- The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson, edited by Wendy Martin
- The craft of fiction
- The novels of William Golding, [by] Howard S. Babb
- Hieronymus Bosch, the complete paintings and drawings, Jos Koldeweij, Paul Vandenbroeck, Bernard Vermet
- F.B. eyes, how J. Edgar Hoover's ghostreaders framed African American literature, William J. Maxwell
- Allen Tate
- The poem is you, 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them, Stephen Burt
- Ethan Frome., The story, with sources and commentary, [edited by] Blake Nevius
- Arthur Miller
- Deciphering Poe, subtexts, contexts, subversive meanings, edited by Alexandra Urakova
- Shakespeare and his critics
- New England, Indian summer, 1865-1915, by Van Wyck Brooks
- Listen to this, Alex Ross
- Early music, a very short introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly
- Babylon's burning, from punk to grunge, Clinton Heylin
- Mad enchantment, Claude Monet and the painting of the water lilies, Ross King
- The stereotype of the single woman in American novels;, a social study with implications for the education of women
- The Oxford companion to jazz, edited by Bill Kirchner
- American Experience, American Experience Films presents ; a Desert Penguin Pictures, LLC production for American Experience ; a production of WGBH ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; Produced and directed by Cathleen O'Connell ; story by Michelle Ferrari & A. Brad Schwartz ; telescript by Michelle Ferrari
- Fielding;, a collection of critical essays
- The Cambridge history of early modern English literature, edited by David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller
- Black humor fiction of the sixties;, a pluralistic definition of man and his world, [by] Max F. Schulz
- Not in God's name, confronting religious violence, Jonathan Sacks
- A celebration of poets,, edited and with an introd. by Don Cameron Allen
- Understanding Philip Roth, by Murray Baumgarten and Barbara Gottfried
- Rock & roll, an unruly history, Robert Palmer
- Robert Penn Warren, a collection of critical essays, edited by John Lewis Longley, Jr
- The Velvet Lounge, on late Chicago jazz, Gerald Majer
- The dismemberment of Orpheus;, toward a postmodern literature, [by] Ihab Hassan
- Charlotte Brontë, a passionate life, Lyndall Gordon
- Jane Austen,, a collection of critical essays
- Brice Marden, Eileen Costello
- Adventure, mystery, and romance, formula stories as art and popular culture, John G. Cawelti
- The fire this time, a new generation speaks about race, edited by Jesmyn Ward
- Student companion to Elie Wiesel, Sanford Sternlicht
- The Rolling stone illustrated history of rock & roll, edited by Jim Miller ; designed by Robert Kingsbury
- Readings on Stephen Crane, Bonnie Szumski, book editor
- Patriotic gore;, studies in the literature of the American Civil War
- William Shakespeare, the problem plays, Richard Hillman
- Regaining paradise, Milton and the eighteenth century, Dustin Griffin
- Punk, Stephen Colegrave & Chris Sullivan
- D.H. Lawrence, novelist
- The English romantic poets,, a review of research,, by Ernest Bernbaum [and others]
- Words that shook the world, 100 years of unforgettable speeches and events, Richard Greene with Florie Brizel
- Oliver La Farge,, by T. M. Pearce
- Studies in medieval & Renaissance music, Manfred F. Bukofzer
- My music, [edited by] Susan D. Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil, and the Music in Daily Life Project
- Anne Frank, the book, the life, the afterlife, Francine Prose
- The small town in American drama
- Medieval literature and folklore studies;, essays in honor of Francis Lee Utley., Edited by Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg