Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Mar. 9, 2008

Just two northwest authors on this week's NW Bestsellers list: The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Week ending March 9, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
3. Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
4. Lush Life, Richard Price
5. The Appeal, John Grisham
6. An Incomplete Revenge, Jacqueline Winspear
7. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
8. The Commoner, John Burnham Schwartz
9. World Without End, Ken Follett
10. The Outlaw Demon Wails, Kim Harrison

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
2. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
3. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
4. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
5. The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
6. The Third Jesus, Deepak Chopra
7. The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, David Shields
8. The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
9. Old Friend From Far Away, Natalie Goldberg
10. The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, Bruce Barcott

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. Atonement, Ian McEwan
3. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
4. What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
6. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
7. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
8. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
9. Deep Storm, Lincoln Child
10. The Overlook, Michael Connelly

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
3. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
4. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
6. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
8. The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1), Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
9. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)

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. Books are available through northwest-books.com.

1 Comments:

At 7:19 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, wait a minute! Just two NW authors on the list? Last I checked, David Shields was still waking up in Wallingford, and I think I still qualify.

Give us a little love, Art!

- Bruce Barcott,
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw
www.brucebarcott.com

 

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