Northwest Bestsellers - wk of Aug. 9, 2009

Fire and Ice, by J.A. Jance, is on the Northwest Bestseller list, plus B is for Beer, by Tom Robbins, Border Songs by Jim Lynch, and children's book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Week of August 9, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
2. That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
3. Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
4. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
5. The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz ZafÛn
6. Fire and Ice, J.A. Jance
7. Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
8. Border Songs, Jim Lynch
9. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, Rebecca Wells
10. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
3. The End of Overeating, David A. Kessler
4. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
5. Crow Planet, Lyanda Lynn Haupt
6. Rustic Fruit Desserts, Cory Schreiber, Julie Richardson
7. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, Julia Child, et al.
8. The Third Chapter, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
9. The Evolution of God, Robert Wright
10. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers

MASS MARKET

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
2. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
3. Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
4. Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
5. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
6. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
7. Frankenstein: Dead and Alive, Dean Koontz
8. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
9. 1984, George Orwell
10. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon

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 Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
4. Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen
5. Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen
6. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
7. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
8. Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
9. Scat, Carl Hiaasen
10. The BFG, Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (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.