- The Girl who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
- Spooner by Pete Dexter
- Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
- Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
- Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
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