Fiction
1996 by Gloria Naylor
Beyond the Mountain by Elizabeth Arthur
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Erasure by Percival L. Everett
Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley
The Last Station by Jay Parini
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
My Favorite War by Christopher John Farley (Boston Book Review)
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
Severance by Robert Olen Butler
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
A Theft by Saul Bellow
Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove
The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble (Boston Book Review)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Nonfiction
American Prometheus by Kai Bird
The Assassins' Gate by George Packer
Berlin Diaries by Marie Vassiltchikov
Black Genius by Walter Mosley
The Bone Woman by Clea Koff
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
The Death of the West by Patrick J. Buchanan
Democracy's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe
Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Exit, Voice and Loyalty by Albert O. Hirschman
Fat Land by Greg Critser
Four Trials by John Edwards
A Few Good Voices in My Head by Ted Solotaroff
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal by Barry Crimmins
Papillon by Henri Charriere
The Queen's Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum
The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee
The Secret Way to War by Mark Danner
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Thank God for the Atom Bomb by Paul Fussell
Thinking Points by George Lakoff
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken
War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres
What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson
What Went Wrong in Ohio edited by Anita Miller
Who Got Einstein's Office? by Ed Regis