The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy; India)
The Unaccustomed Earth (Jumpha Lahiri; Bengal)
The Imaginitive Argument (Frank L. Cioffi)
Persepolis (Iran)
The Black Book (Orhan Pahmuk; Turkey)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami; Japan)
Les Chercheurs D’Os (Tahar Djaout; Algeria)
Burmese Days (George Orwell; Britain, Burma)
Finding George Orwell in Burma (Emma Larkin; Britain, Burma)
How to be Idle, a Loafer’s Manifesto (Tom Hodgkinson; Britain)
The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank (Bruno Bettleheim; United States)
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World (Tracy Kidder; United States; Haiti)
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories of Rwanda (Philip Gourevitch; United States, Rwanda)
Last Chance to See (Doug Adams; Mark Carwardine; the world)