- March – Geraldine Brooks
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lost Horizon – James Hilton
- Hood – Emma Donoghue
- The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) – Rick Riordan
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire #1) – George R.R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2) – George R.R. Martin
- The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) – Rick Riordan
- Becoming Jane Eyre – Sheila Kohler
- The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
- A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) – George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4) – George R.R. Martin
- A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5) – George R. R. Martin
- The Land of Decoration – Grace McCleen
- Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
- Two Serious Ladies – Jane Bowles
- Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
- After Delores – Sarah Schulman
- People in Trouble – Sarah Schulman
- Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- First Blood – David Morrell
- Dogeaters – Jessica Hagedorn
- Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- Howards End is on the Landing – Susan Hill
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- Farm City – Novella Carpenter
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- The Bird of Night – Susan Hill
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- The Phantom of Pemberley – Regina Jeffers
- The Absolutist – John Boyne
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John Le Carré
- The Man Who Knew Too Much – David Leavitt
- The Secret Lives of Codebreakers – Sinclair McKay
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter #1) – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2) – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3) – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4) – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5) – J.K. Rowling
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6) – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7) – J.K. Rowling
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- The Art Forger – B.A. Shapiro
- Flesh and Blood – Michael Cunningham
- Seraphina (Seraphina #1) – Rachel Hartman
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- The Last Guardian (Artems Fowl #8) – Eoin Colfer
- Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
- Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
- Comet’s Tale – Steven Wolf
- Second Hand (Tucker Springs #2) – Heidi Cullinan and Marie Sexton
- The Paternity Test – Michael Lowenthal
- Israel/Palestine and the Queer International – Sarah Schulman
- Where Nerves End (Tucker Springs #1) – L.A. Witt
- Other Voices, Other Rooms – Truman Capote
- A Son Called Gabriel – Damian McNicholl
- The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
- The Enchantress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #6) – Michael Scott
- Annabel – Kathleen Winter
- The Collection – Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod (eds.)
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Life! Death! Prizes! – Stephen May
- The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
- Villette – Charlotte Brontë
- Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds – Aristophanes
- By The River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept – Paulo Coelho
- Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
- Austenland – Shannon Hale
- Midnight in Austenland – Shannon Hale