| The Unwomanly Face of War (a) | Alexievich, Svetlana | 10 |
| Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (a) | Alexievich, Svetlana | 10 |
| The Garden of Evening Mists (a) | Eng, Tan Twan | 9 |
| Ulysses (a) | Joyce, James | 9 |
| Kindred (graphic novel) | Butler, Octavia E. | 8 |
| Looking for Trouble | Cowles, Virginia | 8 |
| Corelli’s Mandolin | de Bernières, Louis | 8 |
| Guns, Germs and Steel (a) | Diamond, Jared | 8 |
| Quicksand: What it Means To Be a Human Being | Mankell, Henning | 8 |
| The Troubled Man (a) | Mankell, Henning | 8 |
| The Gene: An Intimate History | Mukherjee, Siddhartha | 8 |
| Churchill and Orwell, The Fight for Freedom (a) | Ricks, Thomas E. | 8 |
| In Dubious Battle | Steinbeck, John | 8 |
