- The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
- Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Sugar by Bernice McFadden
- Murder at Longbourne by Tracy Kiely
- Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Skin and other Stories by Roald Dahl
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by
- Lift by Kelly Corrigan
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Daisy Dad review)
- The Secret of the Old Clock (#1 Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene
- Glorious by Bernice McFadden
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
- A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Daisy Dad Review)
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- The Icing on the Cupcake by Jennifer Ross
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
- The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly McNees
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan (Daisy Dad review)
- Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
- Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
- Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- A Thousand Sisters by Lisa Shannon
- Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
- Wildflower by Mark Seal
- The Many Secret Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland
- The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans
- Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Zoo Story by Thomas French
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Little Heathens by Mildren Armstrong Kalish
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis