• Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman
• Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adejei-Brenyah
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
• There There by Tommy Orange
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• The House of Broken Angels: a Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Don't Skip out on Me by Willy Vlautin

Non-Fiction

• High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
• American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried
• Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin
• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
• Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
• The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
• Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Poetry

• If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar
• American Sonnets for My Once and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
• The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon