- The old man and the sea, Ernest Hemingway ; illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard
- The Wednesday wars, by Gary D. Schmidt
- The complete fiction of Nella Larsen, edited and with an introduction by Charles R. Larson ; with a foreword by Marita Golden
- The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel, Michael Chabon
- Concrete rose, Angie Thomas
- The immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
- Peak, Roland Smith
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, by Dave Eggers
- The vacationers, Emma Straub
- Hotel Paradise, Martha Grimes
- The idiot, Elif Batuman
- The stones of summer, Dow Mossman
- Beasts of a little land, a novel, Juhea Kim
- The cat's table, Michael Ondaatje
- The burning girl, a novel, Claire Messud
- Big girl, a novel, Danielle Steel
- The goldfinch, a novel, Donna Tartt
- Ohio, a novel, Stephen Markley
- Now is not the time to panic, a novel, Kevin Wilson
- Copyboy, by Vince Vawter
- Keep a little secret, Dorothy Garlock
- To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- The Dakota Winters, a novel, Tom Barbash
- The jealous kind, a novel, James Lee Burke
- The mothers, a novel, Brit Bennett
- Starfish, Akemi Dawn Bowman
- What we lose, a novel, Zinzi Clemmons
- Klara and the sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Troublemakers, Catherine Barter
- The archer, a novel by Shruti Anna Swamy
- South of Broad, a novel, Pat Conroy
- The house on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- Glue, Irvine Welsh
- On Canaan's side, Sebastian Barry
- Ivy Aberdeen's letter to the world, Ashley Herring Blake
- Who will run the frog hospital?, a novel by Lorrie Moore
- Anything but fine, Tobias Madden
- The Mutual Admiration Society, a novel, Lesley Kagen
- A long long way, Sebastian Barry
- Not the girls you're looking for, Aminah Mae Safi
- The closest I've come, Fred Aceves
- A separate peace, John Knowles
- Finn, a novel, Jon Clinch
- All that glitters, a novel, Danielle Steel
- Loveboat, Taipei, Abigail Hing Wen
- The calligrapher's daughter, a novel, Eugenia Kim
- A little life, a novel, Hanya Yanagihara
- The night tiger, a novel, Yangsze Choo
- The perks of being a wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- Althea & Oliver, Cristina Moracho