Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Sept. 14, 2008

Only one book on the Northwest Bestsellers list this week: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. The narrator is a dog, but it isn't a dog story. You gotta read it! Hardcover and priced under $17.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. Anathem, Neal Stephenson
3. Fine Just the Way It Is, Annie Proulx
4. Home, Marilynne Robinson
5. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
6. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
7. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
8. The Gypsy Morph, Terry Brooks
9. Ballistics, Billy Collins
10. American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
2. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
3. The War Within, Bob Woodward
4. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
5. The Limits of Power, Andrew J. Bacevich
6. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
7. My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor
8. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
9. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
10. The Way of the World, Ron Suskind

MASS MARKET

1. The Naming of the Dead, Ian Rankin
2. Stone Cold, David Baldacci
3. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
4. Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
5. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
6. Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell
7. Protect and Defend, Vince Flynn
8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
9. The Sunrise Lands, S.M. Stirling
10. The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse (Warriors: Power of Three, #4), Erin Hunter
6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
7. Maze of Bones (39 Clues, #1), Rick Riordan
8. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
9. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
10. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by northwest-books.com, IndieBound and PNBA, is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and IndieBound. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest.