- Land where my fathers died, Joe Edd Morris
- Little boys come from the stars, Emmanuel Dongala ; translated from the French by Joël Réjouis and Val Vinokurov
- The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals, a novel, Becky Mandelbaum
- Raft of stars, a novel, Andrew J. Graff
- Lie with me, a novel, Philippe Besson ; translated from the French by Molly Ringwald
- Dark horses, a novel, Susan Mihalic
- The perks of being a wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- I'll be right there, a novel, Kyung-sook Shin ; translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell
- Boy swallows universe, Trent Dalton
- Last night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan
- Fallout, a novel, Sadie Jones
- There will be bears, Ryan Gebhart
- Seeing off the Johns, by Rene S. Perez II
- The house on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- Young Frances, Hartley Lin
- Shackling water, Adam Mansbach