| Tom Batiuk | Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe [comic strip compilation - 741.5 Bat] |
| Elizabeth Berg | Talk Before Sleep |
| Alden R. Carter | Sheila's Dying |
| Susan Cheever | Doctors & Women |
| Jill A. Davis | Ask Again Later |
| Brian Fies | Mom's Cancer [graphic novel] |
| Ellen Gilchrist | The Anna Papers: A Novel |
| Lisa Glatt | A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That |
| Allegra Goodman | Intuition |
| Nadine Gordimer | Get a Life |
| David Guterson | East of the Mountains |
| Katherine Hannigan | Ida B.: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World |
| Joseph Hansen | Job's Year |
| Davida Wills Hurwin | A Time for Dancing |
| Susan Kenney | Sailing |
| Haven Kimmel | Something Rising (Light and Swift) |
| Karen Kingsbury | Halfway to Forever |
| Norma Klein | Sunshine: A Novel |
| Alice Kuipers | Life on the Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and Daughter |
| Anne Lamott | Hard Laughter |
| David Leavitt | Equal Affections |
| Anne D. LeClair | The Lavender Hour |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | Spence + Lila |
| Larry McMurtry | Terms of Endearment |
| Susan Minot | Evening |
| Lilli Palmer | A Time to Embrace |
| Richard Powers | Gain |
| Neil Ravin | Informed Consent |
| Philip Roth | The Dying Animal |
| May Sarton | A Reckoning |
| Lauraine Snelling | The Healing Quilt |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Cancer Ward |
| Danielle Steel | Fine Things |
| Glendon Swarthout | The Shootist |
| Hilma Wolitzer | Ending |
| Helen Yglesias | How She Died |
