| 1989 | The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | Michael Dorris | Society & Culture | 14 | 2 | 2 | Unknown | Tandem Library |
| 2022 | Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age | Timothy Bewes | Arts & Criticism | 10 | 1 | 1 | Columbia University Press | Columbia University Press |
| 2022 | This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race | Nicole Perlroth | Technology | 10 | 1 | 1 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2000 | Quarrel & Quandary | Cynthia Ozick | Arts & Criticism | 10 | 1 | 1 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1999 | Salisbury: Victorian Titan | Andrew Roberts | Biography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Hachette UK |
| 1994 | Diplomacy | Henry Kissinger | Politics & Government | 10 | 1 | 1 | Diane Books Publishing Company | Diane Books Publishing Company |
| 1987 | Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land | David K. Shipler | Race & Ethnicity | 10 | 1 | 1 | Times Books | Macmillan |
| 1983 | Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism | John Updike | Arts & Criticism | 10 | 1 | 1 | Penguin Putnam | Penguin Random House |
| 1966 | A Virgil Thomson Reader | Virgil Thomson | Arts & Criticism | 10 | 1 | 1 | Plume | Penguin Random House |
| 1962 | The Gutenberg Galaxy | Marshall McLuhan | Technology | 10 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2017 | Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News | Kevin Young | History | 10 | 1 | 3 | Graywolf Press | Graywolf Press |
| 1980 | Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia | William Shawcross | History | 8 | 2 | 2 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1997 | Fame and Folly | Cynthia Ozick | Arts & Criticism | 8 | 1 | 2 | Knopf | Penguin Random House |
| 2017 | Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions | Valeria Luiselli | Race & Ethnicity | 8 | 0 | 2 | Coffee House Press | Coffee House Press |
| 1979 | America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century | Frances FitzGerald | History | 8 | 0 | 2 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2015 | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer | Society & Culture | 6 | 1 | 2 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2014 | Roy Jenkins: a Well-Rounded Life | John Campbell | Biography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Jonathan Cape | Penguin Random House |
| 2024 | The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers | Margo Natalie Crawford, C. Riley Snorton | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Vanderbilt University Press | Vanderbilt University Press |
| 2023 | 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News | Kathryn Cramer Brownell | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2023 | Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed | Dashka Slater | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | Macmillan | Macmillan |
| 2023 | Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights | Samuel G. Freedman | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2023 | The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America | Adrian Johns | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2020 | Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump | Jennifer Mercieca | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Texas A&M University Press | Texas A&M University Press |
| 2020 | The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market | Nadya Bair | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of California Press | University of California Press |
| 2020 | The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America | Sarah E. Igo | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2020 | The Louder I Will Sing | Lee Lawrence | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2018 | CCyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President | Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2018 | On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News | Matthew Pressman | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2014 | Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion | Harold Holzer | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2012 | Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism | Christopher B. Daly | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Massachusetts Press | University of Massachusetts Press |
| 2012 | Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art | Leah Dickerman | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | The Museum of Modern Art | The Museum of Modern Art |
| 2012 | Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power | Seth Rosenfeld | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Macmillan |
| 2012 | Trampling Out the Vintage | Frank Bardacke | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Verso Books | Verso Books |
| 2010 | Essays from the Nick of Time | Mark Slouka | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Graywolf Press | Graywolf Press |
| 2007 | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | Janet Malcolm | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2002 | High and Mighty: SUVs--The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way | Keith Bradsher | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | PublicAffairs | Hachette Book Group |
| 1997 | Anatomy of A Miracle: The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa | Patti Waldmeir | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 1989 | The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition | James R. Bartholomew | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 1988 | A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound | Humphrey Carpenter | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1987 | Blundering Into Disaster | Robert S. McNamara | War & Military | 4 | 1 | 1 | Pantheon | Penguin Random House |
| 1985 | Deadly Gambits | Strobe Talbott | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1980 | Cry of the People | Penny Lernoux | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Penguin Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1975 | Supership | Noel Mostert | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1975 | The China Hands | E. J. Kahn, Jr. | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1968 | Not So Rich As You Think | George R. Stewart | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1966 | The Airtight Cage | Joseph P. Lyford | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harper & Row | HarperCollins |
| 1965 | Dark Ghetto | Kenneth B. Clark | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 1964 | The Mythmakers | Bernard D. Nossiter | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1958 | Neither Black Nor White | Wilma Dykeman, James Stokely | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Literary Licensing, LLC |
| 1958 | The Affluent Society | John Kenneth Galbraith | Business & Economics | 4 | 1 | 1 | Houghton Mifflin | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 1955 | National Security and Individual Freedom | John Lord O'Brien | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1952 | The Herblock Book | Herbert Block | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Beacon Press | Beacon Press |
| 1951 | The Loyalty of Free Men | Alan Barth | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 1955 | FFreedom, Loyalty and Dissent | Henry Steele Commager | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2003 | HHoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991–2000 | Francis Wheen | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1965 | MMississippi: The Closed Society | D r. James W. Silver | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1961 | RResidence and Race | David McEntire | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1974 | SSpecial Award | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2008 | The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State | Noah Feldman | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 1969 | The Man of Letters | John Gross | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1970 | TThe Ultimate Folly | Congressman Richard McCarthy | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2024 | Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy | Kashmir Hill | Technology | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2023 | Creep: Accusations and Confessions | Myriam Gurba | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2022 | The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy | Anand Giridharadas | Politics & Government | 4 | 0 | 1 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Penguin Random House |
| 2022 | They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent | Sarah Kendzior | Politics & Government | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2021 | Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon | Mark McGurl | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | Verso Books | Verso Books |
| 2021 | Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays | Jesse McCarthy | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 0 | 1 | Liveright | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2018 | The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure | Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 2016 | Against Everything: Essays | Mark Greif | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Pantheon | Penguin Random House |
| 2016 | Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World | Marc Raboy | Biography | 4 | 0 | 2 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2015 | Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land | Sandy Tolan | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2011 | Moonwalking with Einstein | Joshua Foer | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 2009 | Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture | David Hajdu | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2008 | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life | Alice Schroeder | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Bantam Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2006 | Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays | Frederick Crews | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2005 | Bound to Please | Michael Dirda | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2005 | Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-Millennial South | Hal Crowther | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | LSU Press | Louisiana State University Press |
| 2005 | The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture | John Battelle | Technology | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2003 | Cut Time: An Education at the Fights | Carlo Rotella | Sports | 4 | 0 | 1 | Houghton Mifflin | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2003 | Gritos | Dagoberto Gilb | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Grove Press | Grove Atlantic |
| 1999 | A Brief History of the Future | John Naughton | Technology | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1995 | Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK | Gerald Posner | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1995 | We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy | Jeffrey Abramson | Politics & Government | 4 | 0 | 1 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 1992 | Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America | James Davison Hunter | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 1991 | Broken Vessels | Andre Dubus | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | David R. Godine | David R. Godine |
| 1981 | Early Auden | Edward Mendelson | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | Faber & Faber | Faber & Faber |
| 1974 | MMeyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater | Marjorie L. Hoover | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | University of Massachusetts Press | University of Massachusetts Press |
| 1973 | A Decade of Music | B. H. Haggin | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1969 | TThe Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition | Theodore Roszak | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Doubleday | Penguin Random House |
| 2001 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave Eggers | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 1977 | Afterimages | Arlene Croce | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 1975 | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 0 | 1 | Warner Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 2014 | Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1990 | City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles | Mike Davis | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Verso Books | Verso Books |
| 1987 | Democracy Is in the Streets | James Miller | Politics & Government | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1980 | HHenry Adams | R.P. Blackmur, ed. by Veronica A. Makowsky | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2015 | MMary McGrory The First Queen of Journalism | John Norris | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1973 | PPeople of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization | Michael Kammen | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1971 | The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power | Lewis Mumford | Politics & Government | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1934 | The People's Choice | Herbert Agar | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |