff
8. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau
9. Burning Fence, Craig Lesley
10. Julie and Julia, Julie Powell

MASS MARKET

1. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
2. Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
3. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
4. Double Shot, Diane Mott Davidson
5. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
6. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
7. Hour Game, David Baldacci
8. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
9. Metro Girl, Janet Evanovich
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-books.com author)
3. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
4. High Rhulain (Redwall #18), Brian Jacques, David Elliot (Illus.)
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
6. Flush, Carl Hiaasen
7. The Redwall Cookbook, Brian Jacques, Christopher Denise (Illus.)
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
10. The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau