Michel de Montaigne - "The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 15"

Harold Bindloss - "The Girl From Keller's"

Kate Douglas Wiggin - "The Diary of a Goose Girl"

Bret Harte - "The BellRinger of Angel's and Other Stories"

Shadow Country wins U.S. National Book Award
Peter Matthiessen, New York author and founder of the Paris Review, won a National Book Award on Wednesday night for Shadow Country, a revision of his trilogy of novels written in the 1990s.

Rawi Hage wins best novel award from Quebec writers' group
Montreal's Rawi Hage has won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction given by the Quebec Writers' Federation for his novel, Cockroach.

Tales of Irish, Yugoslavian history vie for Costa Book Award
Sebastian Barry's Booker-nominated novel The Secret Scripture and Louis de Bernieres's The Partisan's Daughter have been nominated in the best novel category for Britain's Costa book award.