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2023

Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams

2022

The Making of a Soviet Scientist R.Z. Sagdeev Sleepwalk Dan Choan Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World Barry Lopez Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill

2021

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke Sandman Slim Richard Kadrey

The Sand Fish Maha Gargash Little Brother William Latham Somewhere a Voice Eric Frank Russell Perestroika Mikhail Gorbechev

Last Evenings on Earth Roberto Bolaño This is the Fire Don Lemon This Island Earth Raymond F. Jones Moth Smoke Moshin Hamid

1-2-3 Magic Thomas W. Phelan The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Binti Nnedi Okorafor

The Ceres Solution Bob Shaw The Psychology of the Child Bärbel Inhelder and Jean Piaget Jailbird Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Thirteen Days: a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis Robert F. Kennedy

To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea Sarah Pinsker

2020

Infinite Powers Steven Strogatz Spaceside Michael Mammay Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Rocket Ship Galileo (Young Adult #1) Robert A. Heinlein

A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Idea Man Paul Allen Our Final Invention James Barrat Letters to a Young Scientist Edward O. Wilson

Space Cadet (Young Adult #2) Robert A. Heinlein Dexter in the Dark (Dexter #3) Jeff Lindsay Zero to One Peter Thiel Inversions (Culture #6) Iain M. Banks

Time is the Simplest Thing Clifford D. Simak My Life and Work Henry Ford Whipping Star Frank Herbert The Two-Timers Bob Shaw

The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells Painted Horses Malcolm Brooks The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks The Game-Players of Titan Philip K. Dick

Cathedral Raymond Carver Standalone William Latham The Pale Criminal (Berlin Noir #2) Philip Kerr The Martian Andy Weir

Pale Rider Laura Spinney Florida Lauren Groff Annihilation Jeff Vandermeer Old Man William Faulkner

On Human Nature Edward O. Wilson Superintelligence Nick Bostrom Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy

Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman Highway of Eternity Clifford D. Simak

2019

Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Use of Weapons (Culture #3) Iain M. Banks The Caves of Steel (Robot #1) Isaac Asimov

Pond Claire-Louise Bennett March Violets (Berlin Noir #1) Philip Kerr The Long Run (Continuing Time #2) Daniel Keys Moran The Mystery of Three Quarters Sophie Hannah

Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth Hope Never Dies (An Obama / Biden Mystery #1) Andrew Shaffer The Moviegoer Walker Percy The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie

All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Rendezvous with Rama (Rama #1) Arthur C. Clarke Will You Please be Quiet, Please Raymond Carver Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

Excession (Culture #5) Iain M. Banks What is Real Adam Becker Rosewater (Wormwood #1) Tade Thompson Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay

Gods of Jade and Shadow Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Richard P. Feynman Cards on the Table Agatha Christie How Children Succeed Paul Tough

The Naked Sun (Robot #2) Isaac Asimov

2018

Space 1999: Resurrection William Latham Space 1999: Survival Brian Ball Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) Iain M. Banks Foundation #1 Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) Isaac Asimov Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Ashlee Vance Second Foundation (Foundation #3) Isaac Asimov Space 1999: Born for Adversity David A. McIntee

Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson The Player of Games (Culture #2) Iain M. Banks I, Robot Isaac Asimov The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemmingway

Foundation's Edge (Foundation #4) Isaac Asimov Goshawk Squadron Derek Robinson

2017

Rings of Ice Piers Anthony Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth

2014

The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Crooked House Agatha Christie

2013

Old Man's War John Scalzi Cross the Stars David Drake Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart Shadow of Obsession Rebecca Neason

Downbelow Station C.J. Cherryh Superman: Last Son of Krypton Elliot S! Maggin Fallon Louis L'Amour The Ghost Brigades John Scalzi

Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern #1) Anne McCaffrey Highlander: Scimitar Ashley McConnell The Inimitable Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse A Princess of Mars (Barsoom #1) Edgar Rice Burroughs

Physics of the Future Michio Kaku Wool #1-5 Hugh Howey Among Others Jo Walton Rogue Herries Hugh Walpole

Main Street D. O. A. Peter David Kilkenny Louis L'Amour Titan John Varley Ringworld Larry Niven

Ready Player One Ernest Cline Redshirts John Scalzi Non-Stop Brian W. Aldiss The Curse of Chalion Lois McMaster Bujold

The Final Programme Michael Moorcock The Demolished Man Alfred Bester Iron Sunrise Charles Stross Jinx on a Terran Inheritance Brian Daley

Boneshaker Cherie Priest The Little Minister J.M. Barrie Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick The Golden Hawk Frank Yerby A Natural History of Dragons Marie Brennan

2012

Venus Ben Bova Mutineers' Moon David Weber Primary Colors Anonymous A Matter of Metalaw Lee Correy

The Mountain Valley War Louis L'Amour