Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Sept. 21, 2008

Christopher Paolini's Brisingr became a big hit the moment it came out last Saturday. A half-million copies sold in one day. Brisingr, if you didn't know, is the third volume in a series which started with Eragon. Brisingr is now at the top of the Northwest Chiildren's list. Other books on the Northwest Bestsellers list this week: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. The narrator is a dog. You gotta read it! Hardcover and priced under $17. And, Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is also on the list.

HARDCOVER FICTION

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

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
2. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
3. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
4. The War Within, Bob Woodward
5. Bad Money, Kevin Phillips
6. Dewey, Vicki Myron
7. The Limits of Power, Andrew J. Bacevich
8. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
9. Acedia & Me, Kathleen Norris
10. Angler, Barton Gellman

MASS MARKET

1. Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
2. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham,
3. Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell
4. Stone Cold, David Baldacci
5. Dead Heat, Dick Francis, Felix Francis
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
8. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
9. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
10. Heartsick, Chelsea Cain

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3), Christopher Paolini
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
7. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. Eclipse (Warriors: Power of Three, #4), Erin Hunter
9. Maze of Bones (39 Clues, #1), Rick Riordan
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by 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.