Week ending April 27, 2008.

A bestseller's bonanza for Northwest authors this week: four books on the Northwest Bestsellers list. Lavinia, by Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin, is on the list, along with The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss. Also, Napoleon's Pyramids, by Anacortes, Wash., author William Dietrich. And, in the children's book area, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is there, too. These books are available at Watermark Books in Anacortes or online via Anacortes-based northwest-books.com.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Alexander McCall Smith
2. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
3. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
4. Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin
5. The Girl With No Shadow, Joanne Harris
6. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
7. Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
9. Passage, Lois McMaster Bujold
10. Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Just Who Will You Be?, Maria Shriver
2. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
3. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
4. Bonk, Mary Roach
5. The Open Road, Pico Iyer
6. Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
7. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
8. Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts
9. Bad Money, Kevin Phillips
10. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
3. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
4. The Innocent Man,, John Grisham
5. The Woods, Harlan Coben
6. What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
7. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
8. The American Heritage Dictionary, American Heritage (Eds.)
9. Napoleon's Pyramids, William Dietrich
10. Tell No One, Harlan Coben

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Outcast (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 3), Erin Hunter
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
4. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
7. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
9. Queste (Septimus Heap Book 4), Angie Sage
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest.