2024
- Julia – Sandra Newman
- Democracy Awakening – Heather Cox Richardson
- When The Game Was War – Rich Cohen
- Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
- Kennedy 35 – Charles Cumming
- The Breakaway – Jennifer Weiner
- The Seventh Girl – Andy Maslen
- Sing Her Down – Ivy Pochoda
- Music Is History – Questlove
- The Peacock and The Sparrow – I.S. Berry
- The World We Make – N.K. Jemisin
- Moscow X – David McCloskey
- Calico – Lee Goldberg
- Nettle and Bone – T. Kingfisher
- Brooklyn Crime Novel – Jonathan Lethem
- The Future – Naomi Alderman
- The Bullet Swallower – Elizabeth Gonzalez James
- The Helsinki Affair – Anna Pitoniak
- The Family Chao – Lan Samantha Chang
- Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs – Kerry Howley
- Reckless – Chrissie Hynde
- Crooked Seeds – Karen Jennings
- The Bitter Past – Bruce Borgos
- High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape – Marc Masters
- The Charm School – Nelson DeMille
- The Breaks of the Game – David Halberstam
- 60 Songs That Explain the ‘90s – Rob Harvilla
- Chain Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- The Wager – David Grann
- City in Ruins – Don Winslow
- Tales of a Vagabond DXer – Don Moore
- Old King – Maxim Loskutof
- Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic – Jason Turbow
- Then We Take Berlin – John Lawton
- The Neon Rain – James Lee Burke
- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
- Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
- She Rides Shotgun – Jordan Harper
- The Pine Tar Game – Flip Bondy
- Carrie Soto Is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Trust Her – Flynn Berry
- Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
- World Within A Song – Jeff Tweedy
- Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) – Jeff Tweedy
- Middle of the Night – Riley Sager
- Cold Shot – Mark Henshaw
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
- The Only One Left – Riley Sager
- The Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien
- The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien
- The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
- Nuclear War – Annie Jacobsen
- Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
2023
- Blood in the Garden – Chris Herring
- Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story – Bono
- Too Bad to Die – Francine Matthews
- The Lemon – S.E. Boyd
- The Confession of Copeland Cane – Kennan Norris
- 2 A.M. In Little America – Ken Kalfus
- Box 88 – Charles Cumming
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Red Cell – Mark Henshaw
- In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
- Fairy Tale – Stephen King
- Walking With Ghosts in Papua New Guinea – Rick Antonson
- Africa Is Not A Country – Dipo Faloyin
- Trigger Mortis – Anthony Horowitz
- Forever and a Day – Anthony Horowitz
- The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
- Beat the Devils – Josh Weiss
- Rogues – Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Shards – Bret Easton Ellis
- Stay True – Hua Hsu
- Retracing the Iron Curtain – Timothy Phillips
- Transcription – Kate Atkinson
- Small Mercies – Dennis Lehane
- Red Widow – Alma Katsu
- The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal – Laine Nooney
- City of Dreams – Don Winslow
- Reptile Memoirs – Silje Ulstein
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
- Sunset Empire – Josh Weiss
- While Justice Sleeps – Stacey Abrams
- All the Sinners Bleed – S.A. Cosby
- Rememberings – Sinead O’Connor
- Crook Manifesto – Colson Whitehead
- The Guest – Emma Cline
- Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
- Judas 62 – Charles Cumming
- Pappyland – Wright Thompson
- We Cast a Shadow – Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- With A Mind to Kill – Anthony Horowitz
- Tales from the Torrid Zone – Alexander Frater
- The Kennedy Men – Laurence Leamer
- Please Report Your Bug Here – Josh Riedel
- The Word is Murder – Anthony Horowitz
- Mad World – Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein
- Everybody Loves Our Town – Mark Yarm
- This Is Christmas, Song By Song – Annie Zaleski
- Bing Crosby: The Hollow Man – Donald Shepherd and Robert F. Slatzer
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Kind Of A Big Deal – Saul Austerlitz
- Dead Lions – Mick Herron
- Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ‘80s – Gary Gulman
- Shooting Film – Ben Hawkins & Liza Kanaeva-Hunsicker
- The Film Photography Handbook – Chris Marquardt and Monika Andrae
- Black Lives Matter: Visualizing 2020 – Jonathan Moller
2022
- How Beautiful We Were – Imbolo Mbue
- An Ordinary Spy – Joseph Weisberg
- Winter – Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Need to Know – Karen Cleveland
- Anthem – Noah Hawley
- Bloody January – Alan Parks
- How the Word Is Passed – Clint Smith
- Damascus Station – David McCloskey
- Billy Summers – Stephen King
- The Roanoke Girls – Amy Engel
- The Mercenary – Paul Vidich
- The Storyteller – Dave Grohl
- The Backyard Adventurer – Beau Miles
- The Trees – Percival Everett
- How Civil Wars Start And How to Stop Them – Barbara F. Walter
- The Nineties – Chuck Klosterman
- Devil House – John Darnielle
- The New Rules of War – Sean McFate
- Rethinking Fandom – Craig Calcaterra
- :07 Seconds or Less – Jack McCallum
- Ocean State – Stewart O’Nan
- Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution- Elie Mystal
- Load the Wagon – The Athletic
- The White Girl – Tony Birch
- Midnight in Siberia – David Greene
- A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
- The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
- Summerwater – Sarah Moss 6/25
- The Committed – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Plot – Jean Hanff Korelitz
- The Lords of Easy Money – Christopher Leonard
- Phil – Alan Shipnuck
- City on Fire – Don Winslow
- Six Bad Things – Charlie Huston
- How Lucky – Will Leitch
- We Had to Remove This Post – Hanna Bervoets
- Depth Charge – Jason Heaton
- After the Fall – Ben Rhodes
- Razorblade Tears – SA Cosby
- Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography – Laurie Woolever
- Suburban Dicks – Fabian Nicieza
- US MACV-SOG Reconnaissance Team in Vietnam – Gordon L Rottman
- Election – Tom Perrotta
- Rogue Heroes – Ben MacIntyre
- Tracy Flick Can’t Win – Tom Perrotta
- The Damage – Caitlin Wahrer
- Italian Ways – Tim Parks
- Heat 2 – Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner
- The Stand – Stephen King
- Five Decembers – James Kestrel
- The Quiet Boy – Ben H Winters
- Upgrade – Blake Crouch
- Long Road – Steven Hyden
- Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties – Ian MacDonald
- The Number Ones – Tom Breihan
- The Abduction- Shea Serrano
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- China Lake – Meg Gardiner
- The Last Folk Hero – Jeff Pearlman
- Pictures on the Radio – David P. Gilkey
- Slow Roads America – Jerry Park
- In Camera – Gordon Lang
2021
- Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man – Emmanuel Acho
- Life Among Giants – Bill Roorbach
- The Intern’s Handbook – Shane Kuhn
- Rocket Men – Robert Kurson
- Deacon King Kong – James McBride
- Hellhound on His Trail – Hampton Sides
- Lives Laid Away – Stephen Mack Jones
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
- The City We Became – N.K. Jemisin
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John Le Carré
- The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
- The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky – N.K. Jemisin
- Can’t Slow Down – Michaelangelo Matos
- Conversations With Friends – Sally Rooney
- The Marsh King’s Daughter – Karen Dionne
- The Grind – Barry Svrluga
- The Cold Millions – Jess Walter
- The Last Days of John Lennon – James Patterson with Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge
- Sarah Jane – James Sallis
- Girl Gone Missing – Marcie R. Rendon
- The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
- Midnight Sun – Jo Nesbo
- The Janes – Louisa Luna
- Solo: A James Bond Novel – William Boyd
- Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever – L. Jon Wertheim
- The Alice Network – Kate Quinn
- God Spare the Girls – Kelsey McKinney
- The Spy and the Traitor – Ben Macintyre
- Americana – Hampton Sides
- I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll (Except When I Hate It) – Brian Boone
- The Good Assassin – Paul Vidich
- The Premonition – Michael Lewis
- A Spy In The Struggle – Aya de León
- Caught Stealing – Charlie Huston
- Desert Notebooks – Ben Ehrenreich
- Northern Spy – Flynn Berry
- Slow Horses – Mick Herron
- Missionaries – Phil Klay
- The Ugly Cry – Danielle Henderson
- Open – Andre Agassi
- Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead
- Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
- Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America – Alec MacGillis
- The Last Tourist – Olen Steinhauer
- The Night the Lights Went Out – Drew Magary
- Barbarian Days – William Finnegan
- A Very Merry Dunder Mifflin Christmas – Christine Kopaczewski
- Empire of Pain – Patrick Radden Keefe
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Normal Sport – Kyle Porter
- The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s – Andy Greene
- Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
2020
- Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
- The Little Red Chairs – Edna O’Brien
- Atlas of Remote Islands – Judith Schalansky
- The Institute – Stephen King
- The Topeka School – Ben Lerner
- The Need – Helen Phillips
- An Honorable Man – Paul Vidicc
- The Rumble in the Jungle – Lewis A. Erenberg
- Red to Black – Alex Dryden
- The Innocent – Ian McEwan
- The Blaze – Chad Dundas
- Golden State – Ben H. Winters
- Night Boat to Tangier – Kevin Barry
- The Cold War – John Lewis Gaddis
- The Wanted – Robert Crais
- Pravda Ha Ha – Rory Maclean
- The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
- The Second Life of Tiger Woods – Michael Bamberger
- Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name – Vendela Vida
- One Giant Leap – Charles Fishman
- Point B – Drew Magary
- Severance – Ling Ma
- Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
- Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Downhill Lie – Carl Hiaasen
- The First Rule – Robert Crais
- The Border – Don Winslow
- The Cold Dish – Craig Johnson
- Last Days of Summer – Steve Kluger
- Good Golf is Easy – John Norsworthy
- How to Make Every Putt – Dr. Joseph Parent
- Death in Her Hands – Otessa Moshfegh
- The Majors – John Feinstein
- The Match – Mark Frost
- The History of Gangster Rap – Soren Baker
- In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
- 18 in America: A Young Golfer’s Epic Journey to Find the Essence of the Game – Dylan Dethier
- The Postmortal – Drew Magary
- Disappearing Earth – Julia Phillips
- The Splendid and the Vile – Erik Larson
- A Burning – Megha Majumdar
- Not Tonight, Josephine. A Road Trip Through Small-Town America – George Mahood
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – Tom Franklin
- Walk This Way – Geoff Edgers
- Nothing Can Hurt You – Nicola Maye Goldberg
- Those People – Louise Candlish
- A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
- The Cove – Ron Rash
- The Wolf Wants In – Laura McHugh
- The Plotters – Un-su Kim
- August Snow – Stephen Mack Jones
- The Ghost at the Table – Suzanne Berne
- Lucky Supreme – Jeff Johnson
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Two Girls Down – Louisa Luna
- Bluebird, Bluebird – Attica Locke
- The Birdwatcher – William Shaw
- The Last Ballad – Wiley Cash
- Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Evolution – Brian Freeman
2019
- Sting-Ray Afternoons – Steve Rushin
- Broken Harbor – Tana French
- November Road – Lou Berney
- How Democracies Die – Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
- Beastie Boys Book – Michael Diamond and Adam Horowitz
- How It Happened – Michael Koryta
- Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Dream On – John Richardson
- The Finnish Way – Katja Pantzar
- Uncommon Type: Some Stories – Tom Hanks
- Bud, Sweat, & Tees – Alan Shipnuck
- Warlignt – Michael Ondaatje
- The First Major – John Feinstein
- Tornado Weather – Deborah E. Kennedy
- Black Leopard Red Wolf – Marlon James
- Don’t Go There – Adam Fletcher
- Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town – Paul Theroux
- A 2019 Masters Preview – Joe Peta
- The Big Miss – Hank Haney
- The Sisters Brothers – Patrick DeWitt
- The Feral Detective – Jonathan Lethem
- A Gentleman’s Game – Tom Coyne
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Hank Green
- Northland – Porter Fox
- Sabrina – Nick Drnaso
- The Parade – David Eggers
- Four Days in July – Jim Huber
- Paper Tiger – Tom Coyne
- A Course Called Scotland -Tom Coyne
- The Municipalists – Seth Fried
- Empty Planet – Darrel Bricker and John Ibbitson
- I Love You, Michael Collins – Lauren Baratz-Logsted
- Ten Innings at Wrigley – Kevin Cook
- The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
- Open – John Feinstein
- Fleishman Is In Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- American Spy – Lauren Wilkinson
- Golf Rules & Etiquette for Dummies – John Steinbreder
- Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions, 1983 and 1984 – Duane Tudahl
- Normal People – Sally Rooney
- Slaying the Tiger – Shane Ryan
- The Incendiaries – R.O. Kwon
- Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Last Stand of Payne Stewart – Kevin Robbins
- The Cockroach – Ian McEwan
- The Fighter – Michael Farris Smith
- Thanksgiving Night – Richard Bausch
- Liar & Spy – Rebecca Stead
- Killing Floor – Lee Child
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- 10:04 – Ben Lerner
- The Enemy – Lee Child
2018
- Dreaming the Beatles – Rob Sheffield
- Paddle Your Own Canoe – Nick Offerman
- Mrs Fletcher – Tom Perrotta
- Golden Days – Jack McCallum
- Blue Highways – William Least Heat Moon
- Don’t Put Me In, Coach – Mark Titus
- Y: The Last Man, Book 1 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr.
- Y: The Last Man, Book 2 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr.
- Citizen Vince – Jess Walter
- End of Watch – Stephen King
- IQ – Joe Ide
- Y: The Last Man, Book 3 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Y: The Last Man, Book 4 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Anatomy of a Song – Marc Myers
- Round Ireland with a Fridge – Tony Hawks
- Ten Years in the Tub – Nick Hornby
- Y: The Last Man, Book 5 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Y: The Last Man, Book 6 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Spaceman of Bohemia – Jaroslav Kalfar
- The Kremlin’s Candidate – Jason Matthews
- City of Mirrors – Justin Cronin
- Split Season: 1981: Fernandomania, the Bronx Zoo, and the Strike That Saved Baseball – Jeff Katz
- American War – Omar El Akkad
- Y: The Last Man, Book 7 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Y: The Last Man, Book 8 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
- Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story – Chris Nashawaty
- Y: The Last Man, Book 9 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Y: The Last Man, Book 10 – Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, José Marzan Jr
- Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
- What We Think About When We Think About Soccer – Simon Critchley
- Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
- The World Made Straight – Ron Rash
- All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire – Jonathan Abrams
- Notes from a Public Typewriter – edited by Michael Gustafson and Oliver Uberti
- Minute Zero – Todd Moss
- Upon Further Review – Edited by Mike Pesca
- Unplayable Lies – Dan Jenkins
- The Secret of Golf – Joe Posnanski
- They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us – Hanif Abdurraqib
- Righteous – Joe Ide
- Star of the North – D.B. John
- Big Game – Mark Leibovich
- Encyclopedia Blazertannica – Roger Bennett & Michael Davies
- A Course Called Ireland – Tom Coyne
- The World As It Is – Ben Rhodes
- The Downhill Lie – Carl Hiaasen
- In The Woods – Tana French
- Blowing My Cover: My Life As a CIA Spy – Lindsay Moran
- The Long and Faraway Gone – Lou Berney
- The Return – Hisham Matar
- Beartown – Fredrik Backman
- Being Santa Claus – Sal Lizard with Jonathan Lane
- The Reservoir Tapes – Jon McGregor
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Die Hard: An Oral History – Brian Abrams
- All These Beautiful Strangers – Elizabeth Klehfoth
- The Flight Attendant – Chris Bohjalian
- Because of Mr. Terupt – Rob Buyea
- Blind Spot – Teju Cole
- Fuji JPEGs – Thomas Fitzgerald
- Obama: An Intimate Portrait – Pete Souza
- Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons
2017
- The Association of Small Bombs – Karan Mahajan
- Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King
- On Bullshit – Harry G. Frankfurt
- Reputations – Juan Gabriel Vázquez
- My Struggle Book 3 – Karl Ove Knausgaard
- The Nix – Nathan Hill
- Falling Off the Map – Pico Iyer
- Kingdoms in the Air – Bob Shacochis
- Finders Keepers – Stephen King
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals – J. Maarten Troost
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
- Pearl Jam Twenty
- Ahead of the Curve – Brian Kenny
- A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
- Odd Man Out – Matt McCarthy
- No Reservations – Anthony Bourdain
- LaRose – Louise Erdich
- The Wrong Kind of Blood – Declan Hughes
- The Revenge of Analog – David Sax
- The Not-Quite States of America – Doug Mack
- Black Water – Louise Doughty
- Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic – Jason Turbow
- The Harder They Come – T.C. Boyle
- Walking the Himalayas – Levison Wood
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Iain Reid
- Agent 110 – Scott Miller
- On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder
- The Regional Office Is Under Attack! – Manuel Gonzalez
- A Divided Spy – Charles Cumming
- The Force – Don Winslow
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- The North Water – Ian McGuire
- The Outlaw Album – Daniel Woodrell
- Night Heron – Adam Brookes
- Runnin’ With the Devil – Noel Monk
- The Sellout – Paul Beatty
- Crimes in Southern Indiana – Frank Bill
- The Lock Artist – Steve Hamilton
- The Boys of Dunbar – Alejandro Danois
- Fantasyland – Kurt Andersen
- Basketball (And Other Things) – Shea Serrano
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Eileen – Ottessa Moshfegh
- Beyond the Streak – Jason King with C.J. Moore
2016
- The Whites – Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt
- The Polish Officer – Alan Furst
- The Water Knife – Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Magician King – Lev Grossman
- Beatlebone – Kevin Barry
- Girl At War – Sara Novic
- My Struggle, Book 1 – Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Downtown Owl – Chuck Klosterman
- The Magician’s Land – Lev Grossman
- The Lost City of Z – David Grann
- Leaving Berlin – Joseph Kanon
- My Struggle, Book 2 – Karl Ove Knausgaard
- I Don’t Care If We Never Get Back – Ben Blatt and Eric Brewster
- All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season – Barry Svrluga
- The Only Rule Is It Has To Work – Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller
- A Drive Into the Gap – Kevin Guilfoile
- A Foreign Country – Charles Cumming
- No Good Men Among the Living – Anand Gopal
- Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me – Steven Hyden
- A Beginner’s Guide to Paradise – Alex Sheshunoff
- One Summer – Bill Bryson
- Arcadia – Lauren Groff
- Underground Airlines – Ben H. Winters
- The Arm – Jeff Passan
- How Music Got Free – Stephen Witt
- The Golden Hour – Todd Moss
- Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
- Great Plains – Ian Frazier
- Johnny Jihad – Ryan Inzana
- Palace of Treason – Jason Matthews
- I Would Die 4 U – Touré
- Someone Could Get Hurt – Drew Magary
- Anatomy of a Soldier – Harry Parker
- Trespassing Across America – Ken Ilgunas
- The Fireman – Joe Hill
- The Heavenly Table – Donald Ray Pollock
- The Hike – Drew Magary
- Cambodia Noir – Nick Seeley
- Outposts – Simon Winchester
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
- Under the Tree – Susan Waggoner
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Is Fat Bob Dead Yet? – Stephen Dobyns
2015
- The Martian – Andy Weir
- The Twelve – Justin Cronin
- Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
- Let’s Go Crazy – Alan Light
- Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Prince of Fire – Daniel Silva
- Redeployment – Phil Klay
- The Magicians – Lev Grossman
- Now I Know Who My Comrades Are – Emily Parker
- Wonder – R.J. Palacio
- The Flamethrowers – Rachel Kushner
- The Age Of Lincoln – Orville Burton
- The Hunt For Red October – Tom Clancy
- Fourth of July Creek – Smith Henderson
- Black Moon – Kenneth Calhoun
- Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
- A False Spring – Pat Jordan
- The Increment – David Ignatius
- Stars And Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76 – Dan Epstein
- Perfect Spy – Larry Berman
- The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Bridge of Sighs – Olen Steinhauer
- Will Not Attend – Adam Resnick
- Remember Me Like This – Bret Anthony Johnston
- Alligator – Lisa Moore
- The Confession – Olen Steinhauer
- Up, Up, & Away – Jonah Keri
- Murder At Cape Three Points – Kwei Quartey
- Dark Star – Alan Furst
- 100 Things Royals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die – Matt Fulks
- Fletch Won – Gregory McDonald
- Fletch, Too – Gregory McDonald
- Fletch And The Widow Bradley – Gregory McDonald
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul – Bob Shacochis
- Savage Harvest – Carl Hoffman
- Night Soldiers – Alan Furst
- D-Day Minute By Minute – Jonathan Mayo
- World Gone By – Dennis Lehane
- Hell And Good Company – Richard Rhodes
- The Cartel – Don Winslow
- Want Not – Jonathan Miles
- Between the World And Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- A Christmas Story: Behind The Scenes of a Holiday Classic – Caseen Gaines
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Finale – Thomas Mallon
- Music Lust – Nic Harcourt
- The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge – Charlie Lovett
- The Tooth Fairy – Clifford Chase
- A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James
2014
- The Round House – Louise Erdich
- The One And Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
- Identity – Shawna Seed
- Oh The Glory Of It All – Sean Wilsey
- The Passage – Justin Cronin
- Beyond the Phog – Jason King
- Alif The Unseen – G. Willow Wilson
- 40 Watts From Nowhere – Sue Carpenter
- War On The Short Wave – Harold N. Graves, Jr.
- The English Assassin – Daniel Silva
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Showtime – Jeff Pearlman
- Wilderness (Short Story) – Dean Koontz
- The Circle – Dave Eggers
- Of Dice And Men – David M. Ewalt
- Frictionless Freelancing – Aaron Mahnke
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- Pawnee: The Greatest Town In America – Leslie Knope
- Nine Innings – Daniel Okrent
- The Dinner – Herman Koch
- Solo – William Boyd
- 34-Ton Bat – Steve Rushin
- The Maid’s Version – Daniel Woodrell
- The Happy Isles Of Oceania: Paddling The Pacific – Paul Theroux
- Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion – Roger Angell
- The Master Of Disguise – Antonio J. Mendez
- A Simple Plan – Scott Smith
- The Confessor – Daniel Silva
- Summerland – Michael Chabon
- Worst. Person. Ever. – Douglas Coupland
- Nine Inches – Tom Perrotta
- Indian Summer – Aaron Mahnke
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
- TransAtlantic – Colum McCann
- Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon – Matt Fraction, David Aja, Javier Pulido
- Shibumi – Trevanian
- A Death In Vienna – Daniel Silva
- The Way Of The Knife – Mark Mazzetti
- Wild Pitches – Jayson Stark
- The Guerrilla Factory – Tony Schwalm
- Bob Feller’s Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom – Bob Feller with Burton Rocks
- A Great And Glorious Game – A. Bartlett Giamatti
- The Facades – Eric Lundgren
- Everything Changes – Jonathan Tropper
- The Last Policeman – Ben H. Winters
- May We Be Forgiven – A.M. Homes
- The Rise & Fall Of Great Powers – Tom Rachman
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Countdown City – Ben H. Winters
- Flip Flop Fly Ball – Craig Robinson
- Beatles vs. Stones – John McMillian
- The Game – Robert Benson
- World Of Trouble – Ben H. Winters
2013
- Telegraph Avenue – Michael Chabon
- Fobbit – David Abrams
- War – Sebastian Junger
- The Odds – Stewart O’Nan
- Running the Rift – Naomi Benaron
- In The Hot Zone – Kevin Sites
- The Big Blowdown – George Pelecanos
- The Yellow Birds – Kevin Powers
- HHhH – Laurent Binet
- Zazen – Vanessa Veselka
- Idiot America – Charles P. Pierce
- Summer Of 68 – Tim Wendel
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
- Safe At Home – Richard Doster
- Gentlemen – Bob Gendron
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
- Confederates In The Attic – Tony Horowitz
- Tenth of December – George Saunders
- The Extra 2% – Jonah Keri
- Redshirts – John Scalzi
- The Trinity Six – Charles Cumming
- King Of Cuba – Cristina García
- Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- The Thousand – Kevin Guilfoile
- American Tabloid – James Ellroy
- The Devil All The Time – Donald Ray Pollock
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain
- Bad Monkey – Carl Hiassen
- VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave – Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn with Gavin Edwards
- NOS4A2 – Joe Hill
- The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
- War Is Boring – David Axe and Matt Bors
- Howard Cosell: The Man, The Myth and the Transformation of American Sports – Mark Ribowsky
- A Spy By Nature – Charles Cumming
- Dead Space – Lee Goldberg
- The Fault In Our Stars – John Green
- Live By Night – Dennis Lehane
- Red Sparrow – Jason Matthews
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
- Emily, Alone – Stewart O’Nan
- The Quiet American – Graham Green
- Six Seconds in Dallas – Josiah Thompson
- The Kill Artist – Daniel Silva
- Case Closed – Gerald Posner
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- You Better Not Cry – Augusten Burroughs
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan
- Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
- Bleeding Edge – Thomas Pynchon
- The Blogger Abides – Chris Higgins
- Not Quite Nirvana – Rachel Neumann
- So You Want To Be A Mac Consultant – Patrick Rhone
- OS X Mountain Lion Absolute Beginner’s Guide – Yvonne Johnson
2012
- I Want My MTV – Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum
- Next – James Hynes
- The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
- What It Was – George Pelecanos
- Carte Blanche – Jeffrey Deaver
- The Faithful Spy – Alex Berenson
- The Tourist – Olen Steinhauer
- Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
- Pyongyang – Guy Delisle
- The Game – Robert Benson
- Miami Blues – Charles Willeford
- The Night of the Gun – David Carr
- Weaver on Strategy – Earl Weaver with Terry Pluto
- War Is Boring – David Axe and Matt Bors
- Ghost War – Alex Berenson
- The Book of Baseball Literacy – David Martinez
- The Silent Man – Alex Berenson
- Late Innings – Roger Angell
- Griftopia – Matt Taibi
- The Brothers K – David James Duncan
- The Midnight House – Alex Berenson
- Await Your Reply – Dan Chaon
- The Hall of Nearly Great – Sky Kalkman
- The Leftovers – Tom Perotta
- The Way of Baseball – Shawn Green with Gordon McAlpine
- Uncanny X-Men: Gifted
- War Stories, Vol. 1 – Garth Ennis
- Pray – Nick Hornby
- A Drive Into the Gap – Kevin Guilfoile
- Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us Back – Christopher Weingarten
- Zoo Station – David Downing
- Classic GI Joe, Vol. 1
- Morning Spy, Evening Spy – Colin MacKinnon
- 11/22/63 – Stephen King
- Drift – Rachel Maddow
- The Pitchfork 500
- The Secret Soldier – Alex Berenson
- Stay At Home Dead – Jeffrey Allen
- How I Became a Famous Novelist – Steve Hely
- Last Night At The Lobster – Stewart O’Nan
- Hope: A Tragedy – Shalom Auslander
- The Expats – Chris Pavone
- What Do I Say Next? – Susan RoAne
- Holidays On Ice – David Sedaris
- Skipping Christmas – John Grisham
- Weekend In Samarra – John O’Hara
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- Dream Team – Jack McCallum
- The Wind Through the Keyhole – Stephen King
- The Boys of Winter – Wayne Coffey
2011
- The Hangman’s Daughter – Oliver Potzsch
- The Hardball Times 2011 Baseball Annual
- Playing Their Hearts Out – George Dohrmann
- Think of a Number – John Verdon
- Sacred – Dennis Lehane
- Stalina – Emily Rubin
- Red Chaser – Jon Spoelstra
- Hackers – Steven Levy
- Saving Rachel – John Locke
- Skippy Dies – Paul Murray
- Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
- Revolution – Deb Olin Unferth
- Mezzanine – Nicholson Baker
- Dr. No – Ian Fleming
- Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. – Robert Coover
- Big Hair and Plastic Grass – Dan Epstein
- Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time – Edited by Sean Manning
- 90% of the Game is Half Mental – Emma Span
- Nickel Plated – Aric Davis
- Hell to Pay – George Pelecanos
- The Eagle Has Landed – Jack Higgins
- Dancing in the Glory of Monsters – Jason K. Stearns
- Devil May Care – Sebastian Faulks
- Slow Motion Riot – Peter Blauner
- Clemente – David Maraniss
- Boys Will Be Boys – Jeff Pearlman
- Spies of the Balkans – Alan Furst
- Savages – Don Winslow
- Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist – Stephen Batchelor
- Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
- The Tenth Parallel – Eliza Griswold
- How to Count – Stephen Frank
- The Cow in the Parking Lot – Leonard Scheff and Susan Edmiston
- Focus – Leo Babauta
- Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
- You Are Here – Thich Nhat Hahn
- Millennium Falcon – James Luceno
- Sag Harbor – Colson Whitehead
- Against the Stream – Noah Levine
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
- The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract – Bill James
- Cardboard Gods – Josh Wilker
- Nixonland – Rick Perlstein
- The White Mountains – John Christopher
- The City of Gold and Lead – John Christopher
- The Pool of Fire – John Christopher
- Hiroshima – John Hersey
- The Wrong Kind of Blood – Declan Hughes
- A Rumor of War – Philip Caputo
- What It Is Like To Go To War – Karl Marlantes
- Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
- Operation Ajax – Various
- Music, What Happened – Scott Miller
- Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 – Max Hastings
- Beyond the Phog – Jason King
- Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop – Edited by Otto Penzler
- A Christmas Story – Jean Shepherd
- The Snowman – Jo Nesbo
- We the Animals – Justin Torres
- Reality Hunger: A Manifesto – David Shields
2010
- God Save the Fan – Will Leitch
- Chasing the Dragon – Domenic Stansberry
- Where The Game Matters Most – William Gildea
- The Big Boom – Domenic Stansberry
- Where Men Win Glory – Jon Krakauer
- The Wild Things – Dave Eggers
- Chief of Station, Congo – Larry Devlin
- Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem
- Mac OS X Support Essentials v.10.6 – Kevin White
- The Ancient Rain – Domenic Stansberry
- Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon
- The Crowd Sounds Happy – Nicholas Dawidoff
- Mother Earth Mother Board – Neal Stephenson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
- The Machine – Joe Posnanski
- Inside Steve’s Brain – Leander Kahney
- Fletch Won – Gregory McDonald
- Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML – Elisabeth Freeman & Eric Freeman
- Soccernomics – Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski
- International Spy Museum Handbook of Practical Spying – Jack Barth
- Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
- Dubliners – James Joyce
- One Day – David Nicholls
- Second Variety – Phillip K. Dick
- HTML5 for Web Designers – Jeremy Keith
- Greyhound – Steffan Piper
- The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
- Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith – John Jackson Miller
- Peculiar, MO – Robert Williams
- New Life Incorporated – Maria Rachel Hooley
- No Sunlight Singing – Joe Walker
- Looking Glass – James R. Strickland
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Nail Through the Heart – Timothy Hallinan
- The 80-Yard Run – Theron Hopkins
- Fresh Kills – Various
- The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
- Talking to Girls About Duran Duran – Rob Sheffield
- Count Zero – William Gibson
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains – Nicholas Carr
- Darkness on the Edge of Town – Brian Keene
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War – Karl Marlantes
- Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden’s Oakland Raiders – Peter Richmond
- Accelerando – Charles Stross
- Naked Moon – Domenic Stansberry
- Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
- A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
- This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper
- Wishin’ and Hopin’ – Wally Lamb
- A Christmas Charol – Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Story – Jean Sheppard
- Star Island – Carl Hiassan
- In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks – Adam Carolla
2007-09
- Soccer Against the Enemy – Simon Kuper
- A Problem From Hell – Samantha Power
- The Africans – David Lamb
- Get A Free Lance Life – Margit Feury
- The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
- The Soul of Baseball – Joe Posnanski
- A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah
- Love Is A Mix Tape – Rob Sheffield
- Not On Our Watch – Don Cheadle and John Prendergast
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Death of Sweet Mister – Daniell Woodrell
- Everything Is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- The Last Nine Innings – Charles Euchner
- Burmese Days – George Orwell
- The Paradise Snare – A.C. Crispin
- The Hutt Gambit – A.C. Crispin
- Rebel Dawn – A.C. Crispin
- In The Beginning…Was The Command Line – Neal Stephenson
- Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality – Brad Warner
- The White Trilogy – Ken Bruen
- The Patience of The Spider – Andrea Camilleri
- The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need – Susan Thurman
- The Tao of Writing – Ralph L. Wahlstrom
- Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby
- A Drink Before the War – Dennis Lehane
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- Darkness, Take My Hand – Dennis Lehane
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- Live From New York – Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller
- How Soon Is Never? – Marc Spitz
- With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa – E. B. Sledge
- Lost City Radio – Daniel Alarcon
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- The Speed Queen – Stewart O’Nan
- The Archivist’s Story – Travis Holland
- World Undone – The Story of the Great War – G.J. Meyer
- Why We Suck – Denis Leary
- Shakespeare Wrote For Money – Nick Hornby
- Baseball Between The Numbers – Baseball Prospects
- Legacy Of Ashes – Tim Weiner
- The Bad Guys Won – Jeff Pearlman
- Watching Baseball Smarter – Zack Hample
- The Teammates – David Halberstam
- Blow The House Down – Robert Baer
- Road Work – Mark Bowden
- Redemption Song – Chris Salewicz
- Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland
- Best Music Writing 2008
- Lush Life – Richard Price
- 40 Watts From Nowhere – Sue Carpenter
- Woe To Live On – Daniel Woodrell
- Maps And Legends – Michael Chabon
- Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
- Ball Four – Jim Bouton
- The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging
- Zen and the Art of Happiness – Chris Prentiss
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- The Book of Basketball – Bill Simmons
- Ripped – Greg Kot
- Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
- Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana – Phillip M. Hoose
- 100 Greatest Albums – Edited by Jacob Hoye