The following are the bestselling titles at Pacific Northwest
Booksellers Association stores during the week ended Sunday, September
11, as reported to Book Sense.
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
2. A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher (Random House, $24.95, 1400063221)
3. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356)
4. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
5. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
6. The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch (Bloomsbury, $23.95, 1582346054)
7. Straken by Terry Brooks (Del Rey, $26.95, 0345451120)
8. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95, 0670033944)
9. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $24.95, 0375406778)
10. Long Time Gone by J. A. Jance (Morrow, $24.95, 0688138241)
11. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $21.95, 1400060281)
12. Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb (Eos, $25.95, 0060757620)
13. Polar Shift by Clive Cussler, with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152717)
14. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf, $24.95, 0375412913)
15. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (FSG, $23, 0374153892)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. You: The Owner's Manual by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Collins, $24.95, 0060765313)
2. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
3. On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946)
4. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
5. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
6. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
7. Collapse by Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95, 0670033375)
8. Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan, $24, 0805076069)
9. Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins (Bantam, $25, 0553804510)
10. Burning Fence by Craig Lesley (St. Martin's, $24.95, 0312318464)
11. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
12. Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross (Hyperion, $24.95, 1401300286)
13. It's Not Easy Being Green by Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Friends (Hyperion, $16.95, 1401302424)
14. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
15. New Rules by Bill Maher (Rodale, $24.95, 1594862958)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (Grove, $13, 0802142109)
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
5. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
7. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
8. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
9. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
10. An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg (Vintage, $13.95, 1400076145)
11. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
12. 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $13.95, 1400079446)
13. The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $12.95, 1400077095)
14. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Plume, $14, 0452286530)
15. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $11.95, 1400034779)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717)
2. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95, 1400032806)
3. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
4. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
5. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
6. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
7. What's the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank (Owl, $14, 080507774X)
8. Moyers on America by Bill Moyers (Anchor, $13.95, 1400095360)
9. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner, et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
10. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 0060750510)
11. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett (Perennial, $13.95, 0060572159)
12. It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong (Berkley, $14, 0425179613)
13. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (Nelson, $13.99, 0785263705)
14. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Little, Brown, $14.95, 0316776963)
15. 501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris (Barron's, $14.95, 0764124285)
Mass Market
1. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
2. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
3. Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060527307)
4. A Taint in the Blood by Dana Stabenow (St. Martin's, $6.99, 0312985657)
5. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
6. Dune: The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Tor, $7.99, 0765340798)
7. Trace by Patricia D. Cornwell (Berkley, $7.99, 0425204200)
8. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312991193)
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Warner, $6.99, 0316769487)
10. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312995423)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 0439358078)
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
6. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
8. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Random House, $4.99, 0375822747)
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $7.99, 0439136369)
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Puffin, $6.99, 0142403881)
11. Rakkety Tam by Brian Jacques (Ace, $7.99, 044101318X)
12. Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (HarperTrophy, $5.99, 0060535458)
13. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic, $7.99, 0439709105)
14. Life of Pi (Student Edition) by Yann Martel (Harvest, $8.99, 0156030209)
15. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Yearling, $6.50, 0440498058)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and PNBA!]
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316011770)
2. A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher (Random House, $24.95, 1400063221)
3. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356)
4. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060515104)
5. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385504209)
6. The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch (Bloomsbury, $23.95, 1582346054)
7. Straken by Terry Brooks (Del Rey, $26.95, 0345451120)
8. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking, $24.95, 0670033944)
9. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf, $24.95, 0375406778)
10. Long Time Gone by J. A. Jance (Morrow, $24.95, 0688138241)
11. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House, $21.95, 1400060281)
12. Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb (Eos, $25.95, 0060757620)
13. Polar Shift by Clive Cussler, with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam, $26.95, 0399152717)
14. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf, $24.95, 0375412913)
15. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (FSG, $23, 0374153892)
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. You: The Owner's Manual by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Collins, $24.95, 0060765313)
2. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (FSG, $27.50, 0374292884)
3. On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton, $9.95, 0691122946)
4. 1776 by David McCullough (S&S, $32, 0743226712)
5. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow, $25.95, 006073132X)
6. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance, $29.95, 0975599518)
7. Collapse by Jared Diamond (Viking, $29.95, 0670033375)
8. Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan, $24, 0805076069)
9. Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins (Bantam, $25, 0553804510)
10. Burning Fence by Craig Lesley (St. Martin's, $24.95, 0312318464)
11. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, $25.95, 0316172324)
12. Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross (Hyperion, $24.95, 1401300286)
13. It's Not Easy Being Green by Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Friends (Hyperion, $16.95, 1401302424)
14. 1491 by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, $30, 140004006X)
15. New Rules by Bill Maher (Rodale, $24.95, 1594862958)
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $14, 1594480001)
2. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (Grove, $13, 0802142109)
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage, $12.95, 1400032717)
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, $15.95, 1582346038)
5. The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad, $13.95, 0060557559)
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin, $15, 0143034901)
7. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Harvest, $14, 015602943X)
8. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin, $14, 0142001740)
9. Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $14.95, 0375706860)
10. An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg (Vintage, $13.95, 1400076145)
11. I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $15, 0312424442)
12. 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $13.95, 1400079446)
13. The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $12.95, 1400077095)
14. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Plume, $14, 0452286530)
15. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $11.95, 1400034779)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717)
2. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $14.95, 1400032806)
3. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay, $14.95, 0316346624)
4. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (Norton, $16.95, 0393317552)
5. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95, 0375725601)
6. Bad Cat by Jim Edgar (Workman, $9.95, 0761136193)
7. What's the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank (Owl, $14, 080507774X)
8. Moyers on America by Bill Moyers (Anchor, $13.95, 1400095360)
9. Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner, et al. (Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400082315)
10. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore (HarperSanFrancisco, $14.95, 0060750510)
11. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett (Perennial, $13.95, 0060572159)
12. It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong (Berkley, $14, 0425179613)
13. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (Nelson, $13.99, 0785263705)
14. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Little, Brown, $14.95, 0316776963)
15. 501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris (Barron's, $14.95, 0764124285)
Mass Market
1. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket, $7.99, 0671027360)
2. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Dell, $7.99, 0440241359)
3. Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson (HarperTorch, $7.99, 0060527307)
4. A Taint in the Blood by Dana Stabenow (St. Martin's, $6.99, 0312985657)
5. Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner, $7.99, 0446616494)
6. Dune: The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Tor, $7.99, 0765340798)
7. Trace by Patricia D. Cornwell (Berkley, $7.99, 0425204200)
8. The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston, M.D. (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312991193)
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Warner, $6.99, 0316769487)
10. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (St. Martin's, $7.99, 0312995423)
Children's (Fiction and Illustrated)
1. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $21, 037582670X)
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, $9.95, 0375826696)
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $29.99, 0439784549)
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $9.99, 0439358078)
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $8.99, 0439139600)
6. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, $7.99, 0694003611)
7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (Delacorte, $6.99, 0553494791)
8. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Random House, $4.99, 0375822747)
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $7.99, 0439136369)
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Puffin, $6.99, 0142403881)
11. Rakkety Tam by Brian Jacques (Ace, $7.99, 044101318X)
12. Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (HarperTrophy, $5.99, 0060535458)
13. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic, $7.99, 0439709105)
14. Life of Pi (Student Edition) by Yann Martel (Harvest, $8.99, 0156030209)
15. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Yearling, $6.50, 0440498058)
[Many thanks to Book Sense and PNBA!]