| 1. | **** | Byron Farwell. | The Great Anglo-Boer War | [History] |
| 2. | *** | John Buchan. | The Three Hostages | [Fiction] |
| 3. | *** | Joseph B. McCormick, Susan Fisher-Hoch & Leslie Alan Horvitz. | Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC | [Science] |
| 4. | ** | Susie Bright. | Susie Bright's Sexual State of the Union | [Sex] |
| 5. | **** | Mark Bittman. | How to Cook Everything | [Cooking] |
| 6. | **** | Antony Beevor. | Stalingrad | [History] |
| 7. | U | Gore Vidal. | Burr | [Fiction] |
| 8. | **** | Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, & Annette Lawrence Drew. | Blind Man's Bluff | [History] |
| 9. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Puppet Masters | [Fiction] |
| 10. | ***** | James Morris. | Heaven's Command | [History] |
| 11. | **** | Paul Hoffman. | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers | [Biography] |
| 12. | ***** | James Morris. | Pax Brittanica | [History] |
| 13. | **** | Ernest Thompson Seton. | Two Little Savages | [Fiction] |
| 14. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Space Cadet | [Novel] |
| 15. | ** | William Irvine. | Apes, Angels and Victorians | [Biography] |
| 16. | ** | Bill Bryson. | I'm a Stranger Here Myself | [Non-Fiction] |
| 17. | **** | A. K. Dewdney. | Yes, We Have No Neutrons | [Science] |
| 18. | *** | Bernard Cornwell. | Sharpe's Regiment | [Fiction] |
| 19. | **** | Mark Twain. | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | [Fiction] |
| 20. | ** | G. A. Henty. | With Wolfe in Canada | [Fiction] |
| 21. | **** | David Parlett. | The Oxford History of Board Games | [Games] |
| 22. | ** | Alan Garner. | The Moon of Gomrath | [Fiction] |
| 23. | *** | Maurice Herzog. | Annapurna | [Non-Fiction] |
| 24. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Friday | [Fiction] |
| 25. | ** | Brian Redhead & Kenneth McLeish. | The Anti-Booklist | [Bibliography] |
| 26. | *** | Ken Alibek. | Biohazard | [Non-Fiction] |
| 27. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Tunnel in the Sky | [Novel] |
| 28. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Farnham's Freehold | [Novel] |
| 29. | *** | Tom Standage. | The Victorian Internet | [History] |
| 30. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Double Star | [Novel] |
| 31. | **** | Simon Winchester. | The Professor and the Madman | [Biography] |
| 32. | **** | William Poundstone. | Big Secrets | [Non-Fiction] |
| 33. | ***** | John Keegan. | The First World War | [History] |
| 34. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Revolt in 2100 | [Fiction] |
| 35. | *** | William Poundstone. | Bigger Secrets | [Non-Fiction] |
| 36. | **** | Stephanie Cowell. | Nicholas Cooke | [Fiction] |
| 37. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Man Who Sold the Moon | [Fiction] |
| 38. | *** | Marion L. Starkey. | Land Where Our Fathers Died | [History] |
| 39. | ** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein | [Fiction] |
| 40. | ** | Clifton Hood. | 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York | [History] |
| 41. | *** | Howard Peckham. | The Colonial Wars: 1689-1762 | [History] |
| 42. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | Blue at the Mizzen | [Fiction] |
| 43. | *** | Robert Young Pelton. | Come Back Alive | [Travel] |
| 44. | *** | Henry Petroski. | Engineers of Dreams | [Science] |
| 45. | *** | David Howarth. | We Die Alone | [Adventure] |