Fiction
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (at The Millions, Egan’s Year in Reading, excerpt)
- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (at The Millions, excerpt)
- David Grossman, To the End of the Land (review)
- Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key (profile)
- Paul Murray, Skippy Dies (review, Murray’s Year in Reading, excerpt)
Nonfiction
- S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches (excerpt)
- Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (excerpt)
- Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (excerpt)
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (excerpt)
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (excerpt)