Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations, by Cintra Wilson
The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
Robert E. Lee, by Roy Blount, Jr.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, by Susanna Clarke