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This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review

Against the Day

by Thomas Pynchon

The Penguin Press

The Lay of the Land

by Richard Ford

Knopf

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

Knopf

Giraffe: A Novel

by J. M. Ledgard

Penguin Press HC, The

The Emperor's Children

by Claire Messud

Knopf

Forgetfulness

by Ward Just

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Echo Maker: A Novel

by Richard Powers

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Awake in the Dark: Stories

by Shira Nayman

Scribner

Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves

by Helene Grimaud

Riverhead Hardcover

The Emperor's Children

by Claire Messud

Knopf

The Keep

by Jennifer Egan

Knopf

All Aunt Hagar's Children

by Edward P. Jones

Amistad Press

The Meaning of Night: A Confession

by Michael Cox

W. W. Norton & Company

The Night Gardener

by George Pelecanos

Little, Brown and Company

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

by

Henry Holt and Co.

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

by Michael Isikoff, David Corn

Crown

Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration

by Seth Shulman

University of California Press

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Viking Adult

Uncommon Carriers

by John McPhee

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Dinah Paul, A Likely Story Children’s Bookstore

Flotsam

by David Wiesner

Clarion Books

Dooby Dooby Moo

by Doreen Cronin

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Library Lion

by Michelle Knudsen

Candlewick

Clementine

by Sara Pennypacker

Hyperion Book CH

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

by Kate DiCamillo

Candlewick

The Interruption of Everything

by Terry McMillan

Viking Adult

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by Walter Mosley

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

So Few of Me

by Peter H. Reynolds

Candlewick

Framed

by Frank Cottrell Boyce

HarperCollins

Fairest

by Gail Carson Levine

HarperCollins

The Green Glass Sea

by Ellen Klages

Viking Juvenile

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party

by M.T. Anderson

Candlewick

A Creature Was Stirring

by Clement Clarke Moore, Carter Goodrich

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

The Miracle of Hanukkah

by Seymour Chwast

Blue Apple Books

Todd Stewart
Co-owner, Vertigo Books

Red Weather: A Novel

by Pauls Toutonghi

Shaye Areheart Books

The Last Town on Earth: A Novel

by Thomas Mullen

Random House

Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe

by Doreen Baingana

Broadway

Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

by Hakan Nesser

Pantheon

Chourmo (Marseilles Trilogy)

by Jean-Claude Izzo

Europa Editions

Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

by Nicholas Lemann

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Voices of Time: A Life in Stories

by Eduardo Galeano

Metropolitan Books

A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

W. W. Norton & Company

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

by Bill Bryson

Broadway

Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension

by Sally Price, Richard Price

University of Pennsylvania Press