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Top 10 for 2009 (current)
Shakespeare Wrote for Money, by Nick Hornby
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The Tenderness of Wolves, by Stef Penney
The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell
Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland
The Suicide Index, by Joan Wickersham
Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O'Nan
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, edited by Lee Gutkind
Abide With Me, by Elizabeth Strout
Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
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Top 10 for 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot D’az
Home, by Marilynne Robinson
The Courage Muscle, by Monique Doyle Spencer
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri
I See You Everywhere, by Julia Glass
Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar
Lavinia, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Age of Shiva, by Manil Suri
The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers
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Top 10 for 2007
Safekeeping, by Abigail Thomas
A Three Dog Life, by Abigail Thomas
Here If You Need Me, by Kate Braestrup
Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, by Nick Hornby
The Polysyllabic Spree, by Nick Hornby
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?", by Beverly Daniel Tatum
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy
(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, by Steve Almond
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Top 10 for 2006
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Thin Place, by Kathryn Davis
The Whole World Over, by Julia Glass
March, by Geraldine Brooks
How It Feels to Be Adopted, by Jill Krementz
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, by J. Maarten Troost
All Hallows' Eve, by Charles Williams
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Top 10 for 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Lost Daughters of China, by Karin Evans
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Dream Season, by Bob Cowser, Jr.
Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte
Something Rising (Light and Swift), by Haven Kimmel
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Top 10 for 2004
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations, by Cintra Wilson
The Towers of Trebizond, by Rose Macaulay
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
Robert E. Lee, by Roy Blount, Jr.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, by Susanna Clarke
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Top 10 for 2003
The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
Three Junes, by Julia Glass
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Stuffed: Growing Up in a Restaurant Family, by Patricia Volk
Why I'm Like This: True Stories, by Cynthia Kaplan
Extra Virgin, by Annie Hawes
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
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