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2009 Nominations
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Selection Finalists:
• The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alverez
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
• The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Brief Wondorous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel
Additional Nominations:
• 1984 by George Orwell
• 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
• A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
• A Personal Matter by Kensaburo Oe
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
• A Thousand Spendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• A Void by Georges Perec
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink
• A Woman in Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Admission by Travis Thrasher
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coello
• An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Ask the Dust by John Fante
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
• Beasts of No Nation by Usodinma Iweala
• Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• The Boat by Nam Le
• Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct by P.M. Forni
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work at a Pilgrimage of Identity by David White
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddan
• Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir by John Gunther
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
• Escape From Saddam: The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom by Lewis Alsamari
• The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman
• Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climage Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Giver by Lois Lowery
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Grayson by Lynne Cox
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Gunslinger by Stephen King
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Hiroshima by John Hershey
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution by Thomas Friedman
• Houseboy by Ferdinand Leopold Oyono
• The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
• The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World by Lynne McTaggart
• The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
• Island by Aldous Huxley
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
• The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind by Barbara Hand Clow
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
• My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journey of Paul Erdos by Bruce Schechter
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques
• The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
• Passion for the Possible: A Guide to Realizing Your True Potential by Jean Houston
• The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• The Power of Now - A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie
• The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities by Mike Tidwell
• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• Run by Ann Patchett
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
• Shogun by James Clavell
• Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by Marla Cone
• Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time by Paul Rogat Loeb
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
• The Pact by Sampson Davis
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence by Ben Carson
• This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
• Tuesdays with Morie by Mitch Albom
• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer
• Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler
• What Are Old People For? by William Thomas
• The Word for World is Forest by Ursula LeGuin
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl by Timothy Egan
• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman