Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 7, 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 7, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith
2. Everyman, Philip Roth
3. Digging to America, Anne Tyler
4. Mother, Maya Angelou
5. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
6. The Bookwoman's Last Fling, John Dunning
7. Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
8. Firetrap, Earl Emerson
9. A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore
10. Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
3. You: The Owner's Manual, Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
4. My Life in France, Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme
5. God Laughs & Plays, David James Duncan
6. The World Is Flat (Updated and Expanded), Thomas L. Friedman
7. The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine Albright
8. American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
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. Blood From a Stone, Donna Leon
4. The Italian Secretary, Caleb Carr
5. The Innocent, Harlan Coben
6. The Sign of the Book, John Dunning
7. Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King
8. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
9. Broken Prey, John Sandford
10. The Smoke Room, Earl Emerson

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
2. The Tale of Despereaux (paperback), Kate DiCamillo
3. Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (Children of the Red King #5), Jenny Nimmo
4. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
5. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
6. A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy, Jon J Muth (Illus.)
7. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
8. Warriors: The New Prophecy #4: Starlight, Erin W. Hunter
9. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
10. Eldest, Christopher Paolini