- Poems 1959-2009, Frederick Seidel
- The burden of proof, Scott Turow
- Lowboy, John Wray
- The secret wife of Louis XIV, Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon, Veronica Buckley
- The Venus fixers, the remarkable story of the Allied soldiers who saved Italy's art during World War II, Ilaria Dagnini Brey
- The testament of Cresseid ;, and, Seven fables, Robert Henryson ; translated by Seamus Heaney
- Bitter spring, a life of Ignazio Silone, Stanislao G. Pugliese
- When you meet a bear on Broadway, written by Amy Hest ; pictures by Elivia Savadier
- Taking back God, American women rising up for religious equality, Leora Tanenbaum
- The terrible plop, Ursula Dubosarsky ; pictures by Andrew Joyner
- A life worth living, a doctor's reflections on illness in a high-tech era, Robert Martensen
- Beaumarchais, a biography, Maurice Lever ; translated from French by Susan Emanuel
- Jack Tumor, Anthony McGowan
- Everything ravaged, everything burned, Wells Tower
- At weddings and wakes, Alice McDermott
- Red cloud at dawn, Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly, Michael D. Gordin
- Signal, Cynthia DeFelice
- Far north, Marcel Theroux
- Have you ever seen a sneep?, Tasha Pym ; pictures by Joel Stewart
- The antelope's strategy, living in Rwanda after genocide, a report by Jean Hatzfeld ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
- Everything ravaged, everything burned, Wells Tower
- Frame-up on the Bowery, a Houdini & Nate mystery, Tom Lalicki ; pictures by Carlyn Beccia
- The last supper, a summer in Italy, Rachel Cusk
- Edisto, Padgett Powell
- Selected poems, Thom Gunn ; edited by August Kleinzahler
- Where did you sleep last night?, a personal history, Danzy Senna
- What's coming for Christmas?, Kate Banks ; pictures by Georg Hallensleben
- A gambling man, Charles II's Restoration game, Jenny Uglow
- Interesting times, writings from a turbulent decade, George Packer
- Seven pleasures, essays on ordinary happiness, Willard Spiegelman
- Ground up, Michael Idov
- That's Papa's way, Kate Banks ; pictures by Lauren Castillo
- I heard God talking to me, William Edmondson and his stone carvings, Elizabeth Spires
- Bettina Valentino and the Picasso Club, Niki Daly
- Math attack, Joan Horton ; pictures by Kyrsten Brooker
- Generosity, an enhancement, Richard Powers
- Cooking dirty, a story of life, sex, love and death in the kitchen, Jason Sheehan
- The collected stories of Lydia Davis
- Reborn, journals and notebooks, 1947-1963, Susan Sontag ; edited by David Rieff
- 1789, the threshold of the modern age, David Andress
- Beyond America's grasp, a century of failed diplomacy in the Middle East, Stephen P. Cohen
- The brothers story, Katherine Sturtevant
- The Bellini Madonna, Elizabeth Lowry
- Clarence Cochran, a human boy, William Loizeaux ; pictures by Anne Wilsdorf
- All the living, [a novel], C.E. Morgan
- The philosophical baby, what children's minds tell us about truth, love, and the meaning of life, Alison Gopnik
- Letters from Black America, edited by Pamela Newkirk
- Dead aid, why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa, Dambisa Moyo
- A life worth living, a doctor's reflections on illness in a high-tech era, Robert Martensen
- It's beginning to hurt, James Lasdun