Sooyong Park’s nature memoir, The Great Soul of Siberia: In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger

Norah Lofts’s historical novel The Town House

Hettie Jones’s memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones

Patrick Hamilton’s novel The Slaves of Solitude

Brian Fagan’s environmental history, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1650

Molly Gloss’s novella, Outside the Gates

Charles Sprawson memoir and cultural history of swimming, Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

Jamaica Kincaid’s collection of New Yorker “Talk of the Town” vignettes, Talk Stories

Tim Krabbé’s cycling novel, The Rider

Kate Summerscale’s Victorian true-crime history, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective