FICTION:

1. Embers, Sandor Marai
2. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
3. The Lives of Rocks, Rick Bass
4. The Foreign Correspondent, Alan Furst
5. Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger
6. The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McKewan
7. I Sailed with Magellan, Stuart Dybak
8. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
9. The Dying Animal, Philip Roth
10. Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison
11. Later the Same Day, Grace Paley
12. Devotion, Howard Norman
13. Falling Man, Don DeLillo
14. Spook Country, William Gibson
15. On Chesil Beach, Ian McKewan
16. Youth and The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
17. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

NON-FICTION

1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
2. An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
3. Where Books Fall Open, Bascove
4. Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman
5. The Boston Harbor Islands, Sherman Morss
6. Lifework, Donald Hall
7. So Many Books, So Little Time, Sara Nelson
8. A Reading Diary, Albert Manguel
9. Rereadings, Anne Fadiman
10. Through the Children’s Gate, Adam Gopnik
11. Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
12. A Pound of Paper, John Baxter
13. Vegetable, Animal, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
14. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
15. The Little Book of Commonsense Investing, John Bogle
16. Mahler: His Life and Music, Stephen Johnson
17. Wandering Home, Bill McKibben
18. Time and Tide, Frank Conroy
19. Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuscinski
20. Cape Wind, Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb
21. At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman
22. Never a City so Real, Alex Kotlowitz
23. Mozart, Peter Gay
24. The Health Care Mess, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein
25. Your Money or Your Life, David Cutler
26. Sick, Jonathan Cohn
27. Post Secrets, Frank Warren

POETRY:

1. Saving Daylight, Jim Harrison
2. On Earth, Robert Creeley
3. Curves and Angles, Brad Leithauser
4. Messenger, Ellen Voigt
5. Strong is Your Hold, Galway Kinnell
6. White Apples and the Taste of Stone, Donald Hall
7. On Retirement, Robin Chapman and Judith Strosser, editors
8. The Blizzard Voices, Ted Kooser
9. Pursuit of a Wound, Sidney Lea

GARDENING AND NATURE:

1. Stone, Andy Goldsworthy
2. The Potting Shed, Charles Elliott
3. Over the Mountains: An Aerial View of Geology, Michael Collier
4. The Desert Year, Joseph Wood Krutch
5. Reflections from the North Country, Sigurd Olson

MYSTERY:

1. Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
2. Echo Park, Michael Connelly
3. High Profile, Robert Parker
4. Deal Breaker, Harlen Coben
5. Aqua Alta, Donna Leon
6. Prayers for Rain, Dennis Lehane
7. The Overlook, Michael Connelly
8. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon