Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Apr. 6, 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 6, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
2. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
3. Lush Life, Richard Price
4. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
5. Small Favor, Jim Butcher
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
7. Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff
8. Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell
9. Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
10. The Appeal, John Grisham

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
2. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
3. Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
4. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
5. The Open Road, Pico Iyer
6. The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
7. The Daring Book for Girls, Andrea Buchanan
8. Home, Julie Andrews
9. I Am America (and So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
10. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
3. What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
4. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
5. 21: Bringing Down the House, Ben Mezrich
6. I Heard That Song Before, Mary Higgins Clark
7. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
8. Atonement, Ian McEwan
9. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
10. 1984, George Orwell

CHILDREN'S TITLES

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

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.