Nonfiction

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel - Isaac Babel Selected Essays - John Berger Master of the Senate: the Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert Caro Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters - Robert Gordon

Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy - Diana Preston Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War - T.J. Stiles The Future of the Past - Alexander Stille The Future of Life - Edward O. Wilson Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones - Greg Campbell

Poetry

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry - Alan Dugan

The Painted Bed - Donald Hall Bellocq's Ophelia - Natasha Trethewey

Fiction

True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey Among the Missing - Dan Chaon Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories - Lydia Davis Erasure: A Novel - Percival Everett The Corrections: A Novel - Jonathan Franzen

The Pickup: A Novel - Nadine Gordimer Island: The Complete Stories - Alistair MacLeod Bucking the Tiger - Bruce Olds Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald The Death of Vishnu - Manil Suri Crooked River Burning - Mark Winegardner

Nonfiction

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood - Marie Arana Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays - Evan Connell An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan - Jason Elliot War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals - David Halberstam The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear & the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America - Barron H. Lerner Grant - Jean Edward Smith

Going up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation - Joseph T. Hallinan River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze - Peter Hessler Seabiscuit: an American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail - Ruben Martinez John Adams - David McCullough Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression - Andrew Soloman

Poetry

Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems - Billy Collins

What the Ice Gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 - Melinda Mueller

Fiction
 

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood Don't Tell Anyone - Frederick Busch Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee Being Dead - Jim Crace Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt

Truth and Bright Water - Thomas King English Passengers - Matthew Kneale Living to Tell - Antoya Nelson Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje Scar Vegas - Tom Paine White Teeth - Zadie Smith The Quick and the Dead - Joy Williams Delinquent Virgin - Laura Kalpakian

Nonfiction
 

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present - Jacques Barzun A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran - Elaine Sciolino

In Siberia - Colin Thubron Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters - Matt Ridley Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach - Alice Yaeger Kaplan Bruce Chatwin - Nicholas Shakespeare Barrow's Boys - Fergus Fleming

Poetry
 

Beowulf: A New Translation - Seamus Heaney Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz - Stanley Kunitz

Learning Human: Selected Poems - Les Murray

Fiction
 

Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge The Hours - Michael Cunningham The Country Life - Rachel Cusk A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus For the Relief of Unbearable Urges - Nathan Englander

Waiting - Ha Jin A Dangerous Friend - Ward Just A Gesture Life - Chang-rae Lee Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Letham Henry of Atlantic City - Frederick Reuss The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston

Nonfiction
 

Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race and Redemption - Lisa Belkin Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II - John Dower How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry - Edward Hirsch Journey beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar System - Jeffrey Kluger Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings - Jonathan Raban A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century - Witold Rybczynski

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War - Mark Bowden The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933–1941 - Victor Klemperer The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession - Susan Orlean King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero - David Remnick Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) - Stacy Schiff

Poetry
 

Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 - Seamus Heaney

Diasporadic - Patty Seyburn

Fiction
 

Triage - Scott Anderson Flanders - Patricia Anthony The Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett The Farming of Bones - Edwidge Dandicat Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges, Translated by Andrew Hurley

The Coast of Good Intentions - Michael Byers About a Boy - Nick Hornby Charming Billy - Alice McDermott Birds of America - Lorrie Moore I Married a Communist - Philip Roth Beach Boy - Ardashir Vakil

Nonfiction
 

The Life of Thomas More - Peter Ackroyd Lindbergh - A. Scott Berg Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 - Taylor Branch Titan: The Life of John D. Rockfeller - Ron Chernow Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nash

The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands - Nicholas Clapp Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars - Cynthia Gorney King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Adam Hochschild A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League - Ron Suskind

Poetry
 

Sweet Machine - Mark Doty Without - Donald Hall

Tales from Ovid - Ted Hughes After All: Last Poems - William Matthews

Fiction
 

Yo! - Julia Alvarez The Jade Peony - Wayson Choy Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier News of the Spirit - Lee Smith The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane Aguero Sisters - Christina Garcia The Wishbones - Tom Perota The Far Euphrates - Aryeh Lev Stollman Blu's Hanging - Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Nonfiction
 

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom - Walter Alvarez Blood Rites: Origins & History of the Passions of War - Barbara Ehrenreich Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives - Kennedy Fraser The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea - Sebastian Junger American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence - Pauline Maier Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell - Deborah Soloman

All Over But the Shoutin' - Rick Bragg A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution - Orlando Figes Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are - Roger Fouts with Stephen Tukel Mills Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer Bad Land: An American Romance - Jonathan Raban The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time - Simon Winchester

Poetry
 

Primate Behavior - Sarah Lindsay What Are Big Girls Made Of? - Marge Piercy

The Bounty - Derek Walcott

Fiction
 

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson Ship Fever: Stories - Andrea Barrett Drown - Junot Diaz The Woman Who Walked into Doors - Roddy Doyle Middle Son - Deborah Iida

Asking for Love and Other Stories - Roxana Robinson Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai Last Orders - Graham Swift After Rain - William Tevor The Night in Question - Tobias Wolff A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

Nonfiction
 

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West - Stephen Ambrose God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East - Judith Miller Dubious Conceptions - Kristin Luker A History of Reading - Alberto Manguel The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol - Neil Irvin Painter The Song of the Dodo - David Quammen

Great Books: My Adventure with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other Indestructible Writers of the Western World - David Denby Like Judgement Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood - Michael D'Orso Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity - Clarence Page Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobol

Poetry
 

The Spirit Level - Seamus Heaney The Legend of Light - Bob Hicok

Otherwise - Jane Kenyon

Fiction
 

The First Man - Albert Camus The Point - Charles D'Ambrosio The Paperboy - Pete Dexter The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro Native Speaker - Chang-Rae Lee

All the Days and Nights - William Maxwell Snow Angels - Stewart O'Nan The Body Is Water - Julie Schumacher Eveless Eden - Marianne Wiggins

Nonfiction
 

Paula - Isabel Allende Nine Parts of Desire :  The Hidden World of Islamic Women - Geraldine Brooks Salvation on Sand Mountain : Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia - Dennis Covington Lincoln - David Herbert Donald Terrible Honesty : Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s - Ann Douglas The Last Shot : City Streets, Basketball Dreams - Darcy Frey Liars' Club : a Memoir - Mary Karr

Moving Violations : War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence - John Hockenberry Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation - Jonathan Kozol The Dying of the Trees : The Pandemic in America's Forests - Charles Little The End of Education : Redefining the Value of Schools - Neil Postman Walt Whitman's America : A Cultural Biography - David Reynolds Sarajevo Daily :  A City and Its Newspaper under Siege - Tom Gjelten

Poetry
 

Atlantis - Mark Doty Passing Through - Stanley Kunitz

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes

Fiction
 

In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez The Birthday Boys - Beryl Bainbridge Souls Raised from the Dead - Doris Betts The End of Vandalism - Tom Drury Scar Tissue - Michael Ignatieff Ancestral Truths - Sara Maitland

Open Secrets - Alice Munro The Bird Artist - Howard Norman In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien The Collected Stories - Grace Paley The Grass Dancer - Susan Power The Cage - Audrey Schulman

Nonfiction
 

Warriors Don't Cry : A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High - Melba P. Beals A Man on the Moon : The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts - Andrew Chaikin Train Go Sorry : Inside a Deaf World - Leah Hager Cohen Colored People : A Memoir - Henry L. Gates No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II - Doris K. Goodwin In Pharaoh's Army : Memories of the Lost War - Tobias Wolff

Out of Silence : An Autistic Boy's Journey into Language and Communication - Russell Martin How We Die : Reflections on Life's Final Chapter - Sherwin B. Nuland A Whole New Life : An Illness and a Healing - Reynolds Price The Beak of the Finch : A Story of Evolution in Our Time - Jonathan Weiner 9 Highland Road : Sane Living for the Mentally Ill - Michael Winerip Shot in the Heart - Mikal Gilmore

Poetry
 

The Ghost Trio: Poems - Linda Bierds

A Silence Opens - Amy Clampitt

Fiction
 

In Troubled Waters - Beverly Coyle The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones Judge on Trial - Ivan Klima Remembering Babylon - David Malouf

Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry? - Elizabeth McCracken Wolf Whistle - Lewis Nordan The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo Montana, 1948 - Larry Watson

Nonfiction
 

Before Night Falls:  A Memoir- Reinaldo Arenas The Warburgs:  The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family - Ron Chernow Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Sarah Louise Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War - Slavenka Drakulic Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History - Robert D. Kaplan Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War - Michael Kelly Preparing for the Twenty-First Century - Paul Kennedy This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer - Kay Mills Dead Man Walking : An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States - Helen Prejean Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire - David Remnick The Last Panda - George B. Schaller United States: Essays, 1952–1992 - Gore Vidal

Poetry
 

If It Be Not I - Mona Van Duyn

Fiction
 

Leviathan - Paul Auster Before and After - Rosellen Brown A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler The Brothers K - David James Duncan Turtle Moon - Alice Hoffman Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and Other Stories - Randall Kenan

All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy Billie Dyer and Other Stories - William Maxwell Small Spaces Between Emergencies - Alison Moore Jazz - Toni Morrison Bailey's Cafe - Gloria Naylor The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley

Nonfiction
 

Eleanor Roosevelt - Blanche Wiesen Cook The Meadow - James Galvin Who Will Tell the People? The Betrayal of American Democracy - William B. Greider Young Men and Fire - Norman MacLean Truman - David McCullough Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian-American Odyssey - Lydia Yuri Minatoya

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story - Paul Monette Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology - Neil Postman Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age - Richard Selzer Going Back to Bisbee - Richard Shelton Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America - Garry Wills

Poetry
 

Words Like Fate and Pain - Karen Fiser

Moon Crossing Bridge - Tess Gallagher