- Shadow on the crown, Patricia Bracewell
- The Swans of Fifth Avenue, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- Matrix, Lauren Groff
- The chaperone, Laura Moriarty
- Our spoons came from Woolworths, Barbara Comyns ; introduction by Emily Gould
- Caleb's crossing, Geraldine Brooks
- A tiny upward shove, Melissa Chadburn
- Three sisters, three queens, Philippa Gregory
- I, Claudius, from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born B.C. 10, murdered and deified A.D. 54, by Robert Graves
- I was Anastasia, a novel, Ariel Lawhon
- Quantum girl theory, a novel, Erin Kate Ryan
- Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
- Belisarius, By M. Marmontel ..
- Gunman's rhapsody, Robert B. Parker
- Sisters of night and fog, Erika Robuck
- To the future, Ben Franklin!, Mary Pope Osborne
- Jane in love, a novel, Rachel Givney
- The acrobat, Edward J Delaney
- Beneath a scarlet sky, a novel, Mark Sullivan
- The news from Paraguay, a novel, Lily Tuck
- The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- Mrs. Engels, Gavin McCrea
- Leaving Van Gogh, a novel, Carol Wallace
- West of sunset, Stewart O'Nan
- The Kid, Ron Hansen
- Annie and the wolves, Andromeda Romano-Lax
- The hidden diary of Marie Antoinette, Carolly Erickson
- The velveteen daughter, a novel, Laurel Davis Huber
- Confessions of an imaginary friend, a memoir by Jacques Papier, as told to Michelle Cuevas
- The constant princess, Philippa Gregory
- The cloister, a novel, James Carroll
- The Bridgetower sonata, sonata mulattica, Emmanuel Dongala ; translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager
- The marriage portrait, Maggie O'Farrell
- Attila, the gathering of the storm, William Napier
- The poison bed, Elizabeth Fremantle
- West of sunset, Stewart O'Nan
- The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
- The spy, a novel, Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Zoë̈ Perry
- Spartacus, Howard Fast
- White houses, a novel, Amy Bloom
- The last confessions of Sylvia P., a novel, Lee Kravetz
- Forever and forever, the courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton, Josi S. Kilpack
- The wreckage of Eden, Norman Lock
- Sister Teresa, the woman who became Saint Teresa of Avila, Bárbara Mujica
- A prisoner in Malta, Phillip DePoy
- A piece of the world, a novel, Christina Baker Kline
- The October horse, Colleen McCullough
- Ruler of the night, David Morrell
- The Paris bookseller, Kerri Maher
- A view of the empire at sunset, Caryl Phillips