Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Dec. 4, 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 December 4, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
2. Light From Heaven, Jan Karon
3. Christ the Lord, Anne Rice
4. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
5. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
6. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
8. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (order here)
9. Mary, Mary, James Patterson
10. The Trouble With Poetry, Billy Collins

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
2. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
3. The Year of Magical Thinking,Joan Didion
4. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
5. The Elements of Style Illustrated, William Strunk, et al.
6. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
7. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
8. The River of Doubt, Candice Millard
9. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
10. Marley & Me, John Grogan

MASS MARKET

1. The Broker, John Grisham
2. Red Lily, Nora Roberts
3. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (order here)
4. Whiteout, Ken Follett
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
6. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
7. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
8. Chainfire, Terry Goodkind
9. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
10. Worth More Dead (True Cases Vol. 10), Ann Rule

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
2. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
4. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (order here)
5. Fairyopolis, Cicely Mary Barker
6. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
7. A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy, Jon J. Muth (Illus.)
8. Stranger in the Woods, Carl R. Sams II, Jean Stoick
9. Dog Train, Sandra Boynton
10. Winter's Tale, Robert Sabuda