Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Sometimes the themes come from the covers, sometimes the titles, but today we’re looking at the list itself. Did you ever notice the asterisk on some titles? “Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are Northwest bestsellers that are not on the national IndieBound bestseller list.” Do you come up with theories for why certain titles are regional bestsellers but not national ones? I’m a little surprised that we don’t have any mushroom titles this week!
From the Hardcover Fiction List:
*10. Love & Saffron
Kim Fay
*11. Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune
*13. The Final Case
David Guterson
*15. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
Helene Tursten
From the Hardcover Nonfiction List:
*7. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
*8. Good Enough
Kate Bowler, Jessica Richie
*13. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O’Rourke
*15. Unthinkable
Jamie Raskin
From the Paperback Fiction List:
*3. The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
*12. American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins
*14. The Cold Millions
Jess Walter
*15. The Overstory
Richard Powers
From the Paperback Nonfiction List:
*14. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Julian Sancton
*15. The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition
Brené Brown
From the Children’s Illustrated List:
*1. It Fell from the Sky
Terry Fan, Eric Fan
*2. Why Not You?
Ciara, Russell Wilson, Jessica Gibson (Illus.)
*3. Everything Will Be OK
Anna Dewdney, Judy Schachner (Illus.)
*4. Eyes That Speak to the Stars
Joanna Ho, Dung Ho (Illus.)
*5. Jamberry
Bruce Degen
*8. Not Quite Narwhal
Jessie Sima
*10. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.)
From the Early and Middle Readers List:
*3. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed
*5. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
*6. Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life
Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
*7. Forge Your Dragon World
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.)
*8. My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
*9. Map of Flames (The Forgotten Five, Book 1)
Lisa McMann
*10. Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper
From the Young Adult List:
*6. Here’s to Us
Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
*8. A Thousand Steps Into Night
Traci Chee
*9. The Giver
Lois Lowry
From the Children’s Series List:
*6. Into the Wild
(Warriors, #1)
Erin Hunter
*7. InvestiGators: Braver and Boulder
John Patrick Green
*9. Max and the Midknights: The Tower of Time
(Max & The Midknights #3)
Lincoln Peirce
*10. Good Girl, Bad Blood
(A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Book 2)
Holly Jackson