Titles | Order |
The Things We Do to Make It Home: A Novel by Beverly Gologorsky | Best Fiction |
Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly | Poetry, 1980 |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel | History, 1980 |
The Second Coming by Walker Percy | Fiction, 1980 |
Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times by Harrison E. Salisbury | General Award, 1980 |
Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange | Poetry, 1981 |
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century by Ray Allen Billington | History, 1981 |
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas | Fiction, 1981 |
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman | Current Interest, 1981 |
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough | Biography, 1981 |
Waldo Emerson by Gay Wilson Allen | Biography, 1982 |
Plutonian Ode: And Other Poems 1977-1980 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg | Poetry, 1982 |
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence | History, 1982 |
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone | Fiction, 1982 |
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell | Current Interest, 1982 |
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill | Poetry, 1983 |
The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel | History, 1983 |
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally | Fiction, 1983 |
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy | Current Interest, 1983 |
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh | Biography, 1983 |
The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson | Poetry, 1984 |
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton | History, 1984 |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | Fiction, 1984 |
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life by Jane Jacobs | Current Interest, 1984 |
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel | Biography, 1984 |
Cross Ties: Selected Poems by X. J. Kennedy | Poetry, 1985 |
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell | History, 1985 |
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich | Fiction, 1985 |
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah | Current Interest, 1985 |
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by Michael Scammell | Biography, 1985 |
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott | Poetry, 1986 |
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within, Second Enlarged Edition by Geoffrey A. Hosking | History, 1986 |
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | Fiction, 1986 |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld | Current Interest, 1986 |
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack | Biography, 1986 |
Partial Accounts by William Meredith | Poetry, 1987 |
Fools Crow by James Welch | Fiction, 1987 |
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins | Current Interest, 1987 |
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn | Biography, 1987 |
New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur | Poetry, 1988 |
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner | History, 1988 |
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Fiction, 1988 |
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider | Current Interest, 1988 |
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox | Biography, 1988 |
Peacemaking among Primates by Frans B. M. de Waal | Science and Technology, 1989 |
The One Day by Donald Hall | Poetry, 1989 |
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler | History, 1989 |
The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon | Fiction, 1989 |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor Branch | Current Interest, 1989 |
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff | Biography, 1989 |
The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel — not in English Common Knowledge | Finalist, 1990 |
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine by Jane S. Smith | Science and Technology, 1990 |
The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems by John Caddy | Poetry, 1990 |
The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher | History, 1990 |
Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien | Fiction, 1990 |
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by Jr. O. B. Hardison | Current Interest, 1990 |
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward | Biography, 1990 |
Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1991 |
The Truth About Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev | Science and Technology, 1991 |
What Work Is by Philip Levine | Poetry, 1991 |
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann | History, 1991 |
White People by Allan Gurganus | Fiction, 1991 |
Why Americans Hate Politics by E. J. Dionne, Jr. | Current Interest, 1991 |
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T. H. Watkins | Biography, 1991 |
High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1992 |
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by Adrienne Rich | Poetry, 1992 |
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond | Science and Technology, 1992 |
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille | History, 1992 |
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman | Fiction, 1992 |
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama | Current Interest, 1992 |
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook | Biography, 1992 |
Love: Enter by Paul Kafka-Gibbons | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1993 |
Fuzzy Logic: The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our World by Daniel McNeill | Science and Technology, 1993 |
My Alexandria by Mark Doty | Poetry, 1993 |
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton | History, 1993 |
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver | Fiction, 1993 |
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry | Current Interest, 1993 |
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher | Biography, 1993 |
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf | Fiction, 1994 |
Year of the Frog: A Novel by Martin M. Simecka | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1994 |
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner | Science and Technology, 1994 |
The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché | Poetry, 1994 |
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey | History, 1994 |
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger | Current Interest, 1994 |
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore | Biography, 1994 |
American Studies by Mark Merlis | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1995 |
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson | Science and Technology, 1995 |
Inferno by Dante Alighieri — not in English Common Knowledge | (Pinsky Translation) Poetry, 1995 |
Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America by Jackson Lears | History, 1995 |
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd | Fiction, 1995 |
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams | Current Interest, 1995 |
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing | Biography, 1995 |
The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1996 |
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan | Science and Technology, 1996 |
Mixed Company by Alan Shapiro | Poetry, 1996 |
Black Sea by Neal Ascherson | History, 1996 |
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Fiction, 1996 |
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass | Current Interest, 1996 |
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt | Biography, 1996 |
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes — not in English Common Knowledge | 1997 |
Don't Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1997 |
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker | Science and Technology, 1997 |
Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright | Poetry, 1997 |
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes | History, 1997 |
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake | Fiction, 1997 |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman | Current Interest, 1997 |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus | Biography, 1997 |
Kalimantaan by Christina Godshalk | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1998 |
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer | Young Adult Fiction, 1998 |
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr | Science and Technology, 1998 |
Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin Poets) by Alice Notley | Poetry, 1998 |
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter | History, 1998 |
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald | Fiction, 1998 |
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch | Current Interest, 1998 |
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg | Biography, 1998 |
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 1999 |
Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier | Young Adult Fiction, 1999 |
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel | Science and Technology, 1999 |
Repair: Poems by C. K. Williams | Poetry, 1999 |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower | History, 1999 |
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri | Fiction, 1999 |
Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier | Current Interest, 1999 |
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman | Biography, 1999 |
A new world by Amit Chaudhuri | 2000 |
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2000 |
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson | Young Adult Fiction, 2000 |
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu | Science and Technology, 2000 |
The Throne of Labdacus: A Poem by Gjertrud Schnackenberg | Poetry, 2000 |
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid | Mystery/Thriller, 2000 |
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan | History, 2000 |
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means | Fiction, 2000 |
Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald | Current Interest, 2000 |
Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper | Biography, 2000 |
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2001 |
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor | Young Adult Fiction, 2001 |
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn | Science and Technology, 2001 |
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson | Poetry, 2001 |
Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker | Mystery/Thriller, 2001 |
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein | History, 2001 |
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison | Fiction, 2001 |
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich | Current Interest, 2001 |
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris | Biography, 2001 |
Prague by Arthur Phillips | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2002 |
Feed by M. T. Anderson | Young Adult Fiction, 2002 |
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox | Science and Technology, 2002 |
The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin | Poetry, 2002 |
Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos | Mystery/Thriller, 2002 |
Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren | History, 2002 |
Atonement by Ian McEwan | Fiction, 2002 |
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine | Current Interest, 2002 |
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro | Biography, 2002 |
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly | Young Adult Fiction, 2003 |
Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J. Hilts | Science and Technology, 2003 |
Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht | Poetry, 2003 |
Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos | Mystery/Thriller, 2003 |
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek | History, 2003 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2003 |
The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill | Current Interest, 2003 |
Train by Pete Dexter | Fiction, 2003 |
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith | Biography, 2003 |
Doing It by Melvin Burgess | Young Adult Fiction, 2004 |
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth | Science and Technology, 2004 |
Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 by Richard Howard | Poetry, 2004 |
Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn | Mystery/Thriller, 2004 |
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone | History, 2004 |
Harbor by Lorraine Adams | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2004 |
The Master by Colm Tóibín | Fiction, 2004 |
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright | Current Interest, 2004 |
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens | Biography, 2004 |
You & You & You by Per Nilsson | Young Adult Fiction, 2005 |
Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston | Science and Technology, 2005 |
Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert | Poetry, 2005 |
Legends by Robert Littell | Mystery/Thriller, 2005 |
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild | History, 2005 |
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2005 |
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Fiction, 2005 |
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid | Current Interest, 2005 |
Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling | Biography, 2005 |
Echo Park by Michael Connelly | Mystery/Thriller, 2006 |
Tyrell by Coe Booth | Young Adult Fiction, 2006 |
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel | Science and Technology, 2006 |
Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick Seidel | Poetry, 2006 |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright | History, 2006 |
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2006 |
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua | Fiction, 2006 |
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma | Current Interest, 2006 |
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler | Biography, 2006 |
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve | Young Adult Literature, 2007 |
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter | Science & Technology, 2007 |
Old Heart: Poems by Stanley Plumly | Poetry, 2007 |
Calling Out for You by Karin Fossum | Mystery/Thriller, 2007 |
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner | History, 2007 |
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2007 |
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan | Fiction, 2007 |
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet | Current Interest, 2007 |
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore | Biography, 2007 |
Nation by Terry Pratchett | Young Adult Literature, 2008 |
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind | Science & Technology, 2008 |
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems by Frank Bidart | Poetry, 2008 |
Envy the Night by Michael Koryta | Mystery/Thriller, 2008 |
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower | History, 2008 |
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2008 |
Home by Marilynne Robinson | Fiction, 2008 |
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman | Current Interest, 2008 |
Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings | Biography, 2008 |
American Rust: A Novel by Philipp Meyer | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2009 |
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli | Graphic Novel, 2009 |
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon | Biography, 2009 |
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream) by Kevin Starr | History, 2009 |
A Happy Marriage: A Novel by Rafael Yglesias | Fiction, 2009 |
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge | Young Adult Literature, 2009 |
Practical Water (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Brenda Hillman | Poetry, 2009 |
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo | Science and Technology, 2009 |
The Twelve by Stuart Neville | Mystery/Thriller, 2009 |
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers | Current Interest, 2009 |
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis | Current Interest, 2010 |
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner | Young Adult, 2010 |
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin | Mystery/Thriller, 2010 |
Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines | Graphic Novel, 2010 |
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2010 |
The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers | History, 2010 |
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman | Science & Technology, 2010 |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand | Biography, 2010 |
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan | Fiction, 2010 |
Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin | Poetry, 2010 |
11/22/63 by Stephen King | Mystery/Thriller, 2011 |
The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman | Young Adult, 2011 |
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell | Biography, 2011 |
Double Shadow: Poems by Carl Phillips | Poetry, 2011 |
Finder: Voice by Carla Speed McNeil | Graphic Novel, 2011 |
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar | Science and Technology, 2011 |
Luminarium by Alex Shakar | Fiction, 2011 |
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White | History, 2011 |
Shards: A Novel by Ismet Prcic | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2011 |
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Current Interest, 2011 |
America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union by Fergus M. Bordewich | History, 2012 |
Ask the Passengers by A. S. King | Young Adult, 2012 |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo | Current Interest ∙ 2012 |
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain | Fiction, 2012 |
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams | Science and Technology, 2012 |
Broken Harbour by Tana French | Mystery/Thriller, 2012 |
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro | Biography, 2012 |
Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück | Poetry, 2012 |
Sammy Harkham: Everything Together: Collected Stories (Picturebox Books) by Sammy Harkham | Graphic Novel, 2012 |
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2012 |
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana | Biography, 2013 |
Boxers & Saints Boxed Set by Gene Luen Yang | Young Adult Literature, 2013 |
Collected Poems by Ron Padgett | Poetry, 2013 |
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman | Science & Technology, 2013 |
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith | Mystery/Thriller, 2013 |
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink | Current Interest, 2013 |
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark | History, 2013 |
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki | Fiction, 2013 |
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust | Graphic Novel, 2013 |
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2013 |
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt | Fiction, 2014 |
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine | Poetry, 2014 |
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze | History, 2014 |
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman | Mystery / Thriller, 2014 |
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2014 |
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming | Young Adult Literature, 2014 |
The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez | Graphic Novel/Comics, 2014 |
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts | Biography, 2014 |
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs | Current Interest, 2014 |
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert | Science & Technology, 2014 |
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf | Graphic Novel, 2015 |
The Cartel by Don Winslow | Mystery/Thriller, 2015 |
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2015 |
From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 by Jorie Graham | Poetry, 2015 |
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf | Science & Technology, 2015 |
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron | History, 2015 |
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden Herrera | Biography, 2015 |
My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson | Young Adult, 2015 |
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli | Fiction, 2015 |
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes | Current Interest, 2015 |
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley | History, 2016 |
Beverly by Nick Drnaso | Graphic Novel/Comics, 2016 |
Dodgers by Bill Beverly | Mystery/Thriller, 2016 |
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond | finalist, Current Interest, 2016 |
Gap Gardening: Selected Poems by Rosmarie Waldrop | Poetry, 2016 |
Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich | Biography, 2016 |
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett | Fiction, 2016 |
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge | Young Adult Literature, 2016 |
The Nix by Nathan Hill | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2016 |
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich | Science & Technology, 2016 |
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich | Current Interest, 2016 |
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery | Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, 2016 |
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky | Science & Technology, 2017 |
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates | Mystery /Thriller, 2017 |
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan | History, 2017 |
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean | Current Interest, 2017 |
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Fiction, 2017 |
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls | Biography, 2017 |
The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered by Benjamin Taylor | Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, 2017 |
Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith | Poetry, 2017 |
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds | Young Adult Literature, 2017 |
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin by Cornelia Dean | Finalist, Science & Technology 2017 |
Present by Leslie Stein | Graphic Novel/Comics, 2017 |
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2017 |
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy | Science & Technology, 2018 |
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight | Biography, 2018 |
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai | Fiction, 2018 |
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires | First Fiction, 2018 |
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon | Autobiographical Prose, 2018 |
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú | Current Interest, 2018 |
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite | Mystery/Thriller, 2018 |
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo | Young Adult Literature, 2018 |
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People by Julia Boyd | History, 2018 |
Wild Is the Wind: Poems by Carl Phillips | Poetry, 2018 |
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard | Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, 2019 |
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James | Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, 2019 |
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon | Current Interest, 2019 |
Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky | Poetry, 2019 |
Figuring by Maria Popova | Science & Technology, 2019 |
The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis | Graphic Novel/Comics, 2019 |
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2019 |
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer | Biography, 2019 |
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers | History, 2019 |
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner | Fiction, 2019 |
When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn | Young Adult Literature, 2019 |
Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som — not in English Common Knowledge | Graphic Novel, 2020 |
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction, 2020 |
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby — not in English Common Knowledge | Mystery/thriller, 2020 |
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson — not in English Common Knowledge | Current interest, 2020 |
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder — not in English Common Knowledge | Biography, 2020 |
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan — not in English Common Knowledge | Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, 2020 |
Obit by Victoria Chang — not in English Common Knowledge | Poetry, 2020 |
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones — not in English Common Knowledge | Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, 2020 |
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi — not in English Common Knowledge | Young adult literature, 2020 |
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw — not in English Common Knowledge | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2020 |
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager — not in English Common Knowledge | Science and technology, 2020 |
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones — not in English Common Knowledge | History, 2020 |
Brood by Jackie Polzin | Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, 2021 |
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster | Biography, 2021 |
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer | History. 2021 |
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Science and Technology, 2021 |
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss | Poetry. 2021 |
In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo | Fiction, 2021 |
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff | Current Interest, 2021 |
No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson | Graphic Novel/Comics. 2021 |
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia | Young Adult Literature, 2021 |
Spirits Abroad {expanded edition} by Zen Cho | Ray Bradbury Prize, 2021 |
The Turnout by Megan Abbott | Mystery/Thriller. 2021 |