Fiction
- The Lazarus Project by Alexsandar Hemon
- Home by Marilynne Robinson
- Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
- Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
- The End by Salvatore Scibona (Try Link+)
Nonfiction
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
- Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham (Try Link+)
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Poetry
- Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
- Creatures of a Day by Reginald Gibbons (Try Link+)
- Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty
- Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart
- Without Saying by Richard Howard (Try Link+)
Young People's Literature
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
- The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
- The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
- What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
