
Selected Book:
- Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian
Selection Finalists:
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Intuition by Allegra Goodman
- Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris
- The Birth of the Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina
- Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- The Color of Water by James McBride
Additional Nominations:
- The Alchemist by Paula Coelho
- All the Names by Jose Saramago
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Black, White, and Eskimo: A North Pole Legacy by S. Allen Counter
- Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
- Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean
- The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Dune by Herbert Frank
- The Eight by Catherine Neville
- Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
- Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
- The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
- The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
- Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health by Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
- In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- The Journeys of Socrates by Dan Millman
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dave Sobel
- Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Seabold
- Maia by Richard Adams
- The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer
- McTeague by Frank Norris
- The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- Palestine by Joe Sacco
- Peace Kills by P.J. O'Rourke
- Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Prey by Michael Crichton
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Saturday by Ian McEwen
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
- The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death by D. B. C. Pierre
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
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