Fiction

Beyond the Mountain by Elizabeth Arthur

The Last Station by Jay Parini

A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley

The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban

The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

My Favorite War by Christopher John Farley

The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble

A Theft by Saul Bellow

Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove

The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble

Nonfiction

Berlin Diaries by Marie Vassiltchikov

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes

The Death of the West by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi

Fat Land by Greg Critser

A Few Good Voices in My Head by Ted Solotaroff

The Queen's Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum

The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee

Thank God for the Atom Bomb by Paul Fussell

Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Who Got Einstein's Office? by Ed Regis