- Tim's Vermeer., Sony Pictures Classics in association with High Delft Pictures presents a Penn & Teller Film ; produced by Penn Jillette ; producer, Farley Ziegler ; directed by Teller, DVD/Widescreen
- Just a shot away, peace, love, and tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont, Saul Austerlitz
- The art of fantasy, sci-fi and steampunk, Hiroshi Unno
- The Bible for grown-ups, a new look at the good book, Simon Loveday
- See what can be done, essays, criticism, and commentary, Lorrie Moore
- Everybody had an ocean, music and mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles, William McKeen
- I.W. Colburn, emotion in modern architecture, Jay Pridmore
- Debussy's Paris, piano portraits of the belle époque, Catherine Kautsky
- Wayne and Ford, the films, the friendship, and the forging of an American hero, Nancy Schoenberger
- Chamber music, Wu-Tang and America (in 36 pieces), Will Ashon
- Barking with the Big Dogs, On Writing and Reading Books for Children, Natalie Babbitt ; introduction by Katherine Applegate
- Feel free, essays, Zadie Smith
- Possessed by memory, the inward light of criticism, Harold Bloom
- The banished immortal, a life of Li Bai (Li Po), Ha Jin
- Book reports, a music critic on his first love, which was reading, Robert Christgau
- Music in Boston, composers, events, and ideas, 1852-1918, Bill F. Faucett
- Counting down the Beatles, their 100 finest songs, Jim Beviglia
- Picasso and the painting that shocked the world, Miles J. Unger
- Agatha Christie, a mysterious life, Laura Thompson
- The roots of rap, 16 bars on the 4 pillars of hip-hop, by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison Jr
- Wasteland, the Great War and the origins of modern horror, W. Scott Poole
- American audacity, in defense of literary daring, William Giraldi
- Imagine John Yoko, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono ; with contributions from the people who were there
- Handel in London, the making of a genius, Jane Glover
- Electric shock, from the gramophone to the iPhone : 125 years of pop music, Peter Doggett
- A little book on form, an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry, Robert Hass
- Unmasked, Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Why Homer matters, Adam Nicolson
- The devil finds work, an essay, James Baldwin
- American epic, when music gave America her voice, Bernard MacMahon & Allison McGourty with Elijah Wald
- Glitter up the dark, how pop music broke the binary, Sasha Geffen
- The well-educated mind, a guide to the classical education you never had : updated and expanded, Susan Wise Bauer