Hardcover Nonfiction
- Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America by Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry (Brookings Institution Press)
- Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders by Mary Pipher (Riverhead Books)
- High Tech Startup: The Complete How-to Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies by John L. Nesheim (Electronic Trend Publications)
- Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System by Bill Gates (Warner Books)
- Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom (Doubleday)
Hardcover Fiction
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (Scribner)
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie (Henry Holt and Company)
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperFlamingo)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books)