- Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
- Harriet Arnow, The Dollmaker
- Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
- Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- Kent Haruf, Benediction
- J Budziszewski, On the Meaning of Sex
- David Brooks, The Road to Character
- Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk
- Wendell Berry, A Distant Land
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine