Nonfiction

The Day the World Came to Town

Jim DeFede, Ray Porter

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

John Gray

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris

The Problem of Pain

C. S. Lewis

Just Kids

Patti Smith

All About Love

bell hooks

A Pride of African Tales

Donna L. Washington

I Can Make a Difference

Marian Wright Edelman

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Doris Lessing

Small Wonder

Barbara Kingsolver

The Sewing Circles of Herat

Christina Lamb

Saddam

Con Coughlin

Mr. and Mrs. Prince

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

A Hog on Ice

Charles E. Funk

The Neighborhood Mother Goose

Nina Crews

Built to Last

Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras

The Million Word Crossword Dictionary

Stanley Newman, Daniel Stark

Manhunt

James L. Swanson

The Children's Blizzard

David Laskin

The Power of Babel

John McWhorter

In My Blood

John Sedgwick

A Perfect Red

Amy Butler Greenfield

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?

Louis V. Gerstner, Edward Herrmann

Reign of Iron

James L. Nelson

Escaping the Delta

Elijah Wald

A Thread Across the Ocean

John Steele Gordon

Burro Genius

Victor Villasenor

Looking for Class

Bruce Feiler

Madame Tussaud

Kate Berridge

Give Me a Break

John Stossel