| 2019 |
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel | Jeffrey Lewis |
| Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke | Debra E. Meyerson with Danny Zuckerman |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou |
| Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America | John Waters |
| 2018 |
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age | Tim Wu |
| Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory | Ben Macintyre |
| Matterhorn | Karl Marlantes |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer (Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, and Richard Ferrone, narr.) |
| The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America | Sarah Kendzior |
| Texas by the Tail | Jim Thompson |
| Gringos | Charles Portis |
| The Dog of the South | Charles Portis |
| Travels with My Aunt | Graham Greene |
| The Woman Who Smashed Codes | Jason Fagone |
| True Grit | Charles Portis |
| Artemis | Andy Weir |
| A Mind at Play | Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman |
| 2017 |
Walkable City | Jeff Speck |
| Monsignor Quixote | Graham Greene |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut (James Franco, narr.) |
| The Color of Law | Richard Rothstein |
| Unwanted Advances | Laura Kipnis |
| The Brothers Vonnegut | Ginger Strand |
| Lab Girl | Hope Jahren |
| The Undoing Project | Michael Lewis |
2016 |
Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| REAMDE | Neal Stephenson |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Funny Girl | Nick Hornby |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel |
| The Bone Clocks | David Mitchell |
| 2015 |
The Festival of Insignificance | Milan Kundera |
| The Martian | Andy Weir |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| The World as I Found It | Bruce Duffy |
| Spare Parts | Joshua Davis |
| Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin |
| 2014 |
Whatever It Takes | Paul Tough |
| The Mathematician's Shiva | Stuart Rojstaczer |
| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba |
| Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Ben Fountain |
| Italian Ways | Tim Parks |
| Fever Pitch | Nick Hornby |
| The Divide | Matt Taibbi |
| The Quiet American | Graham Greene |
| The Intuitionist | Colson Whitehead |
| 2013 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms | Truman Capote |
| Ravel | Jean Echenoz (Linda Coverdale, tr.) |
| Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene |
| The Testament of Mary | Colm Toibin |
| A Face in the Rock | Loren R. Graham |
| Hellhound on His Trail | Hampton Sides |
| We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Karen Joy Fowler |
| This Is How You Lose Her | Junot Díaz |
| Monsieur Pain | Roberto Bolaño (Chris Andrews, tr.) |
2012 |
Night Train | Clyde Edgerton |
| Sharp Objects | Gillian Flynn |
| The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Memoir of a Debulked Woman | Susan Gubar |
| Drown | Junot Díaz |
| Fug You | Ed Sanders |
| Texaco | Patrick Chamoiseau (Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov, tr.) |
| The Crisis of Zionism | Peter Beinart |
| The Rose Café | John Hanson Mitchell |
| War and Peace in the Global Village | Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore |
| Thelonious Monk | Robin D.G. Kelley |
| 2011 |
The Wordy Shipmates | Sarah Vowell |
| Memoirs of Montparnasse | John Glassco |
| The Big Short | Michael Lewis |
| Take the Cannoli [Stories from the New World] | Sarah Vowell |
| A Year in Provence | Peter Mayle |
| How to Castrate a Bull | Dave Hitz |
2010 |
Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Everything is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
Marina Lewycka |
| Moneyball |
Michael Lewis |
| Barney's Version |
Mordecai Richler |
| Juliet Naked |
Nick Hornby |
| The Witch of Portobello |
Paul Coelho |
| A Long Way Down |
Nick Hornby |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Stieg Larsson |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Díaz |
| The White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga |
| 2009 |
The Princess Bride |
William Goldman |
| Slam |
Nick Hornby |
| The Haunting of Hill House |
Shirley Jackson |
| Old Boy Volume 1 |
Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi |
| Brief Encounters with Che Guevara |
Ben Fountain |
| 2008 |
Armageddon in Retrospect |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| Final Theory |
Mark Alpert |
| Fugitive Pieces |
Anne Michaels |
| Man's Search for Meaning |
Viktor E. Frankl |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
Dave Eggers |
| 2007 |
July, July |
Tim O'Brien |
| Night |
Elie Wiesel |
| Abroad |
Paul Fussell |
| improving the storage manageability, flexibility, and security in virtual machine systems |
xin zhao |
| Persepolis 2 |
Marjane Satrapi |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Azar Nafisi |
| Persepolis |
Marjane Satrapi |
| Evenings with the Orchestra |
Hector Berlioz (Jacques Barzun, tr.) |
| network transparency in wide area collaborations |
jiaying zhang |
| distributed, scalable, and independent access to parallel file systems |
dean hildebrand |
| 2006 |
By Night in Chile |
Roberto Bolaño (Chris Andrews, tr.) |
| Brave New Ballot |
Aviel David Rubin |
| Words and Music |
Paul Morley |
| brokeback mountain |
annie proulx |
| second nature |
michael pollan |
| 2005 |
1491 |
charles c. mann |
| danube |
claudio magris |
| the curious incident of the dog in the night-time |
mark haddon |
| tepper isn't going out |
calvin trillin |
| we were soldiers once ... and young |
lt. gen. harold g. moore (ret.) and joseph l. galloway |
| keeping together in time |
william h. mcneill |
| quicksilver |
neal stephenson |
| 2004 |
content-based publish subscribe systems |
lukasz opyrchal |
| hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world |
haruki murakami |
| about a boy |
nick hornby |
| why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? and other conversations about race |
beverly daniel tatum |
| the human web |
john robert mcneill and william hardy mcneill |
| lies and the lying liars who tell them |
al franken |
| 2003 |
statistical steganalysis |
niels holger gerhard konstantin provos |
| how to be good |
nick hornby |
| the botany of desire |
michael pollan |
| no logo |
naomi klein |
| the spire |
william golding |
| the coming |
joe haldeman |
| time, love, memory |
jonathan wiener |
| guns, germs, and steel |
jared diamond |
| mean genes |
terry burnham and jay phelan |
| free as in freedom |
sam williams |
| plagues and peoples |
william h. mcneill |
| the beak of the finch |
jonathan wiener |
| the unwanted gaze: the destruction of privacy in america |
jeffrey rosen |
| unlocking the clubhouse: women in computing |
jane margolis and allan fisher |
| the heart of the matter |
graham greene |
| cat's cradle |
kurt vonnegut |
| barbarians led by bill gates |
jennifer edstrom and marlin eller |
| battle of wits: the complete story of codebreaking in world war ii |
stephen budiansky |
| the man who mistook his wife for a hat |
oliver sacks |
| the new imperialists |
mark leibovich |
| the evolution of useful things |
henry petroski |
| acts of the apostles |
john f.x. sundman |
| 2002 |
Journey into the Whirlwind |
Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg |
| a beautiful mind |
sylvia nasar |
| the man who loved only numbers |
paul hoffman |
| crypto |
steven levy |
| hooking up |
tom wolfe |
| paris babylon |
rupert christiansen |
| Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters |
Matt Ridley |
| a symphony in the brain |
jim robbins |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring |
Tracy Chevalier |
| cryptography and network security |
william stallings |
| screwjack |
hunter s. thompson |
| tomcat in love |
tim o'brien |
| 2001 |
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature |
Matt Ridley |
| the cobweb |
stephen bury |
| world war 3.0 |
ken auletta |
| html pocket reference |
jennifer niederst |
| 2000 |
database nation |
simson garfinkle |
| Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem |
Simon Singh |
| code |
lawrence lessig |
| bagombo snuff box |
kurt vonnegut |
| little green men |
christopher buckley |
| fates worse than death |
kurt vonnegut |
| the tipping point |
malcolm gladwell |
| northern lights |
tim o'brien |
| the bear comes home |
rafi zabo |