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| 1979 | The Gnostic Gospels | Elaine Pagels | Religion | 20 | 2 | 2 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2017 | Henry David Thoreau: A Life | Laura Dassow Walls | Biography | 18 | 2 | 3 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2009 | A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Religion | 14 | 2 | 2 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 2007 | God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain | Rosemary Hill | Biography | 14 | 2 | 2 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 2004 | Jonathan Edwards: A Life | George M. Marsden | Biography | 14 | 1 | 2 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2004 | Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | History | 12 | 1 | 2 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 2002 | White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India | William Dalrymple | History | 12 | 1 | 2 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 1996 | Thomas Cranmer: A Life | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Biography | 12 | 3 | 3 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2022 | Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 | Clare Jackson | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 2018 | Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England | Douglas L. Winiarski | Religion | 10 | 1 | 1 | University of North Carolina Press | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2018 | God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America | Louis S. Warren | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 2017 | Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation | Peter Marshall | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2015 | Augustine: Conversions and Confessions | Robin Lane Fox | Religion | 10 | 1 | 1 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 2013 | Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History | Catherine Merridale | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 2011 | The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity & Memory in Early Modern Britain & Ireland | Alexandra Walsham | Religion | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2006 | Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 | Christopher Clark | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 1997 | Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt | Christine Leigh Heyrman | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Knopf | Penguin Random House |
| 1994 | The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 | John L. Brooke | Religion | 10 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 1993 | Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience | Barbara Harvey | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1988 | Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America | Edmund S. Morgan | Politics & Government | 10 | 1 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 1987 | The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South | John Pemble | Travel & Place | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1980 | A Severe Mercy | Sheldon Vanauken | Memoir & Autobiography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Hodder & Stoughton | Hachette UK |
| 1971 | Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England | Keith Thomas | Religion | 10 | 1 | 1 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Hachette UK |
| 1967 | From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 | Richard L. Bushman | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1964 | God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion | Norbert Wiener | Science | 10 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 1963 | The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison | John L. Thomas | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Little, Brown | Hachette Book Group |
| 1973 | A Religious History of the American People | S. E. Ahlstrom | Religion | 10 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 1986 | European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550-1750 | Jonathan Israel | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1975 | Roll, Jordan, Roll | Eugene Genovese | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Pantheon | Penguin Random House |
| 1972 | The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 | Robert Middlekauff | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2017 | The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution | Yuri Slezkine | History | 10 | 2 | 3 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Black Tudors: The Untold Story | Miranda Kaufmann | History | 8 | 0 | 2 | Oneworld | Oneworld Publications |
| 1990 | Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People | Jon Butler | Religion | 6 | 1 | 2 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2013 | Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt | Richard Holloway | Biography | 6 | 1 | 2 | Canongate | Canongate Books |
| 2004 | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 | Mark Mazower | History | 6 | 1 | 2 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 2024 | The Baton and The Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin | Lucy Ash | Religion | 6 | 0 | 2 | Icon Books | Icon Books |
| 2017 | Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran | Laura Secor | Politics & Government | 6 | 0 | 2 | Riverhead Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1999 | Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir | Wayne Johnston | Society & Culture | 6 | 0 | 2 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2007 | God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery | Douglas Hunter | History | 6 | 0 | 2 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2025 | Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake | Judith Weisenfeld | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | New York University Press | New York University Press |
| 2024 | Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball | Keith O'Brien | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Pantheon | Penguin Random House |
| 2023 | Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa | Anthony Grafton | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Belknap Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2023 | Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land | Tamar Novick | Technology | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2023 | Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World | Noémie Ndiaye, Lia Markey | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | ACMRS Press | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
| 2022 | Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World | Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts,, Sara E. Cole | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Getty Publications | Getty Publications |
| 2019 | Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People | Donna Hicks | Business & Economics | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2018 | The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found | Bart van Es | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2017 | Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas | Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy Potts,, Kim N. Richter | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Getty Publications | Getty Publications |
| 2017 | In the Days of Rain | Rebecca Stott | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Fourth Estate | HarperCollins |
| 2017 | The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land: Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance | Kathryn Blair Moore | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World | Larry W. Hurtado | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Baylor University Press | Baylor University Press |
| 2016 | Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 | Carlos M.N. Eire | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2013 | Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition | David Nirenberg | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2013 | Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian | A. Douglas Stone | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2012 | Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures | Claudia L. Johnson | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2012 | The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca. 1200-1400 | Jacqueline E. Jung | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2011 | A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich | Christopher B. Krebs | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2011 | Common Sense: A Political History | Sophia Rosenfeld | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2010 | The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought | Eric Nelson | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2009 | German Orientalism in the Age of Empire | Suzanne Marchand | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2008 | Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico | Maria-Elena Martinez | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Stanford University Press | Stanford University Press |
| 2008 | Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History | Eleanor Robson | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2008 | The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, & Courts | James A. Brundage | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2007 | Henry James Goes to Paris | Peter Brooks | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2007 | Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany | Atina Grossmann | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2006 | Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 | Carole Fink | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2006 | Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth | Alessandro Scafi | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2005 | The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture | Jonathan Sheehan | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2004 | Emerson | Lawrence Buell | Biography | 4 | 1 | 2 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2004 | The Redemptive Self | Dan P. McAdams | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2003 | Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C. – A.D. 315 | John R. Clarke | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of California Press | University of California Press |
| 2002 | The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland | R.F. Foster | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2002 | Wounds Not Healed By Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness | Solomon Schimmel | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2000 | Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran | Elaine Sciolino | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2000 | Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters & the Search for the Language of Nature | Michael West | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Ohio University Press | Ohio University Press |
| 2000 | Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art | Debora Silverman | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 1999 | Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture | Leonard Barkan | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 1998 | The Death of Adam | Marilynne Robinson | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Macmillan | Macmillan |
| 1998 | The Nature of the Book: Print & Knowledge in the Making | Adrian Johns | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 1998 | The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change | Randall Collins | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1997 | Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity | Steven B. Smith | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 1996 | Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in 18th-Century Mexico | William Taylor | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Stanford University Press | Stanford University Press |
| 1996 | The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem | Oleg Grabar | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 1994 | The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement | Richard Noll | Religion | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 1992 | The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific | Gananath Obeyesekere | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 1990 | Coleridge: Early Visions | Richard Holmes | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 1988 | Infinite in All Directions | Freeman Dyson | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 1981 | History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 | Walter Rodney | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 1979 | The Creation of Nikolai Gogol | Donald L. Fanger | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Belknap Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1978 | The Enlightenment in America | Henry May | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1978 | The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society | Robert B. Heilman | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Washington Press | University of Washington Press |
| 1977 | Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 | Joseph Frank | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 1976 | Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 | Joseph Frank | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 1972 | The Best Poor Man’s Country | James Lemon | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 1971 | The Burden of the Past and the English Poet | Walter Jackson Bate | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1969 | Shaw the Dramatist | Louis Crompton | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Nebraska Press | University of Nebraska Press |
| 1968 | Kings, Beasts, and Heroes | Gwyn Jones | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1961 | Freedom in the Ancient World | Herbert J. Muller | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harper & Brothers | Harper & Brothers |
| 1958 | Homer and the Heroic Tradition | Cedric H. Whitman | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1965 | A History of the Jews | Abram L. Sachar | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
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