Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Nov. 13, 2005

My congratulations to Chris Paolini for having such great sellers in Eldest and Eragon, the first two books in a planned trilogy. Paolini started working on these books as a teenager. These two books are on our Northwest children's bestsellers list again this week. One new book has popped up on the list: A Sudden Country, by Karen Fisher, is on the Northwest hardcover bestsellers list.

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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 13, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Light From Heaven, Jan Karon
2. A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
3. The Sea, John Banville
4. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. Christ the Lord, Anne Rice
6. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
7. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
8. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
9. A Sudden Country, Karen Fisher (order here)
10. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
4. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
6. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
7. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
8. Healthy Aging, Andrew Weil
9. The Elements of Style Illustrated, William Strunk, et al.
10. Marley & Me, John Grogan, William Morrow

MASS MARKET

1. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
2. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford
3. Whiteout, Ken Follett
4. Night Fall, Nelson DeMille
5. The Catcher in the Rye,J.D. Salinger
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
8. The Winds of Change, Martha Grimes
9. Green River, Running Red, Ann Rule
10. London Bridges, James Patterson

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (order here)
3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (movie tie-in, children's), C. S. Lewis
4. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (order here)
5. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
8. Fairyopolis, Cicely Mary Barker
9. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling