(See years 1 and 2 and years 3 and 4 and years 5 and 6 and year 9)
Bill Barich’s racetrack memoir, Laughing in the Hills
William Melvin Kelley’s novel A Different Drummer
Aminatta Forna’s memoir of her childhood in Sierra Leone and Scotland, The Devil That Danced on the Water
Rosamond Lehmann’s novel Dusty Answer
Roy Andries De Groot’s book of travel and recipes, The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth
Rita Dove’s poetry collection Thomas and Beulah
N. Scott Momaday’s ancestral and personal memoir, The Names
David Adams Richards’s novel Nights Below Station Street
Marina Jarre’s memoir, Distant Fathers
R.C. Sherriff’s novel The Fortnight in September
Sanora Babb’s memoir of growing up in eastern Colorado, An Owl on Every Post
Maryse Condé’s novel, I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem
Moss Hart’s Broadway memoir, Act One
Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman
Ella K. Maillart’s memoir of traveling by car from Switzerland to Afghanistan, The Cruel Way
Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s memoir of traveling by car from Switzerland to Afghanistan, All the Roads Are Open
Kay Dick’s dystopian novel, They
Norman Levine’s memoir of travelling across Canada, Canada Made Me
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel of the Indian forest, Aranyak
Pauli Murray’s family history, Proud Shoes
Winifred Holtby’s social novel of a Yorkshire community, South Riding
Leila Guerriero’s profile of an Argentinian dancer, A Simple Story
Dorothy Baker’s jazz novel, Young Man with a Horn
William W. Warner’s appreciation of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and those who pursue it, Beautiful Swimmers
Michael Shou-Yung Shum’s novel of gambling and suburban Seattle, Queen of Spades