Local bestsellers

Sat., March 7, 2020

Overall best

1. “In Accelerated Silence,” Brooke Matson (Milkweed Editions)

2. “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America,” Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig (Penguin)

3. “American Dirt,” Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron)

4. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)

5. “Overstory,” Richard Powers (W. W. Norton)

6. “Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith,” by Timothy Egan (Viking)

7. “How to Resist Amazon and Why,” Danny Caine (Microcosm Pub)

8. “My Soul is Filled With Joy: A Holocaust Story,” by Karen I. Treiger (Stare Lipki Press)

9. “The Long Petal of the Sea,” Isabel Allende (Ballantine)

10. “There There,” Tommy Orange (Vintage)

Fiction

1. “American Dirt,” Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron)

2. “Overstory,” Richard Powers (W. W. Norton)

3. “The Long Petal of the Sea,” Isabel Allende (Ballantine)

4. “There There,” Tommy Orange (Vintage)

5. “Such a Fun Age,” Kiley Reid (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Nonfiction

1. “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America,” Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig (Penguin)

2. “Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith,” Timothy Egan (Viking)

3. “How To Resist Amazon and Why,” Danny Caine (Microcosm Pub)

4. “My Soul is Filled With Joy: A Holocaust Story,” Karen I. Treiger (Stare Lipki Press)

5. “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants,” Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)

Local fiction

1. “In Accelerated Silence,” Brooke Matson (Milkweed Editions)

2. “The Cassandra,” Sharma Shields (Henry Holt)

3. “We Live in Water,” Jess Walter (Harper Perennial)

4. “Bard of Sherman Avenue,” Tom Wobker

5. “Loki Ascending,” (Viking Warriors Book 3) Asa Maria Bradley (Sourcebooks)

Local nonfiction

1. “Spooky Spokane,” Chet Caskey (Inland Cascadia)

2. “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter,” Ben Goldfarb (Chelsea Green)

3. “Fifty Sandwiches,” Justin Doering

4. “Haunted Hillyard,” Chet Caskey (Inland Cascadia)

5. “The Spokane River,” ed. Paul Lindholdt (University of Washington Press)

Picture books

1. “Julian Is a Mermaid,” Jessica Love (Candlewick)

2. “The Pigeon Has to Go to School,” Mo Willems (Hyperion)

3. “Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett,” illustrated by Jon Klassen (Balzer + Bray)

4. “Big Moon Cake for Little Star,” by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)

5. “High Five by Adam Rubin,” illustrated by Daniel Salmieri (Penguin)

Early/mid readers

1. “The Mysterious Benedict Society,” (Book 1) by Trenton Lee Stewart, illustrated by Carson Ellis (Little, Brown)

2. “Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 14),” Jeff Kinney (Amulet)

3. “The One and Only Ivan,” Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins)

4. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” J.K. Rowling (Pottermore)

5. “Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky,” Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)

Young adult

1. “Wilder Girls,” Rory Power (Delacorte)

2. “The Conference of the Birds,” (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, Book 5) by Ransom Riggs (Dutton Books for Young Readers)

3. “Turtles All the Way Down,” John Greene (Penguin)

4. “Four: A Divergent Collection,” Veronica Roth (HarperCollins)

5. “Heroine,” Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins)

Lists compiled from information provided by Auntie’s Bookstore, the Well-Read Moose and Wishing Tree Books.