| 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
|
