January
- The Butterfly Lampshade, Aimee Bender
- Red Pill, Hari Kunzru
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
February
- Deacon King Kong, James McBride
- Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
- Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
- The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
March
- Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, Natasha Dow Schüll
- Behind the Screen, Sarah T. Roberts
- Reality and Other Stories, John Lanchester
- Exhalation, Ted Chiang
- The Wall, John Lanchester
April
- Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
- Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers
May
- Made for Love, Alissa Nutting
June
- Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, Alissa Nutting
July
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
September
- The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
November
- This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki