- When no one is watching, a thriller, Alyssa Cole
- Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older
- Seven days in June, a novel, Tia Williams
- The murderer's daughters, Randy Susan Meyers
- The dew breaker, Edwidge Danticat
- Last canto of the dead, by Daniel José Older
- A tree grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith ; with a foreword by Anna Quindlen
- Rookie move, Sarina Bowen
- A lucky man, stories, Jamel Brinkley
- Life after death, a novel, Sister Souljah
- When no one is watching, a thriller, Alyssa Cole
- The dew breaker, by Edwidge Danticat
- When we make it, Elisabet Velasquez
- The family, Naomi Krupitsky
- Man gone down, Michael Thomas
- Someone, Alice McDermott
- Midnight, a gangster love story, Sister Souljah
- Dragons in a bag, Zetta Elliott ; illustrations by Geneva B
- An almost perfect moment, Binnie Kirshenbaum
- Crime in the crypt, by Ron Roy ; illustrated by John Steven Gurney
- Invisible City, Julia Dahl
- The affairs of others, Amy Grace Loyd
- A moon for Moe & Mo, Jane Breskin Zalben ; illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini
- Piece of mind, a novel, Michelle Adelman
- Someone, Alice McDermott
- Double play, Robert B. Parker
- Vinyl moon, Mahogany L. Browne
- A tree grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
- Class, a novel, Lucinda Rosenfeld
- Deacon King Kong, a novel, James McBride
- A deeper love inside, the Porsche Santiaga story, Sister Souljah
- The Schwa was here, Neal Shusterman
- Halsey Street, Naima Coster
- Another Brooklyn, a novel, Jacqueline Woodson
- The human origins of Beatrice Porter and other essential ghosts, a novel, Soraya Palmer
- The promise, Chaim Potok
- A girl's guide to love & magic, Debbie Rigaud
- Cobble Hill
- The witch's apprentice, Zetta Elliott ; illustrations by Cherise Harris
- The survivalists, a novel, Kashana Cauley
- New people, Danzy Senna
- Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson
- The usual rules, Joyce Maynard
- The perfect mother, a novel, Aimee Molloy
- Brooklyn crime novel, Jonathan Lethem
- Evil eye, a novel, Etaf Rum
- A woman is no man, a novel, Etaf Rum
- The perfect mother, a novel, Aimee Molloy
- Liar & spy, Rebecca Stead
- Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan