Art
- de Waal, Edmund, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
- King, Ross, The Judgment of Paris
- MacCarthy, Fiona, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
- Waldrep, Mary Carolyn, By a Woman’s Hand: Illustrators of the Golden Age
Language
- Blagg, Melvyn, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
- Dreyer, Benjamin, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
- Forsyth, Mark, The Etymologicon
- Montell, Amanda, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Literature
- Barchus, Janine and Isabel Greenberg, The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
- Batuman, Elif, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- Byrne, Paula, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead Revisited
- Callow, Simon, Charles Dickens
- Christofi, Alex, Dostoevsky in Love
- Dench, Judi, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
- Dudgeon, Piers, Neverland: J. M. Barrie, The du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
- Forster, Margaret, Daphne Du Maurier: The Secret Life of a Renowned Storyteller
- Lanes, Selma G., Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures in the Realm of Children’s Literature
- Macdonald, Helen, H Is for Hawk
- Mead, Rebecca, My Life in Middlemarch
- Milford, Nancy, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Pym, Barbara, A Very Private Eye
- Schenkar, Joan, The Talented Miss Highsmith
- Schiff, Stacy, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
- Showalter, Elaine, A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, A Literature of Their Own: British Woman Novelists from Brontë to Lessing
- Spinnen, Burkhard, The Book: An Homage
- Sutherland, Kathryn, Jane Austen in 41 Objects
- Tomalin, Claire, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, Jane Austen: A Life, Thomas Hardy
- Wineapple, Brenda, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higgins
- Woolf, Jenny, The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
- Worsley, Lucy, Jane Austen at Home
Movies
- Ebert, Roger, Life Itself
Mythology
- Aslan, Reza, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
- Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths
Photography
- Toedtemeier, Terry and John Laursen, Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957
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