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DR Winter 2012.indd 1 1/25/12 12:28:34 PM The Year in Review 2011 Rodney Crowell started off 2011 on January 20 with his bang of a memoir (and our # 24 bestseller of the year), Chinaberry Sidewalks, and in than a month we had our # 2 bestseller of the year, a big book by a very big guy, Michael Oher and I Beat The Odds, on Feb. 15; the very next day Pulitzer winner Isabel Wilkerson was here with The Warmth of Other Suns, recently one of the top 10 bestselling paperbacks. John Bemelmans Mariano was a hit at Jr with Madeline at the White House (Jr’s #3 book of ’11), and on Feb. 19 Joseph O’Connor knocked us out with Ghost Light (89). A few days later old friend Mark Richard came with House of Prayer #2 (20) and Yann Martel returned with the paperback of Beatrice and Virgil (97). By was here with Townie (65) and the dear, late Dean Faulkner Wells with her outstanding memoir and our #4 book of the year, Every Day by the Sun. Les Standiford brought us Bringing Adam Home, and the first quarter closed with a Conference for the Book that included Justin Taylor and Kevin Brockmeier, along with Karen Russell and Tea Obreht (Swamplandia! #16, and The Tiger’s Wife #17, respectively, and both now on our paperback bestseller list). A number of pre-2011 backlist books sold into the top 100 of the year, notably Promises I Made My Mother (#3), The Fall of the House of Zeus (#1 in 2010 and #4 in 2011, and, in paperback, #34), the perennial Square Table (#7), Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (#8, and garnering a Book of the Year Award for Tom Franklin!), The Confession (18), Oxford Sketchbook (33), Pat Conroy’s My Reading Life (98), Wild Abundance (80), The Sound and the Fury (45, among other titles), Airships and Long Last Happy (68, 81), Unbroken (27), and all kinds of The Help (paperback 11, hardback 63, and, no lie, the deluxe edition 56). Sara Foster’s Southern Kitchen (70) was well received among cookbook writers, as was Martha Foose’s Southerly Course (12) and Screen Doors and Sweet Tea (60), and there must be something good in the Southern Foodways Alliance Cookbook (22), Smokin’ With Myron Nixon (42), A New Turn in the South (75), and Delta Magazine Cookbook (57). When Paula Deen comes to town, her Southern Cooking Bible is the word (#6). A special event is automatic when Jessica Harris arrives, High on the Hog. In the spring, Jason Goodwyn and Anchee Min both made first visits to Square Books and to Thacker Mountain, and Joe Hill gave a very nice first impression. You Think That’s Bad was our introduction to Jim Shepard (29) and Tracey Jackson had solid advice in Between a Rock and a Hot Spot (#86). Araminta Stone Johnson appeared with her subject, Bishop Duncan Gray, with And One Was a Priest (38), and John Sayles, Roy Blount, (85) all visited in late spring, along with Kate DiCamillo and her many fans at Jr. No one made an impression at Jr. like Eric Litwin and James Dean, author and illustrator of Pete the Cat (3) and Rocking In My School Shoes (4), one of the most fun events in Square Books history. By summer, soon before her Parnassus would open, we saw our old (but young) friend, Ann Patchett, who put us in a State of Wonder (14), Suzanne Marrs, with What There Is to Say We Have Said (92), and Nell Dickerson and her stunning sleeper, Gone (37). Ace Atkins launched his new series with The Ranger (30), and Georgette Jones and Adam Ross came from Nashville. Ole Miss grad Preston Lauderbach gave us our bestselling music book in Chitlin’ Circuit, and Sandra Beasley returned to town with her memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl. Fall turned busy when Megan Abbott and Scott Phillips appeared, followed by Jean Cash with her Larry Brown (49) and by Kevin Wilson and Family Fang (28 and still selling), followed closely by Clyde Edgerton’s Night Train (26). We were thrilled by ’s new novel, (15), and her return to town September 7, but little did we know that she would win the (much less give us a shout-out in her acceptance speech)! We are so proud of Jesmyn! Maybe karma arrived this past fall in the form of Pulitzer winner , former National Book Award winner , with Nightwoods (#13), Pulitzer winner and his terrific novel, The Marriage Plot (#10), and Pulitzer winner , plus first sensationErin Morgenstern with The Night Circus (21)—all of whom signed at Square Books between Jesmyn’s event here and when she won the National Book Award.

DR Winter 2012.indd 2 1/25/12 12:28:35 PM By November we were selling signed copies of John Grisham’s The Litigators (#1) and his second children’s book, Theodore Boone: The Abduction (#1 at Jr). We saw the One Writer’s Garden (46) trio of Susan Haltom, Jane Roy Brown & Langdon Clay (46), Diana Abu-Jaber and Birds of Paradise, Hillary Jordan and When She Woke (31). It was a special treat to have K.O. Dotley and Terrance Metcalf here to help Neil White sign Mississippi’s 100 Greatest Football Players (25). Neil’s first and second Mississippians book made our list (40, 52), as did his paperback of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts (23) And where do we say that Sid Salter’s book on Jack Cristil made our list? Here: #35, thank you Sid and Jack, who are popular among some people in Oxford, me included. We have a few more: Heaven Is For Real (9), F In Exams (39), bookseller Michael Johnson’s favorite book, by Michael Bible, Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City (41), Ken Sufka’s primer for getting the grade in college, The A Game (43), Mississippi: State of the Blues (47), Tim Tebow’s Through My Eyes (48), Oxford in the Civil War (53), The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steaks (83), Tina Fey’s Bossypants (88), Water for Elephants (61), Go the F to Sleep (44), Unlikely Friendships (94), Beautiful Cows (91), and A Visit from the Goon Squad (59). All in all, an excellent year at Square Books, a best year ever at Jr, and the same at Off Square, so we give great thanks to these writers and their publishers, who help to make so much happen here. But, as always, our geatest thanks are to you, Dear Readers, for your continuing support. RH

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