Fiction
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
- Winter of the World, by Ken Follett
- The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin
- Telegraph Avenue, by Michael Chabon
- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
- Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
- Keeper of Lost Causes, by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- The Tiger's Wife, by Tea Obreht
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson
- What Alice Forgot, by Liane Moriarty
Non-Fiction
- The Black Count, by Tom Reiss
- Who Stole the American Dream?, by Hedrick Smith
- A Bolt from the Blue, by Jennifer Woodlief
- Paris: A Love Story, by Kati Marton
- The Price of Politics, by Bob Woodward
- Bridge at a Glance, by Audrey Grant
- Catherine the Great, by Robert Massie
- Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, by Alexandra Fuller
- Destiny of the Republic, by Candace Millard
- Walk! Mercer Island, by Kris Kelsay