Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 24, 2009

Five Northwest authors are on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy, Tom Robbins' B is for Beer, Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, and, in the non-fiction category, Bill Gates, Sr.'s Showing Up for Life are all on this week's list. Week ending May 24, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
2. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
3. Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
4. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
5. The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King
6. Road Dogs, Elmore Leonard
7. Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
8. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
10. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, Reif Larsen

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Not Becoming My Mother, Ruth Reichl
3. Showing Up for Life, Bill Gates, Sr.
4. This Is Water, David Foster Wallace
5. Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton
6. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
7. How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer
8. Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards
9. Ecological Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
10. Tide, Feather, Snow, Miranda Weiss

MASS MARKET

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
3. Napoleon's Pyramids, William Dietrich
4. Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
5. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
6. Child 44, Tom Rob Smith
7. My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
8. Blood Trail, C. J. Box
9. Swan Peak, James Lee Burke
10. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5), Rick Riordan
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. Sunrise (Warriors: Power of Three, #6), Erin Hunter
7. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1), Rick Riordan
9. Smoke Mountain (Seekers, #3), Erin Hunter
10. The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon, #10), D.J. MacHale

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.