The NYTBR's 100 Notable Books of 2009 (a classic; also includes poetry suggestions, which we thoughtlessly omitted from our list)

NYT's 10 Best Books of 2009 (half fiction, half non-fiction)

Flavorwire's 10 Awesome Books to Give Your Nonreading Friends (oh, how our hearts ache for those who need this list)

Books = Gifts (because they do)

NPR's Big and Beautiful: Best Gift Books of 2009 (who doesn't love books of pictures?)

NPR's Season's Readings: Top Picks From Indie Booksellers (oh, how we love our comrades in book evangelism!)

Penguin Group's What to Give & What to Get (authors tell you what they will give and what they hope will be under the tree)

Also, in case you couldn't make it to our Open House, here's a list of the books our guest bookseller-authors will be recommending:

JED BERRY:
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Passion by Jeannette Winterson
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Any of Edward Gorey's Amphigoreys or The Sopping Thursday all on its own

CHARLES BOCK:
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

LEV GROSSMAN:
The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
LOGICOMIX by Apostolos Doxiadis
Lit by Mary Karr
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes 
Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick
The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman

A.J. JACOBS:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

MAURA MADDEN:
Cassette From My Ex, edited by Jason Bitner 
KnitKnit by Sabrina Gschwandtner
Organic and Chic by Sarah Magid

SARAH MANGUSO:
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Vectors by James Richardson
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Collected Stories by Amy Hempel

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL:
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon 
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 
Lowboy by John Wray
The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem 

REBECCA STEAD:
Pastoralia, George Saunders
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, E.L. Konigsburg
Ira Sleeps Over, Bernard Waber 
Brave Irene, William Steig