I Liked These a Lot
2021
- Project Hail Mary
- –Andy Weir
- The Psychology of Money
- –Morgan Housel
- Everything You Need to Know About Saving for Retirement
- –Ben Carlson
- The Big Burn
- –Timothy Egan
2020
- Too Big to Fail
- –Andrew Ross Sorkin
- How to be an Antiracist
- –Ibram X. Kendi
- Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
- –Jim Mattis and Bing West
- The Beatles: The Biography
- –Bob Spitz
- Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
- –John Lewis
- The Last Colony
- –John Scalzi
- Zoe’s Tale
- –John Scalzi
- The Human Division
- –John Scalzi
- The End of All Things
- –John Scalzi
- The Last Emperox
- –John Scalzi
- Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
- –Captain Tammie Jo Shults
- And Then There Were None
- –Agatha Christie
- Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
- –Gary Kamiya
- A Wealth of Common Sense
- –Ben Carlson
2019
- Half Way Home
- –Hugh Howey
- Velocity Weapon
- –Megan O’Keefe
- Aftershocks
- –Marko Kloos
- Koko Takes a Holiday
- –Kieran Shea
- A Canticle for Liebowitz
- –Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groan, 83 Years Old
- –Unknown
- Fahrenheit 451
- –Ray Bradbury
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
- –Reza Aslan
- A Very Scalzi Christmas
- –John Scalzi
2018
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- –Harper Lee
- Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
- –Fredrik Backman
- The Consuming Fire
- –John Scalzi
- Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- –Robert Kurson
- Point of Impact
- –Marko Kloos
- Head On
- –John Scalzi
- George Lucas: A Life
- –Brian Jay Jones
- The Lives of Tao
- –Wesley Chu
- Rocket Man
- –William Hazelgrove
- Miniatures
- –John Scalzi
- The Demolished Man
- –Alfred Bester
- The Rook
- –Daniel O’Malley
- Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
- –Richard Munson
- First Flight
- –Chris Claremont
- Jim Cramer’s Real Money
- –James J. Cramer
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
- –Jim Defede
2017
- The Lola Quartet
- –Emily St. John Mandel
- The Singers Gun
- –Emily St. John Mandel
- Last Night in Montreal
- –Emily St. John Mandel
- The Revenant
- –Michael Punke
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
- –Robin Sloan
- The Last Man on the Moon
- –Eugene Cernan and Don Davis
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
- –N.K. Jemison
- The Magicians
- –Lev Grossman
- Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
- –Margaret Lazarus Dean
- To Fetch a Thief
- –Spencer Quinn
- The Good Thief
- –Hanna Tinti
- Machine Learning
- –Hugh Howey
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- –Arthur C. Clarke
- The Collapsing Empire
- –John Scalzi
2016
- Starship Troopers
- –Robert A. Heinlein
- Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
- –Reid Mitenbuler
- Moriarty
- –Anthony Horowitz
- Liar's Poker
- –Michael Lewis
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
- –Michael Lewis
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
- –Charles Yu
- Leviathan Wakes
- –James S. A. Corey
- The Neon Rain
- –James Lee Burke
- Drinking with Men: A Memoir
- –Rosie Schaap
2015
- Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
- –Nick Bilton
- The Fifth Witness (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)
- –Michael Connelly
- The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat
- –Harry Harrison
- An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition
- –James Lipton
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- –Michael Lewis
- Zoe's Tale
- –John Scalzi
- The Human Division
- –John Scalzi
- The Aviator's Wife
- –Melanie Benjamin
- Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories
- –Craig Johnson
2014
- Mavericks of the Sky: The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail
- –Barry Rosenberg and Catherine Macaulay
- A Nation Rising: Untold Tales from America's Hidden History
- –Kenneth C. Davis
- This Immortal
- –Roger Zelazny
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- –Eric Schlosser
- Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
- –Les Standiford
2013
- The World at Night
- –Alan Furst
- The Racketeer
- –John Grisham
- The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
- –Earl Swift
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- –Rebecca Skloot
- The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- –Robert M. Hazen
- Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
- –Mitchell Zuckoff
- A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
- –Adam Makos
2012
- Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
- –Lynn Spencer
- Legends
- –Robert Littell
- Ready Player One
- –Ernest Cline
- The Drop
- –Michael Connelly
- The Imperfectionists
- –Tom Rachman
- Ender's Game
- –Orson Scott Card
- The Shipping News
- –Annie Proulx
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- –Max Brooks
- The End of Eternity
- –Isaac Asimov
2011
- The Remains of the Day
- –Kazuo Ishiguro
- Spies of the Balkans
- –Alan Furst
- 56; Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
- –Kostya Kennedy
- Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
- –Ben Macintyre
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- –Michael Lewis
- Song of the Sirens
- –Ernest K. Gann
- True Grit
- –Charles Portis
- TH1RTE3N
- –Richard K. Morgan
- The Book Thief
- –Markus Zusak
- The Confession
- –John Grisham
- The Phone Book; The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
- –Ammon Shea
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
- –Jon Krakauer
- Red Harvest
- –Dashiell Hammett
- On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
- –Robert M. Poole
- And Then the Roof Caved In: How Wall Street's Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to its Knees
- –David Faber
2010
- Let the Great World Spin
- –Colum McCann
- The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery
- –Walter Mosley
- First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- –James R. Hansen
- The Great Escape
- –Paul Brickhill
- Child 44
- –Tom Rob Smith
- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- –Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- –Stieg Larsson
2009
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
- –Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Gate House
- –Nelson DeMille
- Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
- –George MacDonald Fraser
- Neuromancer
- –William Gibson
- City of Thieves
- –David Benioff
- Altered Carbon
- –Richard K. Morgan
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- –Stieg Larsson
- The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life
- –Alice Schroeder
- One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khruschev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
- –Michael Dobbs
- Flashman
- –George MacDonald Fraser
- Faceless Killers
- –Henning Mankell
2008
- Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: The Historic Saga of the Round-the-world Zeppelin
- –Douglas Botting
- The Fortunate Pilgrim
- –Mario Puzo
- Revolution in the Head, The Beatles' Records and the Sixties
- –Ian MacDonald
- Read The Beatles: Classic and New Writings on The Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter
- –edited by June Skinner Sawyers
- The Appeal
- –John Grisham
- Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting
- –Adams, Boulton, Clarke, Collison, Croft, Featherstone, Lloyd, Marcotte, Rubin, Weychert
2007
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- –J.K. Rowling
- The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
- –Larimore, Lindauer, Leboeuf
- Velocity
- –Dean Koontz
2006
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- –Michael Connelly
- The Broker
- –John Grisham
- The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It
- –Ernest Volkman and John Cummings
- The iPod Book
- –Scott Kelby
- CSS Mastery; Advanced Web Standards Solutions
- –Andy Budd
- The Non-Designer's Design Book, 2nd Edition
- –Robin Williams
- Web Design, In a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
- –Jennifer Niederst Robbins
2005
- Designing With Web Standards
- –Jeffrey Zeldman
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- –J. K. Rowling
- All the Presidents Men
- –Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
- One for the Money
- –Janet Evanovich
- Dont Make Me Think
- –Steve Krug
- Defensive Design for the Web
- –Matthew Linderman