(See years 3 and 4 and years 5 and 6 and years 7 and 8 and year 9)
Vivian Gornick's memoir Fierce Attachments (1987)
Walter Tevis's novel The Queen's Gambit (1983)
Lawrence Weschler's profile of an artist (or con artist), Boggs: A Comedy of Values (1999)
J.M. Ledgard's novel Submergence (2011)
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, edited by Leonard Marcus (1998)
Penelope Fitzgerald's novel Offshore (1979)
John M. Hull's memoir Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness (1990)
Edward P. Jones's collection of stories Lost in the City (1992)
Douglas Wolk's appreciation of James's Brown's album, Live at the Apollo, part of the 33 1/3 series (2004)
Heinrich von Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas (in the collection The Marquise of O— and Other Stories) (1810)
Jo Ann Beard's collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth (1999)
Simone Schwarz-Bart's novel The Bridge of Beyond (1972)
Mary McCarthy's memoir Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)
Geoffrey Household's thriller Rogue Male
Frederick and Steven Barthelme's memoir of gambling, writing, and family, Double Down
Janet Lewis's historical novel The Wife of Martin Guerre
Marshall Frady's political profile Wallace (1968)
Helen DeWitt's novel The Last Samurai (2000)
John McPhee's account of a 1968 U.S. Open tennis semifinal, Levels of the Game (1969)
James Weldon Johnson's novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
Charlotte Gill's memoir of tree-planting in British Columbia, Eating Dirt (2011)
Ben Katchor's collection of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer comic strips, Cheap Novelties (1991)
W. Stanley Moss's memoir of the kidnapping of a Nazi general in World War II, Ill Met by Moonlight (1950)
Elizabeth Harrower's novel The Watch Tower (1966)
Vivian Gornick's memoir Fierce Attachments (1987)