Bestsellers - wk ending Nov 6, 2005

The same four Northwest authors are on the latest Bestsellers Lists in the Pacific Northwest. Jim Lynch?s The Highest Tide is on the hardcover bestseller list. Anthony Swofford?s Jarhead is on the paperback bestseller list. And, Christopher Paolini?s Eldest and Eragon are both still on the children?s bestseller list.

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 November 6, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
2. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (a northwest-books.com author)
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
5. Predator, Patricia Cornwell
6. Christ the Lord, Anne Rice
7. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
8. The March, E. L. Doctorow
9. The Trouble With Poetry, Billy Collins
10. The Sea, John Banville

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
2. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
3. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
4. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
6. Healthy Aging, Andrew Weil
7. The Elements of Style Illustrated, William Strunk, et al.
8. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
9. The River of Doubt, Candice Millard
10. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle

MASS MARKET

1. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
2. Whiteout, Ken Follett
3. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (a northwest-books.com author)
4. The Winds of Change, Martha Grimes
5. Night Fall, Nelson DeMille
6. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
7. Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
8. Melancholy Baby, Robert B. Parker
9. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
10. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
3. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (movie tie-in, children's), C. S. Lewis
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
6. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (a northwest-books.com author)
7. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
9. Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
Tony DiTerlizzi
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)