- “The Glass Hotel,” Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf
- “Blackwood,” Michael Farris Smith, Little, Brown and Company
- “American Dirt” Jeanine Cummons, Flatiron Books
- “Race Against Time” Jerry Mitchell, Simon & Schusters
- “The Splendid and the Vile,” Erik Larson, Crown
- “Writers & Lovers,” Lily King, Grove
- “The Last Taxi Driver,” Lee Durkee, Tin House Books
- “The Everlasting,” Katie Simpson Smith, Harper
- “City of Margins,” William Boyle, Norton
- “Playing the Devil,” R. J. Lee, Kensington
Children and Young Adults
- “Miss Rumphus,” Barbara Cooney, Puffin
- “The Box Turtle,” Vanessa Roeder, Dial Books
- “Call Down the Hawk,” Maggie Stiefvater; Scholastic
- “Blue Skies,” Anne Bustard, Simon & Schuster
- “Theodore Boone: The Fugitive,” John Grisham, Dutton
Compiled by University Press of Mississippi
Reported by Lemuria Books (Jackson); Lorelei Books (Vicksburg); Square Books (Oxford)