2011

1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
2. On China by Henry Kissinger
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

 

      2012

1. Socrates in Sichuan by Peter J. Vernezze
2. Every Day by David Levithan
3. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

 

      2013

1. You by Austin Grossman
2. The Circle by Dave Eggers
3. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa

 

      2014

1. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
2. Waking Up by Sam Harris
3. The Triple Package by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

 

      2015

1. The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
3. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

 

      2016

1. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
2. Patience by Daniel Clowes
3. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne and J.K. Rowling

 

      2017

1. The Power by Naomi Alderman
2. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy
3. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

 

      2018

1. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
2. The Outsider by Stephen King
3. Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton

 

      2019

1. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
2. A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer
3. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

 

      2020

1. The Silence by Don DeLillo
2. Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
3. Derangements of My Contemporaries by Li Shangyin

 

      2021

1. First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
2. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
3. Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

 

      2022

1. Leading a Worthy Life by Leon Kass
2. The Dreaming: Waking Hours by G. Willow Wilson
3. Liberation Day by George Saunders

 

      2023

1. Open Throat by Henry Hoke
2. Out There by Kate Folk
3. Translation State by Ann Leckie