- Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
- Ken Follett – Whiteout
- Laurie Garrett – The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
- Colm A. Kelleher – Brain Trust: The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease
- Gina Kolata – Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
- Richard Preston – The Hot Zone
- James Rollins – The Judas Strain
- Frank Ryan – Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues Out of the Present and Into the Future
- Joshua Spanogle – Isolation Ward
- Connie Willis – The Doomsday Book









