| Title | Author | Recommended by | Department |
| An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England | Brock Clarke | Scott Sand | Iwasaki Library |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | Leanne Valdes | Housing and Residence Life |
| Balkan Ghosts | Robert Kaplan | Phillip Glenn | Communication Studies |
| Bambi vs. Godzilla | David Mamet | Jane Pikor | Television, Radio and Film |
| The Big Over Easy | Jasper Fforde | Corinna Brock | Information Technology |
| The Bishop's Daughter | Honor Moore | Megan Marshall | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Haruki Murakami | Jonathan Aaron | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | Daniel Kempler, Ron Ludman | Communication Sciences & Disorders, Dean of Students |
| Bringing Down the House | Ben Mezrich | Christina Harrington | Cutler Majestic Theatre |
| The Character of Rain | Amelie Nothomb | Laura McCune-Poplin | Iwasaki Library |
| The Cheese Monkeys | Chip Kidd | Craig Grant | Marketing Communication |
| The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 | Zbigniew Herbert | Robert Dulgarian | Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Confederates in the Attic | Tony Horwitz | Cheryl Lustenberger | Television, Radio and Film |
| A Democracy is Born: An Insider's Account of the Battle Against Terrorism in Afghanistan | Matthew J. Morgan | Matthew Morgan | Communication Studies |
| The Diana Chronicles | Tina Brown | Martie Cook | Visual and Media Arts |
| Dishwasher | Pete Jordan | David Kociemba | Visual and Media Arts |
| The Elements of Typographic Style | Robert Bringhurst | Bret Kulakovich | Information Technology |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Alexis Melville | Housing and Residence Life |
| The Fly on the Wall | Tony Hillerman | Mark Leccese | Journalism |
| The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression | Amity Shlaes | Ted Hollingworth | Communication Studies |
| Garlic and Sapphires | Ruth Reichl | Stacey Cate | Institutional Advancement |
| Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | Suzanne Hinton | Communication Studies |
| Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs | John Bowe, Marisa Bowe & Sabin Streeter, Eds. | Ron DeMarco | Performing Arts |
| Gone, Baby, Gone | Dennis Lehane | Ian Thistle | Iwasaki Library |
| The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 | Jay Winik | Grafton Nunes | Dean, School of the Arts |
| The Ha-Ha | Dave King | Cathy Waters | Marketing Communication |
| Hanna's Daughters | Marianne Fredriksson | Indrani Sen | Instructional Technology Group |
| The Hearts of Horses | Molly Gloss | Beth Ineson | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| The Hidden Assassins | Robert Wilson | Lisa Diercks | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| The House on Fortune Street | Margot Livesey | DeWitt Henry | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| The Indian Clerk | David Leavitt | David Griffin | International Study & External Programs |
| Infidel | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Kelly Pinard | Center for Spiritual Life |
| Isle of Passion | Laura Restrepo | Flora Gonzalez | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Jayber Crow | Wendell Berry | Tom Hanold | Institutional Advancement |
| Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously | Julie Powell | Anna Umbreit | Career Services |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | Scott Wheeler | Performing Arts |
| Laika | Nick Abadzis | John Rodzvilla | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Lanark: A Life in 4 Books | Alasdair Gray | John Trimbur | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Last Night at the Lobster | Stewart O'Nan | Rhea Becker | Public Affairs |
| The Lay of the Land | Richard Ford | Michael Weiler | Communication Studies |
| Letters to a Stranger | Thomas James | Jason Roush | Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies |
| The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook | David de Rothschild | Jonathan Satriale | Journalism |
| The Manticore | Roberston Davies | Amit Bajaj | Communication Sciences & Disorders |
| The Maytrees | Annie Dillard | Paul Twist | Iwasaki Library |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | Jerry Lanson | Journalism |
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder | Jacqueline Holland | Writing & Academic Resource Center |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Seton D. Lindsay | Communication Sciences & Disorders |
| Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War | Anthony Shadid | Melinda Robins | Journalism |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma | Michael Pollan | Nicole Pierce | Performing Arts |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Monika Pinto | Graduate Admission |
| Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present | Peter Hessler | Maureen Tripp | Iwasaki Library |
| Persepolis and Persepolis 2 | Marjane Satrapi | Jacqueline Romeo | Performing Arts |
| Peter and the Starcatchers | Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson | Robert Ashton | Institutional Advancement |
| A Place of My Own | Michael Pollan | David Emblidge | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York | Andre Schiffrin | Carl Martin | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote | Truman Capote | John Skoyles | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | William Orem | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Bill Beuttler | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Public Enemies | Bryan Burrough | Paul Niwa | Journalism |
| Ralph Ellison: A Biography | Arnold Rampersad | Robbie McCauley | Performing Arts |
| Returning to Earth | Jim Harrison | Jim Sheldon | Visual and Media Arts |
| The Saturday Morning Murder | Batya Gur | Murray M. Schwartz | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| The Season of the Witch | James Leo Herlihy | Peg Aloi | Visual and Media Arts |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | Roxanne Schroeder-Arce | Performing Arts |
| Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette | Judith Thurman | Christopher Keane | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Jason W. Allen-Forrest, Nicole Brown | Performing Arts, Iwasaki Library |
| The Sheltering Sky | Paul Bowles | Alden Jones | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Silvia Hodges | Marketing Communication |
| Small Island | Andrea Levy | Amy Meyers | Alumni Relations |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Aubree Ann Lawrence | Professional Studies & Special Programs |
| Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | Silvia Hodges | Marketing Communication |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | Anne Fadiman | Cindy Bartlett | Communication Sciences & Disorders |
| Steal This Book | Abby Hoffman | Robert Cusumano | Television, Radio and Film |
| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky | Janis Andersen | Dean, School of Communication |
| Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios | Jim Cogan & William Clark | Tom Smith | Communication Studies |
| Tent Life in Siberia | George F. Kennan | Gregory Anderson | Cutler Majestic Theatre |
| The Terror | Dan Simmons | Matthew Bailey | Public Affairs |
| That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity | James Dawes | John Gianvito | Visual and Media Arts |
| These Granite Islands | Sarah Stonich | Alayne Bushey | Student Administrative Services |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Cheryl Crounse | Institutional Advancement |
| Time and Again | Jack Finney | Diane Lake | Visual and Media Arts |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Katherine Wheeler | Institutional Advancement |
| Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. | Jeremy Mercer | Carolyn Jasinski | Institutional Advancement |
| Travels in Hyperreality | Umberto Eco | Mirta Tocci | Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Travels with Herodotus | Ryszard Kapuscinski | Douglas Whynott | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Voices in Time: A Life in Stories | Eduardo Galeano | Richard Hoffman | Writing, Literature and Publishing |
| Warriors Don't Cry | Melba Pattillo Beals | Barbara Rutberg | Institutional Advancement |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | Sara Flynn | Advising Center |
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Shirley Jackson | Kyna Hamill | Performing Arts |
| What is the What? | Dave Eggers | Dierdre Conlon, Shelley Lipschultz | Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, Communication Sciences & Disorders |
| What the Best College Teachers Do | Ken Bain | Tom Cooper | Visual and Media Arts |
| World Without End | Ken Follett | Harry Morgan | Performing Arts |
