A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
Howard Zinn
One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War
Charles London
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Paulo Coelho
A tree grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
V.
Thomas Pynchon
The Known World (2004 Pulitzer Prize)
Edward P. Jones
A Thousand Acres (1992 Pulitzer Prize)
Jane Smiley
Empires of the Word
Nicholas Ostler