– Decision Points (November 9) Hans Fredrik Dahl (ed.) – Norsk presses historie 1660–2010 Paul Drexler – In Search of My FatherSam Harris – The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (October 5) Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (November 16) Joel Kotkin – The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050David Lipsky – Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (April 13) Nursultan Nazarbayev – The Way of Kazakhstan (May 18) Sergio Rubin – El jesuitaNick Schuyler and Jere Longman Not Without Hope (March 2) Niki Segnit – The Flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative CookJane Smiley – The Man Who Invented The Computer (December) Jon Stewart – Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race (September 21) Darin Strauss – Half a Life (September 21) Edmund de Waal – The Hare with Amber Eyes. A Hidden InheritanceJohn Leigh Walters – A Very Capable LifeAlejandro Zambra – No Leer (Not to Read) Deaths January 1 Bingo Gazingo, American performance poet (born 1924) Billy Arjan Singh, Indian author (born 1917) January 2 – Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, Indian poet (born 1913) January 3 Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (born 1928) Isak Rogde, Norwegian translator (born 1947) January 4 Knox Burger, American editor, writer and agent (born 1922) Hywel Teifi Edwards, Welsh historian and writer (born 1934) January 5 – Bernard Le Nail, French writer and historian (born 1946) January 6 – George Leonard, American writer and editor (born 1923) January 8 Tony Halme, Finnish athlete, politician, writer and entertainer (born 1963) Slavka Maneva, Macedonian writer and poet (born 1934) January 9 – Laura Chapman Hruska, American writer and editor (born 1935) January 11 – Miep Gies, Austrian-born Dutch biographer (born 1909) January 14 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet (born 1916) January 16 – Takumi Shibano (柴野拓美), Japanese novelist (born 1926) January 17 – Erich Segal, American author and academic (born 1937) January 18 – Robert B. Parker, American detective writer (born 1932) January 19 – Vladimir Karpov, Soviet Russian writer (born 1922) January 20 – Abraham Sutzkever, Polish-born Israeli poet (born 1913) January 21 – Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist (born 1953) January 26 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist (born 1917) January 27 J. D. Salinger, American novelist (born 1919) Howard Zinn, American historian (born 1922) January 31 Kage Baker, American science fiction and