Current
- The House of Impossible Beauties … Joseph Cassara
- White Line Fever … Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza
2018
- Nomadland (audio) … Jessica Bruder, read by Karen White
- Vacationland (audio) … John Hodgman, read by author
- Bored and Brilliant (audio) … Manoush Zomorodi, read by author
- Fates and Furies (audio) … Lauren Groff, read by various
- Before the Fall … Noah Hawley
- Creative Quest (ebook/audio) … Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
- Revenge (audio) … Yōko Ogawa, read by Johanna Parker and Kaleo Griffith
- The Art of the Con (audio) … Anthony M. Amore, read by Michael Johnson
- Everything is Horrible and Wonderful (ebook) … Stephanie Wittels Wachs
- The Recovering (ebook/audio) … Leslie Jamison, read by author
- Mozart’s Starling (audio) … Lyanda Lynn Haupt, read by Linda Henning
- Dead People Suck (ebook) … Laurie Kilmartin
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (audio) … Stephen Brusatte, read by P. Lawlor
- A False Report (audio) … T. Miller Christian and Ken Armstrong, read by authors
- The Asshole Survival Guide (audio) … Robert I. Sutton, read by author
- Instant Replay (audio) … Jerry Kramer with Dick Shaap, read by John Pruden
- The Lost City of the Monkey God (audio) … Douglas Preston, read by Bill Mumy
- Being Mortal (audio) … Atul Gawande, read by Robert Petkoff
- Educated (audio) … Tara Westover, read by Julia Whelan
- Heart Berries (ebook) … Terese Marie Mailhot
- In the Kingdom of Ice (audio) … Hampton Sides, read by Robert Petkoff
- Darkness Visible (audio) … William Styron, read by author
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark … Michelle McNamara
- Radical Hope (audio) …Various; Carolina De Robertis, ed., read by various
- An American Marriage (audio) … Tayari Jones, read by various
- Homegoing … Yaa Gyasi
- Altamont (audio) … Joel Selvin, read by John Pruden
- The Making of the Godfather (audio) … Mario Puzo, read by Max Casella
- The Mountain Story (audio) … Lori Larsens, read by Corey Brill
- SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century … Ng Yi-Sheng
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (audio) … Neil deGrasse Tyson, read by author
- One Summer: America, 1927 (audio) … Bill Bryson, read by author
- The Summer That Melted Everything (audio) … Tiffany McDaniel
- This Will Be My Undoing (audio) … Morgan Jerkins, read by author
- The Strange Bird (audio) … Jeff VanderMeer, read by Emily Woo Zeller
- You Should Have Left (audio) … Daniel Kehlmann, read by Robertson Dean
- Shark Drunk (audio) … Morten A. Strøksnes, read by P.J. Ochlan
- Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life … Jonathan Gould
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (ebook) … Jon Ronson
- Broad Strokes (audio) … Bridget Quinn, read by Tavia Gilbert
- Gratitude (audio) … Oliver Sacks, read by Dan Woren
- I Am, I Am, I Am (audio) … Maggie O’Farrell, read by Daisy Donovan
- Fire and Fury (audio) … Michael Wolff, read by Holter Graham and author
- American Housewife: Stories (audio) … Helen Ellis, read by various
- Dark Money (audio) … Jane Mayer, read by Kirsten Potter
- Women & Power: A Manifesto (ebook) … Mary Beard
- The Power … Naomi Alderman
- Thank You for Your Service (audio) … David Finkel, read by Arthur Bishop
- The Last Black Unicorn (audio) … Tiffany Haddish, read by author
2017
- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us … Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
- Unbelievable (ebook) … Katy Tur
- The Glass Castle … Jeannette Walls
- Courage is Contagious (audio) … Various; Nick Haramis, ed.
- Sing, Unburied, Sing … Jesmyn Ward
- Girl Power: 5-Minute Stories … Various, pub. by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Patient H.M. (audio) … Luke Dittrich, read by George Newbern
- True Story (audio) … Michael Finkel, read by Rich Orlow
- The Iceman (audio) … Anthony Bruno, read by Bronson Pinchot
- The New Jim Crow … Michelle Alexander
- It’s Up to the Women (audio) … Eleanor Roosevelt, read by Suzanne Toren
- Dear Ijeawele (audio) … Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, read by January LaVoy
- The Secret History (audio) … Donna Tartt, read by author
- Bitch Planet, Book Two … Kelly Sue DeConnick with Valentine De Landro
- Black Mass (audio) … Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, read by various
- Chernobyl 01:23:40 (audio) … Andrew Leatherbarrow, read by Michael Page
- I Know I Am, But What Are You? (audio) … Samantha Bee, read by author
- The Awkward Thoughts of… (audio) … W. Kamau Bell, read by author
- A Colony in a Nation … Chris Hayes
- How to Win at Feminism … Reductress
- What Happened … Hillary Rodham Clinton
- The Child Finder (audio) … Rene Denfield, read by Alyssa Bresnahan
- Made for Love (audio) … Alissa Nutting, read by Suzanne Elise Freeman
- The Bell Jar (audio) … Sylvia Plath, read by Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Kill ‘Em and Leave (audio) … James McBride, read by Dominic Hoffman
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows … Balli Kaur Jaswal
- Pandemic (audio) … Sonia Shah, read by author
- The Butcher (audio) … Philip Carlo, read by Dick Hill
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies (audio) … John Boyne, read by Stephen Hogan
- ZeroZeroZero (audio) … Roberto Saviano, read by Paul Michael
- Flowers of the Killer Moon (audio) … David Grann, read by various
- It (paper and audio) … Stephen King, read by Steven Weber
- A Fine Balance (audio) … Rohinton Mistry, read by John Lee
- Borne … Jeff VanderMeer
- The Fact of a Body (audio) … Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, read by author
- The Monster of Florence (audio) … Douglas Preston, read by Dennis Boutsikaris
- Difficult Men (audio) … Brett Martin, read by Keith Szarabajka
- The New Odyssey (audio) … Patrick Kingsley, read by Thomas Judd
- The Sound of Gravel (audio) … Ruth Wariner, read by author
- Trainwreck (audio) … Sady Doyle, read by Alex McKenna
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (audio) … Al Franken, read by author
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body … Roxane Gay
- Janesville: An American Story (audio) … Amy Goldstein, read by Joy Osmanski
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer … Siddhartha Mukherjee
- How to Speak Midwestern (ebook) … Edward McClelland
- Going Clear (audio) … Lawrence Wright, read by Morton Sellers
- Bitch Planet, Book One … Kelly Sue DeConnick with Valentine De Landro
- Parable of the Sower (ebook) … Octavia E. Butler
- Drinking: A Love Story (ebook) … Caroline Knapp
- The Radium Girls (audio) … Kate Moore, read by Angela Brazil
- Life’s Work (audio) … Dr. Willie Parker, read by Caz Harleaux
- Men Without Women: Stories (audio) … Haruki Murakami, read by various
- The Teacher Wars … Dana Goldstein
- There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (ebook) … Morgan Parker
- What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (ebook) … Lesley Nneka Arimah
- The Road to Jonestown (audio) … Jeff Guinn, read by George Newbern
- The Leavers (audio) … Lisa Ko, read by Emily Woo Zeller
- Frankenstein (audio) … Mary Shelley, read by various
- The Hearts of Men (audio) … Nickolas Butler, read by Adam Verner
- The Lathe of Heaven (audio) … Ursula K. Le Guin, read by Susan O’Malley
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (audio) … Khaled Hosseini, read by Atossa Leoni
- American War (audio) … Omar El Akkad, read by Dion Graham
- Exit West … Mohsin Hamid
- Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (audio) … Patty Yumi Cottrell, read by Nancy Wu
- The Stand (audio) … Stephen King, complete/uncut, read by Grover Gardner
- On Tyranny (ebook) … Timothy Snyder
- White Tears (audio) … Hari Kunzru, read by various
- Spaceman of Bohemia (ebook) (DNF) … Jaroslav Kalfař
- The Hate U Give (audio) … Angie Thomas, read by Bahni Turpin
- Tears We Cannot Stop (audio) … Michael Eric Dyson, read by author
- Deviant (audio) … Harold Schechter, read by R. C. Bray
- Mom & Me & Mom (audio) … Maya Angelou, read by author
- Hidden Figures (ebook) … Margot Lee Shetterly
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (audio) … Ken Kesey, read by Tom Parker
- Get in Trouble: Stories … Kelly Link
- Brown Girl Dreaming (audio) … Jaqueline Woodson, read by author
- Psycho (audio) … Robert Bloch, read by Paul Michael Garcia
- Lincoln in the Bardo (audio) (DNF) … George Saunders, read by various
- The Last One (win) … Alexandra Oliva
- When Breath Becomes Air … Paul Kalanithi
- The Stranger in the Woods (audio) … Michael Finkel, read by Mark Bramhall
- Americanah (paper/audio) … Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, read by Adjoa Andoh
- Fire Shut Up in My Bones … Charles M. Blow
- Beasts of No Nation (audio) … Uzodinma Iweala, read by Nyambi Nyambi
- Sleeping Giants (audio) … Sylvian Neuvel, read by various
- Fever Dream (audio) … Samanta Schweblin, read by Hillary Huber
- Wishful Drinking (ebook) … Carrie Fisher
- Blood at the Root (audio) … Patrick Phillips, read by author
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle … Angela Y. Davis
- Another Day in the Death of America (audio) … Gary Younge, reader Mirron Willis
- You Can’t Touch My Hair (audio) … Phoebe Robinson, read by author
- Difficult Women … Roxane Gay
- March: Book 3 … John Lewis with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
- March: Book 2 … John Lewis with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
- The Handmaid’s Tale (audio) … Margaret Atwood, read by Claire Danes
- March: Book 1 … John Lewis with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
- Metallica: Back to the Front … Matt Taylor
- Packing for Mars … Mary Roach
- Born a Crime (ebook) … Trevor Noah
2016
- A Game of Thrones (ebook) (DNF) … George R. R. Martin
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things (ebook) … Iain Reid
- Children of the New World: Stories … Alexander Weinstein
- A Life in Parts (audio) … Bryan Cranston, read by author
- We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation … Jeff Chang
- Phenomenal Woman (ebook) … Maya Angelou
- Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light … Cyril Wong
- Mo’ Meta Blues … Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson with Ben Greenman
- No god but God (audio) … Reza Aslan, read by Shishir Kurup
- milk and honey (ebook) … Rupi Kaur
- Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (ebook) … Lindy West
- Evicted (audio) … Matthew Desmond, read by Dion Graham
- ‘Salem’s Lot … Stephen King
- Stories from Night Shift (audio) … Stephen King, read by John Glover
- Black Earth (audio) … Timothy Snyder, read by Mark Bramhall
- Dead Mountain … Donnie Eichar
- Men Explain Things to Me (ebook) … Rebecca Solnit
- The Troop … Nick Cutter
- House of Leaves … Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Fire This Time (ebook) … Various; Jesmyn Ward, ed.
- Yes, Chef (audio) … Marcus Samuelsson, read by author
- The Underground Railroad (ebook) … Colson Whitehead
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (audio) … Dee Brown, read by Grover Gardner
- We Were Liars (audio) … E. Lockhart, read by Ariadne Meyers
- The Vegetarian … Han Kang
- Station Eleven … Emily St. John Mandel
- My Life on the Road (arc) … Gloria Steinem
- Ghettoside (audio) … Jill Leovy, read by Rebecca Lowman
- One of Us: Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway … Åsne Seierstad
- Dark Matter … Blake Crouch
- The Girls … Emma Cline
- i’m just a person … Tig Notaro
- League of Denial (audio) … Fainaru-Wada/Fainaru, read by D.H. Lawrence XVII
- A Load of Hooey (audio) … Bob Odenkirk, ready by author and various
- Earth: A Visitor’s Guide… (audio) … Jon Stewart, et al, read by authors
- Love, Loss, and What We Ate (audio) … Padma Lakshmi, read by author
- Area 51: An Uncensored History… (audio) … Annie Jacobsen, read by author
- The Underground Girls of Kabul (audio) … Jenny Nordberg, read by Kirsten Potter
- The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic … Jessica Hopper
- The Argonauts (audio) … Maggie Nelson, read by author
- If You Ask Me (audio) … Betty White, read by author
- Notorious RBG … Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
- Dear Committee Members (audio) … Julia Schumacher, read by Robertson Dean
- The Grownup (audio) … Gillian Flynn, read by Julia Whelan
- A Little Life … Hanya Yanagihara
- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl … Carrie Brownstein
2015
- The Heart Goes Last … Margaret Atwood
- One More Thing (audio) … B.J. Novak, read by author and various
- What If? (audio) … Randall Munroe, read by Wil Wheaton
- Kitchen Confidential (audio) … Anthony Bourdain, read by author
- Missoula (audio) … Jon Krakauer, read by Mozhan Marno and Scott Brick
- Slash … Slash with Anthony Bozza
- Modern Romance (audio) … Aziz Ansari (also narrated), Eric Klinenberg
- Between the World and Me … Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Beautiful Bureaucrat … Helen Phillips
- Our Souls at Night … Kent Haruf
- The Long Walk … Stephen King as Richard Bachman
- An Untamed State … Roxane Gay
- Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. … (audio) … Rob Delaney, read by author
- America: The Audiobook (audio) … Jon Stewart, et al, read by authors
- Jurassic Park … Michael Crichton
- I Am Malala (Young Readers Ed.)… Malala Yousafzai w. Patricia McCormick
- We Are Water (book, audio)… Wally Lamb, read by various
- My Cross to Bear (ebook) … Gregg Allman with Alan Light
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers … Katherine Boo
- Just Kids (ebook, audio) … Patti Smith, read by author
- Where Men Win Glory (audio) … Jon Krakauer, read by Scott Brick
- Authority (audio) … Jeff VanderMeer, read by Bronson Pinchot
- Spectacle: Life of Ota Benga (audio) … Pamela Newkirk, read by Bahni Turpin
- Pilgrim’s Wilderness (audio) … Tom Kizzia, read by Fred Sanders
- Horrorstör … Grady Hendrix
- We Need New Names (ebook) … NoViolet Bulawayo
- The Lottery … Shirley Jackson
- Just Mercy (audio) … Bryan Stevenson, read by author
- Misery (audio) … Stephen King, read by Lindsay Crouse
- Our Endless Numbered Days … Claire Fuller
- Girl at War … Sara Nović
- Delicious Foods … James Hannaham
- I Never Had It Made (ebook) … Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
- Find Me … Laura van den Berg
- Attempting Normal (audio) … Marc Maron, read by author
- The Tusk That Did the Damage … Tania James
- The Girl on the Train … Paula Hawkins
- The Farm (audio) … Tom Rob Smith, read by J. Langton and S. Toren
- Still Alice … Lisa Genova
- Columbine … Dave Cullen
- Hausfrau … Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Mind of Winter (audio) … Laura Kasischke, read by Justine Eyre
- The Thief of Always … Clive Barker
- TransAtlantic … Colum McCann
- The Silent Wife … A. S. A. Harrison
- Shotgun Lovesongs (audio) … Nickolas Butler, read by various
- Rivers (ebook) … Michael Farris Smith
- Almost Famous Women … Megan Mayhew Bergman
- Dept. of Speculation … Jenny Offill
- Flags of Our Fathers … James D. Bradley with Ron Powers
- Sweetland … Michael Crummey
- All the Light We Cannot See … Anthony Doerr
- In the House upon the Dirt… (audio) … Matt Bell, read by Charlie Thurston
- Power Politics … Margaret Atwood
- Twelve Years a Slave (ebook) … Solomon Northup
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness … Susannah Cahalan
- Men We Reaped … Jesmyn Ward
- All the Birds, Singing … Evie Wyld
- Rant … Chuck Palahniuk
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace … Jeff Hobbs
2014
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane (audio) … Neil Gaiman, read by author
- The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil … Stephen Collins
- Citizen: An American Lyric … Claudia Rankine
- Shovel Ready (audio) … Adam Sternbergh, read by Arthur Morey
- We Should All Be Feminists (ebook) … Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Everything I Never Told You … Celeste Ng
- Letter to My Daughter (audio) … Maya Angelou, read by author
- The End of Your Life Book Club … Will Schwalbe
- The Girl with All the Gifts (audio) … M.R. Carey, read by Finty Williams
- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America … George Packer
- As You Wish … Cary Elwes with Joe Layden
- Yes Please … Amy Poehler
- Bad Feminist … Roxane Gay
- The Haunting of Hill House (audio) … Shirley Jackson, read by David Warner
- Wuthering Heights (DNF) … Emily Brontë
- Stone Mattress: Nine Tales … Margaret Atwood
- A Fighting Chance (audio) … Elizabeth Warren, read by author
- The Book of Unknown Americans … Cristina Henríquez
- Five Days at Memorial … Sheri Fink
- The Walking Dead Compendium One … Robert Kirkman
- The Botany of Desire … Michael Pollan
- The Enchanted … Rene Denfeld
- Before I Go to Sleep (ebook) … S. J. Watson
- The Grandmothers: A Novella (ebook) … Doris Lessing
- Burial Rites … Hannah Kent
- Helter Skelter … Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
- Our Divided Political Heart (audio) … E.J. Dionne, read by Michael Kramer
- Driven … Donald Driver
- The Dog Stars (audio) … Peter Heller, read by Mark Deakins
- The Bean Trees … Barbara Kingsolver
- Something Wicked This Way Comes … Ray Bradbury
- Wave (audio) … Sonali Deraniyagala, read by Hannah Curtis
- We Need to Talk About Kevin … Lionel Shriver
- Bird Box … Josh Malerman
- Unintimidated: Wisconsin Sings Truth to Power … various
- Wool Omnibus … Hugh Howey
- The Blind Assassin … Margaret Atwood
- Tiny Beautiful Things (audio) … Cheryl Strayed, read by author
- Lolita (audio) … Vladimir Nabokov, read by Jeremy Irons
- Annihilation … Jeff VanderMeer
- The Explorer (ebook) … James Smythe
- The Round House … Louise Erdrich
- The Worst Hard Time (ebook) … Timothy Egan
- Survivor (audio) … Chuck Palahniuk, read by Paul Michael Garcia
- The Martian … Andy Weir
- The Hot House: Life in Leavenworth Prison … Pete Earley
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls … David Sedaris
- Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Falcon. Yardstick…. … Rob Delaney
- An Unexpected Twist (ebook) … Andy Borowitz
- Assassination Vacation (ebook) … Sarah Vowell
- The Sun and Other Stars (arc) … Brigid Pasulka
- Moloka’i … Alan Brennert
- I Want to Show You More … Jamie Quatro
- The Rosie Project (ebook) … Graeme Simsion
- When Pride Still Mattered … David Maraniss
- MaddAddam … Margaret Atwood
- Escape from Camp 14 (audio) … Blaine Harden, read by author
2013
- Rabid (audio) … Bill Wasik + Monica Murphy, read by Johnny Heller
- Sh*t My Dad Says (audio) … Justin Halpern, read by Sean Schemmel
- Tenth of December (audio) … George Saunders, read by author
- 11/22/63 … Stephen King
- Sudden Sea … R. A. Scotti
- A Prayer for the Dying … Stewart O’Nan
- Packers: Green, Gold and Glory (win) … Sports Illustrated
- Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die … Willie Nelson
- Room … Emma Donoghue
- The Pine Barrens … John McPhee
- The Hot Zone … Richard Preston
- The Year of the Flood … Margaret Atwood
- True Grit … Charles Portis
- Tampa (audio) … Alissa Nutting, read by Kathleen McInerney
- A Walk Across the Sun … Corban Addison
- Big Brother (audio) … Lionel Shriver, read by Alice Rosengard
- The Shadow of the Wind (audio) … Carlos Ruiz Zafón, read by Jonathan Davis
- The Dinner … Herman Koch
- The Sense of an Ending (audio) … Julian Barnes, read by Richard Morant
- Beloved (audio) … Toni Morrison, read by author
- The Interestings … Meg Wolitzer
- Under the Dome … Stephen King
- Oryx and Crake (audio) … Margaret Atwood, read by Campbell Scott
- City of Thieves (audio) … David Benioff, read by Ron Perlman
- Little Star … John Ajvide Lindqvist
- The Orchardist (ebook) … Amanda Coplin
- Ready Player One (audio) … Ernest Cline, read by Wil Wheaton
- This is How You Lose Her (audio) … Junot Díaz, read by author
- Frozen in Time (audio) … Mitchell Zuckoff, read by author
- World War Z (audio, abridged) … Max Brooks, read by cast
- The Fault in Our Stars … John Green
- Under the Banner of Heaven … Jon Krakauer
- The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (win) … Teddy Wayne
- Dad is Fat … Jim Gaffigan
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry … Rachel Joyce
- Unbroken: WWII Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption … Laura Hillenbrand
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail … Cheryl Strayed
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette … Maria Semple
- The Art Forger … B. A. Shapiro
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia … Moshin Hamid
- In Defense of Food … Michael Pollan
- The Fifth Child … Doris Lessing
- The Godfather … Mario Puzo
- Pushups in the Prayer Room … Norm Schriever
- Atonement … Ian McEwan
- Dark Places … Gillian Flynn
- Isaac’s Storm … Erik Larson
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking … Susan Cain
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers … Mary Roach
- Salt Sugar Fat (arc)… Michael Moss
- The Lost City of Z … David Grann
- Me Before You … Jojo Moyes
- The Devil and Miss Prym … Paulo Cohelo
- Night Flight … Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Light Between Oceans … M. L. Stedman
- What to Listen for in Music … Aaron Copland
- Lizz Free or Die … Lizz Winstead
2012
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk … Ben Fountain
- Beautiful Ruins … Jess Walter
- A Natural Woman … Carole King
- Dear Life (arc) … Alice Munro
- Life of Pi … Yann Martel
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks … Rebecca Skloot
- How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You … Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal)
- Arcadia … Lauren Groff
- Double Dexter (audio) … Jeff Lindsay, read by author
- The Hobbit … J.R.R. Tolkien
- smitten kitchen + True Food (arc) cookbooks
- Sharp Objects … Gillian Flynn
- A Fine Balance … Rohinton Mistry
- Listen to This … Alex Ross
- America Again … Stephen Colbert
- The Things They Carried … Tim O’Brien
- Freakonomics … Steven D. Levitt + Stephen J. Dubner
- Gone Girl … Gillian Flynn
- The Ball Player (author sent) … Clay Snellgrove
- Hiroshima … John Hersey
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves … Lynne Truss
- My Story … Marilyn Monroe
- The Art of Fielding … Chad Harbach
- Burying the Typewriter (arc) … Carmen Bugan
- Gomorrah … Roberto Saviano
- Tuck Everlasting (audio) … Natalie Babbitt, read by Melissa Hughes
- Bonk (audio) … Mary Roach, read by Sandra Burr
- I Am a Pole (audio) … Stephen Colbert, read by Tom Hanks
- Into Thin Air (audio) … Jon Krakauer, read by author
- Kitchen Confidential … Anthony Bourdain
- A Walk in the Woods … Bill Bryson
- Bossypants … Tina Fey
- Twilight of the Elites (arc) … Christopher Hayes
- A Prayer for Owen Meany … John Irving
- Drift … Rachel Maddow
- The Kite Runner … Khaled Hosseini
- Middlesex … Jeffrey Eugenides
- Uprising … John Nichols
- Never Let Me Go … Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Help … Kathryn Stockett
- Girl Land … Caitlin Flanagan
2011
- Devil in the White City … Erik Larson
- In the Woods … Tana French
- Everything is Illuminated … Jonathan Safran Foer
2010
- Lexicon of Musical Invective … Nicolas Slonimsky
- The First Family … Mike Dash
- I Am America (And So Can You!) … Stephen Colbert
- Musicophilia … Oliver Sacks
- Brooklyn … Colm Tóibín
- My Life in France … Julia Child
- Touching the Void … Joe Simpson
- Food Rules … Michael Pollan
- One Hundred Years of Solitude … Gabriel García Márquez
- The Handmaid’s Tale … Margaret Atwood
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle … Haruki Murakami
2009
- Fahrenheit 451 … Ray Bradbury
- Alive … Piers Paul Read
- Wiseguy … Nicholas Pileggi
- Dreams From My Father … Barack Obama
- Sin in the Second City … Karen Abbott
- Let The Right One In … John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Night … Elie Wiesel
- The Diary of a Young Girl … Anne Frank
- Watchmen … Alan Moore + Dave Gibbons
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time … Mark Haddon
- Black Hole … Charles Burns
- Me Talk Pretty One Day … David Sedaris
- The Giver … Lois Lowry
- Born Standing Up … Steve Martin
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold … Gabriel García Márquez
- The Reader … Bernard Schlink
- Blindness … José Saramago
- The Hour I First Believed … Wally Lamb
- The Music Lesson … Victor Wooten
- Into Thin Air … Jon Krakauer
2008
- The Mafia and the Machine … Frank R. Hayde
- The Audacity of Hope … Barack Obama
- The Sex Life of Food … Bunny Crumpacker
- No Country for Old Men … Cormac McCarthy
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz … L. Frank Baum
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull … Richard Bach
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success … Deepak Chopra
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings … Maya Angelou
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being … Milan Kundera
- Last Night at the Lobster … Stewart O’Nan
- Water for Elephants … Sara Gruen
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter … Kim Edwards
- The Road … Cormac McCarthy
- The Time Traveler’s Wife … Audrey Niffenegger
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma … Michael Pollan
- The Rest is Noise … Alex Ross
- 20-Something, 20-Everything … Christine Hassler
- Into the Wild … Jon Krakauer
- How to be Useful … Megan Hustad
- Who Moved My Cheese? … Spencer Johnson
- Love in the Time of Cholera … Gabriel García Márquez
- Eat, Pray, Love … Elizabeth Gilbert
- I Am Legend … Richard Matheson
- The Poisonwood Bible … Barbara Kingsolver