| 1. | **** | William Poundstone. | The Recursive Universe | [Science] |
| 2. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Thirteen Gun Salute | [Novel] |
| 3. | *** | John McPhee. | The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed | [Non-fiction] |
| 4. | * | Rudyard Kipling. | Captains Courageous | [Novel] |
| 5. | ** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Rolling Stones | [Novel] |
| 6. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Red Planet | [Novel] |
| 7. | *** | Negley Farson. | Sailing Across Europe | [Travel] |
| 8. | *** | Martin Amis. | Success | [Novel] |
| 9. | **** | William Poundstone. | Labyrinths of Reason | [Science] |
| 10. | **** | Henry Beard / Douglas C. Kenney. | Bored of the Rings | [Humor] |
| 11. | ** | John McPhee. | Looking For A Ship | [Non-fiction] |
| 12. | *** | C. S. Forester. | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | [Novel] |
| 13. | **** | Ian Hamilton. | In Search of J. D. Salinger | [Biography] |
| 14. | ** | Keith Thomson. | Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth | [Science] |
| 15. | **** | Robert Graves. | Goodbye to All That | [Autobiography] |
| 16. | ***** | Peter Hopkirk. | The Great Game | [History] |
| 17. | **** | Kenneth Roberts. | Arundel | [Novel] |
| 18. | *** | Bill Bryson. | The Mother Tongue | [Non-fiction] |
| 19. | *** | C. S. Forester. | Lieutenant Hornblower | [Novel] |
| 20. | **** | Kingsley Amis. | The Green Man | [Novel] |
| 21. | *** | P. G. Wodehouse. | Very Good, Jeeves! | [Short stories] |
| 22. | *** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flash for Freedom! | [Novel] |
| 23. | *** | David Lodge. | Small World | [Novel] |
| 24. | Michael Jackson. | The New World Guide to Beer | [Food] | |
| 25. | * | C. S. Forester. | The Ship | [Novel] |
| 26. | ** | Anthony Cave Brown. | ``C'': The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies | [Biography] |
| 27. | *** | Anthony Burgess. | Ninety-nine Novels | [Non-fiction] |
| 28. | ** | William Poundstone. | Big Secrets | [Non-fiction] |
| 29. | *** | C. S. Forester. | Hornblower and the Hotspur | [Novel] |
| 30. | *** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flashman and the Redskins | [Novel] |
| 31. | P. J. Plauger. | Programming on Purpose: Essays on Software Design | [Programming] | |
| 32. | *** | Don Libes and Sandy Ressler. | Life With Unix: Special Edition | [Computers] |
| 33. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Nutmeg of Consolation | [Novel] |
| 34. | ** | Jill Pearlman. | Elvis for Beginners | [Biography] |
| 35. | ** | C. S. Forester. | Hornblower and the Atropos | [Novel] |
| 36. | *** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flashman at the Charge | [Novel] |
| 37. | *** | Amal Naj. | Peppers | [Food] |
| 38. | ** | Peregrine Hodson. | Under a Sickle Moon | [Travel] |
| 39. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Truelove | [Novel] |
| 40. | *** | Herman Melville. | Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life | [Travel] |
| 41. | ***** | Francis Parkman. | Pioneers of France in the New World | [History] |
| 42. | *** | Bernard Cornwell. | Sharpe's Eagle | [Novel] |
| 43. | *** | P. G. Wodehouse. | Something Fresh | [Novel] |
| 44. | *** | Peter Goodchild. | J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds | [Biography] |
| 45. | *** | C. S. Forester. | Beat to Quarters | [Novel] |
| 46. | **** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flashman in the Great Game | [Novel] |
| 47. | **** | Robert Graves. | Count Belisarius | [Novel] |
| 48. | *** | Lawrence Durrell. | Antrobus Complete | [Short Stories] |
| 49. | ** | Maria Reidelbach. | Completely Mad | [Non-fiction] |
| 50. | *** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flashman's Lady | [Novel] |
| 51. | ** | Daniel Pool. | What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew | [Non-fiction] |
| 52. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Wine-Dark Sea | [Novel] |
| 53. | * | William J. Palmer. | The Detective and Mr. Dickens | [Novel] |