| 1. | *** | Kingsley Amis. | Colonel Sun | [Fiction] |
| 2. | ***** | Harper Lee. | To Kill a Mockingbird | [Fiction] |
| 3. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Golden Ocean | [Fiction] |
| 4. | ***** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Unknown Shore | [Fiction] |
| 5. | ***** | David Quammen. | The Song of the Dodo | [Science] |
| 6. | **** | Len Deighton. | Funeral in Berlin | [Fiction] |
| 7. | Alfred Russell Wallace. | The Malay Archipelago | [Travel] | |
| 8. | *** | Len Deighton. | Fighter | [History] |
| 9. | *** | Bernard Cornwell. | Sharpe's Battle | [Fiction] |
| 10. | **** | Robert Traver. | Anatomy of a Murder | [Fiction] |
| 11. | **** | Len Deighton. | Bomber | [Fiction] |
| 12. | *** | Jack Woehr. | Forth: The New Model | [Computers] |
| 13. | *** | Joy Sterling. | A Vintner's Guide to Red Wine | [Food] |
| 14. | **** | Mark Bittman. | The Minimalist Cooks at Home | [Cooking] |
| 15. | ** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Tramp Royale | [Travel] |
| 16. | ***** | Jane Austen. | Pride and Prejudice | [Fiction] |
| 17. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Friday | [Fiction] |
| 18. | **** | Mark Kurlansky. | The Basque History of the World | [History] |
| 19. | **** | Bill Bryson. | In a Sunburned Country | [Travel] |
| 20. | ** | Larry Niven. | Ringworld | [Fiction] |
| 21. | **** | William Russo. | Composing Music: A New Approach | [Music] |
| 22. | ***** | James Morris. | Farewell the Trumpets | [History] |
| 23. | *** | Joseph Kanon. | The Prodigal Spy | [Fiction] |
| 24. | *** | Derek Lambert. | Spanish Lessons | [Travel] |
| 25. | ** | P. G. Wodehouse. | Thank You, Jeeves | [Fiction] |
| 26. | **** | Slavomir Rawicz. | The Long Walk | [Travel] |
| 27. | *** | Samuel R. Delany. | They Fly at Çiron | [Fiction] |
| 28. | *** | Gregory Benford. | The Martian Race | [Fiction] |
| 29. | *** | George Coppard. | With a Machine Gun to Cambrai | [Biography] |
| 30. | **** | Carl Hiaasen. | Stormy Weather | [Fiction] |
| 31. | **** | Matthias Felleisen and Daniel P. Friedman. | The Little MLer | [Computers] |
| 32. | ** | Thomas P. Costain. | High Towers | [Fiction] |
| 33. | ***** | Mike Barnes. | Captain Beefheart | [Biography] |
| 34. | *** | Dashiell Hammett. | Red Harvest | [Fiction] |
| 35. | **** | John Berendt. | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | [Non-fiction] |
| 36. | *** | Anthony Bourdain. | Kitchen Confidential | [Cooking] |
| 37. | *** | John Toland. | The Dillinger Days | [History] |
| 38. | *** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flashman and the Tiger | [Fiction] |
| 39. | *** | Denis Judd. | Someone Has Blundered | [History] |
| 40. | ***** | Lynda Barry. | Cruddy | [Fiction] |
| 41. | *** | Bernard Cornwell. | Sharpe's Tiger | [Fiction] |
| 42. | **** | John Kennedy Toole. | A Confederacy of Dunces | [Fiction] |
| 43. | *** | Gregory Benford. | Eater | [Fiction] |
| 44. | **** | Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac. | Tournament of Shadows | [History] |