January-February
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling- Xenogenesis Trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago) by Octavia E. Butler
- Thoughts From a Unicorn: 100% Black. 100% Jewish. 0% Safe. by MaNishtana Rishon
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
March-April
- Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
- God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Green by Jay Lake
- When She Woke: A Novel by Hillary Jordan
- The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective by Richard Price
May-June
- Rashi’s Daughters Trilogy (Joheved, Miriam, & Rachel) by Maggie Anton
- My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due
- Words of Fire: an Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
- Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jon D. Levenson
July-August
- The Earthsea Cycle (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, & The Other Wind) by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- From Eve to Esther: Rabbinic Reconstructs of Biblical Women by Leila Leah Bronner
September-October
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- NW: A Novel by Zadie Smith
- The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
November-December
- The Dune Series (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, & Chapterhouse: Dune) by Frank Herbert




