Love & Math, the heart of hidden reality, Edward Frenkel

Best American Poetry 1997

The Future of the Mind, the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind, Michio Kaku

Moneyball, Michael Lewis

The Cooked Seed, a memoir, Anchee Min

Allegory of the Supermarket, poems by Stephanie Brown

The Best America Poetry 2005

The Gulag Archipelago, an experiment in literary investigation, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Red Azalea, Anchee Min

The People's Republic of Amnesia, Tiananmen revisited, Louisa Lim

Great American Prose Poems, from Poe to the Present, edited by David Lehman

Life Animated, a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism, Ron Suskind

Domestic Interior, (poems) Stephanie Brown

Lost Classics, books loved and lost, overlooked, under-read, unavailable, stolen, extinct, or otherwise out of commission, edited by Michael Ondaatje + 3 others

The Body Electric, America's best poetry from The American Poetry Review