Continue on for Tammy’s reading recommendations from her 2005-2015 lists! These are the books recommended for adult readers.

Mainstream | Mystery | Thriller & Horror | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Miscellaneous

Mainstream

• Richard Adams – Traveller (1988).
• Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger (2008), Between the Assassinations (2008), Last Man in Tower (2011).
• David Ball – Ironfire: An Epic Novel of Love and War (2005).
• Vanora Bennett – The Queen’s Lover: A Novel (2010).
• Martin Booth – Hiroshima Joe (1985).
• Tadeusz Borowski – This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1959).
• Kathleen Cambor – In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden (2001).
• Michael Chabon – Gentlemen of the Road (2007).
• Elizabeth Chadwick – Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen’s Champion (2005).
• Anne Cherian – A Good Indian Wife (2008).
• Robert Conroy – 1901 (1995).
• Laurel Corona – The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi’s Venice (2008).
• Kimberly Cutter – The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc (2011).
• Anita Diamant – The Last Days of Dogtown (2005), Day After Night (2009).
• Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers (1844).
• Dorothy Dunnett – The Disorderly Knights (1966).
• India Edghill – Delilah (2009).
• Karen Engelmann – The Stockholm Octavo (2012).
• Eric Flint – 1632 (2000), 1812: The Rivers of War (2005).
• Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen – Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War (2003), Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory (2005).
• Anne Golon – Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels (1956).
• Philippa Gregory – A Respectable Trade (1992), The Queen’s Fool (2003), The Boleyn Inheritance (2006).
• Heather Gudenkauf – The Weight of Silence (2009).
• Diane Haeger – The Perfect Royal Mistress (2007).
• Barbara Hambly – Patriot Hearts (2007), Homeland (2009).
• Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades (1926), The Masqueraders (1928), Devil’s Cub (1932), The Convenient Marriage (1934), Friday’s Child (1944), The Reluctant Widow (1946), Arabella (1949), The Grand Sophy (1950), The Quiet Gentleman (1951), Cotillion (1953), Sprig Muslin (1956), April Lady (1957), Venetia (1958), The Unknown Ajax (1959), False Colours (1963), Frederica (1965).
• Karleen Koen – Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV (2011).
• Dennis Lehane – Shutter Island (2003).
• Victoria Lustbader – Hidden (2006).
• Karen Maitland – Company of Liars (2008).
• Andrew Martin – The Somme Stations (2011).
• Robin Maxwell – Virgin: Prelude to the Throne (2001), To the Tower Born (2005).
• David McDaniel – The Man from U.N.C.L.E #6: The Vampire Affair (1966).
• Gregory Mcdonald – The Buck Passes Flynn (1981).
• Jennifer McMahon – Promise Not to Tell (2007).
• Diana Norman – A Catch of Consequence (2002).
• Tim O’Brien – The Things They Carried (1990).
• Robin Oliveira – My Name is Mary Sutter (2010).
• Robert B. Parker – School Days (2005).
• Sharon Kay Penman – Falls the Shadow (1988).
• Jodi Picoult – Picture Perfect (1995), Keeping Faith (1999), Plain Truth (2000), Second Glance (2003), Vanishing Acts (2005), Nineteen Minutes (2007), Change of Heart (2008), Handle with Care (2009), House Rules (2010).
• Marge Piercy – Sex Wars (2005).
• Erich Maria Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front (1929).
• Roberta Rich – The Midwife of Venice (2011).
• Kenneth Roberts – Rabble in Arms (1933).
• Lucia St. Clair Robson – Shadow Patriots (2005).
• Samuel Shellabarger – Lord Vanity (1953).
• Eva Stachniak – The Winter Palace (2012).
• Kathryn Stockett – The Help (2009).
• Indu Sundaresan – The Twentieth Wife (2002).
• Leon Uris – Exodus (1958).
• Jo Walton – Farthing (2006), Ha’penny (2007), Half a Crown (2008).
• Sarah Waters – Affinity (1999).
• James Webb – Fields of Fire (1978).
• Alison Weir – Innocent Traitor (2006).
• Connie Willis – Bellwether (1996).
• Farahad Zama – The Marriage Bureau for Rich People (2008).

Mystery

• Rennie Airth – River of Darkness (1999), The Blood-Dimmed Tide (2004).
• Barbara Cleverly – The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001), Ragtime in Simla (2002), The Damascened Blade (2003), The Palace Tiger (2004).
• Ruth Downie – Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire (2007).
• Ariana Franklin (Diana Norman) – City of Shadows (2006), Mistress of the Art of Death (2007), The Serpent’s Tale (2008), Grave Goods (2009).
• Margaret Frazer – The Novice’s Tale (1992), The Servant’s Tale (1993).
• Dorothy Gilman – The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1966) and others in the Mrs. Pollifax series, Kaleidoscope (2002).
• Kerry Greenwood – Cocaine Blues (1989), Flying Too High (1990), Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991), Death at Victoria Dock (1992), The Green Mill Murder (1993), Blood and Circuses (1994), Raisins and Almonds (1997).
• Barbara Hambly – A Free Man of Color (1997), Fever Season (1998), Sold Down the River (2000), Ran Away (2011), and others in the Benjamin January series.
• Barbara Hamilton (Barbara Hambly) – The Ninth Daughter (2009), A Marked Man (2010), Sup with the Devil (2011).
• Charlaine Harris – Sweet and Deadly (1981).
• William Kent Krueger – Vermilion Drift (2010).
• Eleanor Kuhns – A Simple Murder: A Mystery (2012).
• Sharyn McCrumb – The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel (2010).
• Anne Perry – No Graves As Yet (2003), Shoulder the Sky (2004), Angels in the Gloom (2005), At Some Disputed Barricade (2006), We Shall Not Sleep (2007).
• John Maddox Roberts – SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion (2001).
• Charles Todd – A Test of Wills (1996) and others in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series, The Murder Stone (2003), A Duty to the Dead (2009) and others in the Bess Crawford series.
• Jacqueline Winspear – Maisie Dobbs (2003) and sequels.
• Felicity Young – The Anatomy of Death (2012).

Thriller & Horror

• David Baldacci – Last Man Standing (2001), Stone Cold (2007), The Whole Truth (2008), The Innocent (2012).
• Giles Blunt – Forty Words for Sorrow (2000).
• C. J. Box – Blue Heaven (2008).
• John Burdett – Bangkok 8 (2003).
• James Lee Burke – In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (1991).
• Linda Castillo – Sworn to Silence (2009).
• Joy Castro – Hell or High Water (2012).
• Tom Clancy – The Sum of All Fears (1991).
• Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White (1859).
• John Connolly – Every Dead Thing (1999) and others in the Charlie Parker series, Bad Men (2003), Nocturnes (2004).
• Robert Crais – Demolition Angel (2000), Suspect (2013).
• William Diehl – Primal Fear (1993).
• Pete Earley – The Apocalypse Stone (2006).
• Dianne Emley – The First Cut (2006).
• Bill Evans & Marianna Jameson – Category 7: The Biggest Storm in History (2007).
• Christa Faust – Money Shot (2008).
• Lyndsay Faye – The Gods of Gotham (2012), Seven for a Secret (2013).
• Joy Fielding – Heartstopper (2007).
• Vince Flynn – Term Limits (1997), Act of Treason (2006).
• Lisa Gardner – The Neighbor (2009), Live to Tell (2010).
• Alison Goodman – Killing the Rabbit (2004).
• John Grisham – A Time to Kill (1989), The Runaway Jury (1996), A Painted House (2001), The Last Juror (2004).
• Paul Grossman – Children of Wrath (2012).
• Heather Gudenkauf – One Breath Away (2012).
• Jane Haddam – Skeleton Key (2000), Conspiracy Theory (2003), The Headmaster’s Wife (2005), Hardscrabble Road (2006).
• John Hart – The Last Child (2009).
• A. J. Hartley – On the Fifth Day (2007).
• Jonathan Hayes – Precious Blood (2007).
• Daniel Hecht – Puppets (2001).
• Don Helin – Devil’s Den (2012).
• Susan Hill – The Woman in Black (1983).
• Tami Hoag – Night Sins (1995), Deeper Than the Dead (2009).
• Shirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House (1959).
• Iris Johansen – The Search (2000), Blind Alley (2004), Firestorm (2004), Dark Summer (2008).
• Jonathan Kellerman – Obsession (2007).
• Jack Ketchum – The Girl Next Door (1989, Mature).
• Laurie R. King – A Darker Place (1999), Touchstone (2007).
• Stephen King – The Shining (1977), It (1986), The Green Mile (1996); “The Things They Left Behind” (2003), Doctor Sleep (2013), Joyland (2013).
• Tabitha King & Michael McDowell – Candles Burning (2006).
• Dean Koontz – Brother Odd (2006).
• John LeCarre – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974).
• Elmore Leonard – Pronto (1993), Riding the Rap (1995), When the Women Come Out to Dance (2002), Raylan (2012).
• Laura Lippman – What the Dead Know (2007).
• Chuck Logan – The Price of Blood (1997) and sequels in the Phil Broker series.
• T. J. MacGregor – Cold as Death (2006).
• Phillip Margolin – Executive Privilege (2008).
• Michael Marshall – The Intruders (2007).
• Alex Marwood – The Wicked Girls (2012).
• Joyce Maynard – After Her (2013).
• Robert R. McCammon – Gone South (1992).
• Denise Mina – Field of Blood (2005).
• Gregg Olsen – A Wicked Snow (2007), A Cold Dark Place (2008).
• Stewart O’Nan – The Night Country (2003).
• Robert B. Parker – God Save the Child (1974), Ceremony (1982).
• T. Jefferson Parker – Storm Runners (2007), L.A. Outlaws (2008).
• P. J. Parrish – A Thousand Bones (2007).
• Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Mount Dragon (1996).
• Cherie Priest – Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2005), Not Flesh Nor Feathers (2007).
• A. J. Quinnell – Man on Fire (1980).
• Edie Ramer – Dead People (2010).
• Nora Roberts – Blue Smoke (2005).
• George D. Shuman – 18 Seconds (2006).
• Karin Slaughter – Triptych (2006), Beyond Reach (2007), Undone (2009).
• Wendy Corsi Staub – In the Blink of an Eye (2013).
• Ross Thomas – The Seersucker Whipsaw (1967), The Fools in Town Are on Our Side (1970).
• Bari Wood – Doll’s Eyes (1993), The Basement (1995).

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

• Ben Aaronovitch – Midnight Riot/Rivers of London (2011), Moon Over Soho (2011), Whispers Under Ground (2012).
• Joe Abercrombie – Best Served Cold (2009).
• Daniel Abraham – The Dragon’s Path (2011), The King’s Blood (2012), The Tyrant’s Law (2013).
• Rabih Alameddine – The Hakawati (2008).
• Sarah Addison Allen – Garden Spells (2007), The Sugar Queen (2008), The Girl Who Chased the Moon (2010).
• Barth Anderson – The Magician and the Fool (2008).
• Ilona Andrews – Magic Bites (2007) and sequels, Bayou Moon (2010).
• Kelley Armstrong – Personal Demon (2008).
• Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), MaddAddam (2013).
• Richard Bachman (Stephen King) – The Running Man (1982).
• Brunonia Barry – The Lace Reader (2006).
• Peter S. Beagle – The Line Between (2006).
• Elizabeth Bear – Hammered (2004) and sequels, Bone and Jewel Creatures (2010), Range of Ghosts (2012).
• Greg Bear – Quantico (2005).
• Galen Beckett (Mark Anthony) – The Magicians and Mrs. Quent (2008).
• Carol Berg – Flesh and Spirit (2007), Breath and Bone (2008).
• Beth Bernobich – Passion Play (2010).
• Anne Bishop – Daughter of the Blood (1998), Heir to the Shadows (1999).
• Holly Black – Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (2002), Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie (2005), Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale (2007).
• Holly Black & Ellen Kushner (Editors) – Welcome to Bordertown (2011).
• Patricia Bray – Devlin’s Luck (2002).
• Patricia Briggs – Dragon Blood (2003).
• Sigmund Brouwer – Broken Angel (2008).
• Lois McMaster Bujold – The Warrior’s Apprentice (1986) and other books in the Vorkosigan Saga, The Curse of Chalion (2001), Paladin of Souls (2003), Beguilement (2006).
• Emma Bull – Territory (2007).
• Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette & Will Shetterly – Shadow Unit 1 (2011).
• Edgar Rice Burroughs – A Princess of Mars (1917).
• Orson Scott Card – Red Prophet (1988), Xenocide (1991), Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996), Enchantment (1999).
• Jacqueline Carey – Santa Olivia (2009).
• Mike Carey – The Devil You Know (2006).
• Barbara Cohen – Unicorns in the Rain (1980).
• Glen Cook – The Black Company (1984), Faded Steel Heat (1999).
• Rowena Cory Daniells – The King’s Bastard (2010), The Uncrowned King (2010), The Usurper (2010).
• Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Editors) – The Coyote Road (2007).
• Charles de Lint – Someplace to Be Flying (1998), The Onion Girl (2001), Waifs and Strays (2002), The Blue Girl (2004).
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – Mistress of Spices (1997).
• Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald – Lincoln’s Sword (2010).
• Stephanie Dray – Lily of the Nile (2011).
• Rosemary Edghill – The Warslayer (2002).
• Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) – King’s Dragon (1997) and sequels, Cold Magic (2010).
• Jude Fisher (Jane Johnson) – Sorcery Rising (2002).
• Lynn Flewelling – The Bone Doll’s Twin (2001), Hidden Warrior (2003), Oracle’s Queen (2006).
• Pamela Freeman – Blood Ties (2007), Deep Water (2008), Full Circle (2009).
• Esther Friesner – The Psalms of Herod (1996), The Sword of Mary (1996).
• Neil Gaiman – American Gods (2001).
• Kathleen Ann Goonan – Queen City Jazz (1994) and sequels in the Nanotech Quartet.
• Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire) – Parasite (2013).
• Barbara Hambly – The Time of the Dark (1982) and sequels, The Ladies of Mandrigyn (1984) and sequels, The Silent Tower (1986) and sequels, Bride of the Rat God (1994), Blood Maidens (2010).
• Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark (2001), Grave Sight (2005) and others in the Harper Connelly series.
• Frank Herbert – Dune (1965).
• Robin Hobb (Megan Lindholm) – Ship of Magic (1998), The Mad Ship (1999), Ship of Destiny (2000).
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman – The Thread that Binds the Bones (1993), The Silent Strength of Stones (1995), Permeable Borders (2012).
• Nalo Hopkinson – The New Moon’s Arms (2007).
• Kameron Hurley – God’s War (2010), Infidel (2011).
• D. B. Jackson – Thieftaker (2012).
• John Hornor Jacobs – Southern Gods (2011).
• N. K. Jemisin – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), The Broken Kingdoms (2010).
• Diana Wynne Jones – Deep Secret (1997).
• Tamara Siler Jones – Ghosts in the Snow (2004).
• Alma Katsu – The Taker (2011).
• Guy Gavriel Kay – The Summer Tree (1984) and others in the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, A Song for Arbonne (1992), The Last Light of the Sun (2004), Under Heaven (2010), River of Stars (2013).
• David Keck – In the Eye of Heaven (2006), In a Time of Treason (2008).
• Kay Kenyon – A Thousand Perfect Things (2013).
• Greg Keyes – The Briar King (2003), The Charnel Prince (2004), The Blood Knight (2006), The Born Queen (2008).
• Katharine Eliska Kimbriel – Night Calls (1996), Kindred Rites (1997).
• Stephen King – Firestarter (1980), 11/22/63 (2011).
• Michael Koryta – The Cypress House (2011).
• Nancy Kress – Beggars in Spain (1993) and sequels, Maximum Light (1997).
• Jay Kristoff – Stormdancer (2012).
• Naomi Kritzer – Freedom’s Apprentice (2005).
• Ellen Kushner – The Privilege of the Sword (2006).
• Mercedes Lackey – The Fire Rose (1995).
• Glenda Larke – The Last Stormlord (2009), Stormlord Rising (2010), Stormlord’s Exile (2011).
• Megan Lindholm – Wizard of the Pigeons (1986).
• Jane Lindskold – Thirteen Orphans (2008).
• R. A. MacAvoy – Tea with the Black Dragon (1983).
• Laurie J. Marks – Fire Logic (2002), Earth Logic (2004).
• Gail Z. Martin – The Summoner (2007).
• George R. R. Martin – A Game of Thrones (1996) and sequels in the Song of Ice and Fire series.
• Robert R. McCammon – Mystery Walk (1983), Boy’s Life (1991), Speaks the Nightbird (2002) and sequels.
• Jack McDevitt – Moonfall (1998).
• Ian McDonald – River of Gods (2004).
• Liane Merciel – The River Kings’ Road (2010).
• Sarah Micklem – Firethorn (2004), Wildfire (2009).
• Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves (2007, Mature).
• Elizabeth Moon – Sheepfarmer’s Daughter (1988), Oath of Fealty (2010), Kings of the North (2011).
• Christopher Moore – A Dirty Job (2006).
• Rachel Neumeier – Lord of the Changing Winds (2010), Land of the Burning Sands (2010), Law of the Broken Earth (2010).
• Naomi Novik – His Majesty’s Dragon (2006).
• Daniel Polansky – Low Town (2011).
• Terry Pratchett – Monstrous Regiment (2003).
• Cherie Priest – Fathom (2008).
• Jennifer Rardin – Once Bitten, Twice Shy (2007), Another One Bites the Dust (2007).
• Judith Merkle Riley – A Vision of Light (1988) and sequels, The Oracle Glass (1994), The Serpent Garden (1996), The Master of All Desires (1999).
• John Ringo – Princess of Wands (2006).
• J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts) – Salvation in Death (2008).
• Fred Saberhagen – The Holmes-Dracula File (1978), An Old Friend of the Family (1979).
• Brandon Sanderson – Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006).
• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough – The Healer’s War (1988).
• Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Burnett – Point of Hopes (1995), Point of Dreams (2001).
• Samantha Shannon – The Bone Season (2013).
• Alisa Sheckley – The Better to Hold You (2009).
• Joel Shepherd – Sasha (2007).
• Sharon Shinn – Archangel (1997) and sequels, Fortune and Fate (2008).
• Susan Shwartz – Shards of Empire (1996), Cross and Crescent (1997).
• Wen Spencer – A Brother’s Price (2005).
• Michael A. Stackpole – Talion: Revenant (1997), At the Queen’s Command (2010).
• Mary Stanton – Defending Angels (2008), Angel’s Advocate (2009).
• Jennifer Stevenson – Trash Sex Magic (2004).
• Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka – Warday (1984), Nature’s End (1986).
• Anton Strout – Dead to Me (2008).
• Paul Sussman – The Last Secret of the Temple (2009).
• Judith Tarr – Throne of Isis (1994), Queen of Swords (1997), Devil’s Bargain (2002).
• Harry Turtledove – The Guns of the South (1992).
• Carrie Vaughn – Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005) and sequels in the Kitty Norville series, After the Golden Age (2011).
• J. R. Ward (Jessica Bird) – Covet (2009).
• David Weber & Jane Lindskold – Fire Season (2012).
• Martha Wells – The Death of the Necromancer (1998) and others in the Ile-Rien series, Wheel of the Infinite (2000).
• Michelle West (Michelle Sagara) – The Hidden City (2008).
• Django Wexler – The Thousand Names (2013).
• Liz Williams – Snake Agent (2005).
• Connie Willis – Doomsday Book (1992), Bellwether (1996), To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997).
• Leona Wisoker – Secrets of the Sands (2010).

Miscellaneous (Non-fiction, Graphic Novels, Poetry)

Non-fiction:

• Karen Abbott – Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul (2007).
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Infidel (2006).
• Harper Barnes – Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (2008).
• John M. Barry – Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997).
• Helen Benedict – Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes (1992), The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (2009).
• Martin Booth – Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood (2004).
• Nat Brandt – Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 (2003).
• Bill Bryson – One Summer: America, 1927 (2013).
• Seth Cagin & Philip Dray – We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi (1988).
• Gail Collins – America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (2003).
• David Cowan & John Kuenster – To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (1996).
• George Crile III – Charlie Wilson’s War (2003).
• Dave Cullen – Columbine (2009).
• William Dalrymple – White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (2002).
• Ron Elliott – Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire (1996).
• John C. Esposito – Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath (2005).
• Jean Craighead George – The Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets (1996).
• Lt. Col. Dave Grossman – On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (1996).
• Jan Goodwin – Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World (1994).
• Robert Graves – Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929).
• Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch (1970).
• Tim Gunn – Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work (2010).
• Megan Kelley Hall & Carrie Jones (Editors) – Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories (2011).
• Aidan Hartley – The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War (2003).
• Michael Herr – Dispatches (1977).
• Walter Hogan – Animals in Young Adult Fiction (2009).
• Alan Huffman – Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History (2009).
• Ann Jones – Next Time, She’ll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It (1994).
• Ulrike Klausmann, Marion Meinzerin & Gabriel Kuhn – Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger (1997).
• Igor Kostin – Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter (2006).
• Jon Krakauer – Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (2003).
• Erik Larson – In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin (2011).
• Deborah Lipstadt – The Eichmann Trial (2011).
• Keith Lowe – Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (2012).
• Daniel P. Mannix – Memoirs of a Sword Swallower (1951).
• Florence Mars – Witness in Philadelphia (1977).
• Cameron McWhirter – Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America (2011).
• Andrea Moore-Emmett – God’s Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped (2004).
• Haruki Murakami – Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (1997).
• Annalee Newitz & Charlie Anders (Editors) – She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (2006).
• Alleen Pace Nilsen & Don L. F. Nilsen – Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature (2007).
• Stacey O’Brien – Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl (2008).
• Deborah O’Keefe – Good Girl Messages: How Young Women Were Misled by Their Favorite Books (2000).
• Daniel Okrent – Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2010).
• Gregg Olsen – Cruel Deception (2005).
• Stewart O’Nan – The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (2000).
• Lawrence Schimel – Fairy Tales for Writers (2007).
• Flora Rheta Schreiber – Sybil (1973).
• Josepha Sherman & T. K. F. Weisskopf – Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood (1995).
• Anne Somerset – Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day (1984).
• E. Benjamin Skinner – A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (2008).
• Mark Twain – Christian Science (1907), Letters from the Earth (1962).
• Alison Weir – The Children of Henry VIII (1996).
• Elie Wiesel – Night (1956).
• Marie Winn – Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park (1998).
• Francis Yeats-Brown – The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1930).

Graphic Novels:

• Jason Aaron (Writer) & R. M. Guera (Illustrator) – Scalped Vol. 1: Indian Country (2007, Mature), Scalped Vol. 2: Casino Boogie (2008, Mature), Scalped Vol. 3: Dead Mothers (2008, Mature).
• Jason Aaron (Writer) & Cameron Stewart (Illustrator) – The Other Side (2007, Mature).
• Brian Azzarello (Writer) & Lee Bermejo (Illustrator) – The Joker (2008).
• Brian Azzarello (Writer) & Eduardo Risso (Illulstrator) – 100 Bullets Vol. 1: First Shot, Last Call (2000, Mature).
• Holly Black, Bill Willingham, Alisa Kwitney, Louise Hawes, Todd Mitchell (Writers) & Rebecca Guay (Illustrator) – A Flight of Angels (2011).
• Neil Gaiman (Writer) & Various (Illustrators) – The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (1991) and the rest of the series, collected in a total of ten trade paperbacks.
• Jim Munroe (Writer) & Salgood Sam (Illustrator) – Therefore, Repent! (2008).
• Douglas Rushkoff (Writer) & Liam Sharp (Illustrator) – Testament: Akedah (2006).
• Gail Simone (Writer) & Talent Caldwell (Illustrator) – Gen¹³: Best of a Bad Lot, Vol. 1 (2007).
• Aruna Singh – Vaishno Devi (2012).
• Shaun Tan – The Arrival (2006).
• Brian K. Vaughan (Writer) & Niko Henrichon (Illustrator) – Pride of Baghdad (2006).
• Joss Whedon (Writer) & Georges Jeanty (Illustrator) – Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Vol. 1: The Long Way Home (2007).
• Bill Willingham (Writer) & Various (Illustrators) – Fables Vol. 9: Sons of Empire (2007), Fables Vol. 10: The Good Prince (2008).
• G. Willow Wilson (Writer) & M. K. Perker (Illustrator) – Cairo (2007).
• Gene Luen Yang – American Born Chinese (2006).

Poetry:

• Gwendolyn Brooks – Selected Poems (1963)
• Yusef Komunyakaa – Dien Cai Dau (1988).
• Lyn Macdonald (Editor) – Anthem for Doomed Youth: Poets of the Great War (2000).
• Wilfred Owen (Writer) & C. Day Lewis (Editor) – The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (1964).
• Lola Ridge – The Ghetto and Other Poems (1918).