Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Dec 17

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 December 17, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman
2. Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen
3. The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
4. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog, Dave Barry
5. Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
6. For One More Day, Mitch Albom
7. Next, Michael Crichton
8. The View From Castle Rock, Alice Munro
9. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
10. Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. I Like You, Amy Sedaris
3. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter
4. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
5. Marley & Me, John Grogan
6. Joy of Cooking (75th Anniversary Ed.), Irma S. Rombauer, et al.
7. I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
8. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
9. Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
10. Home Ground, Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney (Eds.)

MASS MARKET

1. S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
2. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
3. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
4. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy Garcia Schaffer (Ed.)
5. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
6. The Cell, Stephen King
7. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
8. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
9. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
10. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
2. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
3. The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5), Eoin Colfer
4. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
5. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
6. Pirateology, Captain William Lubber
7. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
8. Stranger in the Woods, Carl R. Sams II, Jean Stoick
9. The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
10. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo