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Fiction
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
The stunning third and final novel in Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy.
Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995
Russell's beautiful and inventive debut novel is a February Indie Next List Great Read.
The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February 2009 Indie Next List Great Read.
Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
Donoghue's brilliant novel about the bonds between parent and child.
A Discovery of Witches- Debut
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670022410
This richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and a mysterious manuscript is a February Indie Next List Great Read.
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Little Brown, $21.99, 9780316038393
A funny, new collection of animal-themed tales for adults by the bestselling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28, 9780374158460
The new novel by the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections is a September Indie Next List Great Read.
A Red Herring Without Mustard- Debut
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $23, 9780385342322
The beguiling new novel featuring the clever and unflappable 11-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce.
Tick Tock
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316037914
The exciting new Michael Bennett novel from the authors of Worst Case.
The Red Garden
Alice Hoffman, Crown, $25, 9780307393876
Hoffman's beautiful new novel about a small town in rural Massachusetts is a February Indie Next List Great Read.
ON THE RISE
I Think I Love You
Allison Pearson, Knopf , $24.95, 9781400042357
Pearson's latest novel is funny, moving, and full of observations about the awakenings of both youth and middle age.
Non-Fiction
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
The mesmerizing new book by the author of Seabiscuit in a December Indie Next List Great Read.
Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316001922
Pulitzer Prize-winner Schiff's masterful biography of Cleopatra is a November Indie Next List Great Read.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202841
Chua's tale of raising her children in the Chinese tradition is a January 2011 Indie Next List Great Read.
Life
Keith Richards, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316034388
The long-awaited autobiography of the legendary founding member of the Rolling Stones.
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, University of California Press, $34.95, 9780520267190
Volume one of Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography, in its entirety and exactly as he left it.
Known and Unknown: A Memoir- Debut
Donald Rumsfeld, Sentinel, $36, 9781595230676
A memoir by the former U.S. secretary of defense.
The Hidden Reality
Brian Greene, Knopf, $29.95, 9780307265630
A book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe?
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong, Knopf, $22.95, 9780307595591
Armstrong's latest is a practical book about how we can help make the world a more compassionate place.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Crown, $26, 9781400052172
A fascinating look at the world's first "immortal" human cells grown in culture to be used in medical research.
At Home
Bill Bryson, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780767919388
The latest by the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything is an October Indie Next List Great Read.
ON THE RISE
I Beat the Odds
Michael Oher, Gotham, $26, 9781592406128
The football star made famous in The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth.
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Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
The remarkable debut novel from the author of the memoir My Own Country
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
Helen Simonson's charming debut novel about the endearing Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired)
The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
Blake's stirring debut novel is set during WWII
The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671
Rachman's wry debut novel follows the lives of the staff of an international English-language newspaper in Rome
Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
Cleave's bestselling novel about a Nigerian refugee in England
True Grit
Charles Portis, Overlook, $14.95, 9781590204597
A new edition of Portis' classic novel and the basis for the new film directed by the Coen brothers
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967
A look at life through the eyes of Enzo, a mixed-breed pooch
Tinkers
Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123
Harding's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel looks at love, loss, and the beauty of nature
The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527
Schine's wonderful follow-up to her novel The New Yorkers
Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9781416586296
Walls follows up her bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, with this true-life novel about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith
ON THE RISE
Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307476012
Carey's funny new novel is set in early 19th-century America
Nonfiction
Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228
Rock icon Smith's memoir of her early years in New York and her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is a 2010 National Book Award winner
The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393338829
A highly entertaining look at the U.S. financial crisis by the author of Liar's Poker
Inside of a Dog
Alexandra Horowitz, Scribner, $16, 9781416583431
This bestseller explores what dogs know and how they think
Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven
Committed
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $16, 9780143118701
Gilbert's follow-up to her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love
The King's Speech
Mark Logue, Peter Conradi, Sterling, $14.95, 9781402786761
The inspiring tale of triumph over adversity is the tie-in to the film in theaters now
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307387943
The gripping true story of a man who chose to remain in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to protect his home and business
What the Dog Saw
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316076203
The best of Gladwell's writing from the New Yorker
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542
A lovely telling of a most bizarre upbringing
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $16, 9780143038252
An American's effort to open 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan
ON THE RISE
Country Driving
Peter Hessler, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061804106
The bestselling author of Oracle Bones looks at the human side of the economic revolution in China
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The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $18.99, 9781423113393
Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool, Delacorte, $16.99, 9780385738835
I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore, Harper, $17.99, 9780061969553
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $17.99, 9781423113386
Illustrated
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Philip Christian Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook, $16.99, 9781596434028
Silverlicious
Victoria Kann, Harper, $17.99, 9780061781230
Otis
Loren Long, Philomel, $8.99, 9780399256004
Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007
Fiction Series
The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback)
Rick Riordan, Miramax
Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback)
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
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