Reading List

2026

American Sky - James Grady
The Ten Year Affair - Erin Somers
The Devils - Joe Abercrombie
Hotel Ukraine - Martin Cruz Smith
War Diaries: A Radio Amateur in Kyiv - Volodymyr Gurtovy
Alternative For The Masses - Greg Prato
Foster - Claire Keegan
The Traitor - Ava Glass
Such Great Heights - Chris DeVille
Dead Eye - Mark Greaney
The Anthony Bourdain Reader - Edited by Kimberly Witherspoon
Bright Lights Big City - Jay McInerney
The Concrete River - John Shannon
Pariah - Dan Fesperman
Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario - Matt Dinniman
The Red House - Mary Morris
Truly - Lionel Richie
Tomlinson’s Wake - Randy Wayne White
The Final Score - Don Winslow
The Passenger Seat - Vijay Khurana
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
Even the Good Girls Will Cry - Melissa Auf der Maur
Polostan- Neal Stephenson
Apple: The First 50 Years - David Pogue
The Cormorant Hunt - Michael Idov
Heartland - Keith O’Brien
The Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
The Heart’s Invisible Furies - John Boyne
London Falling - Patrick Radden Keefe
Headstone - Ken Bruen
Purgatory - Ken Bruen
Green Hell - Ken Bruen
Contact Sport - J.K. George
Radio Nights and Distant Signals - Karl D. Forth
Table For Two - Amor Towles
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook - Matt Dinniman
Big Fan - Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur
Wearing The Lion - John Wiswell
Icarus 17 - Charles Cumming
The Silver Bone - Andrey Kurkov
The Imagined Life - Andrew Porter
The Unveiling - Quan Barry
My Name Was Gerry Sass - Tiffany Hanssen
A Violent Masterpiece - Jordan Harper
Cool Machine - Colson Whitehead

2025 (67) 952

There’s Always This Year - Hanif Abdurraqib
The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides
Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life In Music - Ted Templeman as told to Greg Renoff
The Miracle of St. Anthony - Adrian Wojnarowski
Lazarus Man - Richard Price
The Gray Man - Mark Greaney
Notes On A Foreign Country: An American Abroad In A Post-American World - Suzy Hansen
Alias Emma - Ava Glass
American Kingpin - Nick Bilton
Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
Beirut Station - Paul Vidich
Saturday Night - Doug Hill & Jeff Weingrad
The Real Hoosiers - Jack McCallum
The Seventh Floor - David McCloskey
Thrilling Cities - Ian Fleming
Ballistic - Mark Greaney
Everybody Knows - Jordan Harper
Zero Option - W.E.B. Griffin
Charlesgate Confidential - Scott Von Doviak
The Book Censor’s Library - Bothayna Al-Essa
A Place Of My Own - Michael Pollan
Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! - David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live - Susan Morrison
Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci
James - Percival Everett
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
My Documents - Kevin Nguyen
The Guards - Ken Bruen
Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino
Nöthin’ But A Good Time - Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock
The Barn - Wright Thompson
The Killing Of The Tinkers - Ken Bruen
The Happy Isles of Oceania - Paul Theroux
The Unfortunate Englishman - John Lawton
Apple In China - Patrick McGee
Gabriel’s Moon - William Boyd
King of Ashes - S.A. Cosby
Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman - Niko Stratis
I Am No Guide: Pearl Jam Song By Song - Brian Stipelman and Brandon Rector
The Magdalen Martyrs - Ken Bruen
The Dramatist - Ken Bruen
Priest - Ken Bruen
The Sicilian Inheritance - Jo Piazza
Moonbound - Robin Sloan
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain - Tom Vitale
The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
Swag - Elmore Leonard
Finna - Nino Cipri
The Red Tree - Caitlin R. Kiernan
The House Across The Lake - Riley Sager
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Sheepdog - Elliot Ackerman
Fortune Favors The Dead - Stephen Spotswood
The Collaborators - Michael Idov
The Poet’s Game - Paul Vidich
Turkey Trot Murder - Leslie Meier
The World’s Greatest Detective And Her Just Okay Assistant - Liza Tully
A Christmas Story - Jean Shepherd
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out: Life Lessons From The Movie A Christmas Story - Quentin Schultze
Cross - Ken Bruen
Sanctuary - Ken Bruen
The Devil - Ken Bruen
Big Chief - Jon Hickey

2024 (62)

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
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
A Spy Like Me - Kim Sherwood
A Christmas Story - Jean Shepherd
Brothers - Alex Van Halen
The Siege - Ben MacIntyre
There Was Nothing You Could Do - Steven Hyden
Abandoned Central Indiana - David Humphrey and W. Evan Humphrey
How To Take Amazing Photos - Nicholas Goodden

2023 (54)

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 (62)

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
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 (54)

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 (59)

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 (52)

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 (63)

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 (45)

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 (50)

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 (49)

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 (53)

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 (55)

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 Hiaasen
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 (50)

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 (62)

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 (53)

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 (62)

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