- Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
- The Story of Yiddish, by Neal Karlen
- Cosmogony: Stories, by Lucy Ives
- Trespasses, by Louise Kennedy
- I'm Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy
- White on White, by Aysegül Savas*
- Refresh, Refresh, by Benjamin Percy
- Galatea, by Madeline Miller
- The Situation and the Story, by Vivian Gornick
- Rose Royal, by Nicolas Mathieu
- The Third Rainbow Girl, by Emma Copley Eisenberg
- The Fires of Heaven, by Robert Jordan
- The Body of the Soul: Stories, by Ludmila Ulitskaya*
- Great Granny Webster, by Caroline Blackwood
- Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
- Thinking About Memoir, by Abigail Thomas*
- Once Upon a Tome, by Oliver Darkshire
- The Divorce, by Cesar Aira
- The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Pomfret Towers, by Angela Thirkell
- Your Mixtape Unravels My Heart, by Máire T. Robinson*
- 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
- Girlhood, by Melissa Febos
- Lord of Chaos, by Robert Jordan
- The Dead Are Gods, by Eirinie Carson*
- Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters*
- The Fact of a Body, by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
- A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr*
- And the Bridge is Love, by Faye Moskowitz
- How to Write One Song, by Jeff Tweedy*
- The Story Game, by Shze-Hui Tjoa
- The Break, by Katherena Vermette*
- Walks with Men, by Ann Beattie
- This Beauty, by Nick Riggle
- Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones*
- Hao: Stories, by Chun Ye
- Ivory Pearl, by Jean-Patrick Manchette
- Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, by Scott Shapiro
- The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, by Wells Tower*
- The Path of Daggers, by Robert Jordan
- Love's Work, by Gillian Rose
- Wild, by Cheryl Strayed*
* is a favorite
