- Ali Smith, The Accidental
- Anita Brookner, Look At Me
- Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
- Terry Castle, The Professor and Other Writings
- Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow
- Carl Klaus, ed. Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
- John Prendergast, Unlikely Brothers
- Tea Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
- Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
- Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind
- Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park
- David Shields, Reality Hunger
- Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
- Darin Strauss, Half a Life: A Memoir
- Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
- Ben Marcus, Notable American Women
- Maggie Nelson, Bluets
- Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
- Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy
- David Lipsky, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
- Walter Mosley, Little Scarlet
- Baratunde Thurston, How To Be Black
- David Lazar, ed., Truth in Nonfiction: Essays
- Helen Dewitt, The Last Samurai
- Janet Malcolm, In the Freud Archives
- Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence
- Ali Smith, There But For The
- Tana French, In the Woods
- John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead
- Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building
- Cheryl Strayed, Wild
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
- Leif G.W. Persson, Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End
- Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside
- Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
- Barbara Comyns, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
- Mark Doty, Dog Years
- P.D. James, The Private Patient
- Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi
- Edwidge Danticant, ed., The Best American Essays 2011
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, Out of the Deep I Cry
- Edith Wharton, The Reef
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- Tom Bissell, Magic Hours
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative
- Sara Paretsky, Hard Time
- Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
- Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver
- George Saunders, Tenth of December: Stories
- Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- Kate Zambreno, Green Girl
- Zadie Smith, NW
- Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
- Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
- Nicholson Baker, A Box of Matches
- D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
- Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds
- Nick Hornby, More Baths, Less Talking
- Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf
- Elizabeth Taylor, A Game Of Hide and Seek
- A. M. Homes, Music for Torching
- Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
- Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
- Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
- Simon Gray, The Smoking Diaries
- Kenzaburo Oe, A Personal Matter
- Tim Parks, Teach Us to Sit Still
- Karen Walker Thompson, The Age of Miracles
- David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
- Dorothy Hughes, In a Lonely Place
- Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins
- Kate Zambreno, Heroines
- Meghan O’Rourke, The Long Goodbye
- Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Christopher Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder?
- Christine Schutt, Prosperous Friends
- Virginia Woolf, The Diary, Volume 2
- Frances Burney, Camilla
- James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
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