| 2009 | Book Ttile | Description | Author |
| | | |
| January 14 | 
Twilight Megan Tingley Books $10.99 | Twilight Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. When she meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen--a vampire--her life takes a thrilling and terrifying romantic turn. | Stephenie Meyer |
| February 11 | 
In the Woods Penguin Books $14.00 | In the Woods A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. | Tana French |
| March 11 |  The Highest Tide Bloomsbury Publishing, PLC $14.95 | The Highest Tide While the sea continues to offer him discoveries from its mysterious depths, such as a giant squid, a teenaged boy struggles to deal with the difficulties that come with the equally mysterious process of growing up. | Jim Lynch |
| April 8 | 
People of the Book Penguin Books 15.00 | People of the Book You'll hold your breath and hope with all your might that the beautiful Sarajevo Haggadah and its protectors make it through another day. Told in flashbacks, this book is an easy way to absorb snippets of history while enjoying a contem- porary story of family relationships and self-discovery. Learning about book conservation is a bonus. The story of the creation of the Haggadah continues to haunt me. | Geraldine Brooks |
| May 13 |  Sonata for Miriam Penguin Books $15.00 | Sonata for Miriam Olsson's first novel, Astrid & Veronika, introduced readers to the author's extraordinary understanding of human relationships. With her second work, she once again charts that terrain in a haunting tale of loss, love, and human connection. | Linda Olsson |
| June 10 |  Still Alice Pocket Books $15.00 | Still Alice Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by a first-time author who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind and Ordinary People, this work packs an emotional punch. | Lisa Genova |
| July 8 | 
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. Photographs. | Lauren Kessler |
| August 12 |  The Soloist Berkeley Publishing Group $15.00 | The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music "Written with elegant spareness, there are no punches pulled in this portrait of Nathaniel Ayers, but God do you root and hope and pray for him. Many books claim to be about redemption and the affirmation of the human spirit, but they are false gospels. The Soloist is singularly and unforgettably true in all respects."
--Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights.
| Steve Lopez |
| September 9 | 
Oxygen Simon & Schuster $15.00 | Oxygen "In Oxygen, Carol Cassella's taut novel, Dr. Marie Heaton, an assured anesthesiologist at the top of her game, is forced to face the personal and professional fallout from an operating room disaster. Marie finds herself on the losing end of dollars-and-cents medicine in a malpractice suit, questioning herself, her skills, her colleagues, and her life choices. I couldn't wait to race to the end to see how her story played out, and I wasn't disappointed." -- Lalita Tademy, author of Cane River. | Carol Cassella |
| October 14 |  Those Who Save Us Harvest Books $14.00 | Those Who Save Us "Jenna Blum's accomplished first novel, Those Who Save Us, is both vast and intimate in its reach . . . Utterly believable . . .An absorbing tale of two women's struggles with the burdens and responsibilities of remembrance." --The Boston Globe | Jenna Blum |
| November 11 | 
When Autumn Leaves Overlook Press $14.95 | When Autumn Leaves This endlessly surprising and heart-warming debut is the story of coming to terms with the magical things we take for granted every day-our friends, our community, and, most of all, ourselves. | Amy S. Foster |
| December 9 | 
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Dial Press $14.00 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. | Mary Ann Shafer & Annie Barrows |