Bill Barich’s racetrack memoir, Laughing in the Hills

William Melvin Kelley’s novel of sudden Black migration from the South, 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 of youthful love and friendship, Dusty Answer

Roy Andries De Groot’s book of travel and recipes, The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth

Rita Dove’s poetic imagining of the lives of her parents, Thomas and Beulah

N. Scott Momaday’s ancestral and personal memoir, The Names

David Adams Richards’s novel of family in small-town New Brunswick, Nights Below Station Street

Marina Jarre’s memoir of an outsider’s life in Latvia and Italy, Distant Fathers

R.C. Sherriff’s novel of a family seaside vacation, The Fortnight in September

Sanora Babb’s memoir of growing up in eastern Colorado, An Owl on Every Post

Maryse Condé’s fictional reimagining of a lost figure from the witch trials, I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem

Moss Hart’s Broadway memoir, Act One

Flann O’Brien’s novel of bicycles and strange dimensions, 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