| 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 |
| 2025[31] |
Melissa Blake |
Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability |
| David F. Walker, illus. by Marcus Kwame Anderson |
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined |
| Eve J. Chung |
Daughters of Shandong |
| P. Djèlí Clark |
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins |
| Kristen Perrin |
How to Solve Your Own Murder |
| Lara Pickle |
I Feel Awful, Thanks |
| Stephen Graham Jones |
I Was a Teenage Slasher |
| Rosie Hewlett |
The Witch of Colchis |
| Henry H. Neff |
The Witchstone |
| Marjane Satrapi, trans. by Una Dimitrijević |
Woman, Life, Freedom |