- A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
- Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form by Michael Sims
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
- Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
- Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
- Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
- Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
- Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
- Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
- Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Crazy Salad & Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women & Notes on Media by Nora Ephron
- D.V. by Diana Vreeland
- Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt
- Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann
- Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas
- Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann
- Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano by Alexander McQueen
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron
- How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
- I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
- I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
- Letters of James Agee to Father Flye (Neversink) by James Agee
- Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson Mccullers by Virginia Carr
- Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life by Thomas Wolfe
- Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
- Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
- Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
- Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
- Pentimento: A Book of Portraits by Lillian Hellman
- Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
- Picasso by Pablo Picasso
- Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Marie Anoinette
- Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
- The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began by Joan DeJean
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
- The Complete Stories by Truman Capote
- The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour by Joan DeJean
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (P.S.) by Simon Winchester
- The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
- You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe