FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks’ Fred Meyer stores have sold more copies of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” than the company’s Anchorage sites, but the store in Palin’s hometown of Wasilla is the retailer’s best at selling the former Alaska governor’s memoir.

“The sales of Palin’s book are just rocking in Alaska,” Fred Meyer spokeswoman Melinda Merrill said.

Fred Meyer has 130 stores, and the 11 Alaska stores have sold 40 percent of the chain’s copies of “Going Rogue,” Merrill said.

“Nothing compares to Harry Potter, but she has a strong-selling hardcover book and has already outsold the last John Grisham novel, which was released in February,” Merrill said. “Grisham is usually a really big seller. ‘Going Rogue’ is a very popular book.”

Elsewhere in Fairbanks, the first-week sales of the Palin memoir at Barnes & Noble are on par with the popular “Twilight” series, the store’s manager said.

Locally owned Gulliver’s Books has sold 70 copies of “Going Rogue,” according to manager Maria Papp, who characterized Palin’s book sales there as “OK.”

By comparison, former Alaska Lt. Gov. Jack Coghill’s life story, “Growing up in Alaska,” sold about 100 copies within hours of its release last month, she said. Coghill held book signings at the store.

According to Nielsen Bookscan, a New York-based company that tracks book sales at major retailers such as Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and Costco, “Going Rogue” was the highest-selling book last week, beating the latest offerings by best-selling authors such as Stephen King and Dan Brown. Palin, the former GOP vice presidential contender, sold nearly half a million copies of her memoir in the days after its Nov. 16 release, according to Nielsen Bookscan. That’s not including sales at Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, BJ’s Wholesale Club and library purchases.

Publisher HarperCollins puts first-week book sales at 700,000 copies, according to The New York Times.

“Going Rogue” sold better its first week, according to Nielsen Bookscan, than “The Audacity of Hope” by President Obama, “Living History” by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and “Why Courage Matters” by U.S. Sen. John McCain, who made Palin a household name by choosing her as his running mate in last year’s presidential election.

Only President Clinton’s memoir, “My Life,” sold better its first week than Palin’s memoir, according to Nielsen Bookscan, which compared memoirs of current or past presidents along with vice presidential and presidential contenders published since 2002.

Fairbanks Barnes & Noble manager Eric Niewohner said Palin’s memoir was the best-selling book in the store last week and that he expects that to extend to this week.

“I knew this would be a big book, so I got plenty,” he said. “If you are a Sarah Palin fan, you are going to like it. If you’re not, you’re not.”

Papp, the manager at Gulliver’s, said her store has about 30 copies on its shelves and 50 more copies coming next week.

“They are trickling out,” she said. “I’ll be surprised if we sell much more than 100 copies. People are losing interest.”

An assistant manager reached at the Fairbanks Wal-Mart referred calls to the company’s Tennessee-based book distributor, whose offices were closed.