2006
- Digging to America by Ann Tyler
- Persepolis by Majane Satrapi
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Parks
2007
- An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Field Notes From A Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by J. E. Lovelock
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
2008
- Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
- Esperanza Rising by Pamela Munoz Ryan
