- Fiction
- Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (FSG)
- Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (FSG)
- Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown)
- Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (FSG)
- Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Knopf)
- Nonfiction
- Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Knopf)
- Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great (Twelve)
- Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill and Wang/FSG)
- Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Knopf)
- Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)
DISCUSS: How’s it going to go down come November?
- Poetry
- Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin)
- Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins)
- David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St. (Louisiana State University Press)
- Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton)
- Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton)
- Young People’s Literature
- Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown)
- Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One (Atheneum)
- M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum)
- Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic)
- Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown)
I want to know what you think: who’s going to win, who’s missing, etc. etc.