- Megan Abbot, Dare Me
- Lauren Groff, Arcadia
- Nicholson Baker, The Way the World Works
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
- Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
- Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
- Rachel Cusk, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother
- Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Dimitrios
- Sven Birkerts, The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
- Louise Erdrich, The Round House
- Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son
- Anne Enright, Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood
- Justin Torres, We the Animals
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living
- Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
- Paula Bomer, Nine Months
- Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
- Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
- Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast
- John Green, The Fault in our Stars
- A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
- Susan Hill, Howards End is on the Landing
- Susan Steinberg, Spectacle: Stories
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, To Darkness and to Death
- Jo Nesbo, Phantom
- Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist
- Meghan Daum, My Misspent Youth
- Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddy
- Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme
- Alice Munro, Dear Life: Stories
- Nick Hornby, Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt
- E.M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady
- Renata Adler, Speedboat
- Kevin Huizenga, Gloriana
- Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth
- Herman Koch, The Dinner
- David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life
- Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave
- Colum McCann, Transatlantic
- Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year
- Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key
- Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
- Percival Everett, Erasure
- Robert Atwan, ed., The Best American Essays 2012
- Wilkie Collins, The Law and the Lady
- Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs
- Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary
- Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
- Phillip Lopate, To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
- Jacqueline Winspear, Leaving Everything Most Loved
- Sarah Schulman, Empathy
- Stanley Plumly, Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
- Sarah Waters, The Night Watch
- J.M. Ledgard, Submergence
- Robert B. Parker, Now & Then
- Craig Thompson, Blankets
- Ann Rower, Lee and Elaine
- Alissa Nutting, Tampa
- Paul Harding, Enon
- Michelle Orange, This Is Running For Your Life
- Imogen Binnie, Nevada
- Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado
- Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, All Mortal Flesh
- Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want
- Annamaria Alfieri, The City of Silver
- Amélie Nothomb, Life Form
- Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding
- Eve Ensler, In the Body of the World: A Memoir
- Jane Urquhart, Sanctuary Line
- John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
- Susan Choi, My Education
- Nicholson Baker, Traveling Sprinkler
- Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
- Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Beauty on Earth
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life
- Jo Baker, Longbourn
- Rebecca West, Return of the Soldier
- Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
- Sarah Maclean, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
- Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
- Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
- J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine
- Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- Minae Mizumura, A True Novel
- Samantha Irby, Meaty
- Elizabeth Gentry, Housebound
- Javier Marias, All Souls
- Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Paul Harding, Tinkers
- Maggie Nelson, Bluets
- D.A. Mishani, The Missing File
- Alix Kates Schulman, Drinking the Rain
- Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory
- Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic
- Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring
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