Non-fiction
- Dionne Brand – No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario
- Henry Steele Commager – Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples
- Dave Foreman – Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
- Jung Chang – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- Madonna – Sex
- Robert K. Massie – Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
- P.J. O'Rourke – Parliament of Whores
- Thomas Pakenham – The Scramble for Africa
- William Pokhlyobkin – A History of Vodka
- John Richardson – A Life of Picasso
- Simon Schama – Dead Certainties
- Marie Wadden – Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland
- Naomi Wolf – The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
- Zhang Chengzhi – History of the Soul
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