2019
- Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Lisa Halliday: Asymmetry
- Mary Robinette Kowal: The Calculating Stars
- Mary Robinette Kowal: The Fated Sky
- Kara Cooney: When Women Ruled the World
- Paula McLain: A Mind of Her Own
2018
- Masha Gessen: The Future is History
- James S. A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes
- Caitlin Moran: How to Build a Girl
- Meg Wolitzer: The Interestings
- Shana Knizhnik, Irin Carmon: Notorious RBG
- Roxane Gay: Hunger
- Naomi Alderman: The Power
- André Aciman: Call Me By Your Name
- Jeffrey Kluger: Apollo 8
- Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
- Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time
- John Scalzi: Redshirts
- Benjamin Alire Saenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- Jill Twiss: A Day in Life of Marlon Bundo
- Natalia Holt: Rise of the Rocket Girls
- Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles
- Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala
- Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
- Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
- Iliza Shlesinger: Girl Logic
- Madeleine Albright: Fascism: A Warning
- Madeline Miller: Circe
- Nnedi Okorafor: Binti
- Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion
- Blake Crouch: Dark Matter
- Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
- Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!
- Ronan Farrow: War on Peace
- Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want to Talk About Race
- Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
- Rhoda Belleza: Empress of a Thousand Skies
- Jane Austen: Emma
- John Scalzi: The Consuming Fire
- Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Angela Saini: Inferior
- Jill Santopolo: The Light We Lost
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Nine Lives
- Terry Pratchett: Mort
- N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
2017
- Han Kang: The Vegetarian
- Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart
- Jeff Chang: We Gon’ Be Alright
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening
- Frank Herbert: Dune
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Al Franken: Giant of the Senate
- Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
- Aziz Ansari: Modern Romance
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Al Franken: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
- Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny
- Heinrich Harrer: Seven Years in Tibet
- H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
- Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Happened
- Andy Weir: The Martian
- Paul Beatty: The Sellout
- Brian Greene: Light Falls
- John Scalzi: The Collapsing Empire
- Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Rupi Kaur: Milk and Honey
- Andy Weir: Artemis
- Lawrence Krauss: The Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far
- John Scalzi: The Dispatcher
- Yuval Noah Harari: Homo Deus
- Carrie Fisher: The Princess Diarist
- Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
- Hope Jahren: Lab Girl
- Kameron Hurley: The Stars Are Legion
- George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo
- Tiffany Haddish: The Last Black Unicorn
2015 – 2016
- Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
- Alice Munroe: Dear Life
- Yannick Grannec: The Goddess of Small Victories
- R. J. Palacio: Wonder
- Elena Ferrante: My Brilliant Friend
- Elena Ferrante: The Story of a New Name
- Elena Ferrante: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- Elena Ferrante: The Story of the Lost Child
- Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit
- Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
- David Vann: Aquarium
- Zadie Smith: White Teeth
- Graeme Simion: The Rosie Project
- Milan Kundera: The Festival of Insignificance
- Jeanette Winterson: Gut Symmetries
- John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius
- Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In
- Jonas Jonasson: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
- Juli Zeh: Gaming Instinct
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
- Marguerite Duras: The Lover
- Hilary du Pre and Piers du Pre: A Genius in the Family
- Blair Tindall: Mozart in the Jungle
- Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White
- Vit Sliva: Navrsi
