| Titles | Order |
| Bloodshed and Three Novellas by Cynthia Ozick | Fiction, 1976 |
| The damnable question: A history of Anglo-Irish relations by George Dangerfield | General Nonfiction, 1976 |
| Details of a sunset and other stories by Vladimir Nabokov | Fiction, 1976 |
| The Easter Parade: A Novel by Richard Yates | Fiction, 1976 |
| The gates : poems by Muriel Rukeyser | Poetry, 1976 |
| Kicked a Building Lately by Ada Louise Huxtable | Criticism, 1976 |
| Letters of E. B. White by E. B. White | Criticism, 1976 |
| The Mind-Reader by Richard Wilbur | Poetry, 1976 |
| The Names of the Lost: Poems by Philip Levine | Poetry, 1976 |
| Representations: Essays on literature and society by Steven Marcus | Criticism, 1976 |
| Roots by Alex Haley | General Nonfiction, 1976 |
| Searching for the Ox: New Poems by Louis Simpson | Poetry, 1976 |
| Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger | General Nonfiction, 1976 |
| Speedboat by Renata Adler | Fiction, 1976 |
| Theory Of Harmony by Arnold Shoenberg | Criticism, 1976 |
| World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made by Irving Howe | General Nonfiction, 1976 |
| A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion | Fiction, 1977 |
| Coming into the Country by John McPhee | General Nonfiction, 1977 |
| Dispatches by Michael Herr | General Nonfiction, 1977 |
| The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan | General Nonfiction, 1977 |
| Falconer by John Cheever | Fiction, 1977 |
| The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (American Poets Continuum) by W. D. Snodgrass | Poetry, 1977 |
| Houseboat Days: Poems by John Ashbery | Poetry, 1977 |
| Lucky Life (Classic Contemporary) by Gerald Stern | Poetry, 1977 |
| Out-Of-The-Body Travel by Stanley Plumly | Poetry, 1977 |
| The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough | General Nonfiction, 1977 |
| The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth | Fiction, 1977 |
| Union Dues: A Novel by John Sayles | Fiction, 1977 |
| And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978 by Malcolm Cowley | Criticism, 1978 |
| The Coup by John Updike | Fiction, 1978 |
| A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977 by Adrienne Cecile Rich | Poetry, 1978 |
| The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews by Eudora Welty | Criticism, 1978 |
| Final Payments by Mary Gordon | Fiction, 1978 |
| In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Barrington Moore | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| The Late Hour by Mark Strand | Poetry, 1978 |
| Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| New and Selected Things Taking Place by May Swenson | Poetry, 1978 |
| New York Jew by Alfred Kazin | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| Orientalism by Edward W. Said | Criticism, 1978 |
| Seeing Through Clothes by Anne Hollander | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen | General Nonfiction, 1978 |
| Spectral emanations : new and selected poems by John Hollander | Poetry, 1978 |
| The World According to Garp by John Irving | Fiction, 1978 |
| The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass | Criticism, 1978 |
| Wrinkles by Charles Simmons | Fiction, 1978 |
| African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan by Edward Hoagland | General Nonfiction, 1979 |
| America Revised by Frances FitzGerald | Criticism, 1979 |
| Blue Wine and Other Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by John Hollander | Poetry, 1979 |
| Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet by Richard Gilman | Criticism, 1979 |
| The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer | Fiction, 1979 |
| The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth | Fiction, 1979 |
| GOSHAWK, ANTELOPE (An Illini book) by Dave Smith | Poetry, 1979 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter | General Nonfiction, 1979 |
| King of the Jews by Leslie Epstein | Fiction, 1979 |
| A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal by Robert Alter | Criticism, 1979 |
| The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert | Criticism, 1979 |
| Notes from the castle: Poems by Howard Moss | Poetry, 1979 |
| The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe | General Nonfiction, 1979 |
| Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick | Fiction, 1979 |
| The Venetian Vespers: Poems by Anthony Hecht | Poetry, 1979 |
| The White Album by Joan Didion | General Nonfiction, 1979 |
| Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars by Paul Fussell | Criticism, 1980 |
| Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse | General Nonfiction, 1980 |
| Being Here: POETRY by Robert Penn Warren | Poetry, 1980 |
| China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston | General Nonfiction, 1980 |
| Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era by John Boswell | General Nonfiction, 1980 |
| Henry Adams by R. P. Blackmur | Criticism, 1980 |
| Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov | Criticism, 1980 |
| Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow | Fiction, 1980 |
| Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler | Fiction, 1980 |
| The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler | Poetry, 1980 |
| Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 by Barbara Novak | Criticism, 1980 |
| A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky | Poetry, 1980 |
| Scripts for the Pageant by James Ingram Merrill | Poetry, 1980 |
| The Second Coming: A Novel by Walker Percy | Fiction, 1980 |
| So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell | Fiction, 1980 |
| Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan | General Nonfiction, 1980 |
| Boccaccio by Thomas Goddard Bergin | Criticism, 1981 |
| Brotherly love by Daniel Hoffman | Poetry, 1981 |
| Early Auden by Edward Mendelson | Criticism, 1981 |
| A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone | Fiction, 1981 |
| FOR THE SLEEPWALKERS (Knopf Poetry Series) by Edward Hirsch | Poetry, 1981 |
| Forms of Talk (University of Pennsylvania Publications in Conduct & Communication) by Erving Goffman | General Nonfiction, 1981 |
| The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport | Criticism, 1981 |
| The Men's Club by Leonard Michaels | Fiction, 1981 |
| My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles) by Martin Gardner | Criticism, 1981 |
| National Defense by James Fallows | General Nonfiction, 1981 |
| No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 by T. J. Jackson Lears | General Nonfiction, 1981 |
| The Revisionist by Douglas Crase | Poetry, 1981 |
| Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban | Fiction, 1981 |
| The sage of Monticello by Dumas Malone | General Nonfiction, 1981 |
| Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme | Fiction, 1981 |
| What manner of beast: Poems by Donald Finkel | Poetry, 1981 |
| Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (Galaxy Books) by Harold Bloom | Criticism, 1982 |
| All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman | Criticism, 1982 |
| Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood by Kate Simon | General Nonfiction, 1982 |
| The Color Purple by Alice Walker | Fiction, 1982 |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler | Fiction, 1982 |
| The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell | General Nonfiction, 1982 |
| Finding the Islands (Finding the Islands Ppr) by W.S. Merwin | Poetry, 1982 |
| Going to The Dance by Arlene Croce | Criticism, 1982 |
| Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser | Poetry, 1982 |
| Levitation by Cynthia Ozick | Fiction, 1982 |
| Monolithos Poems, 1962 and 1982 by Jack Gilbert | Poetry, 1982 |
| Nuclear Delusion by George F. Kennan | General Nonfiction, 1982 |
| Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason | Fiction, 1982 |
| Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic by Daniel O'Keefe | General Nonfiction, 1982 |
| All American Music by John Rockwell | Criticism, 1983 |
| The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth | Fiction, 1983 |
| Art and Ardor by Cynthia Ozick | Criticism, 1983 |
| The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century by Svetlana Alpers | Criticism, 1983 |
| Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning | Biography/Autobiography, 1983 |
| Cathedral by Raymond Carver | Fiction, 1983 |
| Children of War by Roger Rosenblatt | General Nonfiction, 1983 |
| Distant Water by William W. Warner | General Nonfiction, 1983 |
| During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase | Fiction, 1983 |
| Eleni by Nicholas Gage | Biography/Autobiography, 1983 |
| Erosion by Jorie Graham | Poetry, 1983 |
| The Kingfisher (Knopf Poetry Series) by Amy Clampitt | Poetry, 1983 |
| Magnetic Field(s) by Ron Loewinsohn | Fiction, 1983 |
| The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press) by Helen Vendler | Criticism, 1983 |
| Picture Bride (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Cathy Song | Poetry, 1983 |
| Present History by Theodore Draper | General Nonfiction, 1983 |
| Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David S. Landes | General Nonfiction, 1983 |
| The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths by E. Fuller Torrey | Biography/Autobiography, 1983 |
| Tar by C. K. Williams | Poetry, 1983 |
| Thomas Carlyle: A Biography by Fred Kaplan | Biography/Autobiography, 1983 |
| The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman | General Nonfiction, 1984 |
| Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman | General Nonfiction, 1984 |
| Family Dancing by David Leavitt | Fiction, 1984 |
| Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie | Fiction, 1984 |
| The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton | General Nonfiction, 1984 |
| Groundwork: Before the War/In the Dark (New Directions Paperbook) by Robert Duncan | Poetry, 1984 |
| Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich | Criticism, 1984 |
| Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever | Biography/Autobiography, 1984 |
| The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts by Roger Shattuck | Criticism, 1984 |
| Josephine Herbst by Elinor Langer | Biography/Autobiography, 1984 |
| Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips | Fiction, 1984 |
| One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty | Biography/Autobiography, 1984 |
| Other Side of River by Charles Wright | Poetry, 1984 |
| Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic: Poems by Dick Allen | Poetry, 1984 |
| The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg | Criticism, 1984 |
| Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell | General Nonfiction, 1984 |
| Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr | Fiction, 1984 |
| Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul Zweig | Biography/Autobiography, 1984 |
| A Wave by John Ashbery | Poetry, 1984 |
| The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry | General Nonfiction, 1985 |
| Brigham Young, American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington | Biography/Autobiography, 1985 |
| Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans by Alan Riding | General Nonfiction, 1985 |
| Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord | Biography/Autobiography, 1985 |
| Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel by Philip Fisher | Criticism, 1985 |
| House by Tracy Kidder | General Nonfiction, 1985 |
| The Lamplit Answer by Gjertrud Schnackenberg | Poetry, 1985 |
| Late Settings by James Merrill | Poetry, 1985 |
| Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry | Fiction, 1985 |
| Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank | Biography/Autobiography, 1985 |
| Occasional Prose: Essays by Mary McCarthy | Criticism, 1985 |
| Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss by Paul A. Robinson | Criticism, 1985 |
| The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories by Peter Taylor | Fiction, 1985 |
| The Past by Galway Kinnell | Poetry, 1985 |
| Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime by Robert F. Storey | Criticism, 1985 |
| The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C. Keuls | General Nonfiction, 1985 |
| Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers | Fiction, 1985 |
| What the Light Was Like (Knopf Poetry Series) by Amy Clampitt | Poetry, 1985 |
| White Noise by Don DeLillo | Fiction, 1985 |
| Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy | Biography/Autobiography, 1985 |
| All of Us Here (Poets, Penguin) by Irving Feldman | Poetry, 1986 |
| The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich | Fiction, 1986 |
| Bird of Life, Bird of Death by Jonathan Evan Maslow | General Nonfiction, 1986 |
| Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 by Jerrold Seigel | Criticism, 1986 |
| Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner | General Nonfiction, 1986 |
| CATS OF THE TEMPLE (Create a Look Series / Susi Rogol) by Brad Leithauser | Poetry, 1986 |
| Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 by Joseph Frank | Biography/Autobiography, 1986 |
| The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History by Leo Braudy | Criticism, 1986 |
| A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950 (English Criticism, 1900-1950 Vol, 5) by Rene Wellek | Criticism, 1986 |
| The Key to the City (Phoenix Poets Series) by Anne Winters | Poetry, 1986 |
| Moon Pinnace by Thomas Williams | Fiction, 1986 |
| The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) by Arthur C. Danto | Criticism, 1986 |
| Roger's Version by John Updike | Fiction, 1986 |
| Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems by Timothy Steele | Poetry, 1986 |
| Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter : With the Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) by Theodore Rosengarten | Biography/Autobiography, 1986 |
| Velazquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown | Biography/Autobiography, 1986 |
| Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn | General Nonfiction, 1986 |
| War Without Mercy by John W. Dower | General Nonfiction, 1986 |
| The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley | Fiction, 1987 |
| An American Childhood by Annie Dillard | Biography/Autobiography, 1987 |
| And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts | General Nonfiction, 1987 |
| April Galleons: Poems by John Ashbery | Poetry, 1987 |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison | Fiction, 1987 |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe | Fiction, 1987 |
| The Collected Prose by Robert Lowell | Criticism, 1987 |
| Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner | Fiction, 1987 |
| Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, With a New Preface by the Author by James Miller | General Nonfiction, 1987 |
| Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman by S. J. Perelman | Biography/Autobiography, 1987 |
| Every Force Evolves a Form by Guy Davenport | Criticism, 1987 |
| The Genius of the People by Charles L. Mee Jr. | General Nonfiction, 1987 |
| Happy Hour (Phoenix Poets Series) by Alan Shapiro | Poetry, 1987 |
| In Other Words by May Swenson | Poetry, 1987 |
| Private Domain: An Autobiography by Paul Taylor | Biography/Autobiography, 1987 |
| Sight Lines by Arlene Croce | Criticism, 1987 |
| The sunset maker: Poems, stories, a memoir by Donald Justice | Poetry, 1987 |
| Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Stephen Jay Gould | General Nonfiction, 1987 |
| Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller | Biography/Autobiography, 1987 |
| Understanding Toscanini by Joseph Horowitz | Criticism, 1987 |
| Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson | General Nonfiction, 1988 |
| Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette | Biography/Autobiography, 1988 |
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan | General Nonfiction, 1988 |
| The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George | Criticism, 1988 |
| Europeans by Jane Kramer | General Nonfiction, 1988 |
| Harp Lake by John Hollander | Poetry, 1988 |
| Law and Literature by Richard A. Posner | Criticism, 1988 |
| Letters of T.S. Eliot: Vol. 1, 1898-1921 by T. S. Eliot | Biography/Autobiography, 1988 |
| Libra by Don DeLillo | Fiction, 1988 |
| Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language by John Hollander | Criticism, 1988 |
| New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur | Poetry, 1988 |
| One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays by Kenneth Koch | Poetry, 1988 |
| Paris Trout by Pete Dexter | Fiction, 1988 |
| Poetry And The World by Robert Pinsky | Criticism, 1988 |
| Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner | General Nonfiction, 1988 |
| The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 by Kenneth Burke | Biography/Autobiography, 1988 |
| Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information by Robert Wright | Biography/Autobiography, 1988 |
| Wheat That Springeth Green by J. F. Powers | Fiction, 1988 |
| Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver | Fiction, 1988 |
| (Bromwich): A Choice of Inheritance.... by David Bromwich | Criticism, 1989 |
| America's Rome by William L. Vance | Criticism, 1989 |
| Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder | General Nonfiction, 1989 |
| Earthquake Weather by August Kleinzahler | Poetry, 1989 |
| Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation by Charles Solomon | Criticism, 1989 |
| Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich | General Nonfiction, 1989 |
| Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations by Otto Friedrich | Biography/Autobiography, 1989 |
| God Gave Us This Country by Bill Gilbert | Biography/Autobiography, 1989 |
| Human Wishes by Robert Hass | Poetry, 1989 |
| The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | Fiction, 1989 |
| The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos | Fiction, 1989 |
| Metaphor & Memory by Cynthia Ozick | Criticism, 1989 |
| Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley | Fiction, 1989 |
| A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin | General Nonfiction, 1989 |
| Pyramid of Bone (Callaloo Poetry Series, Vol 8) by Thylias Moss | Poetry, 1989 |
| The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier by Amy Wilentz | General Nonfiction, 1989 |
| Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician by Roger Morris | Biography/Autobiography, 1989 |
| Spartina by John Casey | Fiction, 1989 |
| This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff | Biography/Autobiography, 1989 |
| Water Walker by Nancy Willard | Poetry, 1989 |
| The Book of Gods and Devils by Charles Simic | Poetry, 1990 |
| City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis | General Nonfiction, 1990 |
| Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner by Wallace Stegner | Fiction, 1990 |
| Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by Jr. O. B. Hardison | General Nonfiction, 1990 |
| Essays In Disguise by Wilfrid Sheed | Criticism, 1990 |
| Family Pictures by Sue Miller | Fiction, 1990 |
| The Five of Hearts : an intimate portrait of Henry Adams and his friends 1880 - 1918 by Patricia O'Toole | Biography/Autobiography, 1990 |
| A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood by Richard Rhodes | Biography/Autobiography, 1990 |
| Middle Passage by Charles Johnson | Fiction, 1990 |
| New Poems: 1980-88 by John Meade Haines | Poetry, 1990 |
| Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 by Stanley Crouch | Criticism, 1990 |
| The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin Phillips | General Nonfiction, 1990 |
| Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T. H. Watkins | Biography/Autobiography, 1990 |
| Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto | General Nonfiction, 1990 |
| Selected Writings: 1950-1990 by Irving Howe | Criticism, 1990 |
| Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia | Criticism, 1990 |
| Strong Drink, Strong Language by John Espey | Biography/Autobiography, 1990 |
| The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien | Fiction, 1990 |
| The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht | Poetry, 1990 |
| Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook | Biography/Autobiography, 1991 |
| An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Cecile Rich | Poetry, 1991 |
| The Ether Dome and Other Poems (1979-1991) by Allen Grossman | Poetry, 1991 |
| Female Perversions by Louise J. Kaplan | Criticism, 1991 |
| Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers | Fiction, 1991 |
| Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor | Criticism, 1991 |
| Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems by Diane Ackerman | Poetry, 1991 |
| The Journals Of John Cheever by John Cheever | Biography/Autobiography, 1991 |
| Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe by Dennis Overbye | General Nonfiction, 1991 |
| The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel | Biography/Autobiography, 1991 |
| Mating: A Novel by Norman Rush | Fiction, 1991 |
| Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman | Biography/Autobiography, 1991 |
| Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism by John Updike | Criticism, 1991 |
| Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene | General Nonfiction, 1991 |
| Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol | General Nonfiction, 1991 |
| Typical American by Gish Jen | Fiction, 1991 |
| Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media (Culture and the Moving Image Series) by J. Hoberman | Criticism, 1991 |
| Wartime Lies by Louis Begley | Fiction, 1991 |
| What Work Is by Philip Levine | Poetry, 1991 |
| Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back by Thomas Geoghegan | General Nonfiction, 1991 |
| Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates | Fiction, 1992 |
| Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe | General Nonfiction, 1992 |
| Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture by Dana Gioia | Criticism, 1992 |
| A Chorus of Stones by Susan Griffin | Criticism, 1992 |
| Clockers by Richard Price | Fiction, 1992 |
| The Critics Bear it Away: American Fiction and the Academy by Frederick Crews | Criticism, 1992 |
| Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes | General Nonfiction, 1992 |
| The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson | General Nonfiction, 1992 |
| A Dream of Mind: Poems by C. K. Williams | Poetry, 1992 |
| The Father by Sharon Olds | Poetry, 1992 |
| Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America by Donald R. Katz | General Nonfiction, 1992 |
| Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson | Biography/Autobiography, 1992 |
| Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Harvest American Writing Series) by Randall Kenan | Fiction, 1992 |
| Looking for Luck: Poems by Maxine Kumin | Poetry, 1992 |
| Looking For The Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott by Paul Hendrickson | Biography/Autobiography, 1992 |
| Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone | Fiction, 1992 |
| The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958) by Jack Beatty | Biography/Autobiography, 1992 |
| Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West by Wallace Stegner | Criticism, 1992 |
| Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright by Mark Rose | Criticism, 1993 |
| A Different Person: A Memoir by James Ingram Merrill | Biography/Autobiography, 1993 |
| Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason | Fiction, 1993 |
| French Lessons by Alice Kaplan | Biography/Autobiography, 1993 |
| Genie: a Scientific Tragedy by Russ Rymer | General Nonfiction, 1993 |
| The Jade Cabinet by Rikki Ducornet | Fiction, 1993 |
| The Last Panda by George B. Schaller | General Nonfiction, 1993 |
| Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick | General Nonfiction, 1993 |
| The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller | Biography/Autobiography, 1993 |
| The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien | Criticism, 1993 |
| The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum | Criticism, 1993 |
| The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx | Fiction, 1993 |
| United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal | Criticism, 1993 |
| Vindication: A Novel by Frances Sherwood | Fiction, 1993 |
| W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 [1868] by David L. Lewis | Biography/Autobiography, 1993 |
| Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age by Rosemary Mahoney | General Nonfiction, 1993 |
| And All Our Wounds Forgiven (Harvest Book) by Julius Lester | Fiction, 1994 |
| D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda Maddox | Biography/Autobiography, 1994 |
| A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis | Fiction, 1994 |
| How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland | General Nonfiction, 1994 |
| In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez | Fiction, 1994 |
| My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese | General Nonfiction, 1994 |
| Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson | Biography/Autobiography, 1994 |
| Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney by Jahan Ramazani | Criticism, 1994 |
| The Prince of West End Avenue: A Novel by Alan Isler | Fiction, 1994 |
| Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism by Katha Pollitt | Criticism, 1994 |
| Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (Kodansha Globe) by Anne Hollander | Criticism, 1994 |
| The Simple Truth: Poems by Philip Levine | Poetry, 1994 |
| Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer | General Nonfiction, 1994 |
| Sunday Skaters by Mary Jo Salter | Poetry, 1994 |
| Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life (Phoenix Giants) by Julia Frey | Biography/Autobiography, 1994 |
| The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos | General Nonfiction, 1994 |
| The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom | Criticism, 1994 |
| What We Carry (American Poets Continuum) by Dorianne Laux | Poetry, 1994 |
| Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler | Biography/Autobiography, 1994 |
| Winter Numbers: Poems by Marilyn Hacker | Poetry, 1994 |
| After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Clifford Geertz | Criticism, 1995 |
| All God's Children by Fox Butterfield | General Nonfiction, 1995 |
| The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 by Stanley Crouch | Criticism, 1995 |
| The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters by Thomas M. Disch | Criticism, 1995 |
| Cortege: Poems by Carl Phillips | Poetry, 1995 |
| Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson Jr. | Biography/Autobiography, 1995 |
| Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers | Fiction, 1995 |
| A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes | General Nonfiction, 1995 |
| In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais | General Nonfiction, 1995 |
| Independence Day by Richard Ford | Fiction, 1995 |
| Kyrie: Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt | Poetry, 1995 |
| The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr | Biography/Autobiography, 1995 |
| Moo by Jane Smiley | Fiction, 1995 |
| Moving Violations by John Hockenberry | Biography/Autobiography, 1995 |
| Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy by Lawrence Weschler | General Nonfiction, 1995 |
| The Only World: Poems by Lynda Hull | Poetry, 1995 |
| Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner | Criticism, 1995 |
| A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill | Poetry, 1995 |
| The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West | Fiction, 1995 |
| Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by David S. Reynolds | Biography/Autobiography, 1995 |
| About Schmidt by Louis Begley | Fiction, 1996 |
| Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 17 by Gene H. Bell-Villada | Criticism, 1996 |
| Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger | General Nonfiction, 1996 |
| An Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid | Fiction, 1996 |
| Charles Ives: A Life With Music by Jan Swafford | Biography/Autobiography, 1996 |
| Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus | Fiction, 1996 |
| Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick | Criticism, 1996 |
| From Bondage by Henry Roth | Fiction, 1996 |
| Great Books by David Denby | General Nonfiction, 1996 |
| Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen | General Nonfiction, 1996 |
| Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems by Martin Espada | Poetry, 1996 |
| The Last Happy Occasion by Alan Shapiro | Biography/Autobiography, 1996 |
| Loosestrife: Poems by Stephen Dunn | Poetry, 1996 |
| The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter | Criticism, 1996 |
| Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu | Biography/Autobiography, 1996 |
| The Middle East by Bernard Lewis | General Nonfiction, 1996 |
| Music Minus One by Jane Shore | Poetry, 1996 |
| Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn | Biography/Autobiography, 1996 |
| The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody | Criticism, 1996 |
| The Vigil: Poems by C. K. Williams | Poetry, 1996 |
| American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier | General Nonfiction, 1997 |
| American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis | Biography/Autobiography, 1997 |
| The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler | Criticism, 1997 |
| The Bible As It Was by James Kugel | General Nonfiction, 1997 |
| Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier | Fiction, 1997 |
| Desire: Poems by Frank Bidart | Poetry, 1997 |
| Does Your House Have Lions ? by Sonia Sanchez | Poetry, 1997 |
| Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine | Fiction, 1997 |
| The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick | Criticism, 1997 |
| God and the American Writer by Alfred Kazin | Criticism, 1997 |
| How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker | General Nonfiction, 1997 |
| Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer | General Nonfiction, 1997 |
| Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry) by Brenda Hillman | Poetry, 1997 |
| The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer | Criticism, 1997 |
| Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman | Poetry, 1997 |
| Underworld by Don DeLillo | Fiction, 1997 |
| Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee | Biography/Autobiography, 1997 |
| Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 by Doris May Lessing | Biography/Autobiography, 1997 |
| Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson | Poetry, 1998 |
| Birds of America by Lorrie Moore | Fiction, 1998 |
| Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill | Biography/Autobiography, 1998 |
| The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter | General Nonfiction, 1998 |
| Hip Hop America by Nelson George | Criticism, 1998 |
| The Hours by Michael Cunningham | Fiction, 1998 |
| King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild | General Nonfiction, 1998 |
| King of the World by David Remnick | Biography/Autobiography, 1998 |
| Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler: Poems by Thylias Moss | Poetry, 1998 |
| Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin | General Nonfiction, 1998 |
| No Lease on Life: A Novel by Lynne Tillman | Fiction, 1998 |
| Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer | Criticism, 1998 |
| Preston Falls by David Gates | Fiction, 1998 |
| The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester | General Nonfiction, 1998 |
| Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam | Biography/Autobiography, 1998 |
| Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom | Criticism, 1998 |
| The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky | Criticism, 1998 |
| Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan Poetry) by Yusef Komunyakaa | Poetry, 1998 |
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow | Biography/Autobiography, 1998 |
| Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season by David Shields | Criticism, 1999 |
| The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann | General Nonfiction, 1999 |
| Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes | Biography/Autobiography, 1999 |
| Dailies and Rushes: Poems (Grove Press Poetry) by Susan Kinsolving | Poetry, 1999 |
| Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee | Fiction, 1999 |
| Diva by Rafael Campo | Poetry, 1999 |
| Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower | General Nonfiction, 1999 |
| Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order by Stuart Klawans | Criticism, 1999 |
| Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History by Jane Brox | General Nonfiction, 1999 |
| HIV, Mon Amour: Poems by Tory Dent | Poetry, 1999 |
| I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl | General Nonfiction, 1999 |
| Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt | Criticism, 1999 |
| Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay | Fiction, 1999 |
| Morgan, American Financier by Jean Strouse | Biography/Autobiography, 1999 |
| The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch | Fiction, 1999 |
| On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems by Rita Dove | Poetry, 1999 |
| Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry by William Logan | Criticism, 1999 |
| Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman | Biography/Autobiography, 1999 |
| The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times by Susan E. Tifft | Biography/Autobiography, 1999 |
| The Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates | Fiction, 1999 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon | Fiction, 2000 |
| Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means | Fiction, 2000 |
| Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett | General Nonfiction, 2000 |
| A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories by Amy Bloom | Fiction, 2000 |
| The Chief: the Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw | Biography/Autobiography, 2000 |
| The Collaborator by Alice Kaplan | General Nonfiction, 2000 |
| Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New by Charles Rosen | Criticism, 2000 |
| Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson | General Nonfiction, 2000 |
| From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun | Criticism, 2000 |
| I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933–1941 by Victor Klemperer | Biography/Autobiography, 2000 |
| The Ledge: Poems by Michael Collier | Poetry, 2000 |
| Marcel Proust by Jean-Yves Tadie | Biography/Autobiography, 2000 |
| Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson | Poetry, 2000 |
| The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig | Biography/Autobiography, 2000 |
| Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont | Criticism, 2000 |
| A Poetry of Two Minds (The Life of Poetry) by Sherod Santos | Criticism, 2000 |
| Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa | Poetry, 2000 |
| Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs | Poetry, 2000 |
| Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald | General Nonfiction, 2000 |
| As Eve Said To the Serpent by Rebecca Solnit | Criticism, 2001 |
| Bel Canto by Ann Patchett | Fiction, 2001 |
| Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox | Biography/Autobiography, 2001 |
| The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electri by Sam Roberts | General Nonfiction, 2001 |
| The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen | Fiction, 2001 |
| De/Compositions by W. D. Snodgrass | Criticism, 2001 |
| Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems by Jane Hirshfield | Poetry, 2001 |
| Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro | Fiction, 2001 |
| Ill Nature by Joy Williams | Criticism, 2001 |
| Insomnia Diary by Bob Hicok | Poetry, 2001 |
| John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead | Fiction, 2001 |
| The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein | General Nonfiction, 2001 |
| Marginalia by H.J. Jackson | Criticism, 2001 |
| Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by Eugene Walter | Biography/Autobiography, 2001 |
| Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross | General Nonfiction, 2001 |
| Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina by David Hajdu | Biography/Autobiography, 2001 |
| The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth | Biography/Autobiography, 2001 |
| Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand | General Nonfiction, 2001 |
| The Seven Ages by Louise Glück | Poetry, 2001 |
| A Treatise on Poetry by Czesław Miłosz | Poetry, 2001 |
| American Ground by William Langewiesche | General Nonfiction, 2002 |
| Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan | Biography/Autobiography, 2002 |
| Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball | Criticism, 2002 |
| Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez | General Nonfiction, 2002 |
| The Darts of Cupid: Stories by Edith Templeton | Fiction, 2002 |
| Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood | General Nonfiction, 2002 |
| The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert | Biography/Autobiography, 2002 |
| Leaving Saturn: Poems by Major Jackson | Poetry, 2002 |
| Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro | Biography/Autobiography, 2002 |
| Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides | Fiction, 2002 |
| Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon | Fiction, 2002 |
| Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn | Criticism, 2002 |
| Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist by Charles Rosen | Criticism, 2002 |
| Reviewery by Christopher B. Ricks | Criticism, 2002 |
| Roscoe by William Kennedy | Fiction, 2002 |
| Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen | Poetry, 2002 |
| The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds | Poetry, 2002 |
| War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges | General Nonfiction, 2002 |
| Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music by Mark Zwonitzer | Biography/Autobiography, 2002 |
| Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski | Poetry, 2002 |
| Blue Hour: Poems by Carolyn Forché | Poetry, 2003 |
| The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander | General Nonfiction, 2003 |
| Brick Lane by Monica Ali | Fiction, 2003 |
| A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips | Fiction, 2003 |
| Granted by Mary Szybist | Poetry, 2003 |
| Gritos: Essays by Dagoberto Gilb | Criticism, 2003 |
| Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum | General Nonfiction, 2003 |
| Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden | Biography, 2003 |
| The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie | Biography, 2003 |
| Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss | Biography, 2003 |
| Michelangelo & The Pope's Ceiling by Ross King | Criticism, 2003 |
| Old School by Tobias Wolff | Fiction, 2003 |
| Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | General Nonfiction, 2003 |
| Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag | Criticism, 2003 |
| Rising Up and Rising Down by William T. Vollmann | General Nonfiction, 2003 |
| Sept pierres pour la femme adultère by Vénus Khoury-Ghata | Poetry, 2003 |
| Songbook by Nick Hornby | Criticism, 2003 |
| The Time of Our Singing: A Novel by Richard Powers | Fiction, 2003 |
| A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey | Biography, 2003 |
| What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems by Tony Hoagland | Poetry, 2003 |
| Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow | Biography, 2004 |
| Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle | General Nonfiction, 2004 |
| Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson | General Nonfiction, 2004 |
| Blue Blood by Edward Conlon | General Nonfiction, 2004 |
| Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan | Biography, 2004 |
| Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell | Fiction, 2004 |
| Cocktails: Poems by D. A. Powell | Poetry, 2004 |
| Danger on Peaks: Poems by Gary Snyder | Poetry, 2004 |
| The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat | Fiction, 2004 |
| Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms by James Richardson | Poetry, 2004 |
| The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood | Criticism, 2004 |
| The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst | Fiction, 2004 |
| The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly | Poetry, 2004 |
| Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 by Richard Howard | Criticism, 2004 |
| The Plot Against America by Philip Roth | Fiction, 2004 |
| Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy | Biography, 2004 |
| Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman | Criticism, 2004 |
| Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb | Criticism, 2004 |
| The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler | General Nonfiction, 2004 |
| Bent To The Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna | Poetry, 2005 |
| Crush by Richard Siken | Poetry, 2005 |
| Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy | General Nonfiction, 2005 |
| Europe Central by William Vollmann | Fiction, 2005 |
| Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore | Autobiography/Memoir, 2005 |
| Gather At The River: Notes From The Post-millennial South by Hal Crowther | Criticism, 2005 |
| The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk | General Nonfiction, 2005 |
| Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead | General Nonfiction, 2005 |
| The Incentive of the Maggot by Ron Slate | Poetry, 2005 |
| Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke | Biography, 2005 |
| Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe | Biography, 2005 |
| Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers | Biography, 2005 |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction, 2005 |
| Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid | General Nonfiction, 2005 |
| The Shout: Selected Poems by Simon Armitage | Poetry, 2005 |
| Small Island by Andrea Levy | Fiction, 2005 |
| Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John Updike | Criticism, 2005 |
| Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Biography, 2005 |
| Two Lives by Vikram Seth | Autobiography/Memoir, 2005 |
| Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life by Arthur C. Danto | Criticism, 2005 |
| Veronica by Mary Gaitskill | Fiction, 2005 |
| What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger | Criticism, 2005 |
| The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | Autobiography/Memoir, 2005 |
| İstanbul: Hativalar ve şehir by Orhan Pamuk | Autobiography/Memoir, 2005 |
| The Afterlife by Donald Antrim | Autobiography/Memoir, 2006 |
| At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch | Biography, 2006 |
| Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett | Criticism, 2006 |
| Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown | Biography, 2006 |
| Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays by Frederick Crews | Criticism, 2006 |
| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel | Autobiography/Memoir, 2006 |
| The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. by Ann Fessler | General Nonfiction, 2006 |
| Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Fiction, 2006 |
| The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford | Fiction, 2006 |
| The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan | General Nonfiction, 2006 |
| The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate | Biography, 2006 |
| My Brother is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy Fried | Poetry, 2006 |
| Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems by W. D. Snodgrass | Poetry, 2006 |
| The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn | General Nonfiction, 2006 |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan | General Nonfiction, 2006 |
| On Looking: Essays by Lia Purpura | Criticism, 2006 |
| Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick Seidel | Poetry, 2006 |
| Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris | Poetry, 2006 |
| Poems, 1945-1971 by Miltos Sachtoures | Poetry, 2006 |
| The Road by Cormac McCarthy | 2006 |
| A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts | Biography, 2006 |
| Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz | Autobiography/Memoir, 2006 |
| Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters | Autobiography/Memoir, 2006 |
| What Is the What by Dave Eggers | Fiction, 2006 |
| While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer | Criticism, 2006 |
| American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip F. Gura | Nonfiction, 2007 |
| Ballad of Jamie Allan by Tom Pickard | Poetry, 2007 |
| Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff | Criticism, 2007 |
| Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee | Biography, 2007 |
| The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates | Fiction, 2007 |
| Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone by Joshua Clark | Autobiography/Memoir, 2007 |
| In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar | Fiction, 2007 |
| The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982 by Joyce Carol Oates | Autobiography/Memoir, 2007 |
| Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner | Nonfiction, 2007 |
| A Life of Picasso, Volume 3: 1917-1932 by John Richardson | Biography, 2007 |
| Modern Life: Poems by Matthea Harvey | Poetry, 2007 |
| New Poems by Tadeusz Różewicz | Poetry, 2007 |
| Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez | Criticism, 2007 |
| Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad | Biography, 2007 |
| A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya | Autobiography/Memoir, 2007 |
| Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra | Fiction, 2007 |
| The Shadow Catcher: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins | Fiction, 2007 |
| Sleeping and Waking by Michael O'Brien | Poetry, 2007 |
| The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi | Criticism, 2007 |
| Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin | Biography, 2007 |
| Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella | Criticism, 2007 |
| What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe | Nonfiction, 2007 |
| The World Without Us by Alan Weisman | Nonfiction, 2007 |
| Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky | Autobiography/Memoir, 2007 |
| The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M. Glenn Taylor | Fiction, 2008 |
| The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll | Biography, 2008 |
| The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir by Honor Moore | Autobiography/Memoir, 2008 |
| The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer | General Nonfiction, 2008 |
| The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X. Pham | Autobiography/Memoir, 2008 |
| Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody | Criticism, 2008 |
| From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 by George C. Herring | General Nonfiction, 2008 |
| The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed | Biography, 2008 |
| Home by Marilynne Robinson | Fiction, 2008 |
| The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper | Autobiography/Memoir, 2008 |
| Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy | Poetry, 2008 |
| Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings | Biography, 2008 |
| The Landscapist: Selected Poems by Pierre Martory | Poetry, 2008 |
| The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon | Fiction, 2008 |
| Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds by Joel L. Kraemer | Criticism, 2008 |
| The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick | Criticism, 2008 |
| Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout | Fiction, 2008 |
| Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry by Reginald Shepherd | Criticism, 2008 |
| Sources by Devin Johnston | Poetry, 2008 |
| This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust | General Nonfiction, 2008 |
| White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple | Biography, 2008 |
| White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement by Allan J. Lichtman | General Nonfiction, 2008 |
| Why I Came West: A Memoir by Rick Bass | Autobiography/Memoir, 2008 |
| American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell | Fiction, 2009 |
| Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao G. Pugliese | Biography, 2009 |
| Blame by Michelle Huneven | Fiction, 2009 |
| The Book of Night Women by Marlon James | Fiction, 2009 |
| Chronic: Poems by D. A. Powell | Poetry, 2009 |
| City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s by Edmund White | Autobiography/Memoir, 2009 |
| Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry by Stephen Burt | Criticism, 2009 |
| Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein | Criticism, 2009 |
| Enemies of the people by Kati Marton | Autobiography/Memoir, 2009 |
| Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch | Biography, 2009 |
| Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin | Nonfiction, 2009 |
| Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture by David Hajdu | Criticism, 2009 |
| The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger | Nonfiction, 2009 |
| Imperial by William T. Vollmann | Nonfiction, 2009 |
| Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips | Fiction, 2009 |
| Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr | Autobiography/Memoir, 2009 |
| Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love by Debra Gwartney | Autobiography/Memoir, 2009 |
| Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker | Poetry, 2009 |
| Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss | Biography, 2009 |
| Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner | Criticism, 2009 |
| Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder | Nonfiction, 2009 |
| A village life by Louise Glück | Poetry, 2009 |
| Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser | Biography, 2009 |
| Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans | Nonfiction, 2010 |
| The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow | Autobiography/Memoir, 2010 |
| The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan | Poetry, 2010 |
| Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang | Biography, 2010 |
| Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson | Fiction, 2010 |
| Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird | Autobiography/Memoir, 2010 |
| The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield | Criticism, 2010 |
| The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Nonfiction, 2010 |
| Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne | Nonfiction, 2010 |
| The Eternal City: Poems by Kathleen Graber | Poetry, 2010 |
| Freedom by Jonathan Franzen | Fiction, 2010 |
| Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto | Autobiography/Memoir, 2010 |
| Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens | Autobiography/Memoir, 2010 |
| Just Kids by Patti Smith | Autobiography/Memoir, 2010 |
| The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers | Biography, 2010 |
| Lighthead by Terrance Hayes | Poetry, 2010 |
| Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick | Nonfiction, 2010 |
| Nox by Anne Carson | Poetry, 2010 |
| The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman | Criticism, 2010 |
| The Professor and Other Writings by Terry Castle | Criticism, 2010 |
| The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings | Biography, 2010 |
| Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev | Biography, 2010 |
| Skippy Dies by Paul Murray | Fiction, 2010 |
| To the End of the Land by David Grossman | Fiction, 2010 |
| Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson | Criticism, 2010 |
