Hardcover Nonfiction
- High Tech Startup: The Complete How-to Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies, by John L. Nesheim (Electronic Trend Publications)
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press)
- How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization, by Jeffrey J. Fox (Hyperion)
- The Promise of Sleep, by William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan (Delacorte Press)
- Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss (Random House)
Hardcover Fiction
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson (Avon Books)
- An Equal Music, by Vikram Seth (Broadway Books)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books)
- The Hours, by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet, by Salman Rushdie (Henry Holt and Company)