2024

Critical Hits
J. Robert Lennon
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers

2023

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Taylor Lorenz
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Zeke Faux
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
Melissa Maerz
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm Gaskill
Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet
Marie Le Conte
Far from the Light of Heaven
Tade Thompson
Devil House
John Darnielle

2022

How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu
Haven
Emma Donoghue
Elder Race
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
Kyle Buchanan
Autumn
Ali Smith
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Annalee Newitz
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
Slade House
David Mitchell
Several People Are Typing
Calvin Kasulke
Matrix
Lauren Groff
Sea State
Tabitha Lasley
Boundless Realm: Deep Explorations Inside Disney's Haunted Mansion
Foxx Nolte
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege #1)
K.J. Parker

2021

This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Martha Wells
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman
The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
Brandon Sanderson
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ellen Ullman
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Matthew B. Crawford
Authority
Jeff VanderMeer
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Douglas Coupland
House of M
Brian Michael Bendis
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea
Patrick Freyne
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Manchán Magan
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell

2020

A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet
Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline
Simon Parkin
Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Semiosis (Semiosis Duology, #1)
Sue Burke
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Tamsyn Muir
The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition)
Nicholas Gurewitch
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Becky Chambers
Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Richard Brautigan
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
Timothy Zahn

2019

All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
The Power
Naomi Alderman
The Chain
Adrian McKinty
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
Mike Monteiro
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Austin Kleon
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
Treasure (Dirk Pitt)
Clive Cussler
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Dave Addey
Akira, Vol. 6
Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira, Vol. 5
Katsuhiro Otomo
All the Names They Used for God
Anjali Sachdeva
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
Akira, Vol. 4
Katsuhiro Otomo
Circe
Madeline Miller

2018

America
Jean Baudrillard
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
Akira, Vol. 3
Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira, Vol. 2
Katsuhiro Otomo
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Julian Barnes
Akira, Vol. 1
Katsuhiro Otomo
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)
Terry Pratchett
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
Ngaio Marsh
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Angela Nagle
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
Lewis Carroll
The Witch
Shirley Jackson
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Douglas Adams
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
Cory O'Brien
Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill
La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
Philip Pullman
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead

2017

Queenpin
Megan Abbott
Artemis
Andy Weir
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (From a Certain Point of View #1)
Elizabeth Schaefer
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Alastair Bonnett
Ghost (Track, #1)
Jason Reynolds
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
The BFG
Roald Dahl
Alex Cox's Introduction to Film: A Director's Perspective
Alex Cox
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
N.K. Jemisin

2016

Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
George R.R. Martin
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
Sylvain Neuvel
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly

2015

Caliban's War
James S.A. Corey
Endtroducing.....
Eliot Wilder
The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4)
Ursula K. Le Guin
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Breathing Machine: Growing Up in the Digital Age
Leigh Alexander
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
David Shafer
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Black Moon
Kenneth Calhoun
Havoc, in Its Third Year
Ronan Bennett
The Internet Of Garbage
Sarah Jeong
Warlock
Oakley Hall
In the Woods
Tana French
Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
Shovel Ready
Adam Sternbergh
Mort
Terry Pratchett
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
Stoner
John Williams
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo
The Greek Myths
Robin A.H. Waterfield
Right Ho, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Crooked Little Vein
Warren Ellis
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel

2014

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
The Descent
Jeff Long
Seconds
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Lexicon
Max Barry
Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever
Mark O'Connell
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Life as We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Martian
Andy Weir
Black Hole
Charles Burns
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Austin Kleon
Here Are The Young Men
Rob Doyle
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill
Under the Skin
Michel Faber
Far North
Marcel Theroux
Dark Eden
Chris Beckett
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Zen in the Art of Archery: Training the Mind and Body to Become One
Eugen Herrigel
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka

2013

Horns
Joe Hill
The Rook
Daniel O'Malley
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Jon Ronson
Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks
The Mirage
Matt Ruff
Gun Machine
Warren Ellis
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson
Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
John Dies at the End
David Wong
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Jenny Lawson

2012

The Last Policeman
Ben H. Winters
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event
Mark Millar
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
Anna Anthropy
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
D.T. Max
A-frame
Chad Randl
Wool Omnibus
Hugh Howey
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt

2011

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969
Alan Moore
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910
Alan Moore
Black Dossier
Alan Moore
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex: What's Wrong With Modern Movies?
Mark Kermode
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
H.P. Lovecraft
More Pricks Than Kicks
Samuel Beckett
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Graham Robb