We update the Bestseller list every Wednesday, based on sales in independent bookstores around the Northwest during the previous week. There are always a few titles on our list that don’t show up in the national lists of bestsellers, which is a reflection of the love of regional authors and books by you, our neighbors and book buyers. This week Work Song by Ivan Doig is #3 on our hardcover fiction list, but doesn’t appear on the national lists. (Shows how much they know!) Also on our list but not the national lists: J.A. Jance, with Queen of the Night; Timothy Egan, with The Big Burn; Greg Mortensen with Stones Into Schools; Border Songs, by Jim Lynch; and The School of Essential Ingredients, by Erica Bauermeister (which is finally getting some national buzz); and the Rand McNally 2011 Road Atlas (whose appearance might say more about the Northwest’s readers’ relative failure to become as enamored of their GPS gadgets as the rest of the world than anything else). But the title that really caught my eye and made me high-five my cubicle buddy is #10 on the Children’s Illustrated books list, Where Do I Sleep? by Jennifer Blomgren and Anderea Gabriel, from the Northwest’s own Sasquatch Books. This book was published in 2001, won an Award from the Northwest independent booksellers in 2002, and is STILL a constant bestseller for many of our stores. Do you have a young child, or know someone else who does?? Try reading Where Do I Sleep? to them. The best books just keep on giving.
Borrowed Copy
You Can't Keep a Good Book Down
August 11, 2010
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Thom