- Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State, Kerry Howley
- You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir, Maggie Smith
- Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
- Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
- The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Fetishist, Katherine Min
- The Round House, Louise Erdrich
- Anita de Monte Laughs Last, Xochitl Gonzalez
- Festival Days, Jo Ann Beard
- I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
- Momfluenced, Sara Petersen
- There’s Always This Year, Hanif Abdurraqib
- The Only Way Through is Out, Suzette Mullen
- Real Americans, Rachel Khong
- Reproduction, Louisa Hall
- Housemates, Emma Copley Eisenberg
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
- What Are Children For? On Ambivalance and Choice, by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman
- Wild Milk, Sabrina Orah Mark
- Worry, Alexandra Tanner
- The Idle Parent, Tom Hodgkinson
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
- Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark