Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 11, 2008

Just two Northwest writers are on this week's Northwest Bestseller list: The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss; and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin dropped below the top ten and William Dietrich's The Rosetta Key is below the top ten, too. Week ending May 11, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
2. The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Alexander McCall Smith
3. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
6. The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich
7. The Girl With No Shadow, Joanne Harris
8. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
9. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
2. Audition, Barbara Walters
3. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
4. Just Who Will You Be?, Maria Shriver
5. Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
6. A Remarkable Mother, Jimmy Carter
7. The Open Road, Pico Iyer
8. Home, Julie Andrews
9. Bonk, Mary Roach
10. Don'ts for Wives, Blanche Ebbutt

MASS MARKET

1. The Hollow, Nora Roberts
2. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon
3. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
4. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
5. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
6. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal, Eric Van Lustbader
7. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy Garcia Schaffer (Ed.)
8. Simple Genius, David Baldacci
9. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
10. The Good Guy, Dean Koontz

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4), Rick Riordan
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
5. Outcast (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 3), Erin Hunter
6. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
7. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
9. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney

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.