Three Northwest writers are on this week's Northwest Bestseller list: Lavinia, by Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin; The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss; and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Week ending May 4, 2008.

 

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Alexander McCall Smith
2. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
3. The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich
4. The Girl With No Shadow, Joanne Harris
5. Red Bird, Mary Oliver
6. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
8. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
9. Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin
10. So Brave, Young, and Handsome, Leif Enger

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Bonk, Mary Roach
2. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
3. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
4. Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs
6. The Open Road, Pico Iyer
7. Just Who Will You Be?., Maria Shriver
8. A Remarkable Mother, Jimmy Carter
9. Bad Money, Kevin Phillips
10. A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz

MASS MARKET

1. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon
2. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
3. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
4. Index to Murder, Jo Dereske
5. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
6. The Innocent Man, John Grisham
7. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
8. Simple Genius, David Baldacci
9. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
10. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Outcast (Warriors: Power of Three, Book 3), Erin Hunter
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
5. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
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.