December 2011

1) Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
2) The Last Founding Father (James Monroe) Harlow Giles Unger
3) The French Revolution A Very Short Introduction William Doyle
4) The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt
5) Love in the Ruins Walker Percy
6) John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life Paul C Nagle
7) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
8) The Orchard Keeper Cormac McCarthy

November 2011

1) American Sphinx Joseph J. Ellis
2) Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
3) Home and Away Rachel Wetesteon
4) James Madison Richard Brookheiser
5) The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Steven Sherill
6) The Jaguar Hunter Lucius Shepard
7) Founding Brothers Joseph J. Ellis

October 2011

1) Washington Ron Chernow
2) Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
3) Starwater Strains Gene Wolfe
4) 77 Dream Songs John Berryman
5) Split Images Elmore Leonard
6) John Adams David McCullough
7) The Bible Repairman Tim Powers

September 2011

1) Castleview Gene Wolfe
2) The Comedians Graham Greene
3) A History of the American People Paul Johnson
4) Black Swan Green David Mitchell
5) Nuclear Dawn James P. Delgado
6) The Book of the Dun Cow Walter Wangerin

August 2011

1) The secret agent Joseph Conrad
2) Despair Vladimir Nabokov
3) Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
4) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Angela Carter
5) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John Le Carre
6) Skippy Dies Paul Murray
7) The Magician King Lev Grossman
8) Outer Dark Cormac McCarthy
9) A Fine and Private Place Peter S Beagle
10)Godric Frederick Buechner
11) The Big Bounce Elmore Leonard

July 2011

1)The Last Gentleman Walker Percy
2)A Soldier of the Great War Mark Helprin
3)A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
4)Stories Ed. Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio
5)How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu
6) Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
7) The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
8) All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
9) The Sunset Limited Cormac McCarthy
10) The Human Factor Graham Greene
11) Shriek: An Afterward Jeff Vandermeer

June 2011

1) A Fire in the Sun George Alec Effinger
2) The Wizard's Tide Frederick Buechner
3) The Exile's Kiss George Alec Effinger
4) Djibouti Elmore Leonard
5) Devil in the White City Erik Larson
6) Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain

May 2011

1) Til We Have Faces CS Lewis
2) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell
3) Walking to Martha's Vineyard Franz Wright
4) Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond
5) The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
6) The Crossing Cormac McCarthy
7) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown
8) Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy
9) When Gravity Fails George Alec Effinger

April 2010

1) Winter's Tale Mark Helprin
2) The Moonshine War Elmore Leonard
3) Last Call Tim Powers
4) Sleepwalk with Me Mike Birbiglia
5) Dog of the South Charles Portis
6) Beyond Good and Evil Freiderich Neitzsche
7) The Bounty Hunters Elmore Leonard

March 2011

1) Nova Samuel Delany
2) Speak Memory Vladimir Nabokov
3) The End of the Affair Graham Greene
4) The Winter's Tale Shakespeare
5) The Greater Trumps Charles Williams

February 2011

1) Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
2) Nausea Jean Paul Sartre
3) The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolano
4) Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell
5) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
6) The Kid Stays in the Picture Robert Evans

January 2011

1) Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Patton Oswalt
2) Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William Shirer
3) Anathem Neal Sephenson
4) On Stranger Tides Tim Powers
5) All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
6) Tinkers Paul Harding
7) Last Call Daniel Okrent