|
Author |
Notes |
| People of the Book |
Geraldine Brooks |
Fiction |
| Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
Fiction |
| Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation |
Parker Palmer |
Nonfiction |
| Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution |
Charles Rappleye |
Nonfiction |
| 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 |
