Set in Winter
- Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- YA: The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party by Allan Wolf
Narrative Non-Fiction
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
- Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Young
- Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
By Indigenous Author
- Iwigara by Enrique Salmon
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
- Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson
- Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie
- YA: If I Ever Get Out Of Here by Eric Gansworth
Re-telling of Shakespeare
- Hag Seed by Margaret Atwood
- By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiles
- YA: The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
A Classic
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe