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Book |
Author |
Notes |
| Tempest-Tost (a part of The Salterton Triliogy | Robertson Davies | Fiction |
| The Memory of Running | Ron McLarty | Fiction |
| The Glorious Cause | Robert Middlekauff | Nonfiction |
| The Worst Hard Time | Timothy Egan | Nonfiction |
| Absurdistan | Gary Shteyngart | Fiction |
| Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero | David Maraniss | Biography |
| The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Tom Friedman | Nonfiction |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman | Fiction/Fantasy |
| Waiting For the Barbarians | J.M. Coetzee | Fiction/Allegory |
| In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | Nathan Philbrick | Nonfiction (about the ship that inspired Moby Dick) |
| The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | Fiction |
| Fatelessness | Imre Kertesz (Tim Wilkinson, translator) | Fiction |
| The Working Poor: Invisible in America | David Shipler | Nonfiction |
| One Man's Meat | E.B. White | |
| "The
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series |
Alexander McCall Smith | Fiction/Mystery |
| Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | Stephen Greenblatt | Biography |
| The Mammy | Brendan O'Carroll | Fiction |
| The White Castle | Orhan Pamuk | Fiction |
| Anansi Boys | Neil Gaiman | Fiction/Fantasy |
| The Town That Forgot How to Breathe | Kenneth J. Harvey | Fiction |
| 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel | Jane Smiley | Nonfiction |
| The Beekeepers Handbook | Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile | Nonfiction |
| Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman | James Gleick | Nonfiction/Bio |
| The Dante Club | Matthew Pearl | Fiction |
| Small Gods | Terry Pratchett | Fantasy/Fiction Teen Fiction |
| The Brothers K | David James Duncan | Fiction |
| They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace in Vietnam and America, October 1967 | David Maraniss | Nonfiction |
| The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | Fiction |
| Obata's Yosemite | Chiura Obata | Nonfiction |
| The Cave | Jose Saramago | Fiction |
| This House of Sky | Ivan Doig | Memoir |
| Collected Poems | Robinson Jeffers | Poetry |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes,translated by Edith Grossman |
Fiction |
| Chain of Command:The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib | Seymour Hersh | Nonfiction |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Euginides | Fiction |
| Austerlitz | W.G. Sebald | Fiction |
| The Teammates | David Halberstam | Nonfiction |
| Damascus Gate | Robert Stone | Fiction |
| Always the Young Strangers | Carl Sandburg | Nonfiction |
| The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate | Peter Brook | Nonfiction |
| The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its People | Tim Flannery | Nonfiction |
| The Emigrants | W.G. Sebald | Fiction |
| Where the Stress Falls | Susan Sontag | Essays |
| Cart and Cwidder | Diana Wynne Jones | Fiction, Ages 12+ |
| The Life of Pi | Yan Martel | Fiction, Young Adult |
| John Adams | David McCullough | Biography |
| John Muir: Rediscovering America | Frederick Turner | Biography |
| City of God | E.L. Doctorow | Fiction |
| Run with the Horsemen | Ferrol Sams | Fiction |
| The Fall of the Year | Howard Frank Mosher | Fiction |
| The Pianist:The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 | Wladyslaw Szpilman | Memoir |
| The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara | David Kertzer | Nonfiction |
| Nop's Trials | Donald McCaig | Fiction |
| Bee Season | Myla Goldberg | Fiction |
| Plainsong | Kent Haruf | Fiction |
| Natural Prayers | Chet Raymo | Nonfiction |
| Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community | Robert Putnam | Nonfiction |
| Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone ?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music | Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg | Biography |
| Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters | Robert Gordon | Biography |
| Galileo's Daughter: A Historical memoir of Science, Faith and Love | Dava Sobel | Biography |
