Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Apr. 12, 2009

This week's Bestseller's list includes: Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Week ending April 12, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. Turn Coat, Jim Butcher
3. A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
4. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
5. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
7. Evidence, Mary Oliver
8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
9. Fool, Christopher Moore
10. Corsair, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin
2. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
3. House of Cards, William D. Cohan
4. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
5. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
6. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
7. Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
8. Dewey, Vicki Myron
9. The Inaugural Address, 2009, Barack Obama
10. A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg, Camilla Engman (Illus.)

MASS MARKET

1. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child
2. Winter Study, Nevada Barr
3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster
4. 1984, George Orwell
5. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
6. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
7. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy Garcia Schaffer (Ed.)
8. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
9. Tribute, Nora Roberts
10. The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz

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. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
8. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
9. Twilight: Director's Notebook, Catherine Hardwicke
10. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

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.