Staff Picks 2009

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

Fiction

Lace Reader
• All Other Nights by Dara Horn
• Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
• Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
• Chateau Beyond Time by Michael Tobias
• Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
• Darling Jim by Christian Moerk
• Fool by Christopher Moore
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Help by Kathyrn Stockett
• Lace Reader by Brumonia Barry
• Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
• Letter From Point Clear by Dennis McFarland
• A Manuscript of Ashes by Antonio Munoz Molina
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• Q & A by Vikas Swarup
• So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• The Spare Room by Helen Garner
• The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
• Two Rivers by T. Greenwood

Nonfiction

Infidel
• Animals Make us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
• The Bad Mother: a Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman
• Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
• Here If You Need Me: a True Story by Kate Braestrup
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi
• The Legend of the Curse of the Bambino by Dan Shaughnessy
• Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less by Marc Lesser
• Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill
• Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl
• The Soloist: a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman