What Does Your Book do After it Goes Clubbing? It Takes a Bookrest.

When I talked to booksellers about what they were selling like crazy last Christmas (aside from books) that we didn't have, the two things that came up again and again were Buckyballs and Bookseats.

I still can't bring myself to order in Buckyballs, having nightmares about me acciedentally swallowing one of the magnets (or worse, two of them), but maybe I will someday be able to bring myself to do it. Theyare very popular and fun--tiny magnets that you can mold into mini sculptures.

That said, we've brought in Bookseats, somewhat vaguely recalling the Peeramid Bookrests that Schwartz sold several years ago, only a little more moldable, and with a lucite holder for the book.

But where to put them? Aha! A re-jiggered book club display. And did I tell you what books we were featuring for the winter? I don't think I did. Well, here you go:

Award Winners

Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

Tinkers, by Paul Harding

The Girl who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi Durrow

A Long, Long Time ago and Essentially True, by Brigid Pasulka

The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson

Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon

Big Stories (I don't know what this means, but I like labels.)

The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer

The Slap, by Christos Tsiolkas (which I'm currently reading for our upcoming in-store book club discussion)

Secrest of Eden, by Chris Bohjalian

The Surrendered, by Chang-Rae Lee

The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson

Fact to Fiction

Half-Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls

Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Cheavlier

The Women, by T.C. Boyle (event tonight 2/24)

Alice I Have Been, by Melanie Benjamin

Pearl of China, by Anchee Min

Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead

Nonfiction

Just Kids, by Patti Smith

Inside of a Dog, by Alexandra Stoddard

Country Driving, by Peter Hessler

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew Crawford

Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers.

Come in and pick up a book club flier and try out a Bookseat, which come in eight colors. The book club flier only comes in pink