Fiction
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( Knopf)
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson ( Reagan Arthur)
- Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat ( Knopf)
- Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey ( Soho Press)
- Enon by Paul Harding ( Random House)
- Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma ( Viking)
- The Dinner by Herman Koch ( Hogarth Press)
- Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra ( Hogarth Press)
- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud ( Knopf)
- Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ( Viking)
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ( Little Brown)
Non-fiction
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson ( Doubleday)
- Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Baruma ( Penguin)
- On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History by Nicholas Basbanes ( Knopf)
- To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown ( Viking)
- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink ( Crown)
- The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox ( Harper Collins)
- On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield ( Gotham Books)
- Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn ( Little, Brown)
- The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner ( Crown)
- Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell ( Crown)
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser ( Penguin)
- Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit ( Viking)
Poetry
- The Ogre’s Wife: Poems by Ron Koertge ( Red Hen)
- Hum by Jamaal May ( Alice James)
Fiction
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( Knopf)
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson ( Reagan Arthur)
- Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat ( Knopf)
- Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey ( Soho Press)
- Enon by Paul Harding ( Random House)
- Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma ( Viking)
- The Dinner by Herman Koch ( Hogarth Press)
- Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra ( Hogarth Press)
- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud ( Knopf)
- Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ( Viking)
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ( Little Brown)
Non-fiction
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson ( Doubleday)
- Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Baruma ( Penguin)
- On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History by Nicholas Basbanes ( Knopf)
- To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown ( Viking)
- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink ( Crown)
- The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox ( Harper Collins)
- On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield ( Gotham Books)
- Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn ( Little, Brown)
- The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner ( Crown)
- Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell ( Crown)
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser ( Penguin)
- Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit ( Viking)
Poetry
- The Ogre’s Wife: Poems by Ron Koertge ( Red Hen)
- Hum by Jamaal May ( Alice James)