Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Apr. 13, 2008

Just two northwest authors are on the Northwest Bestsellers list this week: The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Week ending April 13, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Lush Life, Richard Price
3. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
4. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
6. The Appeal, John Grisham
7. Small Favor, Jim Butcher
8. World Without End, Ken Follett
9. Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch
10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
2. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
3. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
4. The Open Road, Pico Iyer
5. Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
6. Bonk, Mary Roach
7. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
8. I Am America (and So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
9. The Daring Book for Girls, Andrea Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz
10. Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not), Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

MASS MARKET

1. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
2. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
3. Simple Genius, David Baldacci
4. Spanish Dagger, Susan Wittig Albert
5. The Woods, Harlan Coben
6. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
7. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
8. Atonement, Ian McEwan
9. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
10. 1984, George Orwell

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
7. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. The Battle for Skandia (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 4), John Flanagan
9. Dark Day in the Deep Sea (Magic Tree House #39), Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.)
10. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart

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.