Biography/Memoir
- Battle hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- Bossypants by Tina Fey (I enjoyed reading this one, but it was more fun than meaningful)
- I Pray Hardest When Being Shot At by Klye Garret
- Little Princes by Conor Grennan (I really liked this one and still think about it months later)
- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
GLBTQ
- Well With My Soul by Gregory Allen
- Swimming to Chicago by David Matthew Barnes
- Songs of the New Depression by Kergan Edwards-Stout
- Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger
- Huntress by Melinda Lo
- Dance Lessons by Aine Greaney
- Cross Currents by John Shors
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (I just bought this last night)
- Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
- The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene
Mystery
- Missing Daughter, Shattered Family by LIz Strange
- The Cut by George Pelecanos
- A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
- The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
- Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski
Non-Fiction
- Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff (this one I liked a lot, I hope it wins)
- Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
- The Social Animal by David Brooks
Poetry
- Beyond Scent of Sorrow by Sweta Vikram
- Catalina by Laurie Soriano
- What Looks Like an Elephant by Edward Nudelman
- Three Women: A Poetic Triptych and Selected Poems by Ramos, Emma Eden
- Sonics in Warholia by Megan Volpert
Speculative Fiction
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman
- 11/22/1963 by Stephen King
- Among Others by Jo Walton
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (one of my students just read this and liked it as much as I did. It would be a fun one to have win this category)
This makes me realize that I don't read much by independent book publishers.
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