Alice Waters
The Art of Simple Food
(Clarkson Potter)
Timothy Keller
The Reason for God
(Dutton)
Dalia Sofer
The Septembers of Shiraz
(Ecco)
Dinaw Mengestu
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
(Riverhead)
Ellen Litman
The Last Chicken in America
(Norton)
Shannon Burke
Black Flies
(Soft Skull)
Jancee Dunn
Don't You Forget About Me
(Random House)
Karen Essex
Stealing Athena
(Doubleday)
Joseph O'Neill
Netherland
(Pantheon)
Ed Park
Personal Days
(Random House)
Amy Shearn
How Far is the Ocean From Here
(Harmony)
Deborah Baker
A Blue Hand
(Penguin Press)
Sarah Boxer
Ultimate Blogs
(Pantheon)
Janet Carlson
Quick, Before the Music Stops
(Doubleday)
Abrahm Lustgarten
China's Great Train
(Times Books)
Sarah Manguso
The Two Kinds of Decay
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Ben Nugent
American Nerd
(Scribner)
Christopher Stewart
Hunting the Tiger
(St. Martin's)
Mark Bowen
Censoring Science
(Dutton)
Samantha Hunt
The Invention of Everything Else
(Houghton Mifflin)