- The art of death, writing the final story, Edwidge Danticat
- Comparative literature, a very short introduction, Ben Hutchinson
- Nonfiction, by Alexis Burling
- Classics for pleasure, Michael Dirda
- Making waves, Mario Vargas Llosa ; edited and translated by John King
- Translation, subjectivity, and culture in France and England, 1600-1800, Julie Candler Hayes
- A little history of literature, John Sutherland
- The book of great books, a guide to 100 world classics / W. John Campbell
- Willa Cather on writing, critical studies on writing as an art, with a foreword by Stephen Tennant
- A Mencken chrestomathy, edited and annotated by the author, H.L. Mencken
- The fun stuff, and other essays, by James Wood
- The annotated Waste land with Eliot's contemporary prose, edited, with annotations and introduction, by Lawrence Rainey
- Creationists, selected essays, 1993-2006, E.L. Doctorow
- Playing the inside out, David Adams Richards
- Essays on world literature, Aeschylus, Dante, Shakespeare
- Northrop Frye's fiction and miscellaneous writings, edited by Robert D. Denham and Michael Dolzani
- Autodafe, the journal of the International Parliament of Writers, International Parliament of Writers, 1, Spring 2001
- La cena de los notables, sobre lectura y crítica, Constantino Bértolo
- Read dangerously, the subversive power of literature in troubled times, Azar Nafisi
- More matter, essays and criticism, John Updike
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, major poems and selected prose, edited by Jerome McGann and Charles L. Sligh
- How to read literature like a professor, a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines, Thomas C. Foster
- Note Book, Jeff Nunokawa
- Western literary canon in context, Professor John M. Bowers, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Fairy tales and fables from Weimar days, collected utopian tales
- Contemporary literary criticism
- The Norton anthology of theory and criticism, Vincent B. Leitch, general editor
- This I believe, an A to Z of a life, Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Kristina Cordero
- Selected prose, John Ashbery ; edited by Eugene Richie
- Vidas ordinarias, Sara Leizeaga
- The ideal of culture, essays, Joseph Epstein
- Al margen, (críticas literarias y científicas), Rafael Barrett
- Meredith revisited and other essays, J.H.E. Crees
- Metaphor & memory, essays, Cynthia Ozick
- A report on the afterlife of culture, Stephen Henighan
- Writers and personality, Louis Auchincloss
- The well-educated mind, a guide to the classical education you never had : updated and expanded, Susan Wise Bauer
- The year of reading dangerously, how fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones) saved my life, Andy Miller
- The quality of literature, linguistic studies in literary evaluation, edited by Willie van Peer
- The art of reading, Professor Timothy Spurgin, Lawrence University
- Centring the margins, essays and reviews, Jeff Bursey
- Last letter to a reader, Gerald Murnane
- The Edmund Wilson reader, edited, with an introduction and notes, by Lewis M. Dabney
- Rosemary's letter book, the record of a year, W.L. Courtney
- The new fiction and other essays, H.D. Traill
- Libros contra el aburrimiento, Luis Alberto De Cuenca
- Why read the classics?, Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin
- Letters on Literature
- A history of gay literature, the male tradition, Gregory Woods
- The origin of others, Toni Morrison ; with a foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates