This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
by Thomas Pynchon
The Penguin Press
by Richard Ford
Knopf
by Cormac McCarthy
Knopf
by J. M. Ledgard
Penguin Press HC, The
by Claire Messud
Knopf
by Ward Just
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
by Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Shira Nayman
Scribner
by Helene Grimaud
Riverhead Hardcover
by Claire Messud
Knopf
by Jennifer Egan
Knopf
by Edward P. Jones
Amistad Press
by Michael Cox
W. W. Norton & Company
by George Pelecanos
Little, Brown and Company
by
Henry Holt and Co.
by Michael Isikoff, David Corn
Crown
by Seth Shulman
University of California Press
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Viking Adult
by John McPhee
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dinah Paul, A Likely Story Children’s Bookstore
by David Wiesner
Clarion Books
by Doreen Cronin
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
by Michelle Knudsen
Candlewick
by Sara Pennypacker
Hyperion Book CH
by Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick
by Terry McMillan
Viking Adult
by Walter Mosley
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
by Peter H. Reynolds
Candlewick
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
HarperCollins
by Gail Carson Levine
HarperCollins
by Ellen Klages
Viking Juvenile
by M.T. Anderson
Candlewick
by Clement Clarke Moore, Carter Goodrich
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
by Seymour Chwast
Blue Apple Books
by Pauls Toutonghi
Shaye Areheart Books
by Thomas Mullen
Random House
by Doreen Baingana
Broadway
by Hakan Nesser
Pantheon
by Jean-Claude Izzo
Europa Editions
by Nicholas Lemann
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Eduardo Galeano
Metropolitan Books
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
W. W. Norton & Company
by Bill Bryson
Broadway
by Sally Price, Richard Price
University of Pennsylvania Press