Fiction
The Cat’s Table, by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
Everything Beautiful Began After, by Simon Van Booy (Harper Perennial)
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel (Trans.) (Knopf)
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA)
Wingshooters, by Nina Revoyr (Akashic Books)
Nonfiction
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House)
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion (Knopf)
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie (Random House)
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz (Henry Holt & Co.)
Townie: A Memoir, by Andre Dubus III (W.W. Norton)
What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Debut
The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown)
Mourad: New Moroccan, by Mourad Lahlou (Artisan)
Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles (Viking Adult)
The Tiger’s Wife, by Téa Obreht (Random House)
We the Animals, by Justin Torres (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
You Know When the Men Are Gone, by Siobhan Fallon (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Young Adult
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, by Joe Schreiber (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel)
Legend, by Marie Lu (Putnam Juvenile)
A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea From Siobhan Dowd, by Patrick Ness, Jim Kay (Illus.) (Candlewick Press)
Shine, by Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books)
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (Eds.) (Candlewick Press)
Middle Reader
The Apothecary, by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr (Illus.) (Putnam Juvenile)
Bluefish, by Pat Schmatz (Candlewick Press)
The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale, by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, Barry Moser (Illus.) (Peachtree)
The Flint Heart, by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson, John Rocco (Illus.) (Candlewick Press)
Liesl & Po, by Lauren Oliver, Kei Acedera (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Wildwood, by Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
Picture Book
I Want My Hat Back, by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)
King Hugo’s Huge Ego, by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick Press)
Press Here, by Hervé Tullet (Chronicle Books)
Stars, by Mary Lyn Ray, Marla Frazee (Illus.) (Beach Lane Books)
Over and Under the Snow, by Kate Messner, Christopher Silas Neal (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
