- Fiction: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
- Biography: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
- History: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
- General Nonfiction: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
- Poetry: Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds