Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan

Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, by Jean Shepherd

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah

I'm a Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson

Traffic: why we drive the way we do and what it says about us, by Tom Vanderbilt

Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

John Adams, by David G. McCullough

Franklin and Lucy, by Joseph E. Persico

Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama

Persuasion, by Jane Austen

Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson

The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Lady and the Panda, by Vicki Croke

When Elephants Weep, by J. Masson Moussaieff

From Baghdad with Love, by Jay Kopelman

The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler

Le Divorce, Le Mariage or L’Affaire, by Diane Johnson

Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel by Garrison Keillor

Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet

Mandella: A Critical Life, by Tom Lodge

All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren

On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thorton Wilder