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1930's

1931

 Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence by Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw (Putnam) - October 12, 1931

Washington Merry-Go-Round by Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert Allen) (Liveright) - November 30, 1931

Bernard Shaw by Frank Harris (Simon & Schuster) - December 7, 1931

The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams (Little, Brown) - December 14, 1931

Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill (Liveright) - December 21, 1931

1932

 Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen (Harper) - February 1, 1932

A Fortune to Share by Vash Young (Bobbs-Merrill) - February 15, 1932

The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow (Scribner) - February 29, 1932

Once a Grand Duke by Alexander of Russia (Farrar & Rinehart) - March 14, 1932

Recovery by Sir Arthur Salter (Century) - April 18, 1932

20,000 Years In Sing Sing by Warden Lawes (Long & Smith) - May 30, 1932

A New Way to Better Golf by A.J. Morrison (Simon & Schuster) - July 11, 1932

What We Live By by Abbe Ernest Dimnet (Simon & Schuster) - August 8, 1932

A Princess In Exile by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia (Viking) - September 5, 1932

More Merry-Go-Round by Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert Allen) (Liveright) - September 12, 1932

Death In The Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) - October 10, 1932

Van Loon's Geography by Hendrik Van Loon (Simon & Schuster) - October 31, 1932

The March of Democracy by James Truslow Adams (Scribner) - November 7, 1932

1933

 The ABC of Technocracy by Frank Awkwright (Harper) - January 16, 1933

Contract Bridge Blue Book, 1933 by Ely Culbertson (Bridge World) - February 6, 1933

British Agent by R.H. Bruce Lockhart (Putnam) - February 20, 1933

Culbertson's 1933 Summary by Ely Culbertson (Bridge World) - March 20, 1933

Looking Forward by Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Day) - March 27, 1933

Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig (Viking) - April 24, 1933

The House of Exile by Nora Waln (Little, Brown) - May 29, 1933

Always a Grand Duke by Alexander of Russia (Farrar & Rinehart) - June 12, 1933

Julia Newberry's Diary by Julia Rosa Newberry (Norton) - July 10, 1933

The Arches of the Years by Halliday Sutherland (Morrow) - July 17, 1933

The First World War by Laurence Stallings, editor (Simon & Schuster) - August 28, 1933

The Crime of Cuba by Carleton Beals (Lippincott) - September 18, 1933

Life Begins at Forty by Walter B. Pitkin (Whittlesey) - October 9, 1933

More Power to You by Walter B. Pitkin (Whittlesey) - October 16, 1933

Crowded Hours by Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Scribner) - November 13, 1933

The Man of the Renaissance by Ralph Roeder (Viking) - December 18, 1933

1934

 Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming (Scribner) - January 15, 1934

The Native's Return by James Truslow Adams (Harper) - February 12, 1934

The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson (Harcourt, Brace) - March 12, 1934

While Rome Burns by Alexander Woollcott (Viking) - March 26, 1934

On Our Way by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Day) - April 30, 1934

Nijinsky by Romola Nijinsky (Simon & Schuster) - May 14, 1934

Stars Fell on Alabama by Carl Carmer (Farrar & Rinehart) - July 16, 1934

The Coming American Boom by L.L.B. Angas (Simon & Schuster) - August 27, 1934

English Journey by J.B. Priestley (Harper) - September 3, 1934

The Challenge to Liberty by Herbert Hoover (Scribner) - October 15, 1934

Forty-Two Years In the White House by Irwin H. Hoover (Houghton Mifflin) - October 22, 1934

Wine From These Grapes by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper) - December 3, 1934

1935

 Experiment In Autobiography by H.G. Wells (MacMillan) - January 7, 1935

Skin Deep by M.C. Phillips (Vanguard) - January 28, 1935

Inflation Ahead! by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton (Simon & Schuster) - March 4, 1935

Francis the First by Francis Hackett (Doubleday, Doran) - March 11, 1935

Personal History by Vincent Sheean (Doubleday, Doran) - April 22, 1935

Culbertson's New Summary of Contract Bridge by Ely Culbertson (Winston) - April 29, 1935

Road to War by Walter Millis (Houghton Mifflin) - May 13, 1935

Handout by George Michael (Putnam) - May 20, 1935

Catherine by Gina Kaus (Viking) - June 24, 1935

Don Fernando by Somerset Maugham (Doubleday, Doran) - August 12, 1935

Life With Father (Moved From Fiction Prior Week) by Clarence Day (Knopf) - August 19, 1935

North to the Orient by Anne Lindbergh (Harcourt, Brace) - August 26, 1935

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (Doubleday, Doran) - October 14, 1935

The Woollcott Reader by Alexander Woollcott, editor (Viking) - December 23, 1935

1936

 The Way of the Transgressor by Negley Farson (Harcourt, Brace) - March 9, 1936

Wake Up and Live by Dorothea Brande (Simon & Schuster) - May 4, 1936

Around the World In Eleven Years by Patience, Richard and John Abbe (Stokes) - August 24, 1936

Live Alone and Like It by Marjorie Hillis (Bobbs-Merrill) - September 7, 1936

An American Doctor's Odyssey by Victor Heiser (Norton) - October 26, 1936

1937

 How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Simon & Schuster) - January 25, 1937

The Hundred Years by Philip Guedalla (Doubleday, Doran) - February 15, 1937

Present Indicative by Noel Coward (Doubleday, Doran) - May 3, 1937

Coronation Commentary by Geoffrey Dennis (Dodd, Mead) - May 17, 1937

Orchids on Your Budget by Marjorie Hillis (Bobbs-Merrill) - July 5, 1937

Conversation at Midnight by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper) - August 2, 1937

Life With Mother by Clarence Day (Knopf) - September 6, 1937

The Arts by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon & Schuster) - October 18, 1937

Madame Curie by Eve Curie (Doubleday, Doran) - December 20, 1937

The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang (Reynal & Hitchcock) - December 27, 1937

1938

 The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld (Simon & Schuster) - May 9, 1938

Fanny Kemble by Margaret Armstrong (MacMillan) - July 25, 1938

With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey (Simon & Schuster) - September 5, 1938

The Horse and Buggy Doctor by Arthur E. Hertzler (Harper) - September 26, 1938

Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Harcourt, Brace) - October 24, 1938

1939

 We Saw It Happen by Thirteen Correspondents of the New York Times (Simon & Schuster) - February 6, 1939

A Peculiar Treasure by Edna Ferber (Doubleday, Doran) - February 13, 1939

Reaching For the Stars by Nora Wain (Little, Brown) - March 20, 1939

Days of Our Years by Pierre van Paassen (Hillman-Curl) - May 1, 1939

Inside Asia by John Gunther (Harper) - June 19, 1939

Not Peace But a Sword by Vincent Sheean (Doubleday, Doran) - August 14, 1939

Country Lawyer by Bellamy Partridge (Whittlesey House) - September 4, 1939

A Treasury of Art Masterpieces by edited by Thomas Craven (Simon & Schuster) - October 30, 1939

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1940

 A Smattering of Ignorance by Oscar Levant (Doubleday, Doran) - January 29, 1940

How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler (Simon & Schuster) - April 1, 1940

Failure of a Mission by Sir Nevile Henderson (Putnam) - May 6, 1940

American White Paper by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner (Simon & Schuster) - May 13, 1940

I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson (Lippincott) - June 10, 1940

As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser (Little, Brown) - July 15, 1940

Country Squire In the Whitehouse by John Flynn (Doubleday, Doran) - July 29, 1940

The Wave of the Future by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Harcourt, Brace) - November 11, 1940

A Treasury of the World's Greatest Letters by M. Lincoln Schuster, editor (Simon & Schuster) - November 25, 1940

The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller (Coward-McCann) - December 23, 1940

1941

 Out of the Night by Jan Valtin (Alliance) - February 3, 1941

Blood, Sweat and Tears by Winston Churchill (Putnam) - April 28, 1941

The Time Is Now by Pierre van Paassen (Dial) - June 2, 1941

Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer (Knopf) - June 30, 1941

1942

 Mission to Moscow by Joseph E. Davies (Simon & Schuster) - January 12, 1942

Flight to Arras by Antonine de St. Exupery (Reynal & Hitchcock) - March 16, 1942

The Japanese Enemy by Hugh Byas (Knopf) - March 23, 1942

Past Imperfect by Ilka Chase (Doubleday, Doran) - April 13, 1942

Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings (Scribner) - May 4, 1942

The Last Time I Saw Paris by Paul Elliot (Random House) - May 11, 1942

Washington Is Like That by W.M. Kiplinger (Harper) - August 10, 1942

Victory Through Air Power by Alexander de Seversky (Simon & Schuster) - August 24, 1942

See Here, Private Hargrove by Marion Hargrove (Holt) - August 31, 1942

The Coming Battle of Germany by William B. Ziff (Duell) - September 21, 1942

They Were Expendable by W. L. White (Harcourt) - September 28, 1942

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough (Dodd, Mead) - December 28, 1942

1943

 Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis (Random House) - February 22, 1943

Between the Thunder and the Sun by Vincent Sheean (Random House) - April 12, 1943

One World by Wendell Willkie (Simon & Schuster) - April 19, 1943

U. S. Foreign Policy by Walter Lippmann (Little, Brown) - July 12, 1943

Journey Among Warriors by Eve Curie (Doubleday, Doran) - July 26, 1943

Under Cover by John Roy Carlson (Dutton) - August 9, 1943

1944

 Good Night, Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler (Viking) - February 13, 1944

Yankee From Olympus by Catherine Drinker Bowen (Little, Brown) - July 2, 1944

I Never Left Home by Bob Hope (Simon & Schuster) - July 9, 1944

The Time For Decision by Sumner Welles (Harper) - September 10, 1944

Brave Men by Ernie Pyle (Holt) - December 24, 1944

1945

 Anything Can Happen by George and Helen Papashvily (Harper) - March 11, 1945

The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber (Harper) - April 1, 1945

Black Boy by Richard Wright (Harper) - April 8, 1945

Up Front by Bill Mauldin (Holt) - July 8, 1945

The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (Lippincott) - December 30, 1945

1946

 Peace of Mind by Joshua L. Leibman (Simon & Schuster) - October 27, 1946

1947

 Inside U. S. A. by John Gunther (Harper) - June 29, 1947

Speaking Frankly by James F. Byrnes (Harper) - November 16, 1947

1948

 Sexual Behavior In the Human Male by A. C. Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin (Saunders) - May 23, 1948

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie (Simon & Schuster) - August 1, 1948

The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill (Houghton Mifflin) - August 8, 1948

Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood (Harper) - December 19, 1948

Crusade In Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Doubleday) - December 26, 1948

1949

 Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (Crowell) - March 13, 1949

The Greatest Story Ever Told by Fulton Oursler (Doubleday) - May 1, 1949

White Collar Zoo by Clare Barnes (Doubleday) - September 4, 1949

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1950

 This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt (Harper) - January 15, 1950

The Mature Mind by Harry Overstreet (Norton) - March 5, 1950

Worlds In Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky (Doubleday) - May 7, 1950

Roosevelt In Retrospect by John Gunther (Harper) - July 9, 1950

Courtroom by Quentin Reynolds (Farrar, Straus) - August 27, 1950

The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford (Harcourt) - September 3, 1950

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (Rand McNally) - October 8, 1950

Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser (Farrar, Straus) - October 15, 1950

1951

 Washington Confidential by Jack Lait and Mortimer Lee (Crown) - April 1, 1951

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson (Oxford University Press) - September 9, 1951

1952

 Mr. President by William Hillman (Farrar, Straus) - April 20, 1952

U. S. A. Confidential by Jack Lait and Mortimer Lee (Crown) - April 27, 1952

Witness by Whittaker Chambers (Random House) - June 22, 1952

A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall (McGraw-Hill) - September 21, 1952

Tallulah by Tallulah Bankhead (Harper) - October 26, 1952

1953

 Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version (Nelson) - February 15, 1953

Annapurna by Maurice Herzog (Dutton) - February 22, 1953

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (Prentice Hall) - May 17, 1953

1954

 But We Were Born Free by Elmer Davis (Bobbs) - April 18, 1954

1955

 Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Pantheon Books) - April 17, 1955

1956

 The Search For Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein (Doubleday) - March 4, 1956

The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill (Dodd) - May 27, 1956

Arthritis and Common Sense by Dale Alexander (Witkower Press) - July 15, 1956

Eisenhower: The Inside Story by Robert J. Donovan (Harper) - August 5, 1956

The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme (Little, Brown) - October 21, 1956

1957

 The F. B. I. Story by Donald Whitehead (Random House) - February 3, 1957

Day of Infamy by Walter Lord (Holt) - May 26, 1957

The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop (Harper) - June 23, 1957

The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard (McKay) - August 4, 1957

Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard Baruch (Holt) - September 22, 1957

1958

 Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr (Doubleday) - February 2, 1958

Masters of Deceit by J. Edgar Hoover (Holt) - May 4, 1958

Inside Russia Today by John Gunther (Harper) - July 6, 1958

Only in America by Harry Golden (World) - September 21, 1958

Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdahl (Rand McNally) - October 19, 1958

1959

 Mine Enemy Grows Older by Alexander King (Simon & Schuster) - April 12, 1959

The Status Seekers by Vance Packard (McKay) - June 14, 1959

For 2¢ Plain by Harry Golden (World) - September 13, 1959

Act One by Moss Hart (Random House) - November 1, 1959

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1960's

1960

 May This House Be Safe from Tigers by Alexander King (Simon & Schuster) - March 13, 1960

Born Free by Joy Adamson (Pantheon) - August 7, 1960

The Waste Makers by Vance Packard (McKay) - November 6, 1960

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer (Simon & Schuster) - December 4, 1960

1961

 The New English Bible (Oxford University Press) - May 28, 1961

The Making of the President - 1960 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum) - September 10, 1961

1962

 My Life In Court by Louis Nizer (William Morrow & Company) - January 21, 1962

Calories Don't Count by Herman Taller (Simon & Schuster) - March 25, 1962

The Rothchilds by Frederic Morton (Atheneum) - June 24, 1962

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (Viking) - October 21, 1962

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Houghton Mifflin) - October 28, 1962

1963

 The Whole Truth and Nothing But by Hedda Hopper (Doubleday) - May 19, 1963

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Dial Press) - July 7, 1963

I Owe Russia $1200 by Bob Hope (Doubleday) - July 21, 1963

JFK: The Man and the Myth by Victor Lasky (MacMillan) - October 6, 1963

The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford (Simon & Schuster) - December 8, 1963

Profiles In Courage by John F. Kennedy (Harper) - December 29, 1963

1964

 Four Days by UPI/American Heritage (American Heritage) - March 22, 1964

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner's) - June 14, 1964

Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur (McGraw) - October 25, 1964

Markings by Dag Hammarskjold (Knopf) - December 20, 1964

1965

 The Making of the President - 1964 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum) - August 1, 1965

Kennedy by Theodore Sorensen (Harper) - October 31, 1965

1966

 A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger (Houghton Mifflin) - January 9, 1966

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Random House) - February 6, 1966

The Last Battle by Ryan Cornelius (Simon & Schuster) - May 8, 1966

How to Avoid Probate by Norman Dacey (Crown) - July 17, 1966

Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane (Holt) - November 13, 1966

1967

 Everything But Money by Sam Levenson (Simon & Schuster) - January 8, 1967

Madame Sarah by Cornelia Otis Skinner (Houghton Mifflin) - March 12, 1967

The Death of a President by William Manchester (Harper Collins) - April 23, 1967

The New Industrial State by John K. Galbraith (Houghton Mifflin) - July 23, 1967

Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York by Stephen Birmingham (Harper) - September 10, 1967

1968

 Rickenbacker by Edward V. Rickenbacker (Prentice Hall) - January 7, 1968

Between Parent and Child by Hiam Ginott (MacMillan) - February 25, 1968

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris (McGraw) - March 3, 1968

The Money Game by Adam Smith (Random House) - July 7, 1968

Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line by Arthur Krock (Funk & Wagnalls) - December 15, 1968

1969

 The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury (Harper) - May 4, 1969

Jennie by Ralph Martin (Signet) - May 11, 1969

The Peter Principle by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull (Morrow) - July 20, 1969

The Selling of the President - 1968 by Joe McGinnis (Trident) - November 30, 1969

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1970

 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) by David Reuben (McKay) - March 1, 1970

Up the Organization by Robert Townsend (Knopf) - May 3, 1970

The Sensuous Woman by "J" (Joan Terry Garrity) (Lyle Stuart/Carroll Publishing) - September 20, 1970

The Greening of America by Charles Reich (Random House) - December 27, 1970

1971

 Civilisation by Kenneth Clark (Harper) - January 10, 1971

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (Holt) - May 30, 1971

The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (McGraw) - July 25, 1971

Any Woman Can! by David Reuben, M.D. (David McKay Company) - November 21, 1971

Honor Thy Father by Gay Talese (World) - November 28, 1971

Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph Lash (Norton) - December 5, 1971

1972

 The Game of the Foxes by Ladislas Farago (McKay) - March 19, 1972

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn (Harper) - May 28, 1972

I'm OK, You're OK by Thomas A. Harris, M.D. (Harper) - June 25, 1972

O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre (Simon & Schuster) - July 23, 1972

1973

 Harry S. Truman by Margaret Truman (Morrow) - January 14, 1973

The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (Random House) - January 21, 1973

Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins (McKay) - February 18, 1973

The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort (Crown) - August 5, 1973

How to Be Your Own Best Friend by Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz and Jean Owen (Random House) - October 14, 1973

Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke (Knopf) - December 9, 1973

1974

 Plain Speaking by Merle Miller (Putnam) - February 24, 1974

You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis by Harry Browne (MacMillan) - April 28, 1974

Times to Remember by Rose Kennedy (Doubleday) - May 19, 1974

All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Simon & Schuster) - June 30, 1974

All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot (St. Martin's) - November 17, 1974

1975

 The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz (Doubleday) - February 2, 1975

The Palace Guard by Dan Rather and Gary Paul Gates (Harper) - February 16, 1975

Breach of Faith by Theodore H. White (Atheneum) - June 15, 1975

Sylvia Porter's Money Book by Sylvia Porter (Doubleday) - September 7, 1975

Power! by Michael Korda (Random House) - November 23, 1975

Bring On the Empty Horses by David Niven (Putnam) - November 30, 1975

The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson (Morrow) - December 21, 1975

1976

 Winning Through Intimidation by Robert J. Ringer (Funk & Wagnalls) - March 7, 1976

Doris Day: Her Own Story by A. E. Hotchner (Morrow) - March 14, 1976

World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) - April 18, 1976

The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Simon & Schuster) - April 25, 1976

Passages by Gail Sheehy (Dutton) - August 29, 1976

Roots by Alex Haley (Doubleday) - November 21, 1976

1977

 Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dwyer (Funk & Wagnalls) - May 8, 1977

The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace (Morrow) - July 24, 1977

Looking Out for Number One by Robert J. Ringer (Funk & Wagnalls) - August 21, 1977

All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot (St. Martin's) - September 11, 1977

1978

 The Complete Book of Running by James Fixx (Random House) - February 26, 1978

The Ends of Power by H. R. Haldeman and Joseph DiMona (Times) - March 19, 1978

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck (McGraw-Hill) - May 28, 1978

Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford (Morrow) - November 26, 1978

1979

 Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet (Abrams) - January 14, 1979

Lauren Bacall by Myself by Lauren Bacall (Knopf) - February 11, 1979

The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower and Samm Sinclair Baker (Rawson Wade) - April 1, 1979

Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin (Putnam's) - July 22, 1979

Aunt Erma's Cope Book by Erma Bombeck (McGraw-Hill) - October 28, 1979

The Brethern by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong (Simon & Schuster) - December 30, 1979

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1980

 Donahue by Phil Donahue (Simon & Schuster) - March 23, 1980

Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman (Harcourt) - April 6, 1980

Men in Love by Nancy Friday (Delacorte) - May 18, 1980

Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese (Doubleday) - May 25, 1980

Shelley: Also Known as Shirley by Shelley Winters (Morrow) - August 3, 1980

Crisis Investing by Douglas R. Casey (Harper) - September 21, 1980

Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Random House) - November 9, 1980

1981

 Never Say Diet by Richard Simmons (Warner) - March 8, 1981

The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot (St. Martin's) - May 17, 1981

The Beverly Hills Diet by Judy Mazel (MacMillan) - July 12, 1981

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (Harper) - November 29, 1981

1982

 A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney by Andy A. Rooney (Atheneum) - March 7, 1982

Jane Fonda's Workout Book by Jane Fonda (Simon & Schuster) - March 14, 1982

Living, Loving & Learning by Leo Buscaglia (Holt/Slack) - June 6, 1982

Life Extension by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw (Warner) - August 8, 1982

And More by Andy Rooney by Andy A. Rooney (Atheneum) - November 21, 1982

1983

 Megatrends by John Naisbitt (Warner) - February 27, 1983

In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (Harper) - April 24, 1983

Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck (McGraw-Hill) - October 23, 1983

1984

 Mayor by Edward Koch and W. William Raven (Simon & Schuster) - February 26, 1984

First Lady from Plains by Rosalynn Carter (Houghton Mifflin) - June 17, 1984

Wired by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - June 24, 1984

The Kennedys: An American Drama by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Summit) - July 22, 1984

Loving Each Other by Leo Buscaglia (Holt) - September 9, 1984

Iacocca by Lee Iacocca and William Novak (Bantam) - November 4, 1984

1985

 A Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin (Random House) - June 9, 1985

Yeager by Chuck Yeager, Cy Janos and Leo Janos (Bantam) - July 21, 1985

Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon (Putnam) - September 29, 1985

1986

 Bus 9 to Paradise by Leo Buscaglia (Morrow) - February 23, 1986

You're Only Old Once by Dr. Seuss (Random House) - March 30, 1986

The Triumph of Politics by David Stockman (Harper) - May 11, 1986

Fatherhood by Bill Cosby (Doubleday) - May 25, 1986

His Way by Kitty Kelley (Bantam) - October 12, 1986

A Day in the Life of America by Collins (Collins) - November 30, 1986

1987

 A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein (MacMillan) - February 1, 1987

Communion by Whitley Strieber (Morrow) - May 10, 1987

Love, Medicine and Miracles by Bernie S. Siegel (Harper) - May 17, 1987

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (Simon & Schuster) - June 7, 1987

Spycatcher by Peter Wright (Viking) - August 16, 1987

Veil by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - October 18, 1987

The Great Depression of 1990 by Ravi Batra (Simon & Schuster) - November 15, 1987

Free to Be…A Family by edited by Marlo Thomas with Christopher Cerf and Letty Cottin Pogrebin (Bantam) - November 29, 1987

Time Flies by Bill Cosby (Doubleday) - December 6, 1987

1988

 Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz (Random House) - January 17, 1988

Moonwalk by Michael Jackson (Doubleday) - May 15, 1988

For the Record by Donald T. Regan (Harcourt) - May 29, 1988

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Bantam) - June 26, 1988

Talking Straight by Lee Iacocca and Sonny Kleinfeld (Bantam) - July 3, 1988

The Last Lion by William Manchester (Little, Brown) - November 20, 1988

Gracie by George Burns (Putnam) - December 4, 1988

1989

 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum (Villard) - January 1, 1989

Blind Faith by Joe McGinnis (Putnam) - February 12, 1989

A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann (Lyle Stuart/Carroll Publishing) - May 21, 1989

Summer of '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow) - July 2, 1989

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner (Simon & Schuster) - July 16, 1989

My Turn by Nancy Reagan and William Novak (Random House) - November 26, 1989

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1990

 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It by Robert Fulghum (Villard) - January 7, 1990

Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene (Morrow) - February 4, 1990

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyer (Harper) - March 11, 1990

Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) - April 8, 1990

Men at Work by George Will (MacMillan) - April 29, 1990

Trump: Surviving at the Top by Donald Trump and Charles Leerhsen (Random House) - September 9, 1990

Darkness Visible by William Styron (Random House) - September 16, 1990

Millie's Book by Millie as told to Barbara Bush (Morrow) - September 30, 1990

By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy (St. Martin's) - October 7, 1990

The Civil War by Geoffrey Ward with Ric and Ken Burns (Knopf) - November 11, 1990

A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt (Putnam) - December 2, 1990

1991

 Iron John by Robert Bly (Addison-Wesley) - January 27, 1991

The Prize by Daniel Yergin (Simon & Schuster) - February 10, 1991

And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce Henderson (Norton) - March 17, 1991

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips (Random House) - April 7, 1991

Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley (Simon & Schuster) - April 28, 1991

The Commanders by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - June 2, 1991

Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz (Little, Brown) - July 21, 1991

Parliament of Whores by P. J. O'Rourke (Entrekin) - August 25, 1991

When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home by Erma Bombeck (Harper) - September 1, 1991

Uh-Oh by Robert Fulghum (Villard) - September 8, 1991

Me: Stories of My Life by Katherine Hepburn (Knopf) - September 22, 1991

Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart (Simon & Schuster) - November 3, 1991

Under Fire by Oliver North and William Novak (Harper) - December 1, 1991

1992

 Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem (Little, Brown) - February 9, 1992

Give War a Chance by P. J. O'Rourke (Atlantic Monthly) - May 10, 1992

The Silent Passage by Gail Sheehy (Random House) - June 7, 1992

Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton (Simon & Schuster) - July 5, 1992

Every Living Thing by James Herriot (St. Martin's) - September 13, 1992

The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush H. Limbaugh (Pocket) - September 27, 1992

Sex by Madonna (Warner) - November 8, 1992

1993

 Healing and the Mind by Bill Moyers (Doubleday) - March 14, 1993

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Ballantine) - April 25, 1993

Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad (Knopf) - July 18, 1993

Embraced by the Light by Betty J. Eadie with Curtis Taylor (Gold Leaf Press) - September 5, 1993

Seinlanguage by Jerry Seinfeld (Bantam) - September 19, 1993

Private Parts by Howard Stern (Simon & Schuster) - October 24, 1993

See, I Told You So by Rush H. Limbaugh (Pocket) - November 21, 1993

1994

 The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett (Simon & Schuster) - January 16, 1994

The Agenda by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - June 26, 1994

Couplehood by Paul Reiser (Bantam) - September 25, 1994

Barbara Bush: A Memoir by Barbara Bush (Drew/Scribners) - October 2, 1994

Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man by Tim Allen (Hyperion) - October 30, 1994

Nicole Brown Simpson by Faye D. Resnick with Mike Walker (Dove Books) - November 6, 1994

Crossing the Threshold of Hope by John Paul II (Knopf) - November 13, 1994

1995

 The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (Random House) - February 5, 1995

I Want to Tell You by O. J. Simpson (Little, Brown) - February 12, 1995

Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis with Eric Marcus (Random House) - March 19, 1995

In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara with Brian VanDeMark (Times Books/Random House) - April 30, 1995

A Good Walk Spoiled by John Feinstein (Little, Brown) - July 2, 1995

New Passages by Gail Sheehy (Random House) - July 16, 1995

To Renew America by Newt Gingrich (HarperCollins) - July 23, 1995

My Point...And I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres (Bantam) - September 10, 1995

My American Journey by Colin L. Powell with Joseph E. Persico (Random House) - October 1, 1995

Miss America by Howard Stern (Regan Books) - November 26, 1995

The Road Ahead by Bill Gates with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson (Viking) - December 17, 1995

1996

 It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster) - February 4, 1996

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken (Delacorte) - February 25, 1996

Blood Sport by James B. Stewart (Simon & Schuster) - March 31, 1996

In Contempt by Christopher A. Darden with Jess Walter (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - April 7, 1996

Bad As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman with Tom Keown (Delacorte) - May 19, 1996

Outrage by Vincent Bugliosi (Norton) - July 14, 1996

The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams (HarperBusiness) - July 28, 1996

Unlimited Access by Gary Aldrich (Regnery) - August 4, 1996

American Tragedy by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth (Random House) - November 10, 1996

The Soul's Code by James Hillman (Random House) - November 17, 1996

My Sergei by Ekaterina Gordeeva E. M. with Swift (Warner) - November 24, 1996

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (Scribner) - December 15, 1996

A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite (Knopf) - December 29, 1996

1997

 Personal History by Katharine Graham (Knopf) - February 23, 1997

Murder in Brentwood by Mark Fuhrman (Regnery) - March 16, 1997

Underboss by Peter Maas (HarperCollins) - May 11, 1997

Mothers & Daughters by Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth (Doubleday) - May 25, 1997

Without a Doubt by Marcia Clark with Teresa Carpenter (Viking) - June 1, 1997

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (Villard) - June 8, 1997

Just As I Am by Billy Graham (HarperSanFrancisco/Zondervan) - June 29, 1997

The Royals by Kitty Kelley (Warner) - October 5, 1997

Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words (updated version) by Andrew Morton (Simon & Schuster) - November 2, 1997

Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (Random House) - November 30, 1997

1998

 Talking to Heaven by James Van Praagh (Dutton) - February 8, 1998

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) - April 26, 1998

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko (Longstreet) - May 3, 1998

We Are Our Mother's Daughters by Cokie Roberts (Morrow) - May 24, 1998

A Pirate Looks At Fifty by Jimmy Buffett (Random House) - June 28, 1998

The Day Diana Died by Christopher Andersen (Morrow) - September 13, 1998

The Death of Outrage by William J. Bennett (Free Press) - October 4, 1998

The Century by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Doubleday) - December 20, 1998

The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw (Random House) - December 27, 1998

1999

 Monica's Story by Andrew Morton (St. Martin's) - March 21, 1999

All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos (Little, Brown) - March 28, 1999

Every Man a Tiger by Tom Clancy with Chuck Horner (Putnam) - June 6, 1999

Shadow by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - July 11, 1999

'Tis by Frank McCourt (Scribner) - October 10, 1999

Have a Nice Day! by Mick Foley (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - December 5, 1999

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2000

 The Rock Says... by the Rock with Joe Layden (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - January 30, 2000

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers (Bantam) - June 11, 2000

The Day John Died by Christopher Andersen (Morrow) - July 30, 2000

Life On the Other Side by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison (Dutton) - August 6, 2000

It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins (Putnam) - August 13, 2000

Nothing Like It In the World by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster) - September 17, 2000

The Beatles Anthology by the Beatles (Chronicle) - October 22, 2000

The O'Reilly Factor by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway) - November 12, 2000

2001

 An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster) - January 28, 2001

Ice Bound by Jerri Nielseni with Maryanne Vollers (Talk Miramax/ Hyperion) - February 18, 2001

Longaberger by Dave Longaberger (HarperBusiness) - March 25, 2001

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) - April 8, 2001

Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin (Hyperion) - May 20, 2001

Foley Is Good by Mick Foley (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - May 27, 2001

John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) - June 10, 2001

The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster) - September 9, 2001

Jack: Straight From the Gut by Jack Welch with John A.Byrne (Warner Business) - September 30, 2001

Germs by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad (Simon & Schuster) - October 28, 2001

The No Spin Zone by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway) - November 11, 2001

One Nation by the editors of Life Magazine (Little, Brown) - December 16, 2001

2002

 Bias by Bernard Goldberg (Regnery) - January 20, 2002

Shadow Warriors by Tom Clancy with Carl Stiner and Tony Koltz (Putnam) - February 24, 2002

Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - March 24, 2002

Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion) - April 21, 2002

Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) - May 19, 2002

American Son by Richard Blow (Holt) - June 2, 2002

A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine (Simon & Schuster) - June 9, 2002

The Right Words at the Right Time edited by Marlo Thomas (Atria) - June 16, 2002

You Cannot Be Serious by John McEnroe with James Kaplan (Putnam) - June 30, 2002

Slander by Ann Coulter (Crown) - July 14, 2002

Let's Roll! by Lisa Beamer with Ken Abraham (Tyndale) - September 8, 2002

Leadership by Rudolph W. Giuliani with Ken Kurson (Miramax/Hyperion) - October 20, 2002

Journals by Kurt Cobain (Riverhead) - November 24, 2002

Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - December 1, 2002

Bush At War by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - December 15, 2002

2003

 The Savage Nation by Michael Savage (WND/Thomas Nelson) - February 2, 2003

What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson (Random House) - February 16, 2003

The Devil In the White City by Erik Larson (Crown) - March 23, 2003

Leap of Faith by Queen Noor (Miramax) - April 13, 2003

An Unfinished Life by Robert Dallek (Little, Brown) - June 1, 2003

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster) - June 29, 2003

Kate Remembered by Scott A. Berg (Putnam) - August 3, 2003

Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken (Dutton) - September 7, 2003

Who's Looking Out For You? by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway) - October 12, 2003

Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore (Warner) - October 26, 2003

A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell (Putnam) - November 16, 2003

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story by Rick Bragg (Knopf) - November 30, 2003

2004

 My Prison Without Bars by Pete Rose with Rick Hill (Rodale) - January 25, 2004

The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind (Simon & Schuster) - February 1, 2004

Deliver Us From Evil by Sean Hannity (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - March 7, 2004

Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke (Free Press) - April 11, 2004

Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - May 9, 2004

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss (Gotham) - May 30, 2004

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) - June 20, 2004

Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert (Miramax) - July 4, 2004

My Life by Bill Clinton (Knopf) - July 11, 2004

American Soldier by Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - August 22, 2004

Unfit for Command by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi (Regnery) - September 5, 2004

The Family by Kitty Kelley (Doubleday) - October 3, 2004

America (The Book) by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum (Warner) - October 10, 2004

2005

 Witness by Amber Frey (Regan Books/Harper Collins) - January 23, 2005

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) - February 6, 2005

Juiced by Jose Canseco (Regan Books/Harper Collins) - March 6, 2005

Blood Brother by Anne Bird (Regan Books/Harper Collins) - March 20, 2005

A Deadly Game by Catherine Crier with Cole Thompson (Regan Books/Harper Collins) - April 3, 2005

My Life So Far by Jane Fonda (Random House) - April 24, 2005

The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - May 15, 2005

On Bull---- by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University) - June 5, 2005

1776 by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) - June 12, 2005

The Fairtax Book by Neal Boortz and John Linder (Regan Books/ Harper Collins) - August 21, 2005

The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (Penguin) - October 16, 2005

The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken (Dutton) - November 13, 2005

Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster) - November 20, 2005

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (Scribner) - December 4, 2005

2006

 Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) - January 8, 2006

My Friend Leonard by James Frey (Riverhead) - January 22, 2006

For Laci by Sharon Rocha (Crown) - January 29, 2006

Marley & Me by John Grogan (Morrow) - February 12, 2006

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry (Riverhead) - April 30, 2006

Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper (HarperCollins) - June 18, 2006

Godless by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum) - June 25, 2006

Wisdom of Our Fathers by Tim Russert (Random House) - July 2, 2006

Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks (The Penguin Press) - August 13, 2006

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf) - September 10, 2006

Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway) - October 15, 2006

State of Denial by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - October 22, 2006

The Innocent Man by John Grisham (Doubleday) - October 29, 2006

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Crown) - November 12, 2006

2007

 In An Instant by Lee and Bob Woodruff (Random House) - March 18, 2007

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - April 15, 2007

Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) - April 29, 2007

At the Center of the Storm by George Tenet (Harper Collins) - May 20, 2007

God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve) - June 3, 2007

The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan (Harper Collins) - June 24, 2007

The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown (Doubleday) - July 8, 2007

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson (Little, Brown) - July 22, 2007

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale) - August 5, 2007

It's All About Him by Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn (Thomas Nelson) - August 19, 2007

You Can Run But You Can't Hide by Duane Chapman with Laura Morton (Hyperion) - August 26, 2007

Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd with Penny Juror (Harmony) - September 16, 2007

Giving by Bill Clinton (Knopf) - September 23, 2007

Power to the People by Laura Ingraham (Regnery) - September 30, 2007

The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan (Penguin Press) - October 7, 2007

My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas (Harper) - October 21, 2007

I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central) - October 28, 2007

An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe (Threshold Editions) - December 9, 2007

2008

 In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press) - January 20, 2008

Tom Cruise by Andrew Morton (St. Martin's) - February 3, 2008

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg (Doubleday) - March 9, 2008

Losing It by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press) - March 16, 2008

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (Houghton Mifflin) - April 6, 2008

Mistaken Identity by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb (Howard) - April 13, 2008

Home by Julie Andrews (Hyperion) - April 27, 2008

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) - May 11, 2008

The Revolution by Ron Paul (Grand Central) - May 18, 2008

Audition by Barbara Walters (Knopf) - May 25, 2008

What Happened by Scott McClellan (PublicAffairs) - June 15, 2008

When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) - June 22, 2008

The Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold) - August 17, 2008

Stori Telling by Tori Spelling (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) - September 14, 2008

Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - September 28, 2008

The Snowball by Alice Schroeder (Bantam) - October 19, 2008

Against Medical Advice by James Patterson and Hal Friedman (Little, Brown) - November 9, 2008

Dewey by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter (Grand Central) - November 16, 2008

Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza (Spiegel & Grau) - November 30, 2008

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) - December 7, 2008

2009

 The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci - February 22, 2009

Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - April 12, 2009

Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards (Broadway) - May 31, 2009

Catastrophe by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Harper/Harper Collins) - July 12, 2009

Unmasked by Ian Halperin (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) - August 2, 2009

Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin (Regnery) - August 16, 2009

Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin (Ballantine) - September 27, 2009

True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy (Twelve) - October 4, 2009

Arguing With Idiots by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe (Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions) - October 11, 2009

Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) - October 18, 2009

The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons (Ballantine) - November 15, 2009

Open by Andre Agassi (Knopf) - November 29, 2009

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin (Harper/HarperCollins) - December 6, 2009

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2010

 Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking) - January 24, 2010

Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (Harper/HarperCollins) - January 31, 2010

No Apology by Mitt Romney (St. Martin's) - March 21, 2010

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central) - March 28, 2010

The Big Short by Michael Lewis (Norton) - April 4, 2010

Oprah by Kitty Kelley (Crown) - May 2, 2010

Spoken From the Heart by Laura Bush (Scribner) - May 23, 2010

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern (It Books/Harper Collins) - June 20, 2010

The Obama Diaries by Laura Ingraham (Threshold Editions) - August 1, 2010

Crimes Against Liberty by David Limbaugh (Regnery) - September 12, 2010

The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam) - September 26, 2010

Earth (The Book) by Jon Stewart, David Javerbaum, Rory Albanese, Steve Bodow and Josh Lieb (Grand Central) - October 10, 2010

Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - October 17, 2010

Life by Keith Richards with James Fox (Little, Brown) - November 14, 2010

Decision Points by George W. Bush (Crown) - November 28, 2010

2011

 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) - January 16, 2011

Known and Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld (Sentinel) - February 27, 2011

The Social Animal by David Brooks (Random House) - March 27, 2011

Red by Sammy Hagar (It Books/Harper Collins) - April 3, 2011

Onward by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon (Rodale) - April 17, 2011

Bossypants by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown) - April 24, 2011

Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler, Glen Handler, Roy Handler and others (Grand Central) - May 29, 2011

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (Crown) - June 5, 2011

Those Guys Have All the Fun by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales (Little, Brown) - June 12, 2011

The Greater Journey by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) - June 19, 2011

A Stolen Life by Jayce Dugard (Simon & Schuster) - July 31, 2011

In My Time by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney (Threshold Editions) - September 18, 2011

Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations On Life With John F. Kennedy (Hyperion) - October 2, 2011

Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 16, 2011

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) - November 13, 2011

2012

 American Sniper by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice (Morrow/HarperCollins) - January 29, 2012

Ameritopia by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - February 5, 2012

Imagine by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - April 8, 2012

Drift by Rachel Maddow (Crown) - April 15, 2012

The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro (Knopf) - May 20, 2012

The Amateur by Edward Klein (Regnery) - June 3, 2012

Wild by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) - July 15, 2012

Paterno by Joe Posnanski (Simon & Schuster) - September 9, 2012

Obama's America by Dinesh D'Souza (Regnery) - September 16, 2012

No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer (Dutton) - September 23, 2012

Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 21, 2012

Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham (Random House) - December 9, 2012

2013

 My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (Knopf) - February 3, 2013

Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss (Random House) - March 17, 2013

Sum It Up by Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins (Crown Archetype) - March 24, 2013

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg with Neil Scovell (Knopf) - March 31, 2013

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) - May 12, 2013

Happy, Happy, Happy by Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach (Howard Books) - May 26, 2013

The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson (Holt) - June 2, 2013

Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty (Penguin Press) - June 9, 2013

Zealot by Reza Aslan (Random House) - August 11, 2013

The Liberty Amendments by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - September 1, 2013

Si-Cology 1 by Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach (Howard Books) - September 22, 2013

Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 13, 2013

Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin's) - November 3, 2013

Things That Matter by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum) - November 24, 2013

2014

 Duty by Robert M. Gates (Knopf) - February 2, 2014

David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) - March 9, 2014

The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku (Doubleday) - March 16, 2014

Uganda Be Kidding Me by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central) - March 23, 2014

10% Happier by Dan Harris (It Books) - April 6, 2014

Thrive by Arianna Huffington (Harmony) - April 13, 2014

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis (Norton) - April 20, 2014

Capital In the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (Belknap/Harvard University) - May 18, 2014

One Nation by Ben Carson with Candy Carson (Sentinel) - June 8, 2014

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster) - June 29, 2014

Blood Feud by Edward Klein (Regnery) - July 20, 2014

America by Dinesh D'Souza (Regnery) - August 10, 2014

What If? by Randall Munroe (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - September 21, 2014

13 Hours by Michael Zuckoff (Twelve) - October 5, 2014

Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 12, 2014

Yes Please by Amy Poehler (Dey St./Morrow) - November 16, 2014

41 by George W. Bush (Crown) - November 30, 2014

2015

 Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan/Holt) - February 1, 2015

Dead Wake by Erik Larson (Crown) - March 29, 2015

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies by David Fisher (Holt) - April 26, 2015

The Road to Character by David Brooks (Random House) - May 3, 2015

Hope by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus with Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan (Viking) - May 17, 2015

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) - May 24, 2015

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau) - August 2, 2015

Plunder and Deceit by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - August 23, 2015

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling (Crown Archetype) - October 4, 2015

Killing Reagan by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 11, 2015

Humans of New York Stories by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin's) - November 1, 2015

Troublemaker by Leah Remini and Rebecca Paley (Ballantine) - November 22, 2015

Destiny and Power by Jon Meacham (Random House) - November 29, 2015

2016

 When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (Random House) - January 31, 2016

The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt (Harper) - April 24, 2016

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter (Grand Central/Melcher Media) - May 1, 2016

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner) - June 5, 2016

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots by David Fisher (Holt) - June 19, 2016

Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne with Grant M. Schmidt (Ballantine) - July 17, 2016

Hillary's America by Dinesh D'Souza (Regnery) - August 21, 2016

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (HarperCollins) - August 28, 2016

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer (Gallery Books) - September 4, 2016

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton (Flatiron) - September 25, 2016

Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Harper) - October 2, 2016

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (Simon & Schuster) - October 16, 2016

The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino (W Publishing/Thomas Nelson) - November 6, 2016

Settle For More by Megyn Kelly (Harper/HarperCollins) - December 4, 2016

2017

 The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider) - January 15, 2017

Portraits of Courage by George W. Bush (Crown) - March 19, 2017

Trump's War by Michael Savage (Center Street) - April 2, 2017

Old School by Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein (Holt) - April 16, 2017

This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren (Metropolitan/Holt) - May 7, 2017

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant (Knopf) - May 14, 2017

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Norton) - May 21, 2017

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken (Twelve) - June 18, 2017

I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss (37 INK/Atria) - June 25, 2017

Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich (Center Street) - July 2, 2017

Rediscovering Americanism by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - July 16, 2017

Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green (Penguin Press) - August 6, 2017

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster) - October 1, 2017

Killing England by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 15, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) - November 5, 2017

Obama by Pete Souza (Little, Brown) - November 26, 2017

Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden (Flatiron Books) - December 3, 2017

2018

 Grant by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press) - January 7, 2018

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (Holt) - January 21, 2018

Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn (Twelve) - April 1, 2018

Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri (Grand Central) - April 22, 2018

FASCISM: A Warning by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward (Harper) - April 29, 2018

A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (Flatiron) - May 6, 2018

The Soul of America by Jon Meacham (Random House) - May 27, 2018

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press) - June 3, 2018

The Restless Wave by John McCain and Mark Salter (Simon & Schuster) - June 10, 2018

Calypso by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) - June 17, 2018

Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer (Twelve) - July 8, 2018

Liars, Leakers and Liberals by Jeanine Pirro (Center Street) - August 5, 2018

The Russia Hoax by Gregg Jarrett (Broadside) - August 12, 2018

Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman (Gallery) - September 2, 2018

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (Spiegel & Grau) - September 23, 2018

Fear by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - September 30, 2018

Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson (Free Press) - October 21, 2018

Killing the SS by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 28, 2018

Shade by Pete Souza (Little, Brown) - November 4, 2018

Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz (Spiegel & Grau) - November 18, 2018

Becoming by Michelle Obama (Crown) - December 2, 2018

2019

 The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe (St. Martin's) - March 10, 2019

The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro (Broadside) - April 7, 2019

Life Will Be the Death of Me by Chelsea Handler (Spiegel & Grau) - April 28, 2019

The Second Mountain by David Brooks (Random House) - May 5, 2019

The Pioneers by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) - May 26, 2019

Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern (Simon & Schuster) - June 2, 2019

Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - June 9, 2019

Educated by Tara Westover (Random House) - July 14, 2019

Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis and Bing West (Random House) - September 22, 2019

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) - September 29, 2019

Inside Out by Demi Moore (Harper) - October 13, 2019

Blowout by Rachel Maddow (Crown) - October 20, 2019

Me by Elton John (Holt) - November 3, 2019

The Beautiful Ones by Prince (Spiegel & Grau) - November 17, 2019

Triggered by Donald Trump Jr. (Center Street) - November 24, 2019

A Warning by Anonymous (Miles Taylor) (Twelve) - December 8, 2019

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2020

 A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig (Penguin Press) - February 9, 2020

Profiles in Corruption by Peter Schweizer (Harper) - February 16, 2020

Open Book by Jessica Simpson with Kevin Carr O'Leary (Dey Street) - February 23, 2020

The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant (Melcher/MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - March 8, 2020

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (Crown) - March 15, 2020

Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Dial) - March 29, 2020

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World) - June 21, 2020

The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton (Simon & Schuster) - July 12, 2020

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump (Simon & Schuster) - August 2, 2020

Live Free or Die by Sean Hannity (Threshold Editions) - August 23, 2020

His Truth Is Marching On by Jon Meacham (Random House) - September 13, 2020

Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (Gallery) - September 20, 2020

Disloyal by Michael Cohen (Skyhorse) - September 27, 2020

Rage by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - October 4, 2020

The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis (Andy Cohen/Holt) - October 18, 2020

Humans by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin's) - October 25, 2020

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House) - November 1, 2020

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Crown) - November 8, 2020

Clanlands by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish (Mobius) - November 22, 2020

A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Crown) - December 6, 2020

2021

 Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson and Michelle Burford (Harper Collins) - February 14, 2021

Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (One World) - February 21, 2021

Walk In My Combat Boots by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Chris Mooney (Little, Brown) - February 28, 2021

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (Knopf) - March 7, 2021

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) - March 28, 2021

This Is the Fire by Don Lemon (Little, Brown) - April 4, 2021

Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile (Crown) - April 25, 2021

On the House by John Boehner (St. Martin's) - May 2, 2021

Out of Many, One by George W. Bush (Crown) - May 9, 2021

What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey (Flatiron) - May 16, 2021

Killing the Mob by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (St. Martin's) - May 23, 2021

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Dutton) - June 6, 2021

How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith (Little, Brown) - June 20, 2021

(Re)Born in the USA by Roger Bennett (Dey Street) - July 18, 2021

How I Saved the World by Jesse Watters (Broadside) - July 25, 2021

American Marxism by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - August 1, 2021

Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa (Simon & Schuster) - October 10, 2021

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl (Dey Street) - October 24, 2021

To Rescue the Republic by Bret Baier (Custom House) - November 7, 2021

Going There by Katie Couric (Little, Brown) - November 14, 2021

The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney (Liveright) - November 21, 2021

Will by Will Smith with Mark Manson (Penguin Press) - November 28, 2021

All American Christmas by Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean Duffy (Broadside) - December 26, 2021

2022

 Unthinkable by Jamie Raskin (Harper) - January 23, 2022

Red-Handed by Peter Schweizer (Harper) - February 13, 2022

From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks (Portfolio) - March 6, 2022

One Damn Thing After Another by William P. Barr (Morrow) - March 27, 2022

Bittersweet by Susan Cain (Crown) - April 24, 2022

Freezing Order by Bill Browder (Simon & Schuster) - May 1, 2022

Finding Me by Viola Davis (HarperOne) - May 15, 2022

The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey (Dey Street) - June 5, 2022

Killing the Killers by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (St. Martin's) - June 12, 2022

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) - June 19, 2022

James Patterson by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - June 26, 2022

Battle for the American Mind by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin (Broadside) - July 3, 2022

Tanqueray by Stephanie Johnson and Brandon Stanton (St. Martin's) - July 31, 2022

Thank You for Your Servitude by Mark Leibovich (Penguin Press) - August 7, 2022

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster) - August 28, 2022

Breaking History by Jared Kushner (Broadside) - September 11, 2022

Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman (Penguin Press) - October 23, 2022

Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton (Grand Central) - November 6, 2022

Radio's Greatest of All Time by Rush Limbaugh with Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and David Limbaugh (Theshold Editions) - November 13, 2022

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (Flatiron) - November 20, 2022

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama (Flatiron) - December 4, 2022

2023

 Spare by Prince Harry (Random House) - January 29, 2023

The Courage to be Free by Ron DeSantis (Broadside) - March 19, 2023

Saved by Benjamin Hall (Harper) - April 2, 2023

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond (Crown) - April 9, 2023

Outlive by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford (Harmony) - April 16, 2023

The Wager by David Grann (Doubleday) - May 7, 2023

Pageboy by Elliot Page (Flatiron) - June 25, 2023

Beyond the Story by BTS and Myeongseok Kang (Flatiron) - July 30, 2023

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) - October 1, 2023

The Democrat Party Hates America by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions) - October 8, 2023

Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson (Simon & Schuster) - October 15, 2023

Going Infinite by Michael Lewis (Norton) - October 22, 2023

Prequel by Rachel Maddow (Crown) - November 5, 2023

The Woman In Me by Britney Spears (Gallery) - November 12, 2023

Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney (Little, Brown) - December 24, 2023

2024

 Medgar & Myrlie by Joy-Ann Reid (Mariner) - February 25, 2024

Blood Money by Peter Schweizer (Harper) - March 17, 2024

The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul (Dey Street) - March 24, 2024

Get It Together by Jesse Watters (Broadside) - April 7, 2024

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press) - April 14, 2024

Somehow by Anne Lamott (Riverhead) - April 28, 2024

An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) - May 5, 2024

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (Crown) - May 19, 2024

The Situation Room by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey (Grand Central) - June 2, 2024

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You by Bill Maher (Simon & Schuster) - June 9, 2024

The War on Warriors by Pete Hegseth (Broadside) - June 23, 2024

On Call by Anthony S. Fauci (Viking) - July 7, 2024

The Art of Power by Nancy Pelosi (Simon & Schuster) - August 25, 2024

Shameless by Brian Tyler Cohen (Harper) - September 1, 2024

Imminent by Luis Elizondo (Morrow) - September 8, 2024

Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson (Random House) - September 22, 2024

Confronting the Presidents by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (St. Martin's) - September 29, 2024

Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster) - October 6, 2024

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