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| January 26 | 
Stubborn Twig Oregon State University Press $18.95 | Stubborn Twig In 1903, Masuo Yasui came to America and eventually became a successful orchardist and father of eight children. But the "relocation" of Japanese Americans during World War II caused Yasui to take his own life. The Yasui family opened its records and memories to Lauren Kessler, who writes a social history that rings with truth and drama. | Lauren Kessler | |
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| February 23 | 
Run Harper Perennial $14.95 | Run Set over a period of 24 hours, Run shows how worlds of privilege and poverty can coexist only blocks apart from each other, and how family can include the most unlikely of people, in this novel about secrets, duty, responsibility, and the lengths people will go to protect their children. | Ann Patchett | |
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| March 30 | 
Olive Kitteridge Random House Trade $14.00 | Olive Kitteridge "Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout's unforgettable novel in stories."
-O: The Oprah Magazine | Elizabeth Strout | |
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| April 27 | 
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Europa Editions $15.00 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog "Nobody ever imagined that this tender, funny book with a philosophical vein would have enjoyed such incredible success." -Le Monde | Muriel Barbery | |
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| May 25 | 
Great Expectations Signet Classics $4.95 | Great Expectations Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations is a powerful and moving novel suffused with the author's memories of the past and its grip on the present. | Charles Dickens | Tammy Freel |
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| June 29 |  Mister Pip Dial Press $12.00 | Mister Pip In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.
| Lloyd Jones | Mary Kerwin |
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| July 27 | 
The Housekeeper and the Professor Picador USA | He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. | Yoko Ogawa | |
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| August 31 | 
Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Linclon Simon & Schuster $21.00 | Part I Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in her #1 New York Times bestseller, as she chronicles the rise of the the one-term congressman/prairie lawyer from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
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| September 28 | 
Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Linclon Simon & Schuster $21.00 | Part II This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
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