Because I Love Her: 34 Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond edited by Andrea N. Richesin

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Tim Egan

Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, Or How Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat by Gwen Cooper

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Fierce

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown

K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev America's Most Unlikely Tourist by Peter Carlson

Losing Mum and Pup: a Memoir by Christopher Buckley

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: a Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Two Coots in a Canoe: An Unusual Story of Friendship by David E. Morine

The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Michael Meyer