Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Lost Daughters of China, by Karin Evans
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Dream Season, by Bob Cowser, Jr.
Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte
Something Rising (Light and Swift), by Haven Kimmel
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations, by Cintra Wilson
The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
Robert E. Lee, by Roy Blount, Jr.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, by Susanna Clarke
The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
Three Junes, by Julia Glass
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Stuffed: Growing Up in a Restaurant Family, by Patricia Volk
Why I'm Like This: True Stories, by Cynthia Kaplan
Extra Virgin, by Annie Hawes
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon