Fiction

The beekeeper's apprentice : on the segregation of the queen by Laurie King

A bucket of ashes by P. B. Ryan

Children playing before a statue of Hercules : an anthology of outstanding short stories by edited by David Sedaris

Garden spells by Sarah Addison Allen

The ha-ha : a novel by Dave King

Lean mean thirteen by Janet Evanovich

A letter of Mary : a Mary Russell novel by Laurie R. King

The madonnas of Leningrad : a novel by Debra Dean

The pillars of the earth by Ken Follett

Regrets and promises by Dennis McGarry

The road by Cormac McCarthy

The rest of her life by Laura Moriarty

Seeing by José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Suite francaise by Irene Nemirovsky ; translated by Sandra Smith

Summerland by Michael Chabon

A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

The true story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

Water for elephants : a novel by Sara Gruen

Nonfiction

Escape by Carolyn Jessop ; with Laura Palmer

Feeling good : the new mood therapy by David D. Burns ; preface by Aaron T. Beck

The glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls

Insight dialogue : the interpersonal path to freedom by Gregory Kramer

Pygmalion : a romance in five acts : definitive text by Bernard Shaw

Love in the driest season : a family memoir by Neely Tucker

Truth & beauty : a friendship by Ann Patchett