Our Staff Recommends

Chicago Indie Bookstores' Bestsellers

in December 2009.... Have you read these?

FICTION

1. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
4. Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
5. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

NONFICTION

1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. Imperial Cruise by James Bradley
3. SuperFreakonomics by Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner
4. True Compass by Edward Kennedy
5. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
3. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
4. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
3. The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson
4. American Lion by Jon Mecham
5. My Life in France by Julia Child 

The New York Times’  10 Best Books of 2009

FICTION

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy

Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls

A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

NONFICTION

The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

The Good Soldiers by David Finkel

LIT:  A Memoir by Mary Karr

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

Raymond Carver:  A Writer’s Life  by Carol Sklenicka