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- Abeng by Michelle Cliff
- Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
- Beyond Palomar: A Love and Rockets Book (Palomar and Luba, Vol. 3) by Gilbert Hernandez
- Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
- Caucasia by Danzy Senna
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
- Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol
- Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
- Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
- Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
- Etched City by K.J. Bishop
- Fathers and Crows by William T. Vollmann
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
- In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff
- Incantations and Other Stories by Anjana Appachana
- Inverted World by Christopher Priest
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
- Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay
- La Perdida by Jessica Abel
- Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago by Octavia E. Butler
- Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Night Fisher: A Comic Book Novella by R. Kikuo Johnson
- Our House in the Last World by Oscar Hijuelos
- Out by Natsuo Kirino
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
- Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson
- Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
- Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
- Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral
- Small Island by Andrea Levy
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
- The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
- The Indian Bride by Karen Fossum
- The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village by Samuel R. Delany
- Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
- Typical American by Gish Jen
- Under the Skin by Michel Faber
- Vida by Patricia Engel
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka