'Tis the Season!

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

By Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a story of the unconquerable spirit of a people seen through the eyes of two indomitable women.

2. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

In this revealing autobiography, Steve Martin chronicles his evolution as a comedian from the age of ten through his meteoric success in the late 1970's.

3. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert

I Am America (and So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.

4. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore's irreverent, iconoclastic, and hilarious tale of the early life of Jesus Christ as witnessed by his boyhood pal, Biff.

5. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks turns his talents to a tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make.

6. The Dangerous Book for Boys

Covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and much more.

7. The Daring Book for Girls

Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all.

8. The Entitled by Frank Deford

In The Entitled, six-time National Sportswriter of the Year and NPR commentator Frank Deford takes the reader deep inside the game of baseball and evokes the roles of the players as well as the one man who can make or break a team and a season.

9. The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism

For lovers of words and seekers of wisdom, a lively history of aphorisms—the shortest and oldest written art form—and the intriguing people who have penned them, from the Buddha to Emily Dickinson.

10. This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley

In this essential book of tips, practical advice, and wisdom, Walter Mosley promises that the writer-in-waiting can finish his or her novel in one year.