Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 3, 2009

Tom Robbins' B is for Beer, Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are on this week's Northwest Bestseller's list. Week ending May 3, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
2. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
3. The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
5. A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
7. Evidence, Mary Oliver
8. First Family, David Baldacci
9. Summer on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber
10. Turn Coat, Jim Butcher

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin
3. Showing Up for Life, Bill Gates, Sr.
4. Not Becoming My Mother, Ruth Reichl
5. Columbine, Dave Cullen
6. The Horse Boy, Rupert Isaacson
7. Losing Mum and Pup, Christopher Buckley
8. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
9. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox

MASS MARKET

1. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi
4. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child
5. Winter Study, Nevada Barr
6. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
7. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
8. The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson
9. Moon Called, Patricia Briggs
10. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.)
6. Sunrise (Warriors: Power of Three, #6), Erin Hunter
7. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney
9. The Everafter War (The Sisters Grimm, Book 7), Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson (Illus.)
10. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

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.