2009

1. What It Is by Lynda Barry
2. The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
3. The Arrival by Shaun Tan
4. Factory Girls by Leslie Chang
5. Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories by Can Xue
6. The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman
7. The Journal of Jules Renard
8. Notes on the Underground by Rosalind Williams
9. Half the Sky by Sheryl WuDunn & Nicholas Kristof
10. Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson

 

      2010

1. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
2. The City & the City by China Mieville
3. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
4. Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
5. Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
6. Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
7. The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
8. One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry
9. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
10. Egg on Mao by Denise Chong

 

      2011

1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Art as Experience by John Dewey
3. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
4. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
5. Red Dust by Ma Jian
6. A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
7. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
8. The Information by James Gleick
9. It’s So Magic by Lynda Barry
10. Under a Cruel Star by Heda Margolius Kovaly

 

      2012

1. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
2. Zona by Geoff Dyer
3. Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
4. Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
5. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
6. Red Azalea by Anchee Min
7. Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
8. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
9. Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
10. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum

 

      2013

1. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
2. Tenth of December by George Saunders
3. Building Stories by Chris Ware
4. Missing Out by Adam Phillips
5. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

 

      2014

1. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
2. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
3. People’s Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim
4. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
5. The Unpersuadables by Will Storr

 

      2015

1. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
2. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
3. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
5. The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, & Dave Stewart 
6. The Door by Magda Szabo
7. Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
8. The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist
9. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
10. SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

 

      2016

1. Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
2. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
3. View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska
4. How to Read Water by Tristan Gooley
5. Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks
6. All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
7. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Panther by Brecht Evens
9. Shrill by Lindy West
10. Monstress: Awakening by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

 

      2017

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2. Garden by Yuichi Yokoyama
3. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
4. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. On Female Body Experience by Iris Marion Young
6. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
7. Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
8. Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso
9. Principles of Chinese Painting by George Rowley
10. The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 

      2018

1. In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
2. Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
3. Stroke by Stroke by Henri Michaux
4. The Dawning Moon of the Mind by Susan Brind Morrow
5. Names of the Lion by Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh
6. feeld by Jos Charles
7. the black maria by Aracelis Girmay
8. Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
9. Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan
10. Motherhood by Sheila Heti

 

      2019

1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
3. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
4. Cup-of-Tea Poems by Kobayashi Issa
5. Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
6. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
7. The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
8. Heaven’s Breath by Lyall Watson
9. My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel
10. Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono

 

      2020

1. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
2. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun
3. The Naked Woman by Armonia Somers
4. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
5. Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
6. In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
7. The Clouds Float North by Yu Xuanji
8. Cruddy by Lynda Barry
9. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
10. Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

 

      2021

1. Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
2. An Autobiography by Janet Frame
3. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
4. Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
5. Know My Name by Chanel Miller
6. Soulstorm by Clarice Lispector
7. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
8. Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei
9. Gideon and Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
10. Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

      2022

1. Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
2. The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
3. The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
4. A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On by Dung Kai-cheung
5. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
6. Network Effect by Martha Wells
7. An Immense World by Ed Yong
8. Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
9. Hung in the Middle by Alana Nicole Sholar
10. Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada

 

      2023

1. Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
2. Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai
3. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
4. The Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte
5. How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton
6. Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being by Kevin Quashie
7. Unbound: A Book of AIDS by Aaron Shurin
8. A Companion for Owls by Maurice Manning
9. Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon
10. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang