By Year the Book Was Read – only have kept track since 2011
| YEAR READ | BOOK (YEAR PUBLISHED) | AUTHOR |
| 2024 | ||
| 2023 | Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfires in the Boreal Forest (2021) | Trina Moyles |
| 2022 | Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (2021) | Rosecrans Baldwin |
| 2021 | Project Hail Mary (2021) | Andy Weir |
| 2020 | 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (2006) | Jennet Conant |
| 2019 | Last of the Donkey Pilgrims: A Man’s Journey Through Ireland (2005) | Kevin O’Hara |
| 2018 | Educated (2018) | Tara Westover |
| 2017 | The Stone Raft (1986) | Jose Saramago |
| 2016 | The Dharma Bums (1958) | Jack Kerouac |
| 2015 | Odyssey: Ten Years on the Hippie Trail (2014) | Ananda G. Brady |
| 2014 | Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy (2011) | Elly Blue |
| 2013 | Wild (2012) | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2012 | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2005) | Timothy Egan |
| 2011 | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006) | Bill Bryson |
By Year The Book Was First Published
| YEAR | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| 2024 | ||
| 2023 | Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth | Alan Mallach |
| 2022 | Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail | Andrea Lani |
| 2021 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
| 2020 | Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most DaringWartime Spy | Ben Macintyre |
| 2019 | Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World | Neil Shister |
| 2018 | Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion’s Soul Through Science and Story | Leslie Patten |
| 2017 | Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century | Jessica Bruder |
| 2016 | If Venice Dies | Salvatore Settis |
| 2015 | Fourteen: A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival | Leslie J. Nack |
| 2014 | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
| 2013 | Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2012 | The Newspaper Boy | Chervis Isom |
| 2011 | Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout | Philip Connors |
| 2010 | Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities | Witold Rybczyński |
| 2009 | Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea | Barbara Demick |
| 2008 | The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World | Andu Merrifield |
| 2007 | Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal | Ben Macintyre |
| 2006 | 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos | Jennet Conant |
| 2005 | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | Timothy Egan |
| 2004 | Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie | Ed Cray |
| 2003 | Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America | Dennis McNally |
| 2002 | Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The True Story of the First Women’s Cross-Country Air Race | Gene Nora Jackson |
| 2001 | Round Ireland with a Fridge | Tony Hawks |
| 2000 | Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb | Thomas Powers |
| 1999 | Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster | Mike Davis |
| 1998 | Rocket Boys | Homer Hickam |
| 1997 | All the Names | Jose Saramago |
| 1996 | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail | Bill Bryson |
| 1995 | Notes from a Small Island | Bill Bryson |
| 1994 | The Cowboy Dictionary | Ramon F. Adams |
| 1993 | Barcelona | Robert Hughes |
| 1992 | Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West | William Cronon |
| 1991 | The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way | Bill Bryson |
| 1990 | Oh, The Places You’ll Go | Dr. Seuss |
| 1989 | The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America | Bill Bryson |
| 1988 | The Alchemist | Paul Coelho |
| 1987 | Patriot Games | Tom Clancy |
| 1986 | The Stone Raft | Jose Saramago |
| 1985 | The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| 1984 | Indian Place Names in Alabama | Wiliam A Read |
| 1983 | West with the Night | Beryl Markham |
| 1982 | Blue Highways | William Least Heat-Moon |
| 1981 | ? | |
| 1980 | The Last Wilderness: A Journey Across the Great Kalahari Desert | Nicholas Luard |
| 1979 | ? | |
| 1978 | Naples ’44 | Norman Lewis |
| 1977 | The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints | Tim Severin |
| 1976 | The Buffalo War: The History of the Red River Indian Uprising of 1874 | James L. Haley |
| 1975 | Indiana Place Names | Ronald L. Baker |
| 1974 | ? | |
| 1973 | Michigan Ghost Towns of the Upper Peninsula | Roy L. Dodge |
| 1972 | The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge | David McCullough |
| 1971 | The Lorax | Dr. Seuss |
| 1970 | Covered Bridges of the Middle West | Richard S. Allen |
| 1969 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle |
| 1968 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick |
| 1967 | A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There | Aldo Leopold |
| 1966 | ? | |
| 1965 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley |
| 1964 | ? | |
| 1963 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| 1962 | Travels with Charley | John Steinbeck |
| 1961 | Owls in the Family | Farley Mowat |
| 1960 | Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss |
| 1959 | ? | |
| 1958 | The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac |
| 1957 | On the Beach | Nevil Shute |
| 1956 | Lincoln’s Choice: The Repeating Rifle which Cut Short the Civil War | J.O. Buckeridge |
| 1955 | ? | |
| 1954 | ? | |
| 1953 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| 1952 | Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1951 | The Pedestrian | Ray Bradbury |
| 1950 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
| 1949 | ? | |
| 1948 | The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh | Chiang Yee |
| 1947 | ? | |
| 1946 | Hiroshima | John Hersey |
| 1945 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 1944 | ? | |
| 1943 | ? | |
| 1942 | ? | |
| 1941 | ? | |
| 1940 | ? | |
| 1939 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 1938 | Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell |
| 1937 | ? | |
| 1936 | ? | |
| 1935 | It Can’t Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis |
| 1934 | ? | |
| 1933 | ? | |
| 1932 | ? | |
| 1931 | ? | |
| 1930 | The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper |
| 1929 | ? | |
| 1928 | ? | |
| 1927 | ? | |
| 1926 | ? | |
| 1925 | ? | |
| 1924 | We | Yevgeny Zamyatin |
| 1923 | Tappan’s Burro | Zane Grey |
| 1922 | ? | |
| 1921 | ? | |
| 1920 | ? |
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