The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman;  Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather ;  An Improvised Life: A Memoir – Arlin Arkin;  Someone Will Be With You Shortly – Lisa Kogan;  The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins;  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Jean-Dominique Bauby;  Chinaberry – James Still ;  Little Bee – Chris Cleave;  The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey – Walter Mosley ;  Best Friends – Martha Moody;  I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb;  The Teahouse Fire – Ellis Avery;  Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope, in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo