2021
- Glennon Doyle, "Untamed" (Awakening Angel)
- Colson Whitehead, "The Nickel Boys) (Peggers)
- David Sedaris, "The Best of Me" (Angel in Love)
- Joan Didion, "Let Me Tell You What I Mean" (Treasurehunter)
- Jojo Moyes, "The Giver of Stars" (Awakening Angel)
- (Dutchbaby)
2020
- Charles Yu, "Interior Chinatown" (Momo)
- William Kent Krueger, "This Tender Land" (Dutchbaby)
- Elizabeth Strout,"Olive Again: A Novel" (Treasurehunter)
- Taylor Jenkins Reid, "Daisy Jones and the Six" (Angel in Love)
- Brit Bennett, "The Vanishing Half: A Novel" (Peggers)
- Rebecca Makkai, "The Great Believers" (MoMo)
- Jane Harper, "The Lost Man"
- Barbara O'Neal, "When We Believed in Mermaids" (Awakening Angel)
- Ann Patchett, "The Dutch House" (Treasurehunter)
- Lori Gottlieb, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" (Dutchbaby)
- Jeanine Cummins, "American Dirt" (Angel in Love)
- Jodi Picoult, "A Spark of Light" (Peggers)
2019
- Alex Michaelides, "The Silent Patient" (Awakening Angel)
- Ruth Reichl, "Save Me the Plums" (Treasurehunter)
- Any Raymond Chandler (Momo)
- Anne Griffin, "When All Is Said" (Dutchbaby)
- Kathy Hepinstall, "The Book of Polly: A Novel" (Dakota Angel)
- Andre Dubus III, "Gone So Long" (Angel in Love)
- Delia Owens, "Where the Crawdads Sing" (Awakening Angel)
- John Carreyrou, "Bad Blood" (Treasurehunter)
- Jane Harper, "The Dry" (Momo)
- Tara Westover, "Educated: A Memoir"
- Moriarty, Liane, "Nine Perfect Strangers" (Peggers)
2018
- Sarah Addison Allen, "Garden Spells" (Dakota Angel)
- Tilar Mazzeo, "The Widow Cliquot" (Dutchbaby)
- Lisa Brennan-Jobs, "Small Fry"
- Leah Franqui, "America for Beginners: A Novel" (Angel in Love)
- Gay Talese, "The Gay Talese Reader, Portraits and Encounters" (Treasurehunter)
- James Comey, "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership"
- Angie Thomas and Bahni Turpin, "The Hate U Give"
- Katharine Graham, "Personal History" (Dutchbaby)
2017
- Ann Patchett, "Commonwealth: A Novel"
- Emily St. John Mendel, "Station Eleven" (MoMo)
- David Sedaris, "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls" (Peggers)
- Sheryl Sandberg, "Option B, Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy"
- Bryan Stevenson, "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption"
- Manoush Zomodori, "Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self"
- Amor Towles, "A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel"
- Abbe Geni and Xe Sands, "The Lightkeepers" (Dakota Angel)
- Trevor Noah, "Born a Crime, Stories from a South African Childhood"
- Catherine Ryan Hyde, "When I Found You" (Awakening Angel)
2016
- The New Yorker, selected articles (Treasurehunter)
- J. D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy" (Angel in Love)
- Forrest Pritchard, "Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food and Saving the Family Farm" (Dutchbaby)
- Vendele Vida, "Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name"
- William Kent Krueger, "Ordinary Grace" (Dakota Angel)
- Jack Weatherford, "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" (Entrepreneur)
- Kristin Hannah, "The Nightingale: A Novel"
- Frederik Backman, "A Man Called Ove" (MoMo)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Americanah" (Angel in Love)
2015
- David McCullough, "The Wright Brothers" (Dutchbaby)
- Louis de Bernieres, "Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel" (Dakota Angel)
- Jodi Picoult, "leaving time, a novel"
- Anya von Bremzen, "Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, A Memoir of Food and Longing" (Entrepreneur)
- H. P. Oliver, "Winging It"
- David Brooks, "The Road to Character"
- Marie Kondo, "the life-changing magic of tidying up"
- Liane Moriarty, "The Husband's Secret"
- Daniel James Brown, "The Boys in the Boat" (Dutchbaby)
2014
- Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol" (Dakota Angel)
- Atul Gawande, "Being Mortal" (Entrepreneur)
- Anthony Doerr, "All the Light We Cannot See"
- Thomas Pynchon, Mary Gordon, John Updike, William Trevor, Gore Vidal, Richard Howard, A. S. Byall, and Joyce Carol Oates, " Deadly Sins"
- Therese Anne Fowler, "Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald"
- Sue Monk Kidd, "The Invention of Wings"
- Maria Semple, "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?"
- Zane Grey, any of his Western Novels, suggested: "Riders of the Purple Sage" (Dutchbaby)
- Lynn Darling, "Out of the Woods"
- Stewart O'Nan, "Emily Alone, A Novel"
2013
- Tracy Guzeman, "The Gravity of Birds"
- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem Essays" (Treasurehunter)
- Alan Brennert, "Moloka'i"
- M. L. Stedman, "The Light Between Oceans"
- Reynolds Price, "Roxanna Slade" (Dutchbaby)
- Robin Sloan, "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel"
- Mary Roach, "Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal" (Entrepreneur)
- Jess Walter, "Beautiful Ruins: A Novel"
- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch" (Awakening Angel)
- Gabrielle Hamilton, "Blood, Bones & Butter" (Treasurehunter)
2012
- Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution, Couldn't Keep It To Myself. (Angel in Love)
- Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl (Peggers)
- Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding: A Novel
- Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
- Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
- Ilene Beckerman, Love, Loss, and What I Wore
- Kevin Brockmeier, The Illumination
- Andrew Weil, MD, Spontaneous Happiness
- Kathleen Grissom, The Kitchen House: A Novel
- Zoe Ferraris, Finding Nouf: A Novel
- Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers (Dutchbaby)
2011
- Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
- Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Atticc
- Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
- Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games
- Ruth Reichl, For You, Mom, Finally
- Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Tina Fey, Bossypants
- Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
- Michael David Lukas, The Oracle of Stamboul
- Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken
- Rory Stewart, The Places In Between
2010
- Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
- Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women
- Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Angel in Love)
- Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Dave Eggers, Zeitoun (Dutchbaby)
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short
- Sue Miller, Lake Shore Limited
- Cara Black, Murder in the Palais Royal (Momo)
- Craig Thompson, Blankets (Awakening Angel)
- Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
2009
- Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Treasurehunter)
- Kathryn Stockett, The Help, a novel
- Any John Steinbeck
- Ori Brafman, Sway: The Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behavior
- Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
- Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
- Rose Tremain, The Road Home: A Novel (Entrepreneur)
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
2008
- J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories (Treasurehunter)
- Nancy Horan, Loving Frank (Dutchbaby)
- Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
- Elizabeth Berg, the day i ate whatever i wanted
- Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
- Tobias Wolff, Old School
- Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Dutchbaby)
- Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
2007
- Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace: A Novel
- Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
- Iren Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise (Treasurehunter)
- Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children
- Lori Lansens, The Girls (Awakening Angel)
- Amanda Eyre Ward, How to be Lost
- Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
- Clare Morrall, Natural Flights of the Human Mind
- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
2006
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential (Dutchbaby)
- Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (Graphic Artist)
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- Mark Haddon , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night (Entrepreneur)
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane (Entrepreneur)
- Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
- Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai’s Garden
- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
- Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan: A Novel (Dutchbaby)
2005
- Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
- Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River (Peggers)
- Azar Nafis, Reading Lolita in Tehran
