Non-fiction
- Karen Armstrong - Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
- Dave Barry - Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
- Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Cari Beauchamp - Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
- Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
- Iris Chang - The Rape of Nanking
- Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel
- Alan Downs - Beyond the Looking Glass: Overcoming the Seductive Culture of Corporate Narcissism
- Michael Drosnin - The Bible Code
- Gerina Dunwich - A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination
- Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (autobiography)
- Charlotte Gray - Mrs. King
- Reinhold Heller - Toulouse-Lautrec: The Soul of Montmartre
- James McBride - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Maria Todorova - Imagining the Balkans
- Jesse Lee Kercheval - Building Fiction
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