Biographies/Autobiographies

• Martin Seymour Smith, Rudyard Kipling
• Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway
• Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words (Autobiography)
• Patricia Cornwell, Portrait of a Killer (Biography of Jack the Ripper)

Fiction

• Elizabeth Kostova, the Historian
• Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts
• Nicholas Barker, Small Holdings
• Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
• Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos
• Ian Banks, Canal Dreams
• Roy Strong, A Country Life
• Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
• Pat Barker, Border Crossing
• Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
• Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
• Christopher Hyde, A Gathering of Saints
• Anne Rice, Interview With a Vampire
• Patricia Cornwell, Hornet's Nest
• Anne Rice, The Feast of All Saints
• Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

Non-Fiction

• Tony Thompson, Gangs (a journey in to the heart of the British underworld.. a quote from a review on Amazon: "this guy has to be nuts. He researched all his material by going face to face with real criminals who have ties to the underworld. He even smokes crack with a prostitute..")
• Simon Singh, The Code Book (the science of secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Crypotography)
  
• Andrew Roberts, What Might Have Been
  
• Stephen Dorril, Blackshirt (The rise and fall of Oswald Mosely and British Fascism)
  
• Marc Ferro, Nicholas II, Last of the Tsars (an overview of the last days of the Russian Tsars)
  
• Patricia Schultz, A Thousand Places to See Before You Die
  

Sci-Fi

• Ian M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

• Ian M. Banks, The Algebraist
• Stephen Baxter, Coalescent (Destiny's Children Trilogy Book 1)
• Stephen Baxter, Exultant (Destiny's Children Trilogy Book 2)
• Stephen Baxter, Transcendent (Destiny's Children Trilogy Book 3)
• Stephen Baxter, Manifold Space
  
• Greg Bear, Eon
• Greg Bear, Eternity
• Phillip K. Dick Minority Report and other short stories
• Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
• Year's Best SF7
• Year's Best SF8
• Year's Best SF10
• Year's Best SF11