Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Nov. 20, 2005

As we go into the Thanksgiving holiday, four books by Northwest authors are on the Northwest Bestseller lists. Karen Fisher?s A Sudden Country is on the hardcover list for the second week running. Anthony Swofford?s story about his experiences in the first Gulf War, Jarhead, remains on the paperback list. And, Montana teenager Christopher Paolini?s Eldest and Eragon remain 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. These books are currently selling well independent bookstores in the Pacific Northwest. Week of November 20, 2005

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Light From Heaven, Jan Karon
2. A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
3. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
4. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
5. Mary, Mary, James Patterson
6. Christ the Lord, Anne Rice
7. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch
8. A Sudden Country, Karen Fisher (order here)
9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. The Sea, John Banville

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
2. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
3. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
4. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
5. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
6. Marley & Me, John Grogan
7. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
8. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
9. Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss
10. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman

MASS MARKET

1. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
2. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (order here)
3. The Winds of Change, Martha Grimes
4. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
6. The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
7. A Redbird Christmas, Fannie Flagg
8. Night Fall, Nelson DeMille
9. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
10. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (movie tie-in, children's), C. S. Lewis
3. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (order here)
4. Winter's Tale, Robert Sabuda
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (order here)
6. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
7. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
8. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling