The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and PNBA, 
for the week ended Sunday, December 27, 2020. Based on reporting from the 
independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and 
IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
2. Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline, Ballantine, $28.99, 9781524761332
3. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
4. The Searcher
Tana French, Viking, $27, 9780735224650
5. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
6. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99, 9780765387561
7. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
8. The Cold Millions
Jess Walter, Harper, $28.99, 9780062868084
9. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
10. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
11. Deacon King Kong
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735216723
12. A Time for Mercy
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545969
13. Perestroika in Paris
Jane Smiley, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525520351
14. A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik, Del Rey, $28, 9780593128480
15. Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $34.99, 9780765326386
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. A Promised Land
Barack Obama, Crown, $45, 9781524763169
2. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
3. What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35, 9780307957894
4. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
5. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
6. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
7. Bag Man
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz, Crown, $28, 9780593136683
8. The Best of Me
David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $30, 9780316628242
9. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, $35, 9781476753836
10. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $30, 9780593139134
11. Wintering
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $24, 9780593189481
12. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $35, 9781571311771
13. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138
14. Modern Comfort Food
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780804187060
15. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
2. Home Body
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486808
3. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263
4. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
5. The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $18, 9780399590610
6. Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17, 9780802148506
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
8. The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis, Vintage, $16.95, 9780593314654
9. The Best American Short Stories 2020
Curtis Sittenfeld, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $16.99, 9781328485373
10. Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu, Vintage, $16, 9780307948472
11. Something Worth Doing
Jane Kirkpatrick, Revell, $15.99, 9780800736118
12. An American Sunrise: Poems
Joy Harjo, Norton, $15.95, 9780393358483
13. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
14. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17, 9781984822185
15. Deep River
Karl Marlantes, Grove Press, $20, 9780802148971
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18, 9780525560739
2. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
3. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
4. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
5. One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Brian Doyle, Back Bay, $17.99, 9780316492881
6. rough house: a memoir
Tina Ontiveros, Oregon State University Press, $18.95, 9780870710339
7. What Unites Us
Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, Algonquin Books, $16.95, 9781616209940
8. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254
9. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
Timothy Egan, Penguin, $18, 9780735225251
10. Northwest Trees: Identifying and Understanding the Region's Native Trees
Stephen Arno, Ramona Hammerly (Illus.), Mountaineers Books, $19.95, 9781680513295
11. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
12. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
13. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
14. All That the Rain Promises and More
David Arora, Ten Speed Press, $17.99, 9780898153880
15. The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $8.99, 9781250318541
4. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
5. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $7.99, 9780812550702
6. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9780765365279
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
8. The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper Voyager, $8.99, 9780061054884
9. The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski, Orbit, $8.99, 9780316029186
10. A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin, Graphia Books, $8.99, 9780547773742
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Cozy
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593109793
2. The Shortest Day
Susan Cooper, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9780763686987
3. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
4. The Night Before Christmas
Clement C. Moore, Loren Long (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062869463
5. What We'll Build: Plans For Our Together Future
Oliver Jeffers, Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593206751
6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780394800790
7. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
8. Cocoa's Cranky Christmas: Can You Cheer Him Up?
Beth Hughes, Thomas Nelson, $9.99, 9781400221943
9. Every Night Is Pizza Night
J.Kenji López-Alt, Gianna Ruggiero (Illus.), Norton Young Readers, $17.95, 9781324005254
10. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780544580145
 
EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE READERS 
1. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338712766
2. The Ickabog
J K. Rowling, Scholastic, $26.99, 9781338732870
3. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194
4. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Monica Armino (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $16.99, 9780062895936
5. A Whale of the Wild
Rosanne Parry, Lindsay Moore (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $17.99, 9780062995926
6. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908
7. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $9.95, 9781616207465
8. Twins
Varian Johnson, Shannon Wright (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338236132
9. Class Act
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062885500
10. Pax
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $8.99, 9780062377029
 
YOUNG ADULT 
1. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680
2. Legendborn
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $18.99, 9781534441606
3. Clap When You Land
Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $18.99, 9780062882769
4. Instant Karma
Marissa Meyer, Feiwel & Friends, $18.99, 9781250618818
5. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
6. Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko, Amulet, $18.99, 9781419739828
7. The Fountains of Silence
Ruta Sepetys, Penguin, $11.99, 9780142423639
8. Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062996480
9. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
10. Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai (Illus.), Levine Querido, $18.99, 9781646140053
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419748684
2. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338535624
3. Happy Narwhalidays (Narwhal and Jelly, #5)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $12.99, 9780735262515
4. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, Book One)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic, $6.99, 9780545349239
5. Midnight Sun (Twilight)
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $27.99, 9780316707046
6. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
7. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316201568
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
9. Front Desk
Kelly Yang, Arthur A. Levine Books, $7.99, 9781338157826
10. Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781442472433