Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Jan. 8, 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 8, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
3. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (Get it here)
4. S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
5. Amazing Peace, Maya Angelou
6. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
7. The Trouble With Poetry, Billy Collins
8. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. The March, E.L. Doctorow
10. The Sea, John Banville

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
4. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
5. My Friend Leonard, James Frey
6. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
7. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
8. The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
9. 1776, David McCullough
10. The Assassins' Gate, George Packer

MASS MARKET

1. Edge of Evil, J.A. Jance (Get it here)
2. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
3. The Broker, John Grisham
4. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
5. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
6. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
7. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy G. Schaffer (Ed.)
8. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
9. Chainfire, Terry Goodkind
10. Whiteout, Ken Follett

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 (Get it here)
3. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
4. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Get it here)
5. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
6. The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis
7. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
9. Fairyopolis, Cicely Mary Barker
10. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)