Current

• How to Speak Midwestern (ebook) … Edward McClelland

2017

• 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
• 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
• 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 … Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
• 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, read by 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

• 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) … Jesmyn Ward, et al
• 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