- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- The Second Plane by Martin Amis
- Nine Ways We Can Talk to Cuba by Center for Democracy in the Americas
- Speaking in Tongues by Zadie Smith
- The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Holldobler and Edward Wilson, review by Tim Flannery
- The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll, review by Fred Halliday


