• Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
• Days without End by Sebastian Barry
• The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
• American War by Omar El Akkad
• Here in Berlin by Cristina Garcia
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Exit West by Mohsin Harnid
• Human Acts by Han Kang
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Non-Fiction

• You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie
• Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
• The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison
• Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
• Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
• The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy Tyson

Poetry

• I Know Your Kind by William Brewer
• Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded by Molly McGully Brown