Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War, by Ishmael Reed
Extraordinary Groups: an Examination of Unconventional Life-Styles, by William M. Kephart
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story, by Latifa
War Is...Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk about War, edited by Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell
Women of the West, by Cathy Luchetti
Asian Vegetarian Feast, by Ken Hom
Cooking with Green Tea, by Ying Chang Compestine
Cuisines of India: The Art and Tradition of Regional Indian Cooking, by Smita Chandra
Eat Tea: A New Approach to Flavoring Contemporary and Traditional Dishes, by Joanna Pruess
Encyclopedia of Indian Cooking, by Khalid Aziz
Flavorful India: Treasured Recipes from a Gujarati Family, by Priti Chitnis Gress
Iced tea: 50 recipes for Refreshing Tisanes, Infusions, Coolers, and Spiked Teas, by Fred Thompson
A Spoonful of Ginger: Irresistible, Health-Giving Recipes from Asian Kitchens, by Nina Simonds
World Vegetarian: More than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the Globe, by Madhur Jaffrey
Mountaineering
The Breach: Kilimanjaro and the conquest of Self, by Rob Taylor
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer
Miracle in the Andes: 72 days On the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, by Nando Parrado with Vince Rause
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks, by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, The World's Most Feared Mountain, by Jennifer Jordan
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey To the Top of Everest, by Jamling Tenzing Norgay with Broughton Coburn
Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson
Long Walks
A Land so Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century, by Andres Resendez
The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz
The Man Who Walked Through Time, by Colin Fletcher
The Places In Between, by Rory Stewart
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen
People who make a difference
The Camel Bookmobile, by Masha Hamilton
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children, by John Wood
Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell their Stories, by Carol Bergman
Monique and The Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mid-Wife in Mali, by Kris Holloway
Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, by Sarah Erdman
The Village of Waiting, by George Packer
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century, by James Orbinski
Keep Walking: One Man's Journey to Feed the World One Child at a Time, by Larry Jones
Lighting the way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, by Karenna Gore Schiff
A simple Path, by Mother Teresa: compiled by Lucinda Vardey
Stone Soup for the World: Life Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes, collected by Marianne Larned
Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes, by John Siceloff and Jason Maloney
Education
All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why it Matters, by Karen Stabiner
Among Schoolchildren, by Tracy Kidder
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas
Educating Esme: A Diary of a Teacher's First Year, by Esme Raji Codell
The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School, by Neil Postman
Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story, by Vivian Gussin Paley
Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School, by Bruce S. Feiler
Letters to a Young Teacher, by Jonathan Kozol
Losing my Faculties by Brendan Halpin
Making Schools Better: How Parents and Teachers Across the Country are Taking Action-and How You Can, Too, by Larry Martz
The Miseducation of Women, by James Tooley
Our School, by Joanne Jacobs
Separate but Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle, by Jim Haskins
Religion
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, The Struggle For the Soul of a Generation, by Eboo Patel
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-Three Women Search for Understanding, by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time, by Karen Armstrong
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, by Ariel Sabar
Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
Broken Verses, by Kamila Shamsie
A Case of Exploding Mangoes, by Mohammed Hanif
The End of Manners, by Francesca Marciano
Fidali's Way, by George Mastras
Gardens of Water, by Alan Drew
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Kartography, by Kamila Shamsie
the Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
The Reluctant Fundamentalists, by Mohsin Hamid
The Swallows of Kabul, by Yasmina Khadra
The Wasted Vigil, by Nadeem Aslam
Afghanistan/Pakistan Travels
Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide, by Bijan Omrani
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban, by Larry P. Goodson
Among the Afghans, by Arthur Bonner
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, by Jason Elliot
Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British disaster in the First Afghan War, by John H. Waller
The Bookseller of Kabul, by Asne Seierstad
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Coll
Let's Visit Pakistan, by John C. Caldwell
The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan, by Jon Lee Anderson
The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan, by Peter Marsden