Fiction: 

The God of Animals
by Aryn Kyle

Mistress of the Art of Death
by Ariana Franklin

Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson

Peony in Love
by Lisa See

A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini

Biography: 

Amerigo: The man who gave his name to America.
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father
by John Matteson

Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir
by Mary Lee Settle

Practically Perfect (In Every Way)
by Jennifer Niesslein.

Shoot the Widow
by Meryle Secrest

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
by Alan Alda

Food: 

Food & Wine: An entire year of recipes 2007

Great American Cook
by Jonathan Waxman

Hot Dish Heaven: Classic Casseroles from Midwest Kitchens
by Ann Burckhardt

Medical

Chasing Life: New discoveries in the search for immortality to help you age less today.
by Sanjay Gupta.

Dancing with Rose: Finding life in the land of Alzheimer's.
by Lauren Kessler

Travel and History

Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari
by Betty Levitov.

The Cure for Anything is Salt Water
by Mary South

Down the Nile: Alone in a fisherman's skiff.
by Rosemary Mahoney

Four Seasons in Rome
by Anthony Doerr

Community Concerns

Giving: How each of us can change the world.
by Bill Clinton

Last Harvest: How a cornfield became New Daleville: Real estate development in America from George Washington to the builders of the twenty-first century, and why we live in houses anyway.
by Witold Rybczynski

Little Heathens: Hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression.
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish.