- A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman
- Arguably: Selected Essays - Christopher Hitchens
- The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son - Ian Brown
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - Manning Marable
- Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
- Ten Thousand Saints - Eleanor Henderson
- 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
- The Art of Fielding: A Novel - Chad Harbach
- The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
