Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending March 30, 2008

Three northwest authors are on the Northwest Bestsellers list again 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.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
2. Lush Life, Richard Price
3. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
4. Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
6. The Appeal, John Grisham
7. Remember Me?, Sophie Kinsella
8. Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff
9. Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
10. World Without End, Ken Follett

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
2. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
3. Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
4. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
5. The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, David Shields
6. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden
7. I Am America (and So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
8. The Third Jesus, Deepak Chopra
9. The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp

MASS MARKET

1. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
2. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
3. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
4. Quantico, Greg Bear
5. What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
6. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
7. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
8. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
9. Whitethorn Woods, Maeve Binchy
10. Atonement, Ian McEwan

CHILDREN'S TITLES

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

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.