Non-fiction
- Into thin air: a personal account of the Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer
- War by Sebastian Junger
- Double Happiness: how bullshit works by Joe Bennett
- Religion for atheists: a non-believer's guide to the uses of religion by Alain de Botton
- The world until yesterday: what can we learn from traditional societies by Jared M. Diamond
- A more perfect heaven: : how Copernicus revolutionized the Cosmos by Dara Sobel
- Rin Tin Tin: the life and legend of the world's most famous dog by Susan Orlean
- David and Goliath: underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Exactly: how precision engineers created the modern world by Simon Winchester