2012
Against the Tide of Years by S. M. Stirling
The Witch Watch by Shamus Young
The Reavers by George MacDonald Fraser
Island in the Sea of time by S. M. Stirling
2011
Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnett
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Tyrant by Eric Flint and David Drake
The Reformer by S. M. Stirling and David Drake
The Chosen by S. M. Stirling and David Drake
Falling Up the Stairs by James Lileks
Lost to the West by Lars Bownworth
The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
“The General” series, books 1-5, by S. M. Stirling and David Drake
The Hammer by S. M. Stirling and David Drake
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
The Merchant of Power by John F. Wasik
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
2010
The Forge by S. M. Stirling and David Drake
Natasha’s Dance by Orlando Figes
Seventh Son: Descent by J. C. Hutchins
The “House of Niccolò” series of novels by Dorothy Dunnett
When the Devil Dances by John Ringo
Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larssen
Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo
2009
To Lie With Lions by Dorothy Dunnett
A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
The Unicorn Hunt by Dorothy Dunnett
Words on Wednesday Night edited by Janis Bolster
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnett
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
What the Nose Knows by Avery Gilbert
The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardener
Handling the Big Jets by David P. Davies
Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders
The Steerswoman's Road by Rosemary Kirstein
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunett
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell
Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover
Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle
2008
Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
American Shaolin by Matthew Polly
Sharpe's Escape by Bernard Cornwell
Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Moment of Truth in Iraq by Michael Yon
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Hotel Bemelmans by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Age of Abundance by Brink Lindsey
Dr Tataina's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
Garllic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
The Dance of Time by Eric Flint and David Drake
Here Comes Everyone by Clay Shirky
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings by S. M. Stirling
Dark Waters by Lee Vyborny and Don Davis
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Comfort Me with Apples by Ruch Reichl
Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill
Economics and its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics by William Oliver Coleman
Choosers of the Slain by John Ringo
The Sky People by S. M. Stirling
Something Nasty in the Woodshed by Kyril Bonfiglioli
Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx (with Rowland Barber)
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint and David Drake
Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison
Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer
2007
The United States of Arugula by David Kamp
Spook Country by William Gibson
There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say by Paula Poundstone
The Châtelet Apprentice by Jean François Parot
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
Fortune's Stroke by Eric Flint and David Drake
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor by Jie Jack Li
The Economic Naturalist by Robert H. Frank
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
The Hero by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson
Destiny's Shield by Eric Flint and David Drake
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
The Informer by Akimitsu Takagi
The Truelove by Patrick O'Brian
Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueché
The Blonde by Duane Swierczynski
The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi
In the Heart of Darkness by Eric Flint and David Drake
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Codebreakers by David Kahn
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
On The Wealth of Nations by P. J. O'Rourke
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D. T. Max
The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan
2006
The Bad Bohemian by Sir Cecil Parrot
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Freedom's Gate by Naomi Kritzer
Security Engineering by Ross Anderson
An Oblique Approach by David Drake and Eric Flint
Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Saumrai Boogie by Peter Tasker
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
An Army of Davids by Glenn Reynolds
Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
The Cunning Blood by Jeff Duntemann
The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman
Love and Other Near-Death Experiences by Mil Millington
Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
Kinki Lullaby by Isaac Adamson
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Memories of Wind and Waves by Junichi Saga
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Incident at Twenty-Mile by Trevanian
2005
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga
Dreaming Pachinko by Isaac Adamson
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon
In the Shadow of the Law by Kermit Roosevelt
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
Tokyo Suckerpunch by Isaac Adamson
Hokkaido Popsicle by Isaac Adamson
The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 1 by Mickey Spillane
The Princes of the Air by John M. Ford
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Casting Fortune by John M. Ford
Prelude to Mathematics by W.W. Sawyer
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
New Guinea Skies by Wayne P. Rothgeb
The Graveyard Game by Kage Baker
Hunting Eric Rudolph by Henry Schuster with Charles Stone
Trio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout
The Odyssey of C.H. Lightoller by Patrick Stenson
How Much For Just the Planet? by John M. Ford
Foundations of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen
The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
2004
The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford
The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
Postmortem and the other Kay Scarpetta books by Patricia Cornwell
Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Mother Aegypt and Other Stories by Kage Baker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger by Roger Hall
Sten by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy and Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Heat of Fusion and Other Stories by John M. Ford
A Question of Attraction by David Nicholls
The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling
Mendoza in Hollywood by Kage Baker
Making Book by Teresa Neilsen Hayden
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Death's Acre by Dr Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
A Certain Chemistry by Mil Millington
Hollywood Interrupted by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner
Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English by James Cochrane
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington
The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram by Iain Banks
The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill by Helen Smith
A Thousand Bells at Noon by G. Franco Romagnoli
In Search of Stupidity by Merrill R. Chapman
Network Security Hacks by Andrew Lockhart
2003
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan by Alex Kerr
Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Francis Spufford
Hold the Enlightenment: More Travel Less Bliss by Tim Cahill
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass
Ciao America by Beppe Severgnini
December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith
On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herrmann Loomis
