Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Feb. 17, 2008

We have five Northwest authors on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. Two new books, Portland author G.M. Ford's Nameless Night and Seattle author Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane are on the hardcover fiction list, along with The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss. Seattle author Mary Daheim's The Alpine Scandal is on the paperback list. And, finally, Seattle author Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is on the children's list. This is a great showing for Northwest authors.

Week ending February 17, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Appeal, John Grisham
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
3. Duma Key, Stephen King
4. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
5. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead, Jeffrey Eugenides (Ed.)
6. World Without End, Ken Follett
7. Firefly Lane, Kristin Hannah
8. Life Class, Pat Barker
9. Nameless Night, G.M. Ford
10. Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
2. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne (Ed.)
3. Reconciliation, Benazir Bhutto
4. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp
5. I Am America (and So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
6. The Daring Book for Girls, Andrea Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz
7. A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
8. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
9. The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, David Shields
10. The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. Atonement, Ian McEwan
3. The Innocent Man, John Grisham
4. The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman
5. Whitethorn Woods, Maeve Binchy
6. Next, Michael Crichton
7. The Alpine Scandal, Mary Daheim
8. The Faithful Spy, Alex Berenson
9. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
3. Fancy Nancy Bonjour, Butterfly, Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.)
4. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
5. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
6. Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
7. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8. Bratfest at Tiffany's (The Clique #9), Lisi Harrison
9. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List is 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.