Elizabeth Kostova
The Historian
(Little, Brown)
Sean Wilsey
Oh The Glory of It All
(Penguin Press)
Alison Smith
Name All The Animals
(Scribner)
Alice Waters
The Art of Simple Food
(Clarkson Potter)
Dalia Sofer
The Septembers of Shiraz
(Ecco)
Timothy Keller
The Reason for God
(Dutton)
DBC Pierre
Ludmila's Broken English
(Norton)
Jill A. Davis
Girls' Poker Night
(Random House)
Matthew Lee and Ted Lee
The Lee Bros. Cookbook
(Norton)
Rodney Rothman
Early Bird
(Simon & Schuster)
Matthew Sharpe
The Sleeping Father
(Soft Skull Press)
Jancee Dunn
But Enough About Me
(HarperCollins)
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Sightseeing
(Grove/Atlantic)
Chris Heath
Feel
(Ebury)
George Kalogerakis, Kurt Andersen, and Graydon Carter
Spy: The Funny Years
(Miramax)
John Tayman
The Colony
(Scribner)
Edith Templeton
The Darts of Cupid
(Pantheon)
Deborah Garrison
The Second Child
(Random House)
Alan Tennant
On The Wing
(Knopf)
William Cope Moyers and Katherine Ketcham
Broken
(Viking)