Northwest Bestsellers - week ending April 23. 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 April 23, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith
2. A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore
3. Mother, Maya Angelou
4. The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean
5. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
6. Labyrinth, Kate Mosse
7. Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
8. The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
9. Tomb of the Golden Bird, Elizabeth Peters
10. Through a Glass, Darkly, Donna Leon

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
2. Marley & Me, John Grogan
3. My Life in France, Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme
4. American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
5. God Laughs & Plays, David James Duncan
6. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
7. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
8. The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong
9. Cesar's Way, Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
10. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

MASS MARKET

1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. The Sign of the Book, John Dunning
4. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
5. Deception Point, Dan Brown
6. Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King
7. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
8. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
9. Long Spoon Lane, Anne Perry
10. Shadow of the Giant, Orson Scott Card

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Tale of Despereaux (paperback), Kate DiCamillo
2. The Tenth City (The Land of Elyon, Book 3), Patrick Carman
3. Warriors: The New Prophecy #4: Starlight, Erin W. Hunter
4. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
5. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
6. Night of the New Magicians (Magic Tree House #35), Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.)
7. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
8. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, E.L. Konigsburg
9. Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis