New Fiction
- Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert (From my review: "a startlingly original novel... What do you do with the past once it's over?")
- The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly (From my review: "her achievement is creating a novel so truly beautiful out of some of the ugliest stuff the world has on offer.")
- Certainty by Madeleine Thien (From my review: "...ultimately it is the sum of these stories which provides the "certainty" amidst uncertainty: meaning is evident, and beauty abounds.")
- The Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer (From my review: "Here is a summer book through and through, all the while substantial, well-written.")
- Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida (From my post-review: "has been positively haunting me since I read it.")
- Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls by Danielle Wood (From my review: " Rosie Little is "the next Bridget Jones" for which we've been longing for ten years.")
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay (From my review: "This book feels too whole to have been created... [A]n entity unto itself, its own world, and a truly magnificent literary achievement.")
- Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani (From my review: "The Stone Diaries without the ghost, but also something original, beautiful, gentle and lovely in its own right.")
- The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys (From my review: "The Thames freezing is a perfect example of an extraordinary moment in time... and Humphreys links these moments together in this small beautiful book.")
- The Great Man by Kate Christensen (From my review: "There is joy here, and there's goodness, and the whole wide world, which is certainly something for a book.")
New Non-Fiction
- Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
- Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by Jessica Mitford
- The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
- Cake or Death by Heather Mallick
- 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
- A Memoir of Friendship: Shields and Howard by Blanche and Allison Howard (eds.)
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong
- Ambivalence by Jonathan Garfinkel
Not New but Glad I Discovered
- Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
- Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff