Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Sept. 20, 2009

Just 2 books from Northwest authors on this week's bestseller's list and they're both from Sherman Alexie. War Dances and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are on this week's Northwest Bestseller lists. Week ending Sept. 20, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
3. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
4. A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
5. The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks
6. War Dances, Sherman Alexie
7. That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
8. Homer & Langley, E.L. Doctorow
9. The Host, Stephenie Meyer

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy
2. Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer
3. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, Julia Child, et al.
4. Nurtureshock, Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman
5. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
6. Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
7. The Healing of America, T.R. Reid
8. Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
9. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
10. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers

MASS MARKET

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
2. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
3. Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
4. Julie & Julia, Julie Powell
5. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
6. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
7. Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
8. Anathem, Neal Stephenson
9. Club Dead, Charlaine Harris
10. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

1. The Magician's Elephant, Kate DiCamillo, Yoko Tanaka (Illus.)
2. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.)
4. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
5. Impossible, Nancy Werlin
6. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
7. Graceling, Kristin Cashore
8. The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
9. Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen
10. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (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.