Biography/Memoir
- The Backward Glance; Ronald W. Bresland
- Summer At Tiffany, Marjorie Hart
- The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty, Carolyn Heilbrun
- Dancing with the Witchdoctor; Kelly James
- The Ballerinas, from the Court of Louis XIV to Pavlova; Parmenia Migel
Children's/Young Adult
- Being Henry David, Cal Armistead
- Pure, Julianna Baggott
- Long Lankin, Lindsey Barraclough
- About Average, Andrew Clements
- Period 8; Chris Crutcher
- The Different Girl, Gordon Dahlquist
- Obsidian Mirror, Catherine Fisher
- Destiny, Rewritten; Kathryn Fitzmaurice
- The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand, Gregory Galloway
- A Tangle of Knots, Lisa Graff
- Seraphina, Rachel Hartman
- The Evolution of Mara Dyer and The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin
- Paulina, Lesley Howarth
- Grave Mercy; R.K. LaFevers
- Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan
- Prodigy, Marie Lu
- If You Find Me; Emily Murdoch
- Keeping Safe the Stars, Sheila O'Connor
- Out of the Easy, Ruta Sepetys
- The Madman's Daughter, Megan Shepherd
- Orleans, Sherri Smith
- Hokey Pokey; Jerry Spinelli
- Ship Sooner; Mary Sullivan
- Days of Blood & Starlight, Laini Taylor
- Navigating Early; Clare Vanderpool
- Prince Puggly of Spud And the Kingdom of Spiff, Robert Paul Weston
Adult Fiction
- House of Meetings, Martin Amis
- The Guilty One, Lisa Ballantyne
- Floating; Nicole Bailey-Williams
- The Painted Girls; Cathy Marie Buchanan
- For Kings and Planets; Ethan Canin
- Being Dead, Jim Crace
- The Citadel; A.J. Cronin
- The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Deen
- A Thousand Pardons, Jonathan Dee
- The Gates of Ivory, Margaret Drabble
- The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
- I Wish Someone Was Waiting for Me Somewhere, Anna Gavalda
- The Dinner, Herman Koch
- White Truffles in Winter, N.M. Kelby
- The Vanishing Act, Mette Jakobsen
- Black Water Rising, Attica Locke
- The Death of Bees, Lisa O'Donnell
- The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
- Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
Horror
- Steampunk Poe
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Mystery
- Dark Tide; Elizabeth Haynes
- A Question of Identity, Susan Hill
- The Impossible Dead and Standing in Another Man's Grave, Ian Rankin
- Seduction; M.J. Rose
Non-Fiction
- That Mad Game
- The Skull in the Rock, Marc Aronson
- A Little History of Science, W. F. Bynum
- The Pause Principle, Kevin Cashman
- The Law of Superheroes; James Daily
- Faces From the Past, James M. Deem
- It's Raining Fish And Spiders, Bill Evans
- The Split History of the Civil War, Stephanie Fitzgerald
- The Wild Horse Scientists, Kay Frydenberg
- Spirit Seeker, Gary Golio
- This I Believe, John Gregory
- The Warrior's Heart, Eric Greitens
- Rescuing the Children, Deborah Hodge
- Among the Islands, Tim Flannery
- The Information Diet, Clay Johnson
- Into a Paris Quartier, Diane Johnson
- We Are Their Voice, Kathy Kacer
- Dear Teen Me, Miranda Kenneally
- Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King
- So You Wanna Be a Superstar? Ted Michael
- Young, Innocent and in Prison, Jeff Mitchell
- When Organizing Isn't Enough, Julie Morgenstern
- The Bronte Sisters, Catherine Reef
- Inside Scientology, Janet Reitman
- Growing Up Muslim, Ali-Karamali Sumbul
- Fourteen And Sentenced To Death, Bill Swan
- Effective Grading, Barbara Walvoord
- Pier 21 and Children of the Titanic, Christine Welldon
- Titanic, Philip Wilkinson
Speculative Fiction
- A Blink of the Screen, Terry Pratchett
- The Golem And the Jinni, Helene Wecker
- Alif the Unseen, Willow G. Wilson