- 10% Happier, by Dan Harris
- Acts of God, by Ellen Gilchrist
- Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr
- Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo
- Coming of Age in Mississippi, by Anne Moody
- The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance — What Women Should Know, by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcom Gladwell
- The Davis Dynasty, by John Rothchild
- A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel
- Dear Life, by Alice Munro
- Detroit: An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff
- Did You Ever Have a Family, by Bill Clegg
- Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta, by Richard Grant
- Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, by Sandeep Jauhar
- The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison
- Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by John Bogle
- Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town, by Beth Macy
- Far North, by Marcel Theroux
- The Financial Lives of the Poets, by Jess Walter
- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink
- H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
- House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III
- How Reading Literature Boosts Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
- In Paradise, by Peter Matthiessen
- Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation, by Sandeep Jauhar
- Investing the Templeton Way, by Lauren C. Templeton and Scott Phillips
- Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil, by Paul Bloom
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, by Katy Butler
- The Last Days of California, by Mary Miller
- The Little Book That Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt
- M Train, by Patti Smith
- Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, by Maria Konnikova
- Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward
- My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor
- The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean
- Outline, by Rachel Cusk
- The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
- The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
- The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen
- Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
- Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
- This Is Running for Your Life: Essays, by Michelle Orange
- This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, by Ann Patchett
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, by Daniel Pink
- Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now, by Gordon Livingston, M.D.
- The Upside of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success, by Megan McArdle
- The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers
- Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker
- The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
- Welcome to Your Brain, by Sandra Aamodt, PhD and Sam Wang, PhD
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver
- The World’s Largest Man, by Harrison Scott Key
- Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich, by Jason Zweig
