Fiction
- Percival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
- Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs
- Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
- Susan Steinberg, Spectacle: Stories
- Daniel Woodrell, The Maid's Version
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
- NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
- Jeff Jackson, Mira Corpora
- Fiona McFarlane, The Night Guest
- Jamie Quatro, I Want to Show You More
- Ethan Rutherford, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
Current Interest
- Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- David Finkel, Thank You for Your Service
- Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy
- Barry Siegel, Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
- Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Biography
- Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator
- A. Scott Berg, Wilson
- Benita Eisler, The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
- Edna O’Brien, Country Girl: A Memoir
- Deborah Solomon, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Mystery / Thriller
- Richard Crompton, Hour of the Red God
- Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling
- John Grisham, Sycamore Row
- Gene Kerrigan, The Rage
- Ferdinand von Schirach, The Collini Case
After the jump, nominees in HIstory, Science, Poetry, Graphic Novels, and YA
History
- Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews
- Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Glenn Frankel, The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Poetry
- Joshua Beckman, The Inside of an Apple
- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Hello, the Roses
- Ron Padgett, Collected Poems
- Elizabeth Robinson , On Ghosts
- Lynn Xu , Debts & Lessons
Science & Technology
- Matthew D. Lieberman, Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect
- Sally Satel / Scott O. Lilienfeld, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
- Virginia Morell, Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
- Annalee Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
Graphic Novel/Comics
- David B., Incidents in the Night: Volume 1,
- Ben Katchor, Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories
- Ulli Lust, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
- Anders Nilsen, The End
- Joe Sacco, The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
Young Adult Literature
- Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire
- Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
- Joyce Sidman, What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings
- Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase,
- Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints
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