Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 10, 2009

A new book by Portland author Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy, is on the Northwest Bestseller's list. Tom Robbins' B is for Beer, Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are on this week's, too. Week ending May 10, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris
2. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
3. Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
4. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
5. The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King
6. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
7. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
8. A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
9. Little Bee, Chris Cleave
10. The Host, Stephenie Meyer

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Not Becoming My Mother, Ruth Reichl
2. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
3. Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
4. Dewey, Vicki Myron
5. Losing Mum and Pup, Christopher Buckley
6. Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart, Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illus.)
7. Showing Up for Life, Bill Gates, Sr.
8. Coop, Michael Perry
9. A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg, Camilla Engman (Illus.)
10. The Third Chapter, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

MASS MARKET

1. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. Winter Study, Nevada Barr
4. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
5. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
6. Child 44, Tom Rob Smith
7. Phantom Prey, John Sandford
8. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
9. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
10. Sail, James Patterson, Howard Roughan

CHILDREN?S TITLES

1. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5), Rick Riordan
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.)
7. Sunrise (Warriors: Power of Three, #6), Erin Hunter
8. Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2), Tamora Pierce
9. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4), Rick Riordan
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.