Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Nov. 27, 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 November 27, 2005.

Books in boldface are Northwest themes or from Northwest authors.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
2. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
3. Light From Heaven, Jan Karon
4. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
5. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
7. Christ the Lord, Anne Rice
8. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
9. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (Order it here)
10. A Sudden Country, Karen Fisher (Order it here)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
2. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
3. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
4. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
6. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
7. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
8. Marley & Me, John Grogan
9. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Steven Jay Schneider (Ed.)
10. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

MASS MARKET

1. The Broker, John Grisham
2. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (Order it here)
3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
4. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
5. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
6. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
7. A Redbird Christmas, Fannie Flagg
8. Whiteout, Ken Follett
9. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
10. Night Fall, Nelson DeMille

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, C.S. Lewis
3. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
4. A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy, Jon J. Muth (Illus.)
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
6. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
7. Dog Train, Sandra Boynton
8. Fairyopolis, Cicely Mary Barker
9. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
10. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke