1. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams
2. Blindness, by Jose Saramago
3. Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld
4. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
5. Boy Meets Boy (audio book), by David Levithan
6. 101 Best Scenes Ever Written: A Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers, by Barnaby Conrad
7. The Door to Lost Pages, by Claude Lalumiere
8. You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing, by John Scalzi
9. Castle in the Air (audio book), by Diana Wynne Jones
10. Ceremony for the Choking Ghost (poetry), by Karen Finneyfrock