- The shipping news, E. Annie Proulx
- Angels in America, a gay fantasia on national themes, Tony Kushner
- The lowland, a novel, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- Rabbit hole, David Lindsay-Abaire
- The best of it, new and selected poems, Kay Ryan
- Salvage the bones, a novel, Jesmyn Ward
- America (the book), a citizen's guide to democracy inaction, written and edited by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum ; writers, Rich Blomquist ... [et al.] ; additional material, Samantha Bee ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Thomas Jefferson
- Unaccustomed earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
- The bluest eye, Toni Morrison, with a new afterword by the author
- The enchantress of Florence, a novel, Salman Rushdie