- Women talking, a novel, Miriam Toews
- The rag and bone shop, by Robert Cormier
- No more poems!, a book in verse that just gets worse, by Rhett Miller ; art by Dan Santat
- Pax, Sara Pennypacker ; illustrated by Jon Klassen
- Number the stars, Lois Lowry
- The scrambled states of America, Laurie Keller
- Eek, you reek!, poems about animals that stink, stank, stunk, Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple ; illustrated by Eugenia Nobati
- Nothing to envy, ordinary lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick
- Drum dream girl, how one girl's courage changed music, poems by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael Lopez
- Poppy, by Avi
- The slaves' war, the Civil War in the words of former slaves, Andrew Ward
- The Vanderbeekers lost and found, by Karina Yan Glaser
- A most wanted man, John Le CarreĢ
- Full dark, no stars, Stephen King
- Clock dance, a novel, Anne Tyler
- The journey of little Charlie, Christopher Paul Curtis
- Destiny of the republic, a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president, Candice Millard
- Hurricane child, Kheryn Callender
- The one and only Bob, Katherine Applegate ; illustrations by Paula Castelao
- A boy and a jaguar, written by Alan Rabinowitz ; illustrated by Catia Chien
- The broken window, Jeffery Deaver
- Work song, Ivan Doig
- In my family, En mi familia, paintings and stories by/cuadros y relatos de Carmen Lomas Garza ; as told to/contados a Harriet Rohmer ; edited by/editaods por David Schecter ; Spanish translation by/tracucidos al espanĢol Francisco X. AlarcoĢn
- Three cups of tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Jumanji, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg
- The kid, the immortal life of Ted Williams, Ben Bradlee, Jr
- Echo Mountain, by Lauren Wolk
- The lace reader, Brunonia Barry
- The two deaths of Daniel Hayes, a novel, Marcus Sakey
- Stuntboy, in the meantime, Jason Reynolds ; [container] drawings by RauĢl the Third
- The magician's hat, written by Malcolm Mitchell ; illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff
- The canon, a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science, Natalie Angier
- Somewhere in heaven, the remarkable love story of Dana and Christopher Reeve, Christopher Andersen
- Yalta, the price of peace, S.M. Plokhy
- Walk two moons, Sharon Creech
- The miracle at Speedy Motors, Alexander McCall Smith
- Tears in the darkness, the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath, Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
- The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
- The cause, Joseph J. Ellis
- Peace, Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
- The magic school bus on the ocean floor, by Joanna Cole ; illustrated by Bruce Degen
- Last Hope Island, Lynne Olson
- The lager queen of Minnesota, a novel, J. Ryan Stradal
- Look at the birdie, unpublished short fiction, Kurt Vonnegut
- The latehomecomer, a Hmong family memoir, Kao Kalia Yang
- The book with no pictures, B.J. Novak
- Red, white & royal blue, a novel, Casey McQuiston
- Matterhorn, a novel of the Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes
- At home, a short history of private life, Bill Bryson
- The New Jim Crow, mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness, Michelle Alexander