I Really Loved These
2021
- Apollo 8
- –Jeffrey Kruger
- Koko the Mighty
- –Kieran Shea
- All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
- –Martha Wells
2020
- The First 15 Lives of Harry August
- –Claire North
- Old Man’s War
- –John Scalzi
- The Ghost Brigades
- –John Scalzi
- The Stories of Ibis
- –Hiroshi Yamamoto
2019
- Spin
- –Robert Charles Wilson
- Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
- –Kory Stamper
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- –Phil Knight
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
- –Becky Chambers
- South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
- –Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- –Candice Millard
- The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of NASA's Interstellar Mixtape
- –Jonathan Scott
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
- –Timothy Egan
- Us Against You
- –Frerik Backman
- The Android’s Dream
- –John Scalzi
- Sourdough
- –Robin Sloan
2018
- The Last Days of Night
- –Graham Moore
- The Teapot Dome Scandal
- –Laton McCartney
- Britt-Marie Was Here
- –Fredrik Backman
- Bear Town
- –Fredrik Backman
- Off Rock
- –Kieran Shea
2017
- Kon Tiki
- –Thor Heyerdahl
- A Man Called Ove
- –Fredrik Backman
- Rendezvous with Rama
- –Arthur C. Clarke
- The Killer Angels
- –Michael Shaara
- Just Mercy
- –Bryan Stephenson
- The Devil’s Highway
- –Luis Alberto Urrea
- Dog On It
- –Spencer Quinn
- Chains of Command
- –Marko Kloos
- Angles of Attack
- –Marko Kloos
- Lines of Departure
- –Marko Kloos
- Terms of Enlistment
- –Marko Kloos
- Fields of Fire
- –Marko Kloos
2016
- The Wright Brothers
- –David McCullough
- Station Eleven
- –Emily St. John Mandel
- When Breath Becomes Air
- –Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese
- Beacon 23
- –Hugh Howey
- Wool
- –Hugh Howey
- Shift
- –Hugh Howey
- Dust
- –Hugh Howey
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened
- –Jenny Lawson
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- –Isabel Wilkerson
- United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
- –Cory Booker
2015
- The Goldfinch
- –Donna Tartt
- All You Need Is Kill
- –Hiroshi Sakurazaka
- Old Man's War
- –John Scalzi
- The Ghost Brigades
- –John Scalzi
- The Last Colony
- –John Scalzi
- The Android's Dream
- –John Scalzi
- Fuzzy Nation
- –John Scalzi
- The Forever War
- –Joe Haldeman
- Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
- –Neal Bascomb
- Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future
- –John Scalzi
- All the Light We Cannot See
- –Anthony Doerr
- Beautiful Ruins
- –Jess Walter
- Metatropolis
- –John Scalzi
- Little Fuzzy
- –H. Beam Piper
2014
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- –Cheryl Strayed
- Snow Crash
- –Neal Stephenson
- Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
- –Mike Mullane
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- –Anthony Bourdain
- The Sisters Brothers
- –Patrick deWitt
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
- –Lawrence Wright
2013
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- –Alfred Lansing
- The Dog Stars
- –Peter Heller
- The Kite Runner
- –Khaled Hosseini
- Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits
- –Jason Wilson
2012
- Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
- –Kevin Bleyer
- The entire Walt Longmire Mystery series
- –Craig Johnson
- Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
- –Brad Thomas Parsons
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- –Nathaniel Philbrick
- Waiting for Teddy Williams
- –Howard Frank Mosher
- Calico Joe
- –John Grisham
2011
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
- –Truman Capote
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- –Laura Hillenbrand
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- –Candice Millard
- Water for Elephants
- –Sara Gruen
- Moonlight Mile
- –Dennis Lehane
2010
- Cutting for Stone
- –Abraham Verghese
- April 1865: The Month That Saved America
- –Jay Winik
- A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
- –Jasper Rees
- A Walk in the Woods
- –Bill Bryson
- Replay
- –Ken Grimwood
- The Scarecrow
- –Michael Connelly
2009
- Fate Is the Hunter
- –Ernest K. Gann
- Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
- –Laurence Bergreen
- A Man on the Moon
- –Andrew Chaikin
- The Given Day
- –Dennis Lehane
2008
- The Killer Angels
- –Michael Shaara
2007
- Echo Park
- –Michael Connelly
- The Planets
- –Dava Sobel
- 25 Myths You've Got to Avoid – If You Want to Manage Your Money Right
- –Jonathan Clements
- Transcending CSS, The Fine Art of Web Design
- –Andy Clarke
- The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers
- –Scott Kelby
2006
- Spin State
- –Chris Moriarty
- The Closers
- –Michael Connelly
- Web Standards Solutions, The Markup and Style Handbook
- –Dan Cederholm
- Bulletproof Web Design
- –Dan Cederholm
2005
- The Gold Coast
- –Nelson DeMille
- Schindlers List
- –Thomas Keneally
- The Narrows
- –Michael Connelly
- Web Type Expert
- –Tom Arah