Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
Liz Climo – Lobster Is the Best Medicine: A Collection of Comics About Friendship
The Oatmeal – If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men
Miranda July – The First Bad Man
Alison Bechdel – Fun Home
Betty Edwards – Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Kliph Nesteroff – The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
Scott Carr – Former Glory
James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room
Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Jane Smiley – The Sagas of Icelanders
Ursula K. Le Guin – A Wizard of Earthsea
Hugleikur Dagsson – The Very Worst of Dagsson
James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
Tom Gauld – Baking With Kafka
Miranda July – No One Belongs Here More Than You
Susan Sontag – Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
Dave Eggers – What Is the What
José Saramago – Death with Interruptions
Nathaniel Kressen – Concrete Fever
Matt Young – Eat the Apple
Gunnar Karlsson – History of Iceland
Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
Moriel Rothman-Zecher – Sadness Is a White Bird
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck – The Pearl
George Saunders – The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
Douglas Watson – A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies
Sam Quinones – Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Erling Kagge – Silence: In the Age of Noise
Ahmed Saadawi – Frankenstein in Baghdad
Halldór Laxness – Independent People
Mark Frost – Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Barbara Demick – Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea