- Sam, a novel, Allegra Goodman
- Wild bird, a novel, Leanne Baugh
- My friend Flicka, by Mary O'Hara
- Here lies a father, a novel, McKenzie Cassidy
- The old man and the sea, Ernest Hemingway ; illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard
- SilverFin, a James Bond adventure, Charlie Higson
- Go as a river, Shelley Read
- Sweet sorrow, David Nicholls
- The Wednesday wars, by Gary D. Schmidt
- The kite runner, Khaled Hosseini
- Judas, Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
- Summer people, Sara Hosey
- The third brother, Nick McDonell
- The bluest eye, a novel, Toni Morrison ; [with a foreword by the author]
- Concrete rose, Angie Thomas
- The trio, Johanna Hedman ; translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson
- The brothers K, David James Duncan
- Taps, a novel, Willie Morris
- Confusion is nothing new, Paul Acampora
- Pretty funny for a girl, Rebecca Elliott
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, by Dave Eggers
- The idiot, Elif Batuman
- Beasts of a little land, a novel, Juhea Kim
- More, a novel, Hakan Günday ; translated by Zeynep Beler
- The vacationers, Emma Straub
- Middlemarch, a study of provincial life, George Eliot ; foreword by Rebecca Mead
- The namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The color purple, by Alice Walker
- Cyclorama, a novel, Adam Langer
- Klara and the sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Walk two moons, by Sharon Creech
- A girl is a body of water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- Cygnet, a novel, Season Butler
- The smoke in our eyes, James Grady
- Letters in the attic, Bonnie Shimko
- Whistling past the graveyard, Susan Crandall
- The orphan collector, Ellen Marie Wiseman
- The seaplane on final approach, a novel, Rebecca Rukeyser
- Little crew of butchers, a novel, Francine Pascal
- Who will run the frog hospital?, a novel by Lorrie Moore
- The summer of broken things, Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Frying plantain, stories, Zalika Reid-Benta
- How we named the stars, a novel, Andrés N. Ordorica
- Rilla of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery
- The night burns bright, a novel, Ross Barkan
- A long long way, Sebastian Barry
- The perks of being a wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- The secret life of bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- Almond, a novel, Won-Pyung Sohn ; translated from the Korean by Sandy Joosun Lee
- The Vietri Project, Nicola DeRobertis-Theye