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Nonfiction Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny Jessica Queller
Nonfiction Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer Nancy G. Brinker
Nonfiction Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires Miryam Kabakov, ed.
Nonfiction Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up The Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn Ayala Fader
Nonfiction Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
Nonfiction An American Experience: Adeline Moses Loeb and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors John L. Loeb, Jr., Kathy L. Plotkin, Margaret Loeb Kempner, Judith E. Endelman
Nonfiction The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresientstadt Hanalore Brenner; John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch, trans.