Fiction: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Nonfiction: 1491: The Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, and Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich

Poetry: R E D by Chase Berggrun