- A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts — Ying Chang Compestine
- A Death In Summer — Benjamin Black
- A Good American — Alex George
- A Mercy — Toni Morrison
- A Night of Tamales & Roses — Joanna H. Kraus
- A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses — Anne Trubeck
- A Split Second of Light — Stewart Florsheim
- A Story For Bear — Dennis Haseley
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith
- Alice I Have Been — Melanie Benjamin
- An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England — Brock Clarke
- An Uncommon Friendship — Frederick Tubach and Bernard Rosner
- Ape House — Sara Gruen
- Baking Cakes in Kigali — Gaile Parkin
- Becoming Jane Eyre — Sheila Kohler
- Between Shades of Gray — Ruta Sepety
- Book of Days Book #5 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles — Deborah Grabien
- Bull Rider — Suzanne Morgan Williams
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany — Susan Vreeland
- Coal Black Horse — Robertr Olmstead
- Cold Wind — C. J. Box
- Crouching Tiger — Ying Chang Compestine
- Defending Jacob — William Landay
- Even The Dogs — Jon McGregor
- Falling Man — Don DeLillo
- Firmin — Sam Savage
- French Lessons — Ellen Sussman
- Friendly Fallout 1953 — Ann Ronald
- Ghost Light: A Novel — Joseph O’Connor
- God Bless the Gargoyles — Dav Pilkey
- Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth — Joan Schoettler
- Graceland Book #4 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles — Deborah Grabien
- Great Joy — Kate DiCamillo
- Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever — Judith Marshall
- In Her Hands The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage — Alan Schroeder
- Key System Streetcars — Vernon J. Sappers
- Kismet — Jakob Arjouni
- Kraken — China Mieville
- let’s take the long way home — Gail Caldwell
- Life Doesn’t Frighten Me — Maya Angelou
- London Calling, Book 3 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles — Deborah Grabien
- Lord of Misrule — Jaimy Gordon
- Mercy — Lucille Clifton
- Moral Disorder — Margaret Atwood
- Mr. Chartwell — Rebecca Hunt
- Mr. Pip — Lloyd Jones
- My Friend Dahmer — John “Derf” Backderf
- Myrna Loy The Only Good Girl in Hollywood — Emily Leider
- Noah Barleywater Runs Away — John Boyne
- Philadelphia Chickens — Sandra Boynton
- Plant a Kiss — Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Poets’ Corner — John Lithgow
- Point of Honour — Madeleine E. Robins
- Prince of Frogtown — Rick Bragg
- Return to Sender — Julia Alvarez
- Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party — Ying Chang Compestine
- Root and Branch — James Rawn, Jr.
- Sailing Alone Around the Room — Billy Collins
- So Brave, Young and Handsome — Leif Enger
- Song Yet Sung — James McBride
- Stars — Mary Lyn Ray
- Sweeping Up Glass — Carolyn Wall
- Tahoe Hijack — Todd Borg
- The Amazing Adventures of Sam the Bat — Allyson Beatrice
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Gordon S. Wood
- The Apothecary — Maile Meloy
- The Baker’s Daughter — Sarah McCoy
- The Bell Ringers — Henry Porter
- The Book of Jonas — Stephen Dau
- The Book of Madness and Cures — Regina O’Melveny
- The Book of the Unknown, Tales of the Thirty-Six — Jonathan Keats
- The Darlings — Christina Alger
- The Devil’s Company — David Liss
- The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation — Elizabeth Letts
- The English Major — Jim Harrison
- The Help — Kathryn Stockett
- The Heming Way — Marty Beckerman
- The Herring in the Library — L. C. Tyler
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot
- The Language of Flowers — Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- The Long Song — Andrea Levy
- The Magician’s Elephant — Kate DiCamillo
- The Man of Numbers Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution — Keith Devlin
- The Measure of His Grief — Lisa Braver Moss
- The Monsters of Templeton — Lauren Groff
- The Mystery of Lewis Carroll — Jenny Woolf
- The Paper Bag Princess — Robert N. Munsch
- The Paris Wife — Paula McLain
- The Peasant Prince, Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution — Alex Storozynski
- The Philosophical Breakfast Club — Laura J. Snyder
- The Possessed, Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them — Elif Batuman
- The Remains of Company D — James Carl Nelson
- The Short Fall From Grace — Stewart Florsheim
- The Snow Child — Eowyn Ivey
- The Song is You — Arthur Phillips
- The Thanksgiving Visitor — Truman Capote
- The Vagrants — Yiyun Li
- The Various Flavors of Coffee — Anthony Capella
- The Wake of Forgiveness — Bruce Machart
- The Wolves in the Walls — Neil Gaiman
- The Woman Who Shot Mussolini — Frances Stonor Saunders
- The Year of the Hare — Arto Paasilinna
- These is My Words — Nancy E. Turner
- To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design — Henry Petroski
- Toulouse 4 Death — Gregory C. Randall
- Tumor — Joshua Hale Fialkov
- Unbroken — Laura Hillenbrand
- Vaclav & Lena — Haley Tanner
- Will in the World — Stephen Greenblatt
- Without Reservations, The Travels of An Independent Woman — Alice Steinbach
- You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake — Anna Moschovakis
- Zone One — Colson Whitehead