| 2009 | Book Title | Description | Author |
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| January 26 |  Death of Ivan Ilyich Modern Library $9.95 | Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy |
| February 23 | 
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Sarah Crichton Books $12.00 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war, goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare. More about this book | Ishmael Beah |
| March 30 | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns Riverhead Books $16.00 | A Thousand Splendid Suns With heart-wrenching power and suspense, the bestselling author of The Kite Runner shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. | Khaleu Hosseidi |
| April 27 | 
Hearts of Horses Mariner Books $13.95 | Hearts of Horses With an elegant sweetness and a pitch-perfect sense of western life reminiscent of Annie Dillard, Gloss's breakout novel is a remarkable story about the connections between people and animals and how they touch one another in the most unexpected and profound ways. | Molly Gloss |
| May 25 | 
Honey in the Horn University of Idaho Press $19.95 | Honey in the Horn In this epic work by award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist H.L. Davis, the virtues of the frontier live again in the lives and characters of Oregon settlers during the homesteading period from 1906-1908. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. | H. L. Davis |
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| September 28 |  Suite Francaise Vintage Books USA $14.95 | Suite Francaise An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. | Irene Nemirovsky |
| October 27 | 
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. "I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful that I kept forgetting they weren't my actual friends and neighbors. Treat yourself to this book please--I can't recommend it highly enough."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows |
| November 24 |  The Ginseng Hunter Anchor Books $13.95 | The Ginseng Hunter Set at the turn of the 21st century in China, this novel follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter. He is little aware of the world outside until shadowy figures hiding in the fields and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. | Jeff Talargio |
| December 29 | (none) | | |