Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending March 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 March 5, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
3. The March, E.L. Doctorow
4. Cell, Stephen King
5. Judas Unchained, Peter F. Hamilton
6. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
7. The Old Wine Shades, Martha Grimes
8. Sea Change, Robert B. Parker
9. The Blight Way, Patrick F. McManus
10. Sour Puss, Rita Mae Brown

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
3. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
4. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
5. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
6. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
7. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
8. Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
9. You're Wearing That?, Deborah Tannen
10. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

MASS MARKET

1. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
2. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
3. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
4. The Closers, Michael Connelly
5. Micah, Laurell Hamilton
6. Cat's Eyewitness, Rita Mae Brown
7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
8. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
9. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
10. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
2. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
3. The Giver, Lois Lowry
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
5. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
6. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
7. The Hello, Goodbye Window, Norton Juster, Chris Raschka (Illus.)
8. Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
9. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
10. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)