Fiction
- Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Dinner by Herman Koch
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
- Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
Nonfiction
- The Phenomena of the Belt/Pop Voice by Jan Sullivan
- Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
- Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
- The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
- Ham: Slices of a Life by Sam Harris
- Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
- Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher
- Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham
- Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay