1. Apple in China by Patrick McGee
  2. Chess by Stefan Zweig
  3. The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
  4. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  5. 1913; The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies
  6. The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrich 
  7. What is Free Speech? by Fara Dabhoiwala
  8. Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro