- Making motherhood work, how women manage careers and caregiving, Caitlyn Collins
- Video games around the world, edited by Mark J.P. Wolf ; foreword by Toru Iwatani
- Girl rising, changing the world one girl at a time, Tanya Lee Stone, in association with GIRLRISING
- How Eskimos keep their babies warm, and other adventures in parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and everywhere in between), Mei-Ling Hopgood
- Cannibalism, a perfectly natural history, Bill Schutt
- Jews, Confucians, and Protestants, cultural capital and the end of multiculturalism, Lawrence E. Harrison
- The Danish way of parenting, what the happiest people in the world know about raising confident, capable kids, Jessica Joelle Alexander and Iben Dissing Sandahl
- The wet and the dry, a drinker's journey, Lawrence Osborne
- Numbers and the making of us, counting and the course of human cultures, Caleb Everett
- The Barefoot Book of children, written by Tessa Strickland and Kate DePalma ; illustrated by David Dean
- Up!, how families around the world carry their little ones, written by Susan Hughes ; illustrated by Ashley Barron
- A savage order, how the world's deadliest countries can forge a path to security, Rachel Kleinfeld
- Living color, the biological and social meaning of skin color, Nina G. Jablonski
- This is how we do it, one day in the lives of seven kids from around the world, Matt Lamothe