- Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
- The Bookseller of Kabul(Asne Seierstad)
- Complications (Atul Gawande)
- The Devil in the White City(Erik Larsen)
- Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Janisse Ray)
- A Hope in the Unseen (Ron Suskind)
- Isaac’s Storm (Erik Larsen)
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East(Sandy Tolan)
- Midnight in Garden of Goodand Evil (Jon Berendt)
- Reading Lolita in Tehran(Azar Nafisi)
Rome1960: The Olympics that Changed the World (David Maraniss)
- Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)
- A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
- The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (A. J. Jacobs)
