This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
Fiction
by Andrea Barrett
W. W. Norton & Company
by Elise Blackwell
The Toby Press
by Nadine Gordimer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
by Janette Turner Hospital
W. W. Norton & Company
Nonfiction
by Diane Ackerman
W. W. Norton & Company
by Orhan Pamuk
Knopf
Young Adult Literature
by Sherman Alexie
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Travel or Gift Books
by Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
by Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
by Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
by Jean-Jacques Sempe
Universe
by
Taschen
by Harry Seidler
Taschen
Fiction
by Ghalib Lakhnavi, Abdullah Bilgrami
Modern Library
by Leonie Swann
Flying Dolphin Press
by Xiaolu Guo
Nan A. Talese
Non-Fiction/Humor
by Lemony Snicket
McSweeney's
by Vic Darkwood
Thomas Dunne Books
Kids' Books
by Chuck Fischer
Little, Brown and Company
by Dawn Casey, casey Dawn
Barefoot Books
by Deborah Nash
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
by Sharon Creech
HarperCollins
by Sharon Creech
HarperCollins
by Sharon Creech
HarperCollins
by Edward Eager
Sandpiper
by Edward Eager
Sandpiper
by Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick
by Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick
by Michelle Sinclair Colman
Tricycle Press
by Steve Jenkins
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
by Kevin Sherry
Dial
by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
by Sharon Creech
HarperCollins
by Gennifer Choldenko
Harcourt Children's Books
Fiction
by Keri Hulme
Penguin (Non-Classics)
by Roger MacDonald
Penguin (Non-Classics)
by Jim Shepard
Knopf
by Dinaw Mengestu
Riverhead Hardcover
by Rawi Hage
Steerforth
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Unbridled Books
by Lloyd Jones
The Dial Press
Nonfiction
by Aaron McGruder
Three Rivers Press
by Marcus Rediker
Viking Adult
by Francisco Goldman
Grove Press
by Adrienne L. Childs
Pomegranate Communications
by Cait Murphy
Smithsonian