- Pieces for the Left Hand, by J. Robert Lennon
- Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffery Cartwright, by Steven Millhauser
- The Best American Short Stories 2012, Ed. Tom Perrotta
- Familiar, by J. Robert Lennon
- At Last, by Edward St. Auburn
- Open Secrets, by Alice Munro (reread)
- This Beautiful Life, Helen Schulman
- Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald (reread)
- Revenge, Yoko Ogawa
- All Soul’s Rising, Madison Smartt Bell
- Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
- Writers, Writing, Dying, C.K. Williams
- Arcadia, Lauren Groff
- Twilight of the Superheroes, Deborah Eisenberg (reread)
- The Report, Jessica Francis Kane
- A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (reread)
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (reread)
- Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, Donald Antrim (reread)
- The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
- Ways of Going Home, Alejandro Zambra
- The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid
- Mothsmoke, Moshin Hamid
- Magnificence, Lydia Millet
- The Private Life of Trees, Alejandro Zambra
- This is Not Your City, Caitlin Horrocks
- Don’t Look Now, Daphne Du Maurier
- Deliverance, James Dickey
- A Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims
- The Morels, Christopher Hacker
- The Next Time You See Me, Holly Goddard Jones
- Fragile Acts, Allan Peterson
- Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson
- Submergence, J.M. Ledgard
- The Vet’s Daughter, Barbara Comyns
- Rivers, Michael Farris Smith
- Tampa, Alissa Nutting
- A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag, Josh Russell
- World War Z, Max Brooks
- Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin
- The Castle, J. Robert Lennon
- Hello America, J.G. Ballard
- The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks
- The Children of Men, P.D. James
- City of Bohane, Kevin Barry
- What Happened to Sophie Wilder, Christopher R. Beha
- Zazen, Vanessa Veselka
- The Round House, Louise Erdrich
- All That Is, James Salter
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
- Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Vladimir Nabokov
- Brief Encounters With the Enemy, Said Sayrafiezadeh
- 1984, George Orwell
- Virgins, Pamela Erens
- Death of the Black-Haired Girl, Robert Stone
- The Old Left, Daniel Menaker
- Prosperous Friends, Christine Schutt
- The Forgiven, Lawrence Osborne