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We live year-round with books. Often, we've hardly finished one before we're deep into another. More often we're reading three or four concurrently, but let's put that awkward fact aside and skip to the point: Each January, we stop to give thanks for the new releases we enjoyed most during the prior year. So without further ado, Powells.com staff members present their favorites of 2002. (See staff favorites from 2001.)
Sandy Koufax Dave Weich
  Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy
   Songbook by Nick Hornby
   When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
   The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
   Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt
   The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
   Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz
   Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
   Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott

Lost Amy Antonio
  Lost by Ian Phillips
   Reinventing the Wheel by Jessica Helfand
   Prefab by Allison Arieff
   Polaroids by Walker Evans
   Climbing Out by Brian Ralph
   The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934 by Deborah Wye
   William Eggleston's Guide by John Szarkowski
   Street Market by Barry McGee
   Twilight by Gregory Crewdson
   Cuba Style by Steven Heller and Vicki Gold Levi
   In Almost Every Picture by Erik Kessels

Martin Sloane Georgie Lewis
  Martin Sloane by Micheal Redhill
   Atonement by Ian McEwan
   Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
   Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
   Fraud by David Rakoff
   Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press by Kristina Borjesson
   Nobody's Perfect: Writings from the New Yorker by Anthony Lane
   A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
   True Enough by Stephen McCauley

Moral Hazard C. P. Farley
  Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
   Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin
   Atonement by Ian McEwan
   The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
   The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
   You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
   The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
   The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics by Bruce Schulman
   Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
   Heaven and Earth by D. Mallin

The Russian Debutante's Handbook Ann Ellenbecker
  The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
   Mendeleyev's Dream by Paul Strathern
   The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza
   Be My Knife by David Grossman
   A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
   Chuck Close by Chuck Close
   Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate
   Youth by J. M. Coetzee
   The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
   Ciao Italia in Umbria by Mary Ann Esposito
   Hondo and Fabian by Peter McCarty

The Scar Mathias Hansson
  The Scar by China Miéville
   White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
  Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
   The Mind of Egypt by Jan Assmann
   Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

Empire Falls Chris Bolton
  Empire Falls by Richard Russo
   Coraline by Neil Gaiman
   Lucky Us by Joan Silber
   The 25th Hour by David Benioff

When the Emperor Was Devine Miel Alegre
  When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
   Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris
   A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
   Michael Chiarello's Casual Cooking by Michael Chiarello

The Golden Compass Sam Whitmore
  The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
   The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
   The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

American Gods Chris Valaas
  American Gods by Neil Gaiman
   The Collected Stories of Greg Bear by Greg Bear
   Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Baudolino Beth Lyons
  Baudolino by Umberto Eco
   Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
  Fierce Pajamas by David Remnick

Hanna Nesper
  The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

Jill Owens
  Prague by Arthur Phillips

Jeff Griffin
  Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard

David Van Der Merwe
  Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore

Wendy Brown
  The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski

Malia Susee
  City by Alessandro Baricco
   Abarat by Clive Barker

Serra Toney
  Lucky by Alice Sebold
   Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Orin Holland
  Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck

Nicole Couture
  Lirael by Garth Nix

Scott Smith
  Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart

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