We’re Number 4! We’re Number 4!
Arriving in Portland via Amtrak, after a literary jam session on the outskirts of Seattle, I was thrilled to discover that The Opposite Field had claimed the #4 spot on the 2009 bestseller list at the wonderfully independent neighborhood bookseller, Broadway Books.
I am right behind The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and just ahead of Stieg Larsson’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Actually, I am nudging out quite a few heavyweights, including Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greg Mortenson, Sherman Alexie, and the Commander-in-Chief himself. Perhaps nowhere else, but at 1714 NE Broadway I am to be reckoned with:
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Opposite Field, Jesse Katz
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
- The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch
- The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
- The Stubborn Twig, Lauren Kessler
- Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
- My Life in France, Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
- The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
- Pedaling Revolution, Jeff Mapes
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson with David Oliver Relin
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Run, Ann Patchett
- White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
- Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier
- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
- Lavinia, Ursula LeGuin
- Twilight, Stephenie Meyers
- The Book Thief, Mark Zusak
- Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama