Bestsellers - wk ending Oct 30, 2005

Bestsellers in the Pacific Northwest

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 30, 2005.

Remember: The highlighted books are featured at northwest-books.com. All books can be ordered through northwest-books.com any time.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Predator, Patricia Cornwell
2. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
3. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
4. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
5. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
6. The Scorpion's Gate, Richard A. Clarke
7. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
9. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (a northwest-books.com author)
10. The Trouble With Poetry, Billy Collins

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Healthy Aging, Andrew Weil
2. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
3. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
4. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
5. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
6. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
7. A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester
8. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
9. The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
10. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle

MASS MARKET

1. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
2. Night Fall, Nelson DeMille
3. Dressed for Death, Donna Leon
4. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (a northwest-books.com author)
5. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King
6. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
7. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
8. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
9. A Taint in the Blood, Dana Stabenow
10. Green River, Running Red, Ann Rule

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. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (movie tie-in, children's), C. S. Lewis
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
9. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling