Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Feb. 5, 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 February 5, 2006

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Cell, Stephen King
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
5. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (Order it here)
6. Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris
7. The Sea, John Banville
8. Purity of Blood, Arturo Perez-Reverte
9. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell, Lilian Jackson Braun
10. The Accidental, Ali Smith

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. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
7. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
8. State of War, James Risen
9. Dave Barry's Money Secrets, Dave Barry
10. The Colony, John Tayman

MASS MARKET

1. The Closers, Michael Connelly
2. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
3. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
4. Edge of Evil, J.A. Jance (Order it here)
5. Night, Elie Wiesel
6. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
7. The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais
8. The Broker, John Grisham
9. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
10. Fleshmarket Alley, Ian Rankin

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
2. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
4. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
6. Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book, Simon Spotlight (Eds.)
7. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
8. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
9. Snuggle Puppy, Sandra Boynton
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)