- Mr. Fortune’s Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
- Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Tales of the Wild East by Joann Sfar
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński
- Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson