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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
The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams (Little, Brown) - December 14, 1931
1932
Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen (Harper) - February 1, 1932
Once a Grand Duke by Alexander of Russia (Farrar & Rinehart) - March 14, 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
More Merry-Go-Round by Anonymous (Drew Pearson and Robert Allen) (Liveright) - September 12, 1932
Van Loon's Geography by Hendrik Van Loon (Simon & Schuster) - October 31, 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
Culbertson's 1933 Summary by Ely Culbertson (Bridge World) - March 20, 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
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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 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
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
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
Inflation Ahead! by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton (Simon & Schuster) - March 4, 1935
Francis the First by Francis Hackett (Doubleday, Doran) - March 11, 1935
Culbertson's New Summary of Contract Bridge by Ely Culbertson (Winston) - April 29, 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
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
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The Arts by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Simon & Schuster) - October 18, 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
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
Reaching For the Stars by Nora Wain (Little, Brown) - March 20, 1939
Not Peace But a Sword by Vincent Sheean (Doubleday, Doran) - August 14, 1939
A Treasury of Art Masterpieces by edited by Thomas Craven (Simon & Schuster) - October 30, 1939
1940's
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
American White Paper by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner (Simon & Schuster) - May 13, 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
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 Last Time I Saw Paris by Paul Elliot (Random House) - May 11, 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
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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
Journey Among Warriors by Eve Curie (Doubleday, Doran) - July 26, 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
1945
Anything Can Happen by George and Helen Papashvily (Harper) - March 11, 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
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
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
1950's
1950
This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt (Harper) - January 15, 1950
Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser (Farrar, Straus) - October 15, 1950
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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
1953
Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version (Nelson) - February 15, 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
Arthritis and Common Sense by Dale Alexander (Witkower Press) - July 15, 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
The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop (Harper) - June 23, 1957
1958
Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr (Doubleday) - February 2, 1958
1959
Mine Enemy Grows Older by Alexander King (Simon & Schuster) - April 12, 1959
1960's
1960
May This House Be Safe from Tigers by Alexander King (Simon & Schuster) - March 13, 1960
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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
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
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
1964
Four Days by UPI/American Heritage (American Heritage) - March 22, 1964
1965
The Making of the President - 1964 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum) - August 1, 1965
1966
A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger (Houghton Mifflin) - January 9, 1966
The Last Battle by Ryan Cornelius (Simon & Schuster) - May 8, 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
Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line by Arthur Krock (Funk & Wagnalls) - December 15, 1968
1969
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The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury (Harper) - May 4, 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
1970's
1970
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) by David Reuben (McKay) - March 1, 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
Any Woman Can! by David Reuben, M.D. (David McKay Company) - November 21, 1971
1972
The Game of the Foxes by Ladislas Farago (McKay) - March 19, 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
How to Be Your Own Best Friend by Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz and Jean Owen (Random House) - October 14, 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
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
Bring On the Empty Horses by David Niven (Putnam) - November 30, 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
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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
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
1979
Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet (Abrams) - January 14, 1979
The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower and Samm Sinclair Baker (Rawson Wade) - April 1, 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
1980's
1980
Donahue by Phil Donahue (Simon & Schuster) - March 23, 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
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
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
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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
The Kennedys: An American Drama by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Summit) - July 22, 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
1987
A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein (MacMillan) - February 1, 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
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
1988
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz (Random House) - January 17, 1988
Talking Straight by Lee Iacocca and Sonny Kleinfeld (Bantam) - July 3, 1988
The Last Lion by William Manchester (Little, Brown) - November 20, 1988
1989
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum (Villard) - January 1, 1989
A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann (Lyle Stuart/Carroll Publishing) - May 21, 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
1990's
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
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Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyer (Harper) - March 11, 1990
Trump: Surviving at the Top by Donald Trump and Charles Leerhsen (Random House) - September 9, 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
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
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home by Erma Bombeck (Harper) - September 1, 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
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
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
Private Parts by Howard Stern (Simon & Schuster) - October 24, 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
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
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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
My American Journey by Colin L. Powell with Joseph E. Persico (Random House) - October 1, 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
Bad As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman with Tom Keown (Delacorte) - May 19, 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
1997
Personal History by Katharine Graham (Knopf) - February 23, 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
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
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 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
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Have a Nice Day! by Mick Foley (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - December 5, 1999
2000's
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
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
Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin (Hyperion) - May 20, 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
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
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
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
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
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster) - June 29, 2003
Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken (Dutton) - September 7, 2003
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Who's Looking Out For You? by Bill O'Reilly (Broadway) - October 12, 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
Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke (Free Press) - April 11, 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
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
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
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
The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - May 15, 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
Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster) - November 20, 2005
2006
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) - January 8, 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
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf) - September 10, 2006
State of Denial by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster) - October 22, 2006
2007
In An Instant by Lee and Bob Woodruff (Random House) - March 18, 2007
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - April 15, 2007
At the Center of the Storm by George Tenet (Harper Collins) - May 20, 2007
The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan (Harper Collins) - June 24, 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
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
Mistaken Identity by Don and Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb (Howard) - April 13, 2008
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) - May 11, 2008
When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris (Little, Brown) - June 22, 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
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
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
Catastrophe by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Harper/Harper Collins) - July 12, 2009
Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin (Ballantine) - September 27, 2009
Arguing With Idiots by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe (Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions) - October 11, 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
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler (Grand Central) - March 28, 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 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
2011
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) - January 16, 2011
The Social Animal by David Brooks (Random House) - March 27, 2011
Onward by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon (Rodale) - April 17, 2011
Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler, Glen Handler, Roy Handler and others (Grand Central) - May 29, 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
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
2013
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (Knopf) - February 3, 2013
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss (Random House) - March 17, 2013
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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
Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty (Penguin Press) - June 9, 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
Things That Matter by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum) - November 24, 2013
2014
Duty by Robert M. Gates (Knopf) - February 2, 2014
The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku (Doubleday) - March 16, 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
What If? by Randall Munroe (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - September 21, 2014
Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 12, 2014
2015
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan/Holt) - February 1, 2015
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies by David Fisher (Holt) - April 26, 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
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
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
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer (Gallery Books) - September 4, 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
2017
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider) - January 15, 2017
Old School by Bill O'Reilly and Bruce Feirstein (Holt) - April 16, 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
I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss (37 INK/Atria) - June 25, 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
2018
Grant by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press) - January 7, 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
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
Liars, Leakers and Liberals by Jeanine Pirro (Center Street) - August 5, 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (Spiegel & Grau) - September 23, 2018
Killing the SS by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt) - October 28, 2018
Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz (Spiegel & Grau) - November 18, 2018
2019
The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe (St. Martin's) - March 10, 2019
Life Will Be the Death of Me by Chelsea Handler (Spiegel & Grau) - April 28, 2019
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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
Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis and Bing West (Random House) - September 22, 2019
The Beautiful Ones by Prince (Spiegel & Grau) - November 17, 2019
2020's
2020
A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig (Penguin Press) - February 9, 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
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
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis (Andy Cohen/Holt) - October 18, 2020
Clanlands by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish (Mobius) - November 22, 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
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) - March 28, 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
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
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Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa (Simon & Schuster) - October 10, 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
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