Year | Author | Title |
1998[4] | David Bodanis | The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies |
Rick Bragg | All Over but the Shoutin' |
Rebecca Carroll | Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America |
Karin Cook | What Girls Learn |
Pete Hamill | Snow in August |
Sebastian Junger | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea |
Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster |
Velma Maia Thomas | Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation |
Dawn Turner Trice | Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven |
Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last |
1999[5] | Caroline Alexander | The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition |
James Finney Boylan | Getting In |
Andie Dominick | Needles |
John Gilstrap | At All Costs |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | Space |
Steve Kluger | Last Days of Summer |
Robert Silverberg | Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy |
Kim Stanley Robinson | Antarctica |
Esmeralda Santiago | Almost a Woman |
Danzy Senna | Caucasia |
2000[6] | David Breashears | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places |
Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow |
Breena Clarke | River, Cross My Heart |
Esmé Raji Codell | Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year |
Jonathon Scott Fuqua | The Reappearance of Sam Webber |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust |
Linda Greenlaw | The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey |
Elva Trevino Hart | Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child |
Kent Haruf | Plainsong |
Connie Porter | Imani All Mine |
2001[7] | Darin Strauss | Chang & Eng |
Larry Colton | Counting Coup |
Juliet Marillier | Daughter of the Forest |
Alan Watt | Diamond Dogs |
James Bradley and Ron Powers | Flags of Our Fathers |
Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
Ben Sherwood | The Man Who Ate the 747 |
Gillian Bradshaw | The Sand Reckoner |
June Jordan | Soldier: A Poet's Childhood |
2002[8] | Geraldine Brooks | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague |
William Doyle | An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi |
David Anthony Durham | Gabriel's Story |
Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America |
Leif Enger | Peace Like a River |
Kobie Kruger | The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife |
Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law |
Mel Odom | The Rover |
Vineeta Vijayaraghavan | Motherland |
Rebecca Walker | Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self |
2003[9] | Lynda Barry | One! Hundred! Demons! |
Pat Conroy | My Losing Season |
Timothy Ferris | Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril |
Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair |
Mary Lawson | Crow Lake |
Brian Malloy | The Year of Ice |
Julie Otsuka | When the Emperor Was Divine |
Ann Packer | The Dive from Clausen's Pier |
Martha Southgate | The Fall of Rome |
Joseph Weisberg | 10th Grade |
2004[10] | Amanda Davis | Wonder When You'll Miss Me |
Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner |
Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife |
ZZ Packer | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere |
Mary Roach | Stiff |
Mark Salzman | True Notebooks |
Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis |
Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs |
Bart Yates | Leave Myself Behind |
2005[11] | Steve Almond | Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America |
Lynne Cox | Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer |
Brendan Halpin | Donorboy |
Robert Kurson | Shadow Divers |
Kent Meyers | Work of Wolves |
Ann Patchett | Truth & Beauty: A Friendship |
Jodi Picoult | My Sister's Keeper |
Kit Reed | Thinner Than Thou |
Jim Shepard | Project X |
Robert Sullivan | Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants |
2006[12] | Judy Fong Bates | Midnight at the Dragon Café |
Kalisha Buckhanon | Upstate |
Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys |
Gregory Galloway | As Simple As Snow |
Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go |
A. Lee Martinez | Gil's All Fright Diner |
Susan Palwick | The Necessary Beggar |
Nancy Rawles | My Jim |
Julia Scheeres | Jesus Land: A Memoir |
Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle: A Memoir |
2007[13] | John Connolly | The Book of Lost Things |
Ivan Doig | The Whistling Season |
Michael D'Orso | Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska |
Sara Gruen | Water for Elephants |
Pamela Carter Joern | Floor of the Sky |
John Hamamura | Color of the Sea |
Michael Lewis | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game |
David Mitchell | Black Swan Green |
Ron Rash | The World Made Straight |
Diane Setterfield | The Thirteenth Tale |
2008[14] | Matthew Polly | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China |
Matt Ruff | Bad Monkeys |
Jeff Lemire | Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm |
Conn Iggulden | Genghis: Birth of an Empire |
Aryn Kyle | The God of Animals |
Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip |
Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind |
Thomas Maltman | The Night Birds |
Lisa Lutz | The Spellman Files |
2009[15] | David Benioff | City of Thieves |
Michael Swanwick | The Dragons of Babel |
Zoë Ferraris | Finding Nouf |
Hannah Tinti | The Good Thief |
Stephen King | Just After Sunset: Stories |
Hillary Jordan | Mudbound |
Todd Tucker | Over and Under |
Stephen G. Bloom | The Oxford Project |
Toby Barlow | Sharp Teeth |
Theresa Rebeck | Three Girls and Their Brother |
2010[16] | William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope |
Meg Rosoff | The Bride's Farewell |
Ron Currie Jr. | Everything Matters! |
David Finkel | The Good Soldiers |
Diana Welch and Liz Welch | The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir |
Lev Grossman | The Magicians |
Peter Rock | My Abandonment |
Gail Carriger | Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel |
David Small | Stitches: A Memoir |
Kevin Wilson | Tunneling to the Center of the Earth |
2011[17] | DC Pierson | The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To |
Liz Murray | Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard |
Jean Kwok | Girl in Translation |
Peter Bognanni | The House of Tomorrow |
Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist |
Aimee Bender | The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake |
Matt Haig | The Radleys |
Alden Bell | The Reapers Are the Angels |
Emma Donoghue | Room |
Helen Grant | The Vanishing of Katharina Linden |
2012[18] | Rachel DeWoskin | Big Girl Small |
Jo Ann Beard | In Zanesville |
David Levithan | The Lover's Dictionary |
Brooke Hauser | The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens |
Erin Morgenstern | The Night Circus |
Ernest Cline | Ready Player One |
Daniel H. Wilson | Robopocalypse |
Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones |
Caroline Preston | The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures |
Roland Merullo | The Talk-Funny Girl |
2013[19] | David Zimmerman | Caring Is Creepy |
Tupelo Hassman | Girlchild |
Richard Ross | Juvenile in Justice |
Robin Sloan | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore |
Derf Backderf | My Friend Dahmer |
Chris Ballard | One Shot at Forever |
Julianna Baggott | Pure |
Louise Erdrich | The Round House |
Carol Rifka Brunt | Tell the Wolves I'm Home |
Maria Semple | Where'd You Go, Bernadette? |
2014[20] | Mark Slouka | Brewster |
Lisa O'Donnell | The Death of Bees |
Abigail Tarttelin | Golden Boy |
John Searles | Help for the Haunted |
Max Barry | Lexicon |
Wesley Chu | Lives of Tao |
Koren Zailckas | Mother, Mother |
Lucy Knisley | Relish: My Life in the Kitchen |
Katja Millay | The Sea of Tranquility |
Gavin Extence | The Universe Versus Alex Woods |
2015[21] | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See |
Kate Racculia | Bellweather Rhapsody |
James A. Levine | Bingo's Run |
Kanae Minato | Confessions |
Celeste Ng | Everything I Never Told You |
John Scalzi | Lock In |
Andy Weir | The Martian |
Zak Ebrahim | The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice |
Michael Koryta | Those Who Wish Me Dead |
John Darnielle | Wolf in White Van |
2016[22] | Ryan Gattis | All Involved |
Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me |
Camille DeAngelis | Bones & All |
David Wong | Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits |
Sara Nović | Girl at War |
Joe Abercrombie | Half the World |
Brandon Stanton | Humans of New York: Stories |
Liz Suburbia | Sacred Heart |
Dan-el Padilla Peralta | Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League |
Keija Parssinen | The Unraveling of Mercy Louis |
2017[23] | Sarah Beth Durst | The Queen of Blood |
Manuel Gonzales | The Regional Office Is Under Attack! |
Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford | In the Country We Love: My Family Divided |
Hannah Hart | Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded |
Holly Jennings | Arena |
Seanan McGuire | Every Heart a Doorway |
Ryan North | Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure |
Rob Rufus | Die Young with Me: A Memoir |
Matt Simon | The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar |
Scott Stambach | The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko |
2018[24] | Martha Wells | All Systems Red |
Daniel H. Wilson | The Clockwork Dynasty |
Seanan McGuire | Down Among the Sticks and Bones |
Eve Ewing | Electric Arches |
Melissa Fleming | A Hope More Powerful than the Sea |
Joey Comeau | Malagash |
Jeff Lemire | Roughneck |
Jordan Harper | She Rides Shotgun |
Tasha Kavanagh | Things We Have in Common |
Kat Howard | An Unkindness of Magicians |
2019[25] | P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God's Drums |
Meghan MacLean Weir | The Book of Essie |
Madeline Miller | Circe |
Tara Westover | Educated: A Memoir |
Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil | The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After |
Sam Graham-Felsen | Green |
David Small | Home After Dark |
N. K. Jemisin | How Long 'til Black Future Month? |
Jonathan Evison | Lawn Boy |
Naomi Novik | Spinning Silver |
2020[26] | C.A. Fletcher | A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World |
Temi Oh | Do You Dream of Terra-Two? |
Angie Cruz | Dominicana |
Maia Kobabe | Gender Queer: A Memoir |
Tegan and Sara | High School |
AJ Dungo | In Waves |
Seanan McGuire | Middlegame |
Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys |
Casey McQuiston | Red, White & Royal Blue |
Lisa Lutz | The Swallows |
2021[27] | Rebecca Roanhorse | Black Sun |
TJ Klune | The House in the Cerulean Sea |
Colin O'Brady | The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice - Crossing Antarctica Alone |
Derf Backderf | Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio |
Gretchen Anthony | The Kids Are Gonna Ask |
Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians |
Emily M. Danforth | Plain Bad Heroines |
Tochi Onyebuchi | Riot Baby |
Allie Brosh | Solutions and Other Problems |
Quan Barry | We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel |
2022[28] | Ryka Aoki | Light from Uncommon Stars |
Marianne Cronin | The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot |
Genevieve Gornichec | The Witch's Heart |
T. L. Huchu | The Library of the Dead |
Will Leitch | How Lucky |
Everina Maxwell | Winter's Orbit |
Kate Quinn | The Rose Code |
Kareem Rosser | Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever |
Rachel Smythe | Lore Olympus, Vol. 1 |
Heather Walter | Malice |
2023[29] | Sophie Irwin | A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting |
R. F. Kuang | Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution |
Jennette McCurdy | I'm Glad My Mom Died |
Jarrett Melendez, illus. by Danica Brine | Chef's Kiss |
Sara Nović | True Biz |
Jamila Rowser, illus. by Robyn Smith | Wash Day Diaries |
John Scalzi | The Kaiju Preservation Society |
James Spooner | The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. |
Sue Lynn Tan | Daughter of the Moon Goddess |
Javier Zamora | Solito: A Memoir |
2024[30] | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Chain-Gang All-Stars |
Darrin Bell | The Talk |
Jessica George | Maame |
Jessica Johns | Bad Cree |
Khashayar J. Khabushani | I Will Greet the Sun Again |
Daniel Kraus | Whalefall |
Oksana Masters | The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph |
John Scalzi | Starter Villain |
Jade Song | Chlorine |
Rebecca Yarros | Fourth Wing |