Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Dec. 28, 2008

There are four Northwest authors on the Northwest Bestsellers list this week, including: Ivan Doig's The Eleventh Man, Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, Christopher Paolini's Brisingr and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Week ending Dec. 28, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Eleventh Man, Ivan Doig
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
3. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
5. A Mercy, Toni Morrison
6. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
7. The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
8. The Private Patient, P.D. James
9. Home, Marilynne Robinson
10. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Dewey, Vicki Myron
3. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
4. Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
5. American Lion, Jon Meacham
6. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
8. Annie Leibovitz at Work, Annie Leibovitz
9. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
10. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina Garten

MASS MARKET

1. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster
2. The Appeal, John Grisham
3. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
4. T Is for Trespass, Sue Grafton
5. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
6. Marley & Me, John Grogan
7. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
8. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy Garcia Schaffer (Ed.)
9. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
10. Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin (Ed.)

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
3. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo
7. Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3), Christopher Paolini
8. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
10. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

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.