- The sea gate, Jane Johnson
- Himself, a novel, Jess Kidd
- The good son, You-Jeong Jeong ; translated by Chi-Young Kim
- Black cake, a novel, Charmaine Wilkerson
- Lowcountry summer, Dorothea Benton Frank
- Unsettled ground, Claire Fuller
- Dirt road, James Kelman
- If you kept a record of sins, Andrea Bajani ; translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris ; afterword by Edmund White
- To the moon and back, Karen Kingsbury
- The unsinkable Greta James, a novel, Jennifer E. Smith
- The girl next door, Patricia MacDonald
- The folly, Gemma Amor
- After Annie, a novel, Anna Quindlen
- The sweet taste of muscadines, a novel, Pamela Terry
- The dream builders, Oindrila Mukherjee
- Black cake, Charmaine Wilkerson
- Hope Creek, Janet Dailey
- Matilda's secret, Corina Bomann ; translated by Michael Meigs
- Amil and the after, Veera Hiranandani ; illustrations by Prashant Miranda
- Where waters meet, Zhang Ling
- Deep sleep, Steven Konkoly
- Beach girls, Luanne Rice
- Rabbit cake, Annie Hartnett
- Perfect little lives, Amber and Danielle Brown
- In every moment we are still alive, Tom Malmquist ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch
- The cactus, Sarah Haywood
- The edge of summer, Viola Shipman
- Rouge, a novel, Mona Awad
- The abortionist's daughter, Elisabeth Hyde
- One Italian summer, a novel, Rebecca Serle
- The last story of Mina Lee, Nancy Jooyoun Kim
- After Annie, a novel, Anna Quindlen
- After Annie, a novel, Anna Quindlen
- Brick dust and bones, M. R. Fournet
- Good riddance, Elinor Lipman
- Where waters meet, Zhang Ling
- Pride and joy, a novel, Louisa Onomé
- The far field, a novel, Madhuri Vijay
- Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
- Swan, a novel, Frances Mayes
- Shadow sister, a novel, Lindsay Marcott
- A beach wish, a novel, Shelley Noble
- Dark August, a novel, Katie Tallo
- Take me apart, Sara Sligar
- Three more months, Sara Echavarre
- Bridge, Lauren Beukes
- A quitter's paradise, a novel, Elysha Chang
- Too soon for adiós, Annette Chavez Macias
- Three more months, Sarah Echavarre
- The secret love letters of Olivia Moretti, Jennifer Probst