Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending May 24, 2009

Five Northwest authors are on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy, Tom Robbins' B is for Beer, Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, and, in the non-fiction category, Bill Gates, Sr.'s Showing Up for Life are all on this week's list. Week ending May 24, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
2. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith
3. Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
4. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
5. The Language of Bees, Laurie R. King
6. Road Dogs, Elmore Leonard
7. Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
8. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
10. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, Reif Larsen

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Not Becoming My Mother, Ruth Reichl
3. Showing Up for Life, Bill Gates, Sr.
4. This Is Water, David Foster Wallace
5. Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton
6. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
7. How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer
8. Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards
9. Ecological Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
10. Tide, Feather, Snow, Miranda Weiss

MASS MARKET

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
3. Napoleon's Pyramids, William Dietrich
4. Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
5. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
6. Child 44, Tom Rob Smith
7. My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
8. Blood Trail, C. J. Box
9. Swan Peak, James Lee Burke
10. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5), Rick Riordan
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. Sunrise (Warriors: Power of Three, #6), Erin Hunter
7. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1), Rick Riordan
9. Smoke Mountain (Seekers, #3), Erin Hunter
10. The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon, #10), D.J. MacHale

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.

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.

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.

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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.