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2025

223 A Calamity of Souls (David Baldacci)
224 The Road to Wisdom (Francis Collins)
225 James (Percival Everett)
226 Revenge of the Tipping Point (Malcomb Gladwell)

2024

216 Blind Man's Bluff (Sontag and Drew)
217 As Gods - A Moral History of the Genetic Age (Matthew Cobb)
218 The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory (Tim Alberta)
219 The Lemon Tree (Sandy Tolan)
220 The Winter Fortress (Neal Bascomb)
221 The Demon of Unrest (Erik Larson)
222 On Call (Anthoney Fauci)

2023

209 Chip War (Chris Miller)
210 Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates (Don Yaeger)
211 The Bomber Mafia (Malcolm Gladwell)
212 David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell)
213 Caste: The Origin of Our Discontent (Isabel Wilkerson)
214 The Genome Defense (Jorge L. Contreas)
215 The Last Honest Man (James Risen)

2022

201 A Time to Risk All (Clodagh Finn)
202 An Ugly Truth (SheeraFrenkel and Cecilla Kang)
203 On Corruption in America (Sarah Chayes)
204 Tuxedo Park (Jennet Conant)
205 Climate Disaster (Bill Gates)
206 Facing the Mountain (Daniel James Brown)
207 A Thousand Brains (Jeff Hawkins)
208 Fuzz (Mary Roach)

2021 (Covid Year)

194 Enough is Enough (Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neil)
195 The Road to Valor (Aili and Andres McConnon)
196 Ideas That Made America (Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen)
197 Upheaval (Jared Diamond)
198 About This Life (Barry Lopez)
199 Code Breaker (Walter Isaacson)
200 The Math of Life and Death (Kit Yates)

2020 (Covid Year)

188 That Old Ace in the Hole (Annie Proulx)
189 Nobody's Fool (Richard Russo)
190 Hero of the Empire (Candice Millard)
191 Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
192 The Secret River (Kate Grenville)
193 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)

2019

180 Leonardo Da Vinci (Walter Isaacson)
181 Messing with the Enemy (Clint Watts)
182 The Innovators (Walter Isaacson)
183 Heart, A History (Sandeep Jauhar)
184 The Invention of Wings (Sue Monk Kidd)
185 Tears We Cannot Stop (Michael Eric Dyson)
186 Dead Wake (Eric Larsen)
187 Educated (Tara Westover)

2018

172 Pandora's Lab (Paul Offit)
173 Jimmy Bluefeather (Kim Heacox)
174 Adventures in the Margin of Error (Kathryn Schultz)
175 Triumph of Experience (George Vaillant)
176 A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)
177 Astoria (Peter Stark)
178 A Higher Loyalty (James Comey)
179 A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)

2017

165. Epic Measures (Jeremy Smith)
166. The Last Days of Night (Graham Moore)
167. Junkyard Planet (Adam Minter)
168. When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
169. The Next Tsunami (Bonnie Henderson)
170. Hillbilly Elegy (J. D. Vance)
171. Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Giles Milton)

2016

157. The Sixth Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert)
158. In The Plex (Stephen Levy)
159. Being Mortal (Atul Gawande)
160. Flash Boys (Michael Lewis)
161. The Last Bus to Wisdom (Ivan Doig)
162. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond)
163. Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
164. The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (Christopher Scotton)

2015

148. The Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
149. The Girls of Atomic City (Denise Keirenan)
150. Birdmen (Lawrence Goldstone)
151. One Summer 1927 (Bill Bryson)
152. The Golem and the Jinni (Helene Wecker)
153. All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
155. Abundance (Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler)
156. Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng)

2014

140. Sweet Thunder (Ivan Doig)
141. Tortilla Curtain (T. C. Boyle)
142. The Admirals (Walter R. Borneman)
143. Resistance (Owen Sheers)
144. In the Garden of Beasts (Erik Larson)
145. The Dragons of Eden (Carl Sagan)
146. The Light Between Oceans (M. L. Stedman)
147. The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs (Nick Trout)

2013

133. Franklin and Winston (Jon Meacham)
134. Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
135. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
136. Polar Star (Martin Cruz Smith)
137. The Wise Men (Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas)
138. Turing's Cathedral (George Dyson)
139. The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt)

2012

125 Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
126. The Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
127. The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
128. Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
129. The Ghost in the Wires (Kevin Mitnick)
130. Mink River (Brian Doyle)
131. Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
132. On The Beach (Nevil Shute)

2011

116. To Dance with the White Dog (Terry Kay)
117. The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester)
118. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
119. Packing for Mars (Mary Roach)
120. War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
121. The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells)
122. Hawaii (James Michener)
123. Foreskin's Lament (Shalom Auslander)
124. Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)

2010

109. Banker to the Poor (Muhammad Yunus)
110. The Great Upheaval (Jay Winik)
111. The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
112. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (Gail Tsukiyama)
113. Winter Kill (Craig Leslie)
114. The Prize (Daniel Yergin)
115. Stubborn Twig (Lauren Kessler)

2009

100. I Was Vermeer (Frank Wynne)
101. Ghost Map (Steven Johnson)
102. Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)
103. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
104. The Nine (Jeffrey Tobin)
105. The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)
106. The Lemon Tree (Sandy Tolan)
107. When Rivers Run Dry (Fred Pearce)
108. Your Inner Fish (Niel Shubin)

2008

93. Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
94. Burning Fence (Craig Leslie)
95. End of Faith (Sam Harris) A rebuttal article: Read Two articles on why we believe in God. 1 2
96. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
97. Hoot (Carl Hiaasen)
98. Legacy of Ashes (Tim Weiner)
99. Heat (Bill Buford)

2007

85. The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)
86. Friday Night Lights (H. G. Bissinger)
87. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Lucia Graves)
88. The History of the World in Six Glasses (Tom Standage)
89. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
90. Team of Rivals (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
91. The Pirate Coast (Richard Zacks)
92. Flags of our Fathers (James Bradley)

2006

77. Counting Coup (Larry Colton)
78. Charlie Wilson's War (George Crile)
79. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
80. Among the Thugs (Bill Buford)
81. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
82. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Barrington Moore)
83. The Year of the French (Thomas Flanagan)
84. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)

2005

69. The Measure of All Things (Ken Alder)
70. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
71. The Devil in the White City (Eric Larson)
72. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
73. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
74. Under the Banner of Heaven (John Krakauer)
75. Moneyball (Michael Lewis)
76. Winds of War (Herman Wouk)

2004

61. Mother Nature (Sarah Blaffer Hrdy)
62. The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
63. A Mind of Its Own (David Friedman)
64. Blue Latitudes (Tony Horwitz)
65. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges)
66. The Confessions of Nat Turner (William Styron)
67. Another Life (Michael Korda)
68. The Gates of the Alamo (Stephen Harrigan)

2003

53. Paris Trout (Pete Dexter)
54. The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
55. Seabiscuit (Laura Hillenbrand)
56. Floating in My Mother's Palm (Ursula Hegi)
57. The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)
58. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
59. Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
60. Prospect (William Littlefield)

2002

45. Barney's Version (Mordecai Richler)
46. The Bone People (Keri Hulme)
47. Desire of the Everlasting Hills (Thomas Cahill)
48. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
49. Nathaniel's Nutmeg (Giles Milton)
50. King Rat (James Clavell)
51. All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
52. Second Nature: A Gardner's Education (Michael Pollan)

2001

37. Heart Earth (Ivan Doig)
38. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)
39. The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
40. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (Thomas L. Friedman)
41. Fire at Eden's Gate (Brent Walth) Members Comments
42. The River Midnight (Lilian Nattel)
43. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Gary Kinder)
44. Confederates in the Attic (Tony Horwitz)

2000

28. Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey)
29. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are (Robert Wright)
30. The Grapes of Wrath. (John Steinbeck)
31. Shot in the Heart. (Mikal Gilmore)
32. Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond) Members Comments
33. Martin Dressler (Stephen Millhauser) Members Comments
34. The Brothers K (David James Duncan) Members Comments
35. The Perfect Storm (Sebastian Junger)
36. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

1999

20. How the Irish Saved Civilization (Thomas Cahill )
21. Mutant Message Down Under (Marlo Morgan)
22. Twins : And What They Tell Us About Who We Are (Lawrence Wright)
23. Truman (David McCullough)
24. The Man In The High Castle, (Philip K. Dick)
25. Ricochet River (Robin Cody)
26. The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
27. Ceremony (Leslie Silko)

1998

11. The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin)
12. Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
13. The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli) & People’s Choice (Jeff Greenfield)
14. Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
15. Prairie Keepers (Marcy Houle)
16. Stones from the River (Ursula Hegi)
17. My Own Country (Abraham Verghese)
18. Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner).
19. English Creek (Ivan Doig)

1997

3. Education of Little Tree (Forrest Carter)
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
5. Indian Givers (Jack Weatherford)
6. Shipping News (Anne Proulx)
7. Liars Club (Mary Karr)
8. Undaunted Courage (Stephen Ambrose)
9. Beach Music (Pat Conroy)
10. Independence Day (Richard Ford)

1996

1. Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
2. Son of Morning Star (Evan S. Connell)