| Susan Orlean | Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend |
| Joan Didion | Blue Nights |
| Lee Child | The Affair |
| Erica Jong | Sugar in my Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex |
| Harold Holzer and James McPherson | Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War |
| Kathryn Stockett | The Help |
| David Brooks | The Social Animal: A Story of Love, Character, and Achievement |
| David Remnick | The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama |
| Michael Scheuer | Osama bin Laden |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | I Love a Broad Margin to My Life |
| Jessica B. Harris | High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America |
| Edmund Morris | Colonel Roosevelt |
| William T Coleman | Counsel for the Situation: Shaping the Law to Realize America's Promise |
| David Eisenhower | Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D Eisenhower, 1961-1969 |
| Salman Rushdie | Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel |
| Oliver Sacks | The Mind's Eye |
| Stacy Schiff | Cleopatra: A Life |
| Joseph J. Ellis | First Family: Abigail and John Adams |
| Mark Bittman | The Food Matters Cookbook: Lose Weight and Heal the Planet with More Than 500 Recipes |
| Thomas Buergenthal | A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy |
| Robert McCrum | Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Nomad: A Memoir |
| Martha Nussbaum | Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities |
| Hampton Sides | Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| Tim O'Brien | The Things They Carried (20th Anniversary Edition) |
| Francine Prose | Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife |
| Garry Wills | Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State |
| Mika Brzezinski | All Things at Once |
| Julie Powell Cleaving: Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession |
| Terry Teachout | Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong |
| Leslie Caron | Thank Heaven: A Memoir |
| Ken Burns | The National Parks: America's Best Idea |
| Kate DiCamillo | The Magician's Elephant |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | Eating Animals |
| David Sax | Save the Deli: In Search of the Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of the Jewish Delicatessen |
| Gordon S. Wood | Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 |
| Richard Dawkins | The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution |
| Karen Armstrong | The Case for God |
| Richard Russo | That Old Cape Magic |
| Sam Tanenhaus | The Death of Conservatism |
