Books

I'm a lifelong bookworm. These are all the books I can remember reading. I'm only including books I've read cover-to-cover, so there are a lot of technical books that I've skimmed or read in part that aren't listed here. The links go to Amazon.

Books I've Read

2024

• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman (1978)
• A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
• Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery (2019)
• Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan (2024)
• Carl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2 by Matt Dinniman (2021)
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller (2022)
• Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller (2018)
• Dungeon Crawler Carl: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1 by Matt Dinniman (2020)
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (2024)
• First Lie Wins: A Novel by Ashley Elston (2024)
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Neal Ford, Mark Richards (2020)
• Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood by Ed Zwick (2024)
• Home Before Dark: A Novel by Riley Sagar (2020)
• Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker (2020)
• James: A Novel by Percival Everett (2024)
• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
• On Freedom by Timothy Snyder (2024)
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi (2023)
• The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5 by Matt Dinniman (2022)
• The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson (2024)
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (1996)
• The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 3 by Matt Dinniman (2021)
• The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 6 by Matt Dinniman (2023)
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz (1997)
• The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 4 by Matt Dinniman (2021)
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel by James McBride (2023)
• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2024)
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday (2014)
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (1997)
• The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon (2024)
• The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li (2023)
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows (2008)

2023

• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann (2011)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (1889)
• A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost (2020)
• All These Worlds: Bobiverse Book 3 by Dennis E. Taylor (2017)
• Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner (2020)
• Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon (2019)
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
• Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson (2023)
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (2022)
• Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas (2022)
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind (1998)
• Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog (2023)
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016)
• For We Are Many: Bobiverse Book 2 by Dennis E. Taylor (2017)
• Galápagos: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1985)
• Golden Son: Red Rising Series, Book 2 by Pierce Brown (2015)
• Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (2023)
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (2017)
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (2000)
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (2017)
• Mastery by Robert Greene (2012)
• Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1986)
• Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman (1991)
• Morning Star: Red Rising Series, Book 3 by Pierce Brown (2016)
• Mr. Mercedes: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy, Book 1) by Stephen King (2014)
• Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse, Various Authors, Julian Zelizer (2023)
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (2017)
• Poverty: By America by Matthew Desmond (2023)
• Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka (2023)
• Red Rising: Red Rising Series, Book 1 by Pierce Brown (2014)
• Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel by Shelby Van Pelt (2022)
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2011)
• The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman (1958)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (2016)
• Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)

2022

• A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney (2022)
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014)
• Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal (2022)
• Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (2022)
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers (2021)
• Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer (2019)
• Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2019)
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2015)
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980)
• Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (2022)
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (2021)
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (1959)
• Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions by Evan Puschak (2022)
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (2021)
• Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)
• Later by Stephen King (2021)
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner (2003)
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi (2005)
• Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch (1998)
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
• Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch (2019)
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (2022)
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2003)
• Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly (1887)
• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Various Authors (2021)
• The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock (2021)
• The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green (2021)
• The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1 by N. K. Jemison (2015)
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016)
• The Ghost Brigades: Old Man's War, Book 2 by John Scalzi (2006)
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (2019)
• The Last Colony: Old Man's War, Book 3 by John Scalzi (2007)
• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life by Francis Parkman (1849)
• The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey To Mastery (2nd Edition) by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas (2019)
• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. du Bois (1903)
• Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell (2017)
• These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant (2021)
• Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young (2019)

2021

• All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks (2021)
• An Ambush of Widows by Jeff Abbott (2021)
• Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas (2021)
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (2016)
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (2015)
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
• Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (2021)
• Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art by Gene Wilder (2005)
• Life, the Universe, and Everything: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3 by Douglas Adams (1982)
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (1946)
• Mostly Harmless: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 5 by Douglas Adams (1992)
• My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (2019)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)
• Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris (2008)
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2021)
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 4 by Douglas Adams (1984)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Alex Haley, Malcolm X (1965)
• The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1 by Michael Connelly (1992)
• The Daughters of Erietown by Connie Schultz (2020)
• The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean (2010)
• The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (1962)
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020)
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)
• The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)
• The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (2016)
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2 by Douglas Adams (1980)
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019)
• The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob (2014)
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2014)
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
• These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (2018)
• This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone (2019)
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe (2014)

2020

• A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik (2019)
• All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire by Jonathan Abrams (2018)
• Artemis by Andy Weir (2017)
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (2018)
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (2014)
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown (1971)
• Caliban's War (The Expanse: Book 2) by James A. Corey (2012)
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014)
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (2019)
• How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson (2020)
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson (2011)
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich (2016)
• Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse: Book 1) by James A. Corey (2011)
• Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank (2016)
• Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry (2019)
• Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (1988)
• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight (2001)
• Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick (2016)
• Shaker by Scott Frank (2016)
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell (2019)
• The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz (2005)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
• The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (2019)
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (1993)
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson (2020)
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
• Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein (2020)

2019

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (2005)
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (2018)
• A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (2018)
• Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow (2019)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1977)
• Calypso by David Sedaris (2018)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
• Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara (2019)
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)
• Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson (2018)
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (1990)
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly (2016)
• Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2018)
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)
• Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future by John Scalzi (2014)
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (1969)
• My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016)
• Run Away by Harlan Coben (2019)
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (2019)
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (2003)
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (2019)
• The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin (2019)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1985)
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (1962)
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010)
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse Book 1 by Dennis E. Taylor (2016)
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (2018)

2018

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn (2009)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (2016)
• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker (2018)
• Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (2018)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
• Gravity by Tess Gerritsen (1999)
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (2005)
• How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt (2018)
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979)
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (2017)
• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (1975)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (1985)
• The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King (2005)
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963)
• The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1 by Philip Pullman (1995)
• The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood (2014)
• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (2018)
• Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation by Bill Nye (2015)
• Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman (2017)

2017

• A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes (2017)
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (2012)
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (2017)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (2016)
• Hamilton: The Revolution by Jeremy McCarter, Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
• Real Artists Have Day Jobs by Sara Benincasa (2016)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
• The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (1982)
• The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (1987)
• The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King (1991)
• The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (1997)
• The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (2003)
• The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King (2004)
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (2015)
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1990)
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler (2014)

2016

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2005)
• It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario (2015)
• The Nine Old Men: Lessons, Techniques, and Inspiration from Disney's Great Animators by Andreas Deja (2015)
• The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (3rd Edition) by Christopher Vogler (2007)
• Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit, M.D. (2007)

2015

• A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich (1935)
• Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Kristin Marsicano, Bill Phillips, Chris Stewart (2014)
• The Martian by Andy Weir (2014)

2014

• A Cappella Arranging by Dylan Bell, Deke Sharon (2012)
• Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney (2013)
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)

2013

• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman (1983)
• Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan (2013)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (2000)
• The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda (2004)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
• The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film by J. W. Rinzler (2007)
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2013)

2012

• 11/22/63 by Stephen King (2011)
• 1776 by David McCullough (2006)
• Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow (2012)
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (1983)
• Under the Dome by Stephen King (2009)

2011

• Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor (2005)
• Bossypants by Tina Fey (2011)
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold (2000)
• From a Buick 8 by Stephen King (2002)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
• School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari (2010)
• The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket (1999)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)
• The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price (2009)
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

2010

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (1978)
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (2009)
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (1999)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (2007)
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
• Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson (2007)
• Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson (2007)
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
• The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard (2005)
• Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan (2007)
• War by Sebastian Junger (2010)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1987)
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (2008)
• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (2008)

2009

• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2005)
• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin (2007)
• Evolution: The Triump of an Idea by Carl Zimmer (2006)
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (1997)
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (1999)
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
• Peter and the Star Catchers by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson (2006)
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, William Golding (2008)
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (2009)
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (2007)
• The Wave by Walter Mosley (2005)

2008

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (2005)
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
• Naked by David Sedaris (1997)
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (1996)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (1960)
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (2000)
• On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony (1983)
• Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis (2007)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
• What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank (2004)

2007

• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (1977)
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (1998)
• Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card (1996)
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (1995)
• Falling Man by Don DeLillo (2007)
• Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry (2004)
• Gasping for Airtime by Jay Mohr (2004)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (2007)
• I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (2008)
• Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers (2005)
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (2006)
• The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter (2002)
• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough (1983)
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2004)
• The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin (2004)
• The Prisoner of Guantanamo by Dan Fesperman (2007)
• Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (1991)

2006

• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (2002)
• By Sorrow's River by Larry McMurtry (2003)
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985)
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (2006)
• Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal (2004)
• Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders (2003)
• Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry (2002)
• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1986)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003)
• The Main in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
• The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry (2003)

2005

• Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (1990)
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (2005)
• Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow (2003)

2004

• Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky (2004)
• Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales (2002)
• The Da Vinci Code by Robert Langdon (2003)
• The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45 by Stephen Ambrose (2001)

2003

• Effective Java - Programming Language Guide by Joshua Bloch (2002)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2003)
• The Object Primer: The Application Developer's Guide to Object Orientation and the UML by Scott W. Ambler (2001)

2001

• Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando, Robert Lindsey (1994)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (2000)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (1999)
• Pure Drivel by Steve Martin (1998)

2000

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (1998)
• Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997)
• The Runaway Jury by John Grisham (1996)
• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel (2000)

1999

• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan (1999)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1994)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)

1998

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
• Carrie by Stephen King (1974)
• The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (1985)
• What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff (1989)

1997

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976)
• Rising Sun by Michael Crichton (1992)
• Sphere by Michael Crichton (1987)
• What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi Murkoff (1984)

1996

• All You Need to Know About the Music Business by Donald S. Passman (1995)
• Firestarter by Stephen King (1980)
• Misery by Stephen King (1987)
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1979)
• The Shining by Stephen King (1977)

1995

• Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982)
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1602)
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (1969)
• The Chamber by John Grisham (1994)
• The Pelican Brief by John Grisham (1992)

1994

• Congo by Michael Crichton (1980)
• Night Shift by Stephen King (1978)
• The Client by John Grisham (1993)

1993

• A Time to Kill by John Grisham (1988)
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)
• Misery by Stephen King (1987)
• The Firm by John Grisham (1991)

1992 and Earlier

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
• A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle (1973)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
• An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski (1936)
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908)
• Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume (1970)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1931)
• Candide by Voltaire (1759)
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)
• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (1952)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (1948)
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (1957)
• Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1966)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599)
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (1952)
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (1623)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
• On the Beach by Nevil Shute (1957)
• Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball by Paul Zindel (1976)
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1911)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597)
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962)
• Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster (1978)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
• The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (1941)
• The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley (1945)
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor (1969)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (1951)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis (1954)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (1956)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis (1955)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis (1953)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (1952)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953)
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
• The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (1897)
• The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells (1896)
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1947)
• The Red Pony by John Steinbeck (1937)
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (1942)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1812)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (1895)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)