In their top-ten selection criteria, Publishers Weekly's 11/02/09 news item states: "We ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz. We gave fair chance to the “big” books of the year, but made them stand on their own two feet. It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male." Let's make it a point to buy the books further down the list written by women, like those who almost made the list: Fiction Dark Places Gillian Flynn (Crown/Shaye Areheart) The Man in the Wooden Hat Jane Gardam (Europa) The Believers Zoë Heller (Harper) and in non-fiction: Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan) Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (Seal)