Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Dec. 24, 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 Sunday, December 24, 2006. Any of these books can be ordered through northwest-books.com. The book titles in bold are on the northwest-books Web site.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen
2. Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
3. Next, Michael Crichton
4. The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
5. The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman
6. For One More Day, Mitch Albom
7. Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende
8. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog, Dave Barry
9. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
10. Cross, James Patterson

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

MASS MARKET

1. S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
2. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
3. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy Garcia Schaffer (Ed.)
4. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
5. The Cell, Stephen King
6. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
7. DVD & Video Guide, Mick Martin, Marsha Porter
8. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
9. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
10. Forever Odd, Dean R. Koontz

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