- To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- New boy, Tracy Chevalier
- Heaven, my home, Attica Locke
- Go set a watchman, a novel, Harper Lee
- Strongheart, the lost journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill, Jim Fergus ; edited and annotated by Molly Standing Bear
- Valentine, a novel, Elizabeth Wetmore
- This other Eden, a novel, Paul Harding
- A passage to India, E.M. Forster
- The secret life of bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- The friendship, Mildred D. Taylor ; pictures by Max Ginsburg
- The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- Beautiful music, Michael Zadoorian
- The Guardians, John Grisham
- The lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine
- Maame, Jessica George
- We are water, a novel, Wally Lamb
- The man who lived underground, a novel, Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
- Fast break, Mike Lupica
- Double play, Robert B. Parker
- If a tree falls at lunch period, Gennifer Choldenko
- We are water, a novel, Wally Lamb
- The laughter, a novel, Sonora Jha
- The color of fear, Marcia Muller
- Valentine, a novel, Elizabeth Wetmore
- Such a fun age, a novel, Kiley Reid
- Go set a watchman, Harper Lee
- Bluebird, bluebird, a novel, Attica Locke
- Such a fun age, a novel, Kiley Reid
- The bottoms, by Joe R. Lansdale
- The journey of little Charlie, Christopher Paul Curtis
- The secret life of bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- James, a novel, Percival Everett
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy, by Gary D. Schmidt
- Lunch-box dream, Tony Abbott
- Roll of thunder, hear my cry, Mildred D. Taylor. --
- Mycroft Holmes, a novel, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
- I'll take you there, a novel, Joyce Carol Oates
- I'm not dying with you tonight, Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal
- Strongheart, the lost journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill, edited and annotated by Molly Standing Bear ; Jim Fergus
- The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney
- The Guardians, John Grisham
- The holdout, a novel, Graham Moore
- Shame the stars, Guadalupe García McCall
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- The kindest lie, a novel, Nancy Johnson
- Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain ; with an introduction by John Seelye ; notes by Guy Cardwell
- Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow