Molly Gloss’s novella, Outside the Gates

Charles Sprawson memoir and cultural history of swimming, Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

Charles W. Chestnutt’s novel The Marrow of Tradition

Tim Krabbé’s cycling novel, The Rider

Carolyn See’s novel Golden Days (1987)

Rick Bass’s geologist’s memoir, Oil Notes (1989)

Lore Segal’s novel Her First American (1985)

Frances Faviell’s memoir of the London Blitz, A Chelsea Concerto

Marguerite Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian

Nan Shepherd’s nature memoir, The Living Mountain

Andrew Holleran’s novel Grief

C.L.R. James’s history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins

China Miéville’s novel The City & the City

Tove Ditlevsen’s memoir Childhood

Elizabeth Hardwick’s novel Sleepless Nights

Kenneth Brower’s profile of Freeman and George Dyson, The Starship and the Canoe

Tarjei Vesaas’s novel The Ice Palace