Memorable books from each year
2022
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Shepherd’s Calendar by Edmund Spenser
- The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin
- The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
- Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
- The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
- The National Park to Come by Margret Grebowicz
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabriel Zevin
2021
- 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
- Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- How to Build a Car by Adrian Newey
- Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- I Can’t Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux
- Chop Suey Nation by Ann Hui
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2020
- The Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
- The Financial Diaries by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- Excessive Force by Alok Mukherjee and Tim Harper
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu
- 21 Things You May Not Have Known About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
- Whistleblower by Susan Fowler
- Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- The Earth Cries Out by Bonnie Etherington
2019
- Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Banker to the Poor by Mohammed Yunus
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
- Algorithms of Oppresion by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
- Never Let You Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
2018
- The World Before Yesterday by Jared Diamond
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
- Life after Life by Kate Atikinson
2017
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Good News About Injustice by Gary Haugen
- A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
2016
- The Universal Man by Richard Davenport-Hines
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
- Angola Torchbearers by Maria Chela Chikueka
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl