December
The Invisible Ones, Stef Penney
November
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Falling Together, Marisa de los Santos
Consider the Lobster, David Lobster Marchpane
The Crime of Sheila McGough, Janet Malcolm
Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers
October
The Book of Lies, Mary Horlock
The Crash of Hennington, Patrick Ness
The Silent Woman, Janet Malcolm
Becoming Shakespeare, Jack Lynch
The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe
September
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
The Peacock Spring, Rumer Godden
The Shadow of the Moon, M. M. Kaye
The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
August
The Little Ottleys, Ada Leverson
An Accident in August, Laurence Cosse
A Dark-Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
The Magician King, Lev Grossman
The Hottest Dishes in the Tartar Cuisine, Alina Bronsky
July
Thus Was Adonis Murdered, Sarah Caudwell
the second, third, and fourth books in the Song of Ice and Fire series
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
June
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, Jeanne Birdsall
Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie
May
The Habit of Art, Alan Bennett
The Bird’s Nest, Shirley Jackson
You Know When the Men Are Gone, Siobhan Fallon
Which Brings Me to You, Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott
The Night Villa, Carol Goodman
The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society, Michael Foldy
The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker
April
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
How Shakespeare Changed Everything, Stephen Marche
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
March
Strangers at the Feast, Jennifer Vanderbes
A Curse as Dark as Gold, Elizabeth Bunce
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy Sayers
The Husbands and Wives Club, Laurie J. Abraham
The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
February
The Broken Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin
The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale, the Brothers Whedon
The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas
A Star Shall Fall, Marie Brennan
The Metropolis Case, Matthew Gallaway
Midnight Never Come, Marie Brennan
January
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, trans. Lucia Graves
The Rescue Artist, Edward Dolnick
Three Black Swans, Caroline B. Cooney
I Kill Giants, Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares, David Levithan and Rachel Cohn