C.S. Lewis: A Grief Observed
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
David Sedaris (edited): Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Olive Ann Burns: Cold Sassy Tree
David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner: Freakonomics
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping
R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Henry James: The American
Robert Atwan and Susan Orlean (edited): The Best American Essays 2005
Åsne Seierstad: The Bookseller of Kabul
Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Edith Wharton: The Custom of the Country
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
Charlotte Brontë: Villette
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World