- The awkward age, a novel, Francesca Segal
- Of princes and promises, Sandhya Menon
- The five sorrowful mysteries of Andy Africa, a novel, Stephen Buoro
- To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- How to be famous, a novel, Caitlin Moran
- Blood like magic, Liselle Sambury
- The burning girl, a novel, Claire Messud
- Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Sam, a novel, Allegra Goodman
- The radicals, Ryan McIlvain
- A wild winter swan, a novel, Gregory Maguire
- Go as a river, Shelley Read
- Sweet sorrow, David Nicholls
- The Wednesday wars, by Gary D. Schmidt
- The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel, Michael Chabon
- The search for us, a novel, Susan Azim Boyer
- The bluest eye, a novel, Toni Morrison ; [with a foreword by the author]
- Concrete rose, Angie Thomas
- Lady be good, a novel, Amber Brock
- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius, by Dave Eggers
- The vacationers, Emma Straub
- The color purple, by Alice Walker
- Hotel Paradise, Martha Grimes
- Beasts of a little land, a novel, Juhea Kim
- What have we done, Alex Finlay
- The history of living forever, Jake Wolff
- Someone, Alice McDermott
- The family, Naomi Krupitsky
- The particular sadness of lemon cake, a novel, Aimee Bender
- Sunny, Jason Reynolds
- Leopard at the door, Jennifer McVeigh
- Take a bow, Noah Mitchell, Tobias Madden
- The cat's table, Michael Ondaatje
- Meeting the English, Kate Clanchy
- Where the crawdads sing, Delia Owens
- The house on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
- TBH, I feel the same, by Lisa Greenwald
- A girl is a body of water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- South of Broad, a novel, Pat Conroy
- We are mayhem, Beck Rourke-Mooney
- The smoke in our eyes, James Grady
- Within a budding grove, Marcel Proust ; translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin ; revised by D.J. Enright
- Whistling past the graveyard, Susan Crandall
- The orphan collector, Ellen Marie Wiseman
- Belle ruin, a novel, Martha Grimes
- In some other world, maybe, Shari Goldhagen
- Frying plantain, stories, Zalika Reid-Benta
- How we named the stars, a novel, Andrés N. Ordorica
- The night burns bright, a novel, Ross Barkan