Four booksellers shared their "Pick of the Lists" choices at the Midwest Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show, held last week in St. Paul, Minn.:

Adult Books

Peggy Bieber, owner of Little Professor Book Center, Aberdeen, S.D.:

• Wild Bill and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends by James McLaird (South Dakota State Historical Society)
• Not Your Mothers Weeknight Cooking: Quick and Easy Wholesome Homemade Dinners by Beth Hensperger (Harvard Common Press)
• 8 Sandpiper Way by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
• The Man in the Blizzard by Bart Schneider (Three Rivers Press)
• Snow Blind by Lori G. Armstrong (Medallion Press)
• His Name Is Jesus by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson)
• A Dog Named Christmas by Greg Kincaid (Doubleday)

• The Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter Joern (University of Nebraska Press)
• Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman (Scribner)
• The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead)
• I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass (Pantheon)
• Hands of My Father by Myron Uhlberg (Random House)
• Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (Delacorte Press)
• Ballistics: Poems by Billy Collins (Random House)
• The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow by Tim Kehoe (Hocus Pocus Press) Sue: "I am including one for kids 9-14. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am not aware of any other book like it. It really encourages kids to be inventive, and the inventions are fabulous."

Children's Books

Ellen Davis, owner of Dragonwings Bookstore, Waupaca, Wis.:

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• Impossible by Susan Werlin (Penguin)
• Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi (Viking Juvenile)
• Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler)
• Schooled by Gordon Korman (Hyperion)
• Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski (FSG)

• Dodger and Me by Jordan Sonnenblick (Feiwel & Friends)
• The Smile by Donna Jo Napoli (Dutton)
• The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown)
• The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness by Colin Thompson (Kane/Miller Book)
• My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath (Schwartz & Wade)