Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending March 23, 2008

Three northest authors on the Northwest Bestsellers list this week: The Think About Life is that One Day You'll be Dead by David Shields, The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. And, Alaska author Sue Henry's paperback edition of The Refuge is on the list this week, too. Week ending March 23, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
2. The Appeal, John Grisham
3. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
4. Lush Life, Richard Price
5. Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
7. Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell
8. Another Thing to Fall, Laura Lippman
9. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
10. The Soul Thief, Charles Baxter

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
2. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
3. I Am America (and So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
4. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp
5. The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, David Shields
6. The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
7. The Daring Book for Girls, Andrea Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz
8. The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
9. Reconciliation, Benazir Bhutto

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
3. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
4. Atonement, Ian McEwan
5. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
6. The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman
7. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
8. Next, Michael Crichton
9. The Refuge, Sue Henry
10. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. The Battle for Skandia (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 4), John Flanagan
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
4. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
6. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
7. The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, #4), James Patterson
8. Fancy Nancy Bonjour, Butterfly, Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.)
9. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
10. Pat the Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt

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.