- Thucydides, the reinvention of history, Donald Kagan
- Voyage to the Pharos, by Sarah Gauch ; illustrated by Roger Roth
- Horrible Harry on the ropes, by Suzy Kline ; pictures by Amy Wummer
- Closing time, a memoir, Joe Queenan
- Love and summer, William Trevor
- Closing time, a memoir, Joe Queenan
- Dune road, a novel, Jane Green
- And then there's this, how stories live and die in viral culture, Bill Wasik
- Two bad pilgrims, by Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by John Manders
- The rebellion of Ronald Reagan, a history of the end of the Cold War, James Mann
- The inheritance of Rome, a history of Europe from 400 to 1000, Chris Wickham
- Traveling with pomegranates, a mother daughter story, by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
- Everything matters!, Ron Currie, Jr
- Inside the kingdom, kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists, and the struggle for Saudi Arabia, Robert Lacey
- Miss Julia delivers the goods, Ann B. Ross
- No survivors, an Accident man novel, Tom Cain
- Imperial, William T. Vollmann
- Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The battle for America 2008, the story of an extraordinary election, Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson
- Stones into schools, promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Greg Mortenson
- The duel, the parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr, Judith St. George
- Summertime, fiction, J.M. Coetzee
- Rocket men, the epic story of the first men on the moon, Craig Nelson
- Cam Jansen and the basketball mystery, David A. Adler ; illustrated by Joy Allen
- Dune road, a novel, Jane Green
- The duel, the parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr, Judith St. George - (paperback)
- Why evolution is true, Jerry A. Coyne
- What I thought I knew, Alice Eve Cohen
- Churchill, Paul Johnson - (alk. paper)
- Bones and the roller coaster mystery, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Barbara Johansen Newman - (hardcover)
- Family album, Penelope Lively - (pbk.)
- A brave vessel, the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare's The tempest, Hobson Woodward
- Everything matters!, Ron Currie, Jr
- Mission control, this is Apollo, the story of the first voyages to the moon, Andrew Chaikin, with Victoria Kohl ; [with paintings and commentary by] Alan Bean - (hardcover)
- Who do you think you are?, the essential guide to tracing your family history, Megan Smolenyak
- The morgue and me, John C. Ford
- Fifty is the new fifty, ten life lessons for women in second adulthood, Suzanne Braun Levine
- Rescue Ink, how ten guys saved countless dogs and cats, twelve horses, five pigs, one duck, and a few turtles, Rescue Ink ; with Denise Flaim
- Regards to the man in the moon, by Ezra Jack Keats
- Tales of the Madman Underground, (an historical romance 1973), John Barnes
- The strange case of the missing sheep, by Mircea Catusanu
- The Canterbury tales, Geoffrey Chaucer ; a retelling by Peter Ackroyd ; illustrated by Nick Bantock
- Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates, using philosophy (and jokes!) to expore life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
- Spent, sex, evolution, and consumer behavior, Geoffrey Miller
- Too big to fail, the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis and themselvex, Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Myths, illusions, and peace, finding a new direction for America in the Middle East, Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
- Family album, Penelope Lively
- Tales of the Madman Underground, (an historical romance 1973), John Barnes
- Meditations on living, dying, and loss, ancient knowledge for a modern world : from the first complete translation of the Tibetan Book of the dead, introductory commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; selected and introduced by Graham Coleman ; translated by Gyurme Dorje ; edited by Graham Coleman with Thupten Jinpa
- Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson - (hardcover)