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Essay/Memoir

Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth
Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else : Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
Mark Edmundson, Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference
Annie Hawes, Extra Virgin
Cynthia Kaplan, Why I'm Like This: True Stories
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Throughts on Faith
Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Adele Crockett Robertson, The Orchard: A Memoir
Mark Salzman, Iron and Silk
Lauren Slater, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
Abigail Thomas, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
Abigail Thomas, A Three Dog Life
Patricia Volk, Stuffed: Growing Up in a Restaurant Family
Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death

Writing Instruction/Advice
Ron Carlson, Rob Carlson Writes a Story
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
Gail Sher, One Continuous Mistake
Abigail Thomas, Thinking About Memoir

Nonfiction
Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Criticism
Nick Hornby, Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
Nick Hornby, Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Mary McCarthy, The Stones of Florence

Fiction: General
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
Julia Glass, Three Junes
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
Richard Lewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Paul Scott, The Raj Quartet:
  • The Jewel in the Crown
  • The Day of the Scorpion
  • The Towers of Silence
  • A Division of Spoils
    Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

    Fiction: Science Fiction/Fantasy
    Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan
    Guy Gavriel Kay, A Song for Arbonne
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials:
  • The Golden Compass (also published as Northern Lights)
  • The Subtle Knife
  • The Amber Spyglass
    Connie Willis, Passage

    Fiction: Science Fiction/Fantasy: Time Travel

    Jack Finney, Time and Again
    W. P. Kinsella, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
    Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
    Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

     

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