Memoirs
- Diana Althill – Somewhere Towards the End
- Murray Browne – The Book Shopper: A Life in Review
- Meg Federico – Welcome to the Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother
- Debra Gwartney – Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
- Mary Karr – Lit: A Memoir
- Michael Perry – Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
- Robin Romm – The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks
- David Small – Stitches
Biographies
- Blake Bailey – Cheever: A Life
- Kirstin Downey – The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
- Linda Gordon – Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
- Anne Heller – Ayn Rand and the World She Made
- Tracy Kidder – Strength in What Remains
- Hannah Pakula – The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
- T.J. Stiles – The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Terry Teachout – Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
- Larry Tye – Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend









