| Boyle, T.C. | | Tortilla Curtain | | “a rich and moving novel about the price of the American dream”, “a compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy”, “a book to appreciate as we peer at the faces outside our windows, and wall ourselves in.” |
| McNally, John | | America’s Report Card | | “a brilliant, laugh out loud satire of contemporary American life with a tender, angry heart and enormous compassion for the little guy” |
| Pamuk, Orhan | | Snow | | exiled poet returns to Turkey… “enriched by mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller’s playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost.” |
| Piercy, Marge | | Sex Wars: A Novel of the Turbulent Post-Civil War Period | | post-Civil War New York City, battleground of the American Dream, women’s rights movement, free love, poverty, religion, immigration, account of real-life heroines Stanton, Anthony, Woodhull, and much more |