2023 12
- Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
- The Last Folk Hero, Jeff Pearlman
- Amp It Up, Frank Slootman
- Choosing to Run, Des Linden
- Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
- Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin lee
- Know My Name, Chanel Miller
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Taking Children, Laura Briggs
- California Burning, Katherine Blunt
- The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lorr
- Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
2022 16
- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
- The Winners, Fredrik Backman
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- Why We're Polarized, Ezra Klein
- The End of Bias, Jessical Nordell
- Woke Racism, John McWhorter
- The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola
- Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
- Think Again, Adam Grant
- San Fransicko, Michael Shellenberger
- An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
- The Premonition, Michael Lewis
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The New New Thing, Michael Lewis
- The First 90 Days, Michael Watkins
- Nomadland, Jessica Bruder
2021 12
- The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
- A Promised Land, Barack Obama
- How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell
- Running the Rift, Naomi Benaron
- Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong
- No Time Like the Future, Michael J. Fox
- Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
- Breath, James Nestor
- Creativity, John Cleese
- The Answer Is..., Alex Trebek
- Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
2019 25
- A Warning, Anonymous
- Parkland, Dave Cullen
- The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
- The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates
- The Gifted School, Bruce Holsinger
- Pandemic, Sonia Shah
- I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai
- Looking for Alaska, John Green
- The Big Picture, Ben Fritz
- American Predator, Maureen Callahan
- The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
- The Death Cure, James Dashner
- The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick McKeown
- Play Bigger, Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney
- The Scorch Trials, James Dashner
- The Maze Runner, James Dashner
- Amity and Prosperity, Eliza Griswold
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari
- Educated, Tara Westover
- Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan
- China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin Kwan
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Becoming, Michelle Obama
- The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
2018 56
- War on Peace, Ronan Farrow
- Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
- Brotopia, Emily Chang
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Neil Armstrong, Jay Barbree
- Fascism, Madeleine Albright
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara
- Endure, Alex Hutchinson
- Us Against You, Fredrik Backman
- The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantu
- The Heavens Might Crack, Jason Sokol
- The Deal of a Lifetime, Fredrik Backman
- Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
- Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
- Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
- The Briefing, Sean Spicer
- Let Your Mind Run, Deena Kastor
- The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
- Endurance, Scott Kelly
- A Higher Loyalty, James Comey
- What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Control of Nature, John McPhee
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Fredrik Backman
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- I Can't Make This Up, Kevin Hart
- Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss
- The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin
- Barbarian Days, William Finnegan
- Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good, Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner
- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
- The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, Dan Egan
- Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
- Fifty Million Rising, Saadia Zahidi
- Two Hours, Ed Caesar
- Mo' Meta Blues, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Ben Greenman
- Leisure, Josef Pieper
- Green is the New Red, Will Potter
- High Output Management, Andrew Grove
- Britt-Marie Was Here, Fredrik Backman
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
- The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
- Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil
- Sourdough, Robin Sloan
- Originals, Adam Grant
- Nice Try, Jane Sinner, Lianne Oelke
- 1984, George Orwell
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, Fredrik Backman
- The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
- Beartown, Fredrik Backman
- Principles, Ray Dalio
- Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness
- Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
- Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
2017 43
- A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
- Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
- Traction, Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
- Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
- $2.00 a Day, Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
- Ghettoside, Jill Leovy
- Junk Raft, Marcus Eriksen
- On Tryanny, Timothy Snyder
- The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
- Words on the Move, John McWhorter
- Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik
- The Social Life of DNA, Alondra Nelson
- Tribe, Sebastian Junger
- The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
- Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
- Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- An American Sickness, Elizabeth Rosenthal
- Evicted, Matthew Desmond
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
- The Run of His Life, Jeffrey Toobin
- The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
- Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard
- Strangers in Their Own Land, Arlie Russell Hochschild
- AsapSCIENCE, Mitchell Moffit & Greg Brown
- Deep Work, Cal Newport
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Chris Hadfield
- 80/20 Running, Matt Fitzgerald
- The Law of the Garbage Truck, David Pollay
- First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- A Truck Full of Money, Tracy Kidder
- Open, Andre Agassi
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
- Brown is the New White, Steve Phillips
- Unbroken Brain, Maia Szalavitz
- Disrupted, Dan Lyons
- Born to Run, Christopher McDougall