Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Dec. 25, 2005

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 25, 2005.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
3. Amazing Peace, Maya Angelou
4. S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
5. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
6. Christ the Lord, Anne Rice
7. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
8. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
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. 1776, David McCullough
5. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
6. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
7. Marley & Me, John Grogan
8. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
9. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
10. The Elements of Style Illustrated, William Strunk, et al.

MASS MARKET

1. The Broker, John Grisham
2. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
4. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
5. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
6. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy G. Schaffer (Ed.)
7. Whiteout, Ken Follett
8. Jarhead, Anthony Swofford (Order here)
9. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
10. Red Lily, Nora Roberts

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order here)
3. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Order here)
4. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
6. Fairyopolis, Cicely Mary Barker
7. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
8. The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
9. Dragonology, Ernest Drake, Helen Ward (Illus.), Douglas Carrel (Illus.)
10. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)