But the star of the evening was the perfect book choice: Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami.
These are homes where authors turned ideas into page-turners, and maybe even inspired the next book choice you dust off the shelf.
Showing us a river of covers, or curating reviews, or ranking by star ratings can only get us so far in solving the book choice problem.
"After the hyper growth in the e-book market over the last few years, consumers have settled into their book formats of choice, and while e-books will continue to drive growth in the book category in the future, physical book sales will have a longer tail (or longer life expectancy) than previously anticipated, " he said in a call with investors.
Patterson, who was named Children's Choice Book Award Author of the Year in 2010, has sold an estimated 260 million copies of his books worldwide.
"Haddon's book was the 'people's choice' for the best book of 2003 as the public went on to buy over four times as many copies of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time than the Man Booker 2003 winner Vernon God Little, " said Mr Pack.
Alex Rae, the back issue buyer for Midtown Comics, one of the nation's largest comic book dealers located in New York, said if he had his choice of any comic book in the world, it would be the one just purchased.
The book publishing business has a choice now about where it will go next.
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Book of Heroes is the perfect choice for World of Warcraft or other MMO players looking for a mobile option during the holiday season.
As Barry Schwartz explains in his fascinating book, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, there are two types of decision makers.
This reviewer's choice as the best book of the year, however, goes to a slim volume put out by Oxford University Press that deserves to be a classic.
Throwing the book at minor offenders is a policy choice made by state lawmakers.
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Individuals have to make an affirmative choice to acquire and read a book.
But as of 2009, Etihad Airways of the United Arab Emirates remains the top choice for business travelers and those who book their flights.
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Bill Bryson's Down Under, which is probably the most widely read book on modern-day Australia, was a popular choice, and one that I would endorse.
The promise of stronger sales and profits will make it hard to resist tinkering with a book in response to such signals, adding a few choice words here, trimming a chapter there, maybe giving a key character a quick makeover.
Print books are also the most popular choice when people want to borrow or lend a book.
The Internet was supposed to be about the long tail: In 2004 Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote a seminal article describing how the Web would create limitless choice and revive interest in deep reaches of music, book and video archives.
The more interesting bits of the book tend to be thrown in almost as incidental facts dictating Britain's momentous choice.
Finally, if the choice in the media thus far to highlight not the contribution that this book represents but instead that Ms. Sandberg once hugged Mark Zuckerberg or turned down a job to have a baby is any indication, Lean In and the lessons inside are not only tremendously relevant, but are also still necessary for many to learn.
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Earlier this year, the two men sat down in Mr Cartier-Bresson's book-lined apartment overlooking the Tuileries Gardens to make the final selection from his initial choice of 300 prints.
The two-night package includes a cooking class, hiking, boating, yoga, fishing and a choice of any current New York Times bestseller (no, not an e-book).
An established brand in its own right, Sex and the City is cosmopolitan - its cocktail of choice as well as the lifestyle celebrated in the newspaper column turned best-selling book turned blockbuster television series turned A-list film.
Whenever I read the book I feel that the place was never meant to be ours, but we did not have a choice, and then we were made to think that it would not be ours by the arrival of others.
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