Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

Cheryl Strayed, Wild

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Adam Nicolson, Why Homer Matters

Sharma Shields, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac

Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

Eliza Kennedy, I Take You

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Matt Sumell, Making Nice

Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau

Helen Humphreys, The Evening Chorus

Erik Larson, Dead Wake

Diana Souhami, Gwendolen

Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

Mary Oliver, Thirst

Amy Clampitt, The Kingfisher

Natasha Trethewey, Domestic Work

Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Julia Wendell, Take This Spoon

Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning

Helen MacDonald, H is for Hawk

Erin Moore, That’s Not English

Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture

Patricia Park, Re Jane 

Roxane Gay, Urgent, Untold Stories

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

Christopher Robinson & Gavin Kovite, War of the Encyclopaedists

Gregory Pardlo, Digest

Sally Mann, Hold Still

Annie Proulx, Close Range

Susan Herrmann Lewis, In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France

Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

Jaime Clarke, World Gone Water

Gwendolyn Knapp, After a While You Just Get Used to It: A Tale of Family Clutter

Jessica Fechtor, Stir

Sarai Walker, Dietland

Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country

Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime

Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky, Sex Criminals Vol 1: One Weird Trick

James Rebanks, The Shepherd’s Life

Daniel Silva, The English Spy

Kent Wascom, Secessia

Colum McCann, Everything in This Country Must

Louise Erdrich, Jacklight

Kirsty Logan, The Gracekeepers

Mark Forsyth, Etymologicon

Emma Donoghue, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

Nuala O’Connor, Miss Emily

Tina Fey, Bossypants

Val Brelinski, The Girl Who Slept with God

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat 

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

Derek Walcott, Midsummer

Christopher Moore, Secondhand Souls

Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

Sanford Friedman, Conversations with Beethoven

Christopher Hampton, Carrington

Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno

Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Stacy Schiff, The Witches

Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul

Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake

Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking

Gabriel Urza, All That Followed

Matt Fraction and Christian Ward, ODY-C Vol. 1

Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life

Claudia Emerson, The Opposite House

Gregory Pardlo, Totem

Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt (also known as Carol)