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

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau edited by Damion Searls (The Quarterly Conversation)

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda

Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal by Barry Crimmins

Papillon by Henri Charriere

The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble (Christian Science Monitor)

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