As booksellers we are bombarded, on a daily basis, with new arrivals, review copies and ARCs or "review copies," that is, uncorrected proofs of books soon to be in print. As a result, it is easy to forget books we have read and loved in the recent past. Our booksellers have compiled lists of a baker's dozen of their favorites in the last twelve years for you to check out. Categories vary, but there is sure to be something here to suggest to your book group or pick up for a chilly winter night.

BJ

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Collected Short Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote

Blue Iris by Mary Oliver

Never Change by Elizabeth Berg

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Illus. Michael Hague

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Illus. Inga Moore

Chief Joseph and the Tragic Flight of the Nez Perce by Kent Nerburn

Chasing Vermeer: The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett

Reader's Digest 700 Years of Classical Treasures by Reader's Digest

JOYCE

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Straight Man by Richard Russo

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Black Genius and the American Experience by Dick Russell

Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

A Child Is Born by Lennart Nilsson

Earth From Above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

GRETCHEN

Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Bread Alone: Bold, Fresh Loaves from Your Own Hands by Daniel Leader

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild by Mem Fox

Zen Shorts by Jon Muth

Little Hands Art Book: Exploring Arts & Crafts with 2 to 6 Year Olds by Judy Press

God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver

Bread Upon the Waters by Peter Reinhart

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and translated by Katherine Woods

PAULA

Happiness by Will Ferguson

Q & A by Vikas Swarup

Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky

Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende

Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro

Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser

Wounded by Percival Everett

Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

We Want Freedom by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

Now & Then: Poems by Gil Scott-Heron

Skippyjon Jones by Judith Schachner

Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson

MIMI

The Ice Child by Elizabeth McGregor

The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

A Road Through the Mountains by Elizabeth McGregor

In Revere In Those Days by Roland Merullo

Power of One by Frank Courtenay

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

AMBER

Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

Body and Soul by Frank Conroy

The Golden Compass Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales & Their Tellers by Marina Warner

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower

Fables (graphic novel series) by Bill Willingham

The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

MAGOO

How I Paid for College by Marc Acito

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison

Pure Heathen Mischief by Martin Clark

Rear View by Pete Duval

Midddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Blast From the Past by Kinky Friedman

Confession of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer

Something Rising Light & Sweet by Haven Kimmel

The Ha-Ha by Dave King

Cool for You by Eileen Myles

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

Puff by Bob Flaherty

KEN

1776 by David McCullough

The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw

Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

John Adams by David McCullough

Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Passionate Sage by Joseph Ellis

Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Raise the Titantic! by Clive Cussler

AARON

Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nercessian

Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Paint It Black by Janet Fitch

Goat by Brad Land

Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper

Dry by Augusten Burroughs

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Lamb by Christopher Moore

Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan Kennedy

ELLEN

The Ha-Ha by Dave King

Q & A by Vikas Swarup

Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman

The Eight by Katherine Neville

The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy by Nick Bantock

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo