Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Jan. 1, 2006

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 January 1, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Amazing Peace, Maya Angelou
2. S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
5. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
6. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
7. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire
8. Christ the Lord, Anne Rice
9. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (order this book here)
10. The Trouble With Poetry, Billy Collins

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
4. The Elements of Style Illustrated, William Strunk, et al.
5. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
6. Marley & Me, John Grogan
7. My Friend Leonard, James Frey
8. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
9. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken
10. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

MASS MARKET

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. Edge of Evil, J.A. Jance (order this book here)
3. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
4. The Broker, John Grisham
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
6. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
7. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
8. Red Lily, Nora Roberts
9. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy G. Schaffer (Ed.)
10. Worth More Dead (True Cases Vol. 10), Ann Rule

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 this book here)
3. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
4. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket
5. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
6. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (order this book here)
7. Fairyopolis, Cicely Mary Barker
8. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
9. Dawn (Warriors: The New Prophecy #3), Erin W. Hunter
10. The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis