Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Aug. 2, 2009

New on this week's Northwest Bestsellers List is the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington's First World's Fair. It joins 3 fiction bestsellers, as well as a children's book on the list: Jim Lynch's Border Songs, Tom Robbins' B is for Beer, Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Week ending Aug. 2, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
2. The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz ZafÛn
3. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
4. Fire and Ice, J.A. Jance
5. The Defector, Daniel Silva
6. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
7. Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
8. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
9. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
10. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, Rebecca Wells

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
3. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
4. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
5. The End of Overeating, David A. Kessler
6. The Wilderness Warrior, Douglas Brinkley
7. Empire of Illusion, Chris Hedges
8. The Evolution of God, Robert Wright
9. Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad
10. Crow Planet, Lyanda Lynn Haupt

MASS MARKET

1. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
3. Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
4. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
5. Frankenstein: Dead and Alive, Dean Koontz
6. Dead as a Doornail, Charlaine Harris
7. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
8. Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
9. Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
10. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

1. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.)
3. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.)
4. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
6. Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen
7. Listen to the Wind, Greg Mortenson, Susan L. Roth
8. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
9. Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen
10. Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher

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.