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2024

1. Michael Lewis, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

2. Richard A. Muller, Energy for Future Presidents

3. Richard A. Muller, Physics for Future Presidents

4. RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

5. Logan Ury, How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love

2023

1. Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

2. Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

3. Irwin M. Stelzer (edited by), The Neocon Reader

4. David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

5. Jason Hickel, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequity and it's Solutions

6. Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

7. J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy

8. Jessica Abel, Out On The Wire

9. Walter Block, Defending The Undefendable II: Freedom In All Realms

10. Elyn Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

11. Amir Levine & Rachel Heller, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—And Keep—Love

2022

1. Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America

2. Alexander Chee, How To Write An Autobiographical Novel

3. Albert Camus, The Stranger

4. William Styron, Darkness Visible

5. Christian Dior, Dior By Dior

6. Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit

7. Noami Klein, No Logo

8. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America

9. Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

10. David Foster Wallace, The Last Interview

11. Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage

12. André Aciman (edited by), The Best American Essays 2020

13. Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

14. Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics

15. Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore

16. Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

17. Michael Schur, How To Be Perfect

18. Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty

19. Pierre Bayard, How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read

20. Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality

21. Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

22. Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?

23. Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

24. Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography

25. William MacAskill, Doing Good Better

2021

1. Raymond Carver, Will You Be Quiet, Please?

2. Raymond Carver, Cathedral

3. Mario Puzo, The Godfather

4. Jumpha Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

5. Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

6. Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings

7. Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning

8. Desmond Morton, A Short History of Canada

2020

1. Haruki Murakami, Hear The Wind Sing / Pinball

2. Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

3. Wesley Yang, The Souls of Yellow Folk

4. Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

6. Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

7. David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames

8. Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

9. David Sedaris, Naked

10. David Rakoff, Fraud

11. Ben Lerner, Leaving The Atocha Station

12. Sandra Cisneros, The House On Mango Street

13. George Saunders, CivilWarLand In Bad Decline

14. Haruki Murakami, Men Without Woman

15. George Saunders, Pastoralia

16. George Saunders, Tenth of December

17. Daniel Jones (edited by), Modern Love (New York Times)

18. Billy Collins (edited by), Poetry 180

19. Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins

20. David Sedaris, Barrel Fever

21. Bradley Hope & Tom Wright, Billion Dollar Whale

22. Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

2019

1. Teri Agins, The End Of Fashion 

2. Stephen King, On Writing

3. John Knowles, A Separate Peace

4. Malcolm Gladwell, What The Dog Saw

5. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

6. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

7. Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

8. David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster

9. Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem

10. Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

11. Jay MacLeod, Ain’t No Makin’ It

12. E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

13. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood