As if there isn't enough to deal with right now, don't forget next year! Here are Book Sense's picks for January:
- The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman (Scribner, $27.50, 074323300X).
- Gentlemen & Players: A Novel by Joanne Harris (Morrow, $24.95, 0060559144).
- The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster (Holt, $24, 0805077146).
- The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words by Peter E. Meltzer (Marion Street Press, $16.95 paper, 0972993797).
- Arthur & George: A Novel by Julian Barnes (Knopf, $24.95, 030726310X).
- The World to Come: A Novel by Dara Horn (Norton, $24.95, 0393051072).
- The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons (Harcourt, $23, 0151012040).
- Blindfold Game: A Thriller by Dana Stabenow (St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95, 031234323X).
- A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich (Yale University Press, $25, 0300108834).
- Leonardo's Swans: A Novel by Karen Essex (Doubleday, $21.95, 0385517068).
- The People's Act of Love by James Meek (Canongate, $24, 1841957305).
- The House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez, illustrated by Peter Sís (Harcourt, $18, 0151011478).
- The Accidental: A Novel by Ali Smith (Pantheon, $22.95, 0375422250).
- Mademoiselle Benoir: A Novel by Christine Conrad (Houghton Mifflin, $20, 0618574794).
- Love Walked In: A Novel by Marisa de los Santos (Dutton, $23.95, 0525949178).
- The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford (Oxford University Press, $26, 0195189779).
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin, $28, 061834697X).
- The Masque of the Black Tulip: A Novel by Lauren Willig (Dutton, $24.95, 0525949208).
- Life's Little Annoyances: True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore by Ian Urbina (Times Books, $15, 0805080309).
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Vintage, $14.95 paper, 1400079276).