- Living with Leonardo, fifty years of sanity and insanity in the art world and beyond, Martin Kemp
- Broken stars, contemporary Chinese science fiction in translation, translated and edited by Ken Liu
- Debussy's Paris, piano portraits of the belle époque, Catherine Kautsky
- The first time, stories & songs from music icons, Matt Everitt
- Shake it up, great American writing on rock and pop from Elvis to Jay Z, edited by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar
- See what can be done, essays, criticism, and commentary, Lorrie Moore
- Why Bob Dylan matters, Richard F. Thomas
- Mister Rogers: it's you I like., produced by JoAnn Young, John Paulson ; directed by John Paulson ; written by JoAnn Young ; produced by Young Productions, John Paulson Productions ; the Fred Rogers Company, DVD; Widescreen
- Queen, album by album, by Martin Popoff
- Everybody had an ocean, music and mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles, William McKeen
- The end of the myth, from the frontier to the wall in the mind of America, Greg Grandin
- Vincent van Gogh, the complete paintings, Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger
- Making the monster, the science behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kathryn Harkup
- Another little piece of my heart, my life of rock and revolution in the '60s, Richard Goldstein
- Writing America, literary landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee, a reader's companion, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- Just a shot away, peace, love, and tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont, Saul Austerlitz
- The global novel, writing the world in the 21st century, Adam Kirsch
- The wild bunch, Sam Peckinpah, a revolution in Hollywood, and the making of a legendary film, W.K. Stratton
- Cézanne portraits, John Elderfield ; with Mary Morton, Xavier Rey ; contributions by Alex Danchev, Jayne S. Warman
- Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988, the explosive force of the streets, Leonard Emmerling ; translator, Nicholas Levis
- We are the Clash, Reagan, Thatcher, and the last stand of a band that mattered, Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki
- Memphis rent party, the blues, rock & soul in music's hometown, Robert Gordon
- From Holmes to Sherlock, the story of the men and women who created an icon, Mattias Bostrom ; translated from the Swedish by Michael Gallagher
- How music works, David Byrne
- Start to finish, Woody Allen and the art of moviemaking, Eric Lax
- American audacity, in defense of literary daring, William Giraldi
- What is the story of Scooby-Doo?, by M. D. Payne ; illustrated by Andrew Thomson
- British invasion, the crosscurrents of musical influence, Simon Philo
- Handel in London, the making of a genius, Jane Glover
- The secret life of the American musical, how classic Broadway shows are built, Jack Viertel
- Uncommon people, the rise and fall of the rock stars, David Hepworth
- Electric shock, from the gramophone to the iPhone : 125 years of pop music, Peter Doggett
- Agnes Pelton, desert transcendentalist, editor, Gilbert Vicario ; authors, Susan L. Aberth, Elizabeth Armstrong, Erika Doss, Gilbert Vicario, Michael Zakian, Rachel Sadvary Zebro
- Agatha Christie, a mysterious life, Laura Thompson
- Astral weeks, a secret history of 1968, Ryan H. Walsh
- The once and future muse, the poetry and poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat, Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant
- Norman Rockwell, 1894-1978 : America's most beloved painter, Karal Ann Marling
- In their lives, great writers on great Beatles songs, edited by Andrew Blauner ; a note from Paul McCartney
- Johnny's cash & Charley's pride, lasting legends and untold adventures in country music, by Peter Cooper ; foreword by Peter Guralnick
- Eric Ravilious, artist and designer, / Alan Powers
- The Hirschfeld century, portait of an artist and his age, Al Hirschfeld ; edited and with text by David Leopold
- The roots of rap, 16 bars on the 4 pillars of hip-hop, by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison Jr
- Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you, the shadow cinema of the American '70s, Charles Taylor
- Wild things, the joy of reading children's literature as an adult, Bruce Handy
- The daemon knows, literary greatness and the American sublime, Harold Bloom
- American originality, essays on poetry, Louise Glück
- Follies of God, Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog, James Grissom
- The rock, the road, and the rabbi, my journey into the heart of scriptural faith and the land where it all began, Kathie Lee Gifford with Rabbi Jason Sobel
- A portrait of Bowie, a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries, introduction & interviews, Brian Hiatt
- Jazz in the 1970s, diverging streams, Bill Shoemaker