| 2023 | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Ed Yong | Science | 32 | 2 | 5 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2011 | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick | History | 30 | 3 | 6 | Fourth Estate | HarperCollins |
| 2019 | Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado-Perez | Gender & Sexuality | 28 | 2 | 5 | Chatto & Windus | Penguin Random House |
| 2025 | Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI | Karen Hao | Technology | 24 | 3 | 3 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 1979 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas Hofstadter | Science | 24 | 2 | 3 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 1995 | The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time | Jonathan Weiner | Science | 20 | 2 | 2 | Knopf | Penguin Random House |
| 2022 | Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology | Chris Miller | Technology | 18 | 2 | 3 | Scribner | Simon & Schuster |
| 2009 | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | Michael Lewis | Business & Economics | 18 | 2 | 3 | Penguin Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1997 | How the Mind Works | Steven Pinker | Science | 18 | 1 | 3 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2001 | Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis | Ian Kershaw | History | 16 | 1 | 3 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 1987 | Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States | Kenneth T. Jackson | History | 14 | 2 | 2 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2023 | A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? | Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith | Science | 14 | 1 | 2 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 2020 | Figuring | Maria Popova | Biography | 14 | 1 | 2 | Pantheon | Penguin Random House |
| 1985 | ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age | Walter A. McDougall | History | 14 | 1 | 2 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 1990 | DDisappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century | O. B. Hardison, Jr. | Society & Culture | 14 | 1 | 2 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2015 | Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President, and the Rise of the Drone | Scott Shane | Politics & Government | 12 | 1 | 2 | Crown | Penguin Random House |
| 2002 | Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA | Brenda Maddox | Biography | 12 | 1 | 2 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2019 | Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom | Katherine Eban | Medicine & Public Health | 12 | 2 | 3 | Ecco | HarperCollins |
| 2025 | How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations | Carl Benedikt Frey | Business & Economics | 12 | 1 | 3 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death | Mark O'Connell | Technology | 12 | 1 | 3 | Anchor | Penguin Random House |
| 1999 | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters | Matt Ridley | Science | 12 | 0 | 3 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2024 | Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World | Parmy Olson | Technology | 10 | 1 | 1 | St. Martin's Press | Macmillan |
| 2024 | The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip | Stephen Witt | Business & Economics | 10 | 1 | 1 | Penguin Publishing Group | Penguin Random House |
| 2022 | This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race | Nicole Perlroth | Technology | 10 | 1 | 1 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2020 | The Smallest Lights in the Universe | Sara Seager | Science | 10 | 1 | 1 | Crown | Penguin Random House |
| 2016 | Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention | Mary Sarah Bilder | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2015 | The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment | Martin Ford | Technology | 10 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2014 | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection | Michael Harris | Society & Culture | 10 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2013 | The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon | Brad Stone | Business & Economics | 10 | 1 | 1 | Little, Brown | Hachette Book Group |
| 2011 | Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius | Sylvia Nasar | Business & Economics | 10 | 1 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2007 | I Am a Strange Loop | Douglas Hofstadter | Science | 10 | 1 | 1 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 2005 | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Friedman | Business & Economics | 10 | 1 | 1 | Picador | Macmillan |
| 2004 | The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change | Charles Wohlforth | Nature & Environment | 10 | 1 | 1 | North Point Press | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 1994 | Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication | John A. Livingston | Society & Culture | 10 | 1 | 1 | Key Porter Books | Key Porter Books |
| 1993 | Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World | Daniel McNeill, Paul Freiberger | Technology | 10 | 1 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 1992 | The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal | Jared Diamond | Science | 10 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1982 | "Subtle is the Lord ...": The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein | Abraham Pais | Science | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1981 | Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists | Fred Alan Wolf | Science | 10 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2015 | How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy | Stephen Witt | Business & Economics | 10 | 0 | 3 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 1968 | Privacy and Freedom | Alan F. Westin | Politics & Government | 8 | 2 | 2 | Atheneum | Simon & Schuster |
| 2024 | The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World | William Dalrymple | History | 8 | 1 | 2 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2012 | The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t | Nate Silver | Science | 8 | 1 | 2 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 1972 | The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann | Herman H. Goldstine | Technology | 8 | 1 | 2 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2018 | Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution | Priya Satia | History | 8 | 1 | 3 | Penguin Press | Penguin Random House |
| 2018 | Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine | Hannah Fry | Technology | 8 | 0 | 2 | Doubleday | Penguin Random House |
| 2010 | Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Richard Wrangham | Science | 8 | 0 | 2 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 1988 | Chaos: Making a New Science | James Gleick | Science | 8 | 0 | 2 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 1980 | Bumblebee Economics | Bernd Heinrich | Science | 8 | 0 | 2 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2016 | Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race | Margot Lee Shetterly | Race & Ethnicity | 6 | 1 | 2 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2023 | Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State | Kerry Howley | Politics & Government | 6 | 0 | 2 | Knopf | Penguin Random House |
| 2018 | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power | Shoshana Zuboff | Business & Economics | 6 | 0 | 2 | PublicAffairs | Hachette Book Group |
| 2012 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking | Susan Cain | Society & Culture | 6 | 0 | 2 | Crown | Penguin Random House |
| 2012 | Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe | George Dyson | Technology | 6 | 0 | 2 | Pantheon | Penguin Random House |
| 2021 | A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds | Scott Weidensaul | Nature & Environment | 5 | 0 | 2 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2025 | Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life | Agnes Callard | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 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 | Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land | Tamar Novick | Technology | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2023 | The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica | David J. Drewry | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2023 | TThe Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better | Abdi Aidid, Benjamin Alarie | Technology | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Toronto Press | University of Toronto Press |
| 2022 | Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive | Mark Anthony Neal | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | New York University Press | New York University Press |
| 2022 | Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow | Nicole Yunger Halpern | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2021 | American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation | Roberto Saba | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2021 | How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us | Lucy Bernholz | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2020 | Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth | Magda Teter | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2020 | Reaganland: America’s Right Turn (1976-1980) | Rick Perlstein | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2019 | The Cult of the Constitution | Mary Anne Franks | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Stanford University Press | Stanford University Press |
| 2019 | The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West | Payal Arora | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2019 | The Rise of Big Data Policing | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson | True Crime & Justice | 4 | 1 | 1 | New York University Press | New York University Press |
| 2019 | What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading | Leah Price | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Basic Books | Hachette Book Group |
| 2019 | Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump | Allison Stanger | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2018 | Designing an Internet | David Clark | Technology | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2018 | The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain | Nick Chater | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2018 | Underbug | Lisa Margonelli | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Macmillan | Macmillan |
| 2017 | Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception | Jeffrey M. Hunt, R. Alden Smith, Fabio Stok | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Texas Press | University of Texas Press |
| 2017 | The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age | Francesca Coppa | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Michigan Press | University of Michigan Press |
| 2016 | The Curse of Cash | Kenneth S. Rogoff | Business & Economics | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2015 | Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology | Kentaro Toyama | Technology | 4 | 1 | 1 | PublicAffairs | Hachette Book Group |
| 2015 | Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies | Zahi Hawass, Sahar Saleem | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | The American University in Cairo Press | The American University in Cairo Press |
| 2015 | TThe Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present | Tod A. Marder, Mark Wilson Jones | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2014 | Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History | Gregory Cushman | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2014 | Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century | Omar W. Nasim | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2014 | Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime | Brian Krebs | True Crime & Justice | 4 | 1 | 1 | Sourcebooks | Sourcebooks |
| 2013 | Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and Care | Sylvie Penichon | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Getty Publications | Getty Publications |
| 2012 | Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources | Brett M. Frischmann | Business & Economics | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2012 | The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon | John Tresch | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2011 | Hybrid Nature: Sewage Treatment and the Contradictions of the Industrial Ecosystem | Daniel Schneider | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2011 | The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China | Dagmar Schäfer | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2010 | The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State | Shane Harris | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2009 | Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet | Timothy LeCain | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Rutgers University Press | Rutgers University Press |
| 2009 | Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent | Andrew Nikiforuk | Nature & Environment | 4 | 1 | 1 | Greystone Books | Greystone Books |
| 2008 | The Race Between Education & Technology | Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz | Business & Economics | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2007 | Digital Performance | Steve Dixon | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2007 | The Second Life Herald | Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace | Journalism & Reportage | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2006 | Invisible Engines | David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, Richard Schmalensee | Technology | 4 | 1 | 1 | MIT Press | MIT Press |
| 2005 | The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929 | Elspeth H. Brown | Business & Economics | 4 | 1 | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2004 | First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies | Peter Bellwood | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Blackwell Publishing | Wiley |
| 2002 | American Law in the Twentieth Century | Lawrence Friedman | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2000 | The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present | Martin Melosi | Technology | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1997 | Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics | Peter Galison | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 1996 | Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century | Stanley I. Kutler | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |