Incoming Resources
- The trip to Echo Spring, on writers and drinking, Olivia Laing
- The novel of the century, the extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables, David Bellos
- Scratch, Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, edited by Manjula Martin
- Autumn in Venice, Ernest Hemingway and his last muse, Andrea Di Robilant
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire, a study of genius, mania, and character, Kay Redfield Jamison
- Manderley forever, a biography of Daphne Du Maurier, Tatiana de Rosnay ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
- Dancing fish and ammonites, a memoir, Penelope Lively
- Wild things, the joy of reading children's literature as an adult, Bruce Handy
- Churchill and Orwell, the fight for freedom, Thomas E. Ricks
- The adventures of Henry Thoreau, a young man's unlikely path to Walden Pond, by Michael Sims
- Life in the garden, Penelope Lively
- The white road, journey into an obsession, Edmund de Waal
- Hourglass, time, memory, marriage, Dani Shapiro
- Maeve Binchy, the biography, Piers Dudgeon
- By the book, writers on literature and the literary life from The New York Times Book Review, edited and with an introduction by Pamela Paul ; foreword by Scott Turow ; illustrations by Jillian Tamaki
- Where the past begins, a writer's memoir, Amy Tan
- Jane Austen at home, a biography, Lucy Worsley
- The shadow in the garden, a biographer's tale, James Atlas