- 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
- Stories of a Salesman by Murli Melwani
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
- The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
- Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson
- Giraffes? Giraffes! by Doris Haggis-on-Whey
- On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
- My Real Children by Jo Walton
- Sacred Writings: Buddhism, The Dhammapada edited by Jaroslav Pelikan
- Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard