Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Jan. 11, 2009

Stephanie Kallos' new book, Sing Them Home, is on the Northwest Bestsellers list in its first week on bookstore shelves. Sing Them Home is a moving portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Three older books are on the list again, having stayed on the list for several months. They include: The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman. Week ending Jan. 11, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. The Eleventh Man, Ivan Doig
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
4. Sing Them Home, Stephanie Kallos
5. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
6. A Mercy, Toni Morrison
7. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
8. Plum Spooky, Janet Evanovich
9. The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Dewey, Vicki Myron
2. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
3. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
4. Food Matters, Mark Bittman
5. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
6. The Invention of Air, Steven Johnson
7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
8. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina Garten
9. Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
10. Flat Belly Diet!, Cynthia Sass, Liz Vaccariello

MASS MARKET

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. The Appeal, John Grisham
3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster
4. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
5. Marley & Me, John Grogan
6. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
7. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
8. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
9. Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
10. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

CHILDREN'S TITLES

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