Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 28, 2006

Bestsellers - Ivan Doig's new novel, The Whistling Season, jumped to the top of the fiction section on the Northwest Bestsellers list. And, Christopher Paolini's first two books, Eragon and Eldest are both, again, on the children's section of the Northwest Bestseller's list. You can order all three of them here at northwest-books.com.

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 28, 2006

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
2. Blue Shoes and Happiness, Alexander McCall Smith
3. Digging to America, Anne Tyler
4. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
5. Everyman, Philip Roth
6. The Bookwoman's Last Fling, John Dunning
7. The Whole World Over, Julia Glass
8. The Hard Way, Lee Child
9. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
10. Telegraph Days, Larry McMurtry

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. Cesar's Way, Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
3. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
4. Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper
5. My Life in France, Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme
6. The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine Albright
7. Wisdom of Our Fathers, Tim Russert
8. God Laughs & Plays, David James Duncan
9. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
10. The World Is Flat (Updated and Expanded), Thomas L. Friedman

MASS MARKET

1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
3. Blood From a Stone, Donna Leon
4. Deception Point, Dan Brown
5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
6. Locked Rooms, Laurie R. King
7. The Italian Secretary, Caleb Carr
8. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
9. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
10. Broken Prey, John Sandford

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Quillan Games (Pendragon), D.J. MacHale
2. Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
3. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
4. Pirates, John Matthews
5. Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (Children of the Red King #5), Jenny Nimmo
6. The Prophet of Yonwood, Jeanne DuPrau
7. Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha!, Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus (Illus.)
8. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
9. Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book One), Angie Sage
10. Eragon, Christopher Paolini