This list is organized alphabetically by title regardless of category.
- Amity and Sorrow, Peggy Riley – Fiction
- The Human Spark, by Jerome Kagan
- Jump Soul by Charlie Smith – Poetry
- Letters to a Young Scientist; E.O. Wilson – Science
- Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann – Fiction
- Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, by Kevin Powers – Poetry
- Love Among the Particles, Norman Lock – Fiction
- Mumbai, New York, Scranton; Tamara Shopsin – Memoir
- Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson – Fiction
- Palace of Contemplating Departures, Brynn Saito – Poetry
- Round House, Louise Erdrich – Fiction
- Stay! Illusion: The Hamlet Doctrine, Simon Critchley & Jamieson Webster – Criticism
- Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Douglas Hofstadter – Science
- Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self, Gish Jen – Non-Fiction
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