Fiction
- The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
- The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
- The Poison Eaters by Holly Black
- A Question of Belief by Donna Leon
- The Heights by Peter Hedges
- Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
- Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums by Marisa Matarazzo
Nonfiction
- Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Turn-of-the-Millennium Novels by Shameem Black
- Ten Walks/Two Talks by Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch
- Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder
- For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War by Mac McClelland
- The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature by Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash
- Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done by Susan J. Douglas
Poetry
- Selenography by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
- Duties of an English Foreign Secretary by Macgregor Card
- Wait by C. K. Williams