Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 14, 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 May 14, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith
2. Digging to America, Anne Tyler
3. Mother, Maya Angelou
4. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
5. Everyman, Philip Roth
6. The Bookwoman's Last Fling, John Dunning
7. A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore
8. Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
9. Through a Glass, Darkly, Donna Leon
10. The Dead Fish Museum, Charles D'Ambrosio

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. The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine Albright
5. God Laughs & Plays, David James Duncan
6. The World Is Flat (Updated and Expanded), Thomas L. Friedman
7. Strange Piece of Paradise, Terri Jentz
8. American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
9. Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
10. I Love Crab Cakes!, Tom Douglas, Shelly Lance

MASS MARKET

1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. Blood From a Stone, Donna Leon
4. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
5. The Innocent, Harlan Coben
6. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
7. The Italian Secretary, Caleb Carr
8. The Sign of the Book, John Dunning
9. One Shot, Lee Child
10. Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
2. Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (Children of the Red King #5), Jenny Nimmo
3. The Prophet of Yonwood, Jeanne DuPrau
4. Chew on This, Eric Schlosser, Charles Wilson
5. Fire and Ice (Warriors #2), Erin W. Hunter
6. The Tale of Despereaux (paperback), Kate DiCamillo
7. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One), Rick Riordan
8. Good Night, Gorilla, Peggy Rathmann
9. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
10. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo