Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Jan. 29, 2006

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 January 29, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Cell, Stephen King
2. Memory in Death, J.D. Robb
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
5. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
6. Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris
7. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell, Lilian Jackson Braun
8. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
4. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
5. State of War, James Risen
6. Self-Made Man, Norah Vincent
7. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
8. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
9. You're Wearing That?, Deborah Tannen
10. The Elements of Style Illustrated, William Strunk, et al.

MASS MARKET

1. Night, Elie Wiesel
2. The Broker, John Grisham
3. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
4. Edge of Evil, J.A. Jance (Order it here)
5. The Cat Who Went Bananas, Lilian Jackson Braun
6. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
8. Chainfire, Terry Goodkind
9. By Order of the President, W.E.B. Griffin
10. The Motive, John Lescroart

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
3. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
4. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
6. The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
7. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
8. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
9. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
10. Napoleon Dynamite, Roger Price, Leonard Stern