- Little family, Ishmael Beah
- The history of living forever, Jake Wolff
- Precious, a novel by Sapphire
- Someone, Alice McDermott
- For black girls like me, Mariama J. Lockington
- Calling for a blanket dance, a novel, by Oscar Hokeah
- Sunny, Jason Reynolds
- Half a king, Joe Abercrombie
- I hate everyone but you, Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin
- The cat's table, Michael Ondaatje
- Winter's bone, a novel, Daniel Woodrell
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens ; illustrated by Phiz [i.e. Hablot Knight Browne]
- Where the crawdads sing, Delia Owens
- The sisters Grimm, a novel, Menna van Praag
- Maud, a novel, Melanie J. Fishbane
- Ginny Moon, by Benjamin Ludwig
- Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
- The age of miracles, a novel, Karen Thompson Walker
- From Little Tokyo, with love, Sarah Kuhn
- The people we keep, Allison Larkin
- Beyond the mapped stars, Rosalyn Eves
- The man of my dreams, a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld
- A sea monster story, adapted by Natasha Bouchard ; illustrated by the Disney Storybook Art Team
- Ruby and Roland, a novel, Faith Sullivan
- American wife, a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld
- American panda, Gloria Chao
- Go as a river, Shelley Read
- To kill a Mockingbird, a graphic novel, Harper Lee ; adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham
- A room away from the wolves, Nova Ren Suma
- Something wicked this way comes, Ray Bradbury
- The power, a novel, Naomi Alderman
- Small town pride, Phil Stamper
- Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the world, Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Miller's Valley, a novel, Anna Quindlen
- The girl who never read Noam Chomsky, Jana Casale
- The last song, Nicholas Sparks
- The saint of incipient insanities, Elif Shafak
- Jenna Starborn, Sharon Shinn
- Best of friends, Kamila Shamsie
- The Russian debutante's handbook, Gary Shteyngart
- Middle school's a drag, you better werk!, Greg Howard
- Girl in the walls, a novel, A.J. Gnuse
- Growing pangs, Kathryn Ormsbee ; illustrations by Molly Brooks ; with color by Bex Glendining and Elise Schuenke
- The interestings, a novel, Meg Wolitzer
- The Hollywood daughter, Kate Alcott
- NW, Zadie Smith
- The wild girl, the notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932 : a novel, a novel by Jim Fergus
- The immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
- The lying life of adults, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
- All this could be different, Sarah Thankam Mathews