Fiction/Poetry
- The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Grad '04)
- And Then You Know: New and Selected Poems by Kwame Alexander
- Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
- Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney
Nonfiction
- My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte
- America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries by Edward L. Ayers
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt (faculty)
- Bossypants by Tina Fey (Col '92)
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines by Michael Mann