| Titles | Order |
| American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird | 1 |
| Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow | |
| John Adams by David McCullough | 1 |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward | 1 |
| The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead | 1 |
| Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover | 3 |
| Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon | [2012] ∙ Non-fiction ∙ 3 |
| Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff | 3 |
| Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli | 3 |
| The Road by Cormac McCarthy | 3 |
| Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford | 4 |
| The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | 5 |
| Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson | 5 |
| Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel | 7 |
| NW by Zadie Smith | [2012] ∙ Fiction ∙ 8 |
| My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout | 9 |
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple | 9 |
| The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff | 10 |
| Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower | 1986 |
| The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune by Richard Kluger | 1986 |
| A Perfect Spy by John le Carré | 1986 |
| Roger's Version by John Updike | 1986 |
| The Sportswriter by Richard Ford | 1986 |
| A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor | 1986 |
| My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese | Nonfiction, 5, 1994 |
| My Dark Places by James Ellroy | Non-fiction (5), 1996 |
| A Life of Picasso, Volume 2: 1907-1917 by John Richardson | Non-fiction (4), 1996 |
| Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong | Non-fiction (3), 1996 |
| Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen | Non-fiction (2), 1996 |
| Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt | Non-fiction (1), 1996 |
| The Odyssey by Homer — not in English Common Knowledge | [trans.Robert Fagles] Fiction (5), 1996 |
| Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems by Virginia Hamilton Adair | Fiction (4), 1996 |
| The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré | Fiction (3), 1996 |
| Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace | Fiction (2), 1996 |
| The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie | Fiction (1), 1996 |
| Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose | Non-fiction (5), 1997 |
| Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus | Non-fiction (4), 1997 |
| Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest by Alex Shoumatoff | Non-fiction (3), 1997 |
| A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes | Non-fiction (2), 1997 |
| Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer | Non-fiction (1), 1997 |
| American Pastoral by Philip Roth | 4 |
| Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier | Fiction (3), 1997 |
| Underworld by Don DeLillo | Fiction (2), 1997 |
| Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon | Fiction, 1, 1997 |
| Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball | Non-fiction (5), 1998 |
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow | Non-fiction, 4, 1998 |
| Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg | Non-fiction (3), 1998 |
| Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch | Nonfiction, 2, 1998 |
| King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick | Non-fiction (1), 1998 |
| Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks | Fiction (5), 1998 |
| I Married a Communist by Philip Roth | Fiction (4), 1998 |
| Charming Billy by Alice McDermott | Fiction (3), 1998 |
| Paradise by Toni Morrison | 2 |
| A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe | Fiction (1), 1998 |
| The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann | Non-fiction (5), 1999 |
| The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times by Susan E. Tifft | Non-fiction (4), 1999 |
| Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick | Non-fiction (3), 1999 |
| Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse | Non-fiction (2), 1999 |
| Home Town by Tracy Kidder | Non-fiction (1), 1999 |
| Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund | Fiction (5), 1999 |
| Waiting by Ha Jin | Fiction (4), 1999 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling | Fiction (3), 1999 |
| A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just | Fiction (2), 1999 |
| Personal Injuries by Scott Turow | Fiction (1), 1999 |
| In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick | Non-fiction (5), 2000 |
| Experience by Martin Amis | Non-fiction (4), 2000 |
| A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story by Dave Eggers | Non-fiction (3), 2000 |
| Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas | Non-fiction (2), 2000 |
| Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose | Non-fiction (1), 2000 |
| White Teeth by Zadie Smith | Fiction (5), 2000 |
| Beowulf by Beowulf Poet | Fiction (4), 2000 |
| Ravelstein by Saul Bellow | Fiction (3), 2000 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon | Fiction (2), 2000 |
| The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood | Fiction (1), 2000 |
| President Nixon: Alone in the White House by Richard Reeves | Non-fiction (5), 2001 |
| Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand | Non-fiction (4), 2001 |
| Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter | Non-fiction (3), 2001 |
| How I Came Into My Inheritance: And Other True Stories by Dorothy Gallagher | Non-fiction (2), 2001 |
| The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen | Fiction (5), 2001 |
| Peace Like a River by Leif Enger | Fiction (4), 2001 |
| Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro | 3 |
| True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey | Fiction (2), 2001 |
| Empire Falls by Richard Russo | Fiction (1), 2001 |
| Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande | Non-fiction (5), 2002 |
| Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole by Fergus Fleming | Non-fiction (4), 2002 |
| One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry | Non-fiction (3), 2002 |
| The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks | Non-fiction (2), 2002 |
| Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart | Non-fiction (1), 2002 |
| Unless by Carol Shields | Fiction (5), 2002 |
| The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold | Fiction (4), 2002 |
| You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories by Adam Haslett | Fiction (3), 2002 |
| The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber | Fiction (2), 2002 |
| Atonement by Ian McEwan | Fiction (1), 2002 |
| Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester | Non-fiction (5), 2003 |
| They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss | Non-fiction (4), 2003 |
| Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America by Ted Morgan | Non-fiction (3), 2003 |
| Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky | Non-fiction (2), 2003 |
| Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell | Non-fiction (1), 2003 |
| A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker | Fiction (5), 2003 |
| The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri | Fiction (4), 2003 |
| Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson | Fiction (3), 2003 |
| The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem | Fiction (2), 2003 |
| Any Human Heart by William Boyd | Fiction (1), 2003 |
| Persepolis II: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi | Non-fiction (5), 2004 |
| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris | Non-fiction (4), 2004 |
| The Gourmet Cookbook Volumes I and II by Ruth Reichl | Non-fiction (3), 2004 |
| Blue Blood by Edward Conlon | Non-fiction (2), 2004 |
| Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt | Non-fiction (1), 2004 |
| The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser | Fiction (5), 2004 |
| The Master by Colm Tóibín | Fiction (4), 2004 |
| Runaway by Alice Munro | Fiction (3), 2004 |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke | Fiction (1), 2004 |
| 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann | Non-fiction (5), 2005 |
| The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | Non-fiction (4), 2005 |
| Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt | Non-fiction (3), 2005 |
| The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer | 2 |
| The March by E. L. Doctorow | Fiction (5), 2005 |
| Saturday by Ian McEwan | Fiction (4), 2005 |
| Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link | Fiction (3), 2005 |
| Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie | Fiction (2), 2005 |
| Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction (1), 2005 |
| What Is the What by Dave Eggers | Best Book (10), 2006 |
| Black Swan Green by David Mitchell | Best Book (9), 2006 |
| Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides | Best Book (8), 2006 |
| Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart | Best Book (7), 2006 |
| The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford | Best Book (6), 2006 |
| Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks | Best Book (5), 2006 |
| The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright | Best Book (2), 2006 |
| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel | Best Book (1), 2006 |
| Here If You Need Me: A True Story by Kate Braestrup | Non-fiction (10), 2007 |
| The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness by Elyn R. Saks | Non-fiction (9), 2007 |
| The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin | Non-fiction (8), 2007 |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver | Non-fiction (7), 2007 |
| Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin | Non-fiction (6), 2007 |
| The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross | Non-fiction (5), 2007 |
| Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner | Non-fiction (4), 2007 |
| A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah | Non-fiction (3), 2007 |
| A Life of Picasso, Volume 3: 1917-1932 by John Richardson | Non-fiction (2), 2007 |
| The World Without Us by Alan Weisman | Non-fiction (1), 2007 |
| The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver | Fiction (10), 2007 |
| Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim Shepard | Fiction (9), 2007 |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling | Fiction (8), 2007 |
| No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July | 7 |
| House of Meetings by Martin Amis | Fiction (6), 2007 |
| Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson | Fiction (5), 2007 |
| Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson | Fiction (4), 2007 |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Fiction (3), 2007 |
| Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris | Fiction (2), 2007 |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz — not in English Common Knowledge | Fiction (1), 2007 |
| The Umbrella Queen by Shirin Yim Bridges | Children's (10), 2008 |
| Help Me, Mr. Mutt!: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems by Janet Stevens | Children's (9), 2008 |
| Alphabet by Matthew Van Fleet | Children's (8), 2008 |
| The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen | Children's (7), 2008 |
| Too Many Toys by David Shannon | Children's (6), 2008 |
| Oodles of Animals by Lois Ehlert | Children's (5), 2008 |
| Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton | Children's (4), 2008 |
| Bats at the Library by Brian Lies | Children's (3), 2008 |
| Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis | Children's (2), 2008 |
| The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg | Children's (1), 2008 |
| Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell | Non-fiction (10), 2008 |
| The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller | Non-fiction (9), 2008 |
| John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman | Non-fiction (8), 2008 |
| Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang | Non-fiction (7), 2008 |
| Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg | Non-fiction (6), 2008 |
| The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale | Non-fiction (5), 2008 |
| The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French | Non-fiction (4), 2008 |
| The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder | Non-fiction (3), 2008 |
| The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire by Joe Jackson | Non-fiction (2), 2008 |
| The Forever War by Dexter Filkins | Non-fiction (1), 2008 |
| The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike | Fiction (10), 2008 |
| The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | Fiction (9), 2008 |
| When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson | Fiction (8), 2008 |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer | Fiction (7), 2008 |
| Personal Days by Ed Park | Fiction (6), 2008 |
| Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri | Fiction (5), 2008 |
| Anathem by Neal Stephenson | Fiction (4), 2008 |
| American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld | Fiction (3), 2008 |
| Lush Life by Richard Price | Fiction (2), 2008 |
| 2666 by Roberto Bolaño | Fiction (1), 2008 |
| The Snow Day by Komako Sakai | Children's (10), 2009 |
| The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket | Children's (9), 2009 |
| Pick a Pumpkin, Mrs. Millie by Judy Cox | Children's (8), 2009 |
| How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? by Jane Yolen | Children's (7), 2009 |
| Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman | Children's (6), 2009 |
| Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems | Children's (5), 2009 |
| Crow Call by Lois Lowry | Children's (4), 2009 |
| Dogs Don't Brush Their Teeth! by Diane de Groat | Children's (3), 2009 |
| Guess Again! by Mac Barnett | Children's (2), 2009 |
| Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal | Children's (1), 2009 |
| Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey | Non-fiction (10), 2009 |
| Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen by Jason Sheehan | Non-fiction (9), 2009 |
| Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder | Non-fiction (8), 2009 |
| Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon | Non-fiction (7), 2009 |
| Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis | Non-fiction (6), 2009 |
| Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed | Non-fiction (5), 2009 |
| Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith | Non-fiction (4), 2009 |
| Lit by Mary Karr | Non-fiction (3), 2009 |
| D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor | Non-fiction (2), 2009 |
| The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes | Non-fiction (1), 2009 |
| The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell | Fiction (10), 2009 |
| The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi | Fiction (9), 2009 |
| Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell | Fiction (8), 2009 |
| In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin | Fiction (7), 2009 |
| Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer | Fiction (6), 2009 |
| Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower | Fiction (5), 2009 |
| Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins | Fiction (4), 2009 |
| Swimming by Nicola Keegan | Fiction (3), 2009 |
| The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter | Fiction (2), 2009 |
| Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | 1 |
| You are not a gadget : a manifesto by Jaron Lanier | Non-fiction (10), 2010 |
| Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff | Non-fiction (9), 2010 |
| Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides | Non-fiction (8), 2010 |
| Life by Keith Richards | Non-fiction (7), 2010 |
| War by Sebastian Junger | 6 |
| Brilliant by Jane Brox | Non-fiction (5), 2010 |
| The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy | Non-fiction (4), 2010 |
| Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell | Non-fiction (3), 2010 |
| The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Non-fiction (2), 2010 |
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand | Non-fiction (1), 2010 |
| Faithful Place by Tana French | Fiction (10), 2010 |
| The Passage by Justin Cronin | Fiction (9), 2010 |
| How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu | Fiction (8), 2010 |
| Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes | 7 |
| Wilson by Daniel Clowes | Fiction (6), 2010 |
| Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon | Fiction (5), 2010 |
| The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell | 4 |
| Skippy Dies by Paul Murray | Fiction (3), 2010 |
| A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan | 2 |
| Freedom by Jonathan Franzen | Fiction (1), 2010 |
| A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd | Non-fiction (10), 2011 |
| Blue Nights by Joan Didion | 9 |
| Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis | Non-fiction (8), 2011 |
| A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott | Non-fiction (7), 2011 |
| Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan | Non-fiction (6), 2011 |
| The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick | Non-fiction (5), 2011 |
| Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm | Non-fiction (4), 2011 |
| All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings | Non-fiction (3), 2011 |
| Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson | Non-fiction (2), 2011 |
| 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann | Non-fiction (1), 2011 |
| The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes | Fiction (10), 2011 |
| Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan | Fiction (9), 2011 |
| The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler | Fiction (8), 2011 |
| Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton | Fiction (7), 2011 |
| The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson | Fiction (6), 2011 |
| Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson | Fiction (5), 2011 |
| Open City by Teju Cole | Fiction (4), 2011 |
| State of Wonder by Ann Patchett | 3 |
| The Pale King by David Foster Wallace | Fiction (2), 2011 |
| A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin | Fiction (1), 2011 |
| The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss | Non-fiction (10), 2012 |
| The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination by Matthew Guerrieri | Non-fiction (9), 2012 |
| People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry | Non-fiction, 8 |
| Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz | Non-fiction (7), 2012 |
| Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed | Non-fiction (6), 2012 |
| Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel | Non-fiction (5), 2012 |
| My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf | Non-fiction (4), 2012 |
| The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro | Non-fiction, 2, 2012 |
| Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum | Non-fiction, 1 |
| This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz | Fiction (10), 2012 |
| Building Stories by Chris Ware | Fiction, 7 |
| The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling | Fiction (6), 2012 |
| The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente | Fiction (5), 2012 |
| At Last by Edward St. Aubyn | Fiction (4), 2012 |
| Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain | 3 |
| Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel | Fiction, 2 |
| The Fault in Our Stars by John Green | Fiction (1), 2012 |
| The Selected Letters of Willa Cather by Willa Cather | Non-fiction (10), 2013 |
| Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes | Non-fiction (9), 2013 |
| Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward | 8 |
| Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright | 7 |
| Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink | Non-fiction (6), 2013 |
| The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon | Non-fiction (5), 2013 |
| Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm | Non-fiction (4), 2013 |
| The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Non-fiction (3), 2013 |
| Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser | 2 |
| Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore | Non-fiction (1), 2013 |
| The Encyclopedia of Early Earth: A Graphic Novel by Isabel Greenberg | Fiction (10), 2013 |
| Lexicon by Max Barry | Fiction (9), 2013 |
| The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer | Fiction (8), 2013 |
| The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman | Fiction (7), 2013 |
| NOS4A2 by Joe Hill | Fiction (6), 2013 |
| The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert | Fiction (5), 2013 |
| The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri | Fiction (4), 2013 |
| The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner | 3 |
| Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders | Fiction (2), 2013 |
| Life After Life by Kate Atkinson | Fiction (1), 2013 |
| The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing | Non-fiction (10), 2014 |
| Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney | Non-fiction (9), 2014 |
| The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith | Non-fiction (8), 2014 |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson | 7 |
| Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart | Non-fiction (6), 2014 |
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert | 5 |
| In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides | Non-fiction (4), 2014 |
| What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe | Non-fiction (3), 2014 |
| Thrown by Kerry Howley | Non-fiction (2), 2014 |
| Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe | Non-fiction (1), 2014 |
| The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson | Fiction (10), 2014 |
| A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James | Fiction (9), 2014 |
| Euphoria by Lily King | Fiction (8), 2014 |
| Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer | Fiction (6), 2014 |
| Wonderland by Stacey D'Erasmo | Fiction (5), 2014 |
| Redeployment by Phil Klay | Fiction (4), 2014 |
| The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis | Fiction (3), 2014 |
| The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell | Fiction (2), 2014 |
| The Secret Place by Tana French | Fiction (1), 2014 |
| Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Non-fiction (9), 2015 |
| The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson | 8 |
| Destiny and Power The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham | Non-fiction (7), 2015 |
| Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy | Non-fiction (6), 2015 |
| Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas | Non-fiction (5), 2015 |
| The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen | Non-fiction (4), 2015 |
| Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson | Non-fiction (3), 2015 |
| Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan | Non-fiction (2), 2015 |
| H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald | 1 |
| The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis De Bernières | Fiction (10), 2015 |
| The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray | Fiction (9), 2015 |
| Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt | Fiction (8), 2015 |
| Seveneves by Neal Stephenson | Fiction (7), 2015 |
| The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud | Fiction (6), 2015 |
| Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link | Fiction (4), 2015 |
| A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson | Fiction (2), 2015 |
| The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante | 1 |
| Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein | Non-fiction (10), 2016 |
| The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era by Akhil Reed Amar | Non-fiction (9), 2016 |
| Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride | Non-fiction (8), 2016 |
| Lab Girl by Hope Jahren | Non-fiction (7), 2016 |
| Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin | 6 |
| Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly | Non-fiction (5), 2016 |
| Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole | Non-fiction (4), 2016 |
| You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein | Non-fiction (3), 2016 |
| Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance | Non-fiction (2), 2016 |
| March: Book Three by John Lewis | Non-fiction (1), 2016 |
| Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer | Fiction (10), 2016 |
| The Trespasser by Tana French | Fiction (8), 2016 |
| Swing Time by Zadie Smith | Fiction (7), 2016 |
| Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett | Fiction (6), 2016 |
| All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders | Fiction (5), 2016 |
| Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Fiction (4), 2016 |
| Commonwealth by Ann Patchett | Fiction (3), 2016 |
| Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson | Fiction (2), 2016 |
| The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 - 1992 by Tina Brown | Non-fiction (10), 2017 |
| The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald | Non-fiction (9), 2017 |
| The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers | Non-fiction (8), 2017 |
| Blind Spot by Teju Cole | Non-fiction (7), 2017 |
| Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay | Non-fiction (6), 2017 |
| The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy | Non-fiction (5), 2017 |
| Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari | Non-fiction (4), 2017 |
| Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann | 3 |
| We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Non-fiction (2), 2017 |
| What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton | Non-fiction (1), 2017 |
| New People by Danzy Senna | Fiction (10), 2017 |
| Days without End by Sebastian Barry | Fiction (9), 2017 |
| The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott | Fiction (8), 2017 |
| The Changeling by Victor LaValle | Fiction (7), 2017 |
| Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Fiction (6), 2017 |
| Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders | Fiction (5), 2017 |
| Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan | Fiction (4), 2017 |
| Transit by Rachel Cusk | Fiction (3), 2017 |
| White Tears by Hari Kunzru | Fiction (2), 2017 |
| How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky | Non-fiction (10), 2018 |
| Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel | Non-fiction (9), 2018 |
| All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung | Non-fiction (8), 2018 |
| Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight | 7 |
| These Truths: a History of the United States by Jill Lepore | Non-fiction (6), 2018 |
| How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee | Non-fiction (5), 2018 |
| The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli | Non-fiction (4), 2018 |
| Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston | Non-fiction (2), 2018 |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou | Non-fiction (1), 2018 |
| The Overstory by Richard Powers | Fiction (10), 2018 |
| Florida by Lauren Groff | Fiction (9), 2018 |
| Gun Love by Jennifer Clement | Fiction (8), 2018 |
| There There by Tommy Orange | Fiction (7), 2018 |
| Circe by Madeline Miller | Fiction (5), 2018 |
| Washington Black by Esi Edugyan | Fiction (6), 2018 |
| My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | Fiction (4), 2018 |
| An American Marriage by Tayari Jones | Fiction (3), 2018 |
| Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday | Fiction (2), 2018 |
| The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner | Fiction (1), 2018 |
| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong | Fiction, 7 |
| This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto by Suketu Mehta | Non-fiction (10), 2019 |
| Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham | Non-fiction (9), 2019 |
| The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang | Non-fiction (8), 2019 |
| The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer | Non-fiction (7), 2019 |
| Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep | 6 |
| In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado | Non-fiction (5), 2019 |
| Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane | Non-fiction (4), 2019 |
| The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom | Non-fiction (3), 2019 |
| Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller | Non-fiction (2), 2019 |
| Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe | Non-fiction (1), 2019 |
| Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk | Fiction (10), 2019 |
| The Topeka School by Ben Lerner | Fiction (9), 2019 |
| Trust Exercise by Susan Choi | Fiction (6), 2019 |
| Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li | 8 |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James | Fiction (5), 2019 |
| The Need by Helen Phillips | Fiction (4), 2019 |
| The Testaments by Margaret Atwood | Fiction (2), 2019 |
| The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead | Fiction (1), 2019 |
| Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine | Non-fiction (10), 2020 |
| Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945 by Volker Ullrich | Non-fiction (9), 2020 |
| Having and Being Had by Eula Biss | Non-fiction (8), 2020 |
| The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | 7 |
| Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald | Non-fiction (6), 2020 |
| The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne | Nonfiction, 5, 2020 |
| Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey | Non-fiction (4), 2020 |
| The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore | 3 |
| Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong | Non-fiction, 2, 2020 |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson | 1 |
| Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami | Fiction (10), 2020 |
| Deacon King Kong by James McBride | 8 |
| Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda | Fiction (9), 2020 |
| A Burning by Megha Majumdar | 7 |
| I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories by Laura Van den Berg | Fiction (6), 2020 |
| Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar | Fiction, 5, 2020 |
| A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet | 4 |
| The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel | Fiction, 3, 2020 |
| Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart | 2 |
| The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | 1 |
| Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So | Fiction, 8, 2021 |
| Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu | Nonfiction, 5, 2021 |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr | Fiction, 7, 2021 |
| The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen | Nonfiction, 8, 2021 |
| Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner | Nonfiction, 2, 2021 |
| Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters | Fiction, 4, 2021 |
| Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe | Nonfiction, 6, 2021 |
| Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard | Nonfiction, 9, 2021 |
| Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead | Fiction, 1, 2021 |
| How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith | Nonfiction, 4, 2021 |
| Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott | Nonfiction, 3, 2021 |
| The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernandez | Nonfiction, 10, 2021 |
| Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro | Fiction, 10, 2021 |
| The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood | Fiction, 6, 2021 |
| A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib | Nonfiction, 1, 2021 |
| The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | Fiction, 5, 2021 |
| My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | Fiction, 2, 2021 |
| Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson | Fiction, 9, 2021 |
| The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. | Fiction, 2, 2021 |
| A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders | Nonfiction, 7, 2021 |
