Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Apr. 26, 2009

First week out Tom Robbins' B is for Beer is number 2 on the Northwest Bestsellers list. Also on the list this week are: Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
2. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
4. A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
5. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
6. Turn Coat, Jim Butcher
7. First Family, David Baldacci
8. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
9. Little Bee,Chris Cleave
10. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin
2. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
3. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
4. The Far Corner, John Daniel
5. Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
6. House of Cards, William D. Cohan
7. Not Becoming My Mother, Ruth Reichl
8. Columbine, Dave Cullen
9. Dewey, Vicki Myron
10. A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg, Camilla Engman (Illus.)

MASS MARKET

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
3. Winter Study, Nevada Barr
4. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child
5. Moon Called, Patricia Briggs
6. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
7. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
8. The Whole Truth, David Baldacci
9. Degrees of Separation, Sue Henry
10. Child 44, Tom Rob Smith

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
2. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
3. Sunrise (Warriors: Power of Three, #6), Erin Hunter
4. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
7. Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2), Tamora Pierce
8. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)

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.