I’ve tried to give some order to this list by listing books by year.
2012
What’s Next, Gen X? – Tamara J. Erickson
Lacuna-Barbara Kingsolver
Zone One: A Novel-Colson Whitehead
2011
The Hunger Games trilogy-Suzanne Collins
Shantaram: A Novel-Gregory David Roberts
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No one belongs here more than you-Miranda July
Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever-Franklin H. Dennis, ed.
Agatha Christie’s Detectives-Agatha Christie
Endgame-Frank Brady
The Help-Katheryn Stockett
Straight Up or on the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail-William Grimes
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children-Ransom Riggs
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest-Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire-Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-Stieg Larsson
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg-Philip José Farmer
Tales of Time and Space-ed. Robert Olney
Freedom-Jonathan Franzen
Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences-Barbara Holland
2010
The Elephant’s Journey-Jose Saramago
Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel-Armistead Maupin
The Living Dead 2-John Joseph Adams
Sex and Death to the Age 14-Spalding Gray
Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon-Dean Bakopoulos
The Stupidest Angel-Christopher Moore
Blindness-José Saramago
Chimera-John Barth
Tales of H. P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft-Joyce Carol Oates, ed.
Music Through the Floor: Stories-Eric Puchner
Then We Came To An End-Joshua Ferris
Gentlemen of the Road-Michael Chabon
Howl’s Moving Castle-Diana Wynne Jones
Fool-Christopher Moore
The Martian Chronicles-Ray Bradbury
Multimedia Learning-Richard Mayer
Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals-Ruth Colvin Clark
The Artful Eater-Edward Behr
Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales-Datlow and Windling, eds.
That Summertime Sound-Mathew Specktor
The Turning Point-Fritjof Capra
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors-edited by Thomas K. Parkes
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters-Ursula K. LeGuin
2009
Winter’s Tale-Mark Helprin
Dangerous Laughter-Steven Millhauser
Sweet Thursday-John Steinbeck
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal-Christopher Moore
Community: The Structure of Belonging-Peter Block
A Dirty Job-Christopher Moore
Do Not Deny Me: Stories-Jean Thompson
Earth Abides-George R. Stewart
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference-Malcolm Gladwell
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America-Erik Larson
The Time Traveler’s Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World-Margaret J. Wheatley
Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction-Lisa Chamberlain
Tough Choices-Carly Fiorina
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!: Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter-Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff
