Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Dec. 2, 2007

There are four Northwest authors on the Northwest Bestsellers lists this week. The Hearts of Horses, by Molly Gloss, is at the top of the hardcover bestsellers list. Web of Evil, by J.A. Jance and Firetrap, by Portland author Earl Emerson, are both on the mass market list. And, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie remains on the children's list this week. Week ending December 2, 2007.

Bolded titles are by Northwest authors or are Northwest related.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
3. World Without End, Ken Follett
4. Home to Holly Springs, Jan Karon
5. Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
6. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
7. Run, Ann Patchett
8. Confessor, Terry Goodkind
9. Stone Cold, David Baldacci
10. Christmas Stories, Diana Secker Tesdell (Ed.)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Daring Book for Girls, Miriam Peskowitz, Alexis Seabrook (Illus.)
2. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
3. I Am America (and So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
4. Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
5. Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
6. You: Staying Young, Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
7. Deceptively Delicious, Jessica Seinfeld
8. Our Dumb World, The Onion (Eds.)
9. The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
10. The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. The Innocent Man, John Grisham
3. Next, Michael Crichton
4. Blood Brothers, Nora Roberts
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
6. Web of Evil, J.A. Jance
7. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
8. Wicked, Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith (Illus.)
9. Too Late to Say Goodbye, Ann Rule
10. Firetrap, Earl W. Emerson

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Gallop!, Rufus Seder
2. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
4. The Boys' Book, Dominique Enright
5. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
6. Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones, Judith Schachner
7. One Snowy Night, M. Christina Butler, Tina Macnaughton (Illus.)
8. Blue Moo, Sandra Boynton
9. The Three Snow Bears, Jan Brett
10. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer

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.