• AMMANITI, Niccolò: Me and You (B-)
• ANDRI Snær Magnason: The Story of the Blue Planet (B-)
• BAKER, Nicholson: The Everlasting Story of Nory (C)
• BECKETT, Bernard: Genesis (B)
• BERMAN, Sabina: Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World (B+) (UK title: The Woman Who Dived into the Heart of the World)
• DUNCAN, Lois:
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer (B-)
  • Killing Mr. Griffin (B+)
• EDOGAWA Rampo: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (B)
• FERRANTE, Elena: The Beach at Night (B+)
• FERNÁNDEZ PAZ, Agustín:
  • Black Air (B)
  • Corridors of Shadow (B)
  • Winter Letters (B+)
• GARDAM, Jane: A Long Way From Verona (B+)
• GIOLITO, Malin Persson: Quicksand (B)
• HAITANI Kenjiro: A Rabbit's Eyes (B)
• HARSTAD, Johan: 172 Hours on the Moon (C)
• HASTON, Meg: How to Rock Braces and Glasses (B-)
• HOROWITZ, Anthony:
  • Point Blanc (B-) (US title: Point Blank)
  • Stormbreaker (B-)
• HWANG Sun-mi: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (B)
• KAYAMA Shigeru:
  • Godzilla (B-)
  • Godzilla Raids Again (B-)
• LÉVY-BERTHERAT, Déborah: The Travels of Daniel Ascher (B)
• NESBØ, Jo: The Night House (B)
• OLESHA, Yuri: The Three Fat Men (B+)
• OZ, Amos:
  • Panther in the Basement (B+)
  • Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (B+)
• PULLMAN, Philip:
  • The Book of Dust - trilogy:
    • I. La Belle Sauvage (B)
  • The Adventures of John Blake (C)
  • His Dark Materials (B+)
    • I. Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass) (B+)
    • II. The Subtle Knife (B)
    • III. The Amber Spyglass (B+)
• RAY, Satyajit:
  • The Buccaneer of Bombay (a.k.a. The Bandits of Bombay) (B)
  • The Golden Fortress (B)
• RODARI, Gianni: Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto (B-)
• SALTEN, Felix: Bambi (A-)
• STRATFORD, Jordan:
  • The Case of the Girl in Grey (B)
  • The Case of the Missing Moonstone (B)
• TAKEMOTO Novala: Kamikaze Girls (B-)
• TANIGAWA Nagaru: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (B)
• TELLEGEN, Toon: The Squirrel's Birthday (B)
• TSUTSUI Yasutaka: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (B)
• WINTERSON, Jeanette: Tanglewreck (B)

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Books about Children and Children's/YA fiction

• GOPNIK, Alison: The Philosophical Baby (B) -- What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
• RODDY, Nikki: How To Fight, Lie, and Cry Your Way to Popularity (and a Prom Date) (B) -- Lousy Life Lessons From 50 Teen Movies
• SKURNICK, Lizzie: Shelf Discovery (B) -- The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
• SPUFFORD, Francis: The Child That Books Built (B) -- reading memoir
• ZAMBRA, Alejandro: Childish Literature (B)

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