| 1. | ***** | Kenneth Roberts. | Oliver Wiswell | [Fiction] |
| 2. | U | Benson Bobrick. | Angel in the Whirlwind | [History] |
| 3. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Between Planets | [Fiction] |
| 4. | ** | Bill Harkleroad. | Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience | [Music] |
| 5. | **** | Bill Bryson. | In a Sunburned Country | [Travel] |
| 6. | *** | Gerald Durrell. | The Overloaded Ark | [Travel] |
| 7. | ** | Walter D. Edmonds. | Rome Haul | [Fiction] |
| 8. | **** | Jim Beloff. | The Ukulele: A Visual History | [Music] |
| 9. | ** | Codman Hislop. | The Mohawk | [Travel] |
| 10. | **** | Douglas Botting. | Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine | [History] |
| 11. | **** | Robert Crumb. | My Troubles with Women | [Comics] |
| 12. | **** | Robert Crumb. | R. Crumb's America | [Comics] |
| 13. | *** | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. | The Saskatchewan | [Travel] |
| 14. | *** | Aidan Crawley. | Escape from Germany | [History] |
| 15. | **** | M.C.C. Harrison & H.A. Cartwright. | Within Four Walls | [History/Biography] |
| 16. | *** | P.R. Reid. | Colditz: The Full Story | [History] |
| 17. | **** | Irwin Chusid. | Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music | [Music] |
| 18. | **** | Deneys Reitz. | Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War | [Biography] |
| 19. | **** | Calvin Trillin. | Feeding a Yen | [Food] |
| 20. | **** | H. E. Hervey. | Cage-Birds | [History/Biography] |
| 21. | **** | Nevil Shute. | Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer | [Biography] |
| 22. | ***** | Negley Farson. | The Way of a Transgressor | [Biography] |
| 23. | **** | A. J. Evans. | The Escaping Club | [History/Biography] |
| 24. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Farmer in the Sky | [Fiction] |
| 25. | **** | Sue Townsend. | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13-3/4 | [Fiction] |
| 26. | **** | Sue Townsend. | The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole | [Fiction] |
| 27. | ** | H. G. Durnford. | The Tunnellers of Holzminden | [History] |
| 28. | *** | Richard Sale. | To the Ends of the Earth: The History of Polar Exploration | [History] |
| 29. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | [Fiction] |
| 30. | *** | Michael Capuzzo. | Close to Shore | [History] |
| 31. | ***** | Winston Groom. | A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front | [History] |
| 32. | **** | The Monks of New Skete. | How to be Your Dog's Best Friend | [Non-fiction] |
| 33. | *** | James Tiptree, Jr.. | The Starry Rift | [Fiction] |
| 34. | ** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Rocket Ship Galileo | [Fiction] |
| 35. | **** | Euell Gibbons. | Stalking the Wild Asparagus | [Nature/Cooking] |
| 36. | ***** | Bill Bryson. | A Short History of Nearly Everything | [Science] |
| 37. | *** | Jean George. | My Side of the Mountain | [Fiction] |
| 38. | **** | Pierre Berton. | My Country: The Remarkable Past | [History] |
| 39. | *** | Bill Adler, Jr.. | Outwitting Squirrels | [Nature] |
| 40. | *** | Henry Chancellor. | Colditz: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes | [History] |
| 41. | ***** | Paul Theroux. | Dark Star Safari | [Travel] |
| 42. | *** | Alexei Panshin. | Rite of Passage | [Fiction] |
| 43. | **** | Eric Ambler. | Dirty Story: A Further Account of the Life and Adventures of Arthur Abdel Simpson | [Fiction] |
| 44. | *** | Thomas H. Raddall. | Roger Sudden | [Fiction] |
| 45. | *** | Paul Theroux. | Sailing Through China | [Travel] |
| 46. | **** | James Gleick. | Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics | [Biography] |
| 47. | **** | Peter Blake. | Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn't Worked | [Architecture] |
| 48. | *** | Kenneth Roberts. | Boon Island | [Fiction] |
| 49. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | Master and Commander | [Fiction] |
| 50. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | Post Captain | [Fiction] |