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Pat Conroy My Losing Season Timothy Ferris Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Mary Lawson Crow Lake Brian Malloy The Year of Ice Julie Otsuka When the Emperor Was Divine Ann Packer The Dive from Clausen's Pier Martha Southgate The Fall of Rome Joseph Weisberg 10th Grade 2004 [ 10] Amanda Davis Wonder When You'll Miss Me Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler's Wife ZZ Packer Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Mary Roach Stiff Mark Salzman True Notebooks Marjane Satrapi Persepolis Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs Bart Yates Leave Myself Behind 2005 [ 11] Steve Almond Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Lynne Cox Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer Brendan Halpin Donorboy Robert Kurson Shadow Divers Kent Meyers Work of Wolves Ann Patchett Truth & Beauty: A Friendship Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper Kit Reed Thinner Than Thou Jim Shepard Project X Robert Sullivan Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants 2006 [ 12] Judy Fong Bates Midnight at the Dragon Café Kalisha Buckhanon Upstate Neil Gaiman Anansi Boys Gregory Galloway As Simple As Snow Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go A. Lee Martinez Gil's All Fright Diner Susan Palwick The Necessary Beggar Nancy Rawles My Jim Julia Scheeres Jesus Land: A Memoir Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle: A Memoir 2007 [ 13] John Connolly The Book of Lost Things Ivan Doig The Whistling Season Michael D'Orso Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska Sara Gruen Water for Elephants Pamela Carter Joern Floor of the Sky John Hamamura Color of the Sea Michael Lewis The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game David Mitchell Black Swan Green Ron Rash The World Made Straight Diane Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale 2008 [ 14] Matthew Polly American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China Matt Ruff Bad Monkeys Jeff Lemire Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm Conn Iggulden Genghis: Birth of an Empire Aryn Kyle The God of Animals Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Lloyd Jones Mister Pip Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind Thomas Maltman The Night Birds Lisa Lutz The Spellman Files 2009 [ 15] David Benioff City of Thieves Michael Swanwick The Dragons of Babel Zoë Ferraris Finding Nouf Hannah Tinti The Good Thief Stephen King Just After Sunset: Stories Hillary Jordan Mudbound Todd Tucker Over and Under Stephen G. Bloom The Oxford Project Toby Barlow Sharp Teeth Theresa Rebeck Three Girls and Their Brother 2010 [ 16] William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Meg Rosoff The Bride's Farewell Ron Currie Jr. Everything Matters! David Finkel The Good Soldiers Diana Welch and Liz Welch The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir Lev Grossman The Magicians Peter Rock My Abandonment Gail Carriger Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel David Small Stitches: A Memoir Kevin Wilson Tunneling to the Center of the Earth 2011 [ 17] DC Pierson The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To Liz Murray Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard Jean Kwok Girl in Translation Peter Bognanni The House of Tomorrow Steve Hamilton The Lock Artist Aimee Bender The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Matt Haig The Radleys Alden Bell The Reapers Are the Angels Emma Donoghue Room Helen Grant The Vanishing of Katharina Linden 2012 [ 18] Rachel DeWoskin Big Girl Small Jo Ann Beard In Zanesville David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary Brooke Hauser The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus Ernest Cline Ready Player One Daniel H. 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