- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
- NW - Zadie Smith
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Man Who Planted Trees - Jean Giono
- And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos - John Berger
- Snowdrops - A.D. Miller
- This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
- The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves - Stephen Grosz
- Levels of Life - Julian Barnes
Capital - John Lanchester
Bankside: London's Original District of Sin - David Brandon
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris
A Place in the Country - W.G. Sebald