| 1. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Yellow Admiral | [Fiction] |
| 2. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | The Hundred Days | [Fiction] |
| 3. | **** | Patrick O'Brian. | Blue at the Mizzen | [Fiction] |
| 4. | *** | W. Stanley Moss. | Ill Met by Moonlight | [Biography] |
| 5. | *** | J. K. Rowling. | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | [Fiction] |
| 6. | *** | Pierre Berton. | The Mysterious North | [Non-fiction] |
| 7. | ** | John Christopher. | When the Tripods Came | [Fiction] |
| 8. | ***** | Eric Ambler. | The Light of Day | [Fiction] |
| 9. | **** | John Keay. | The Great Arc | [History] |
| 10. | **** | Richard Rhodes. | Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb | [History] |
| 11. | ***** | Peter Blegvad. | The Book of Leviathan | [Comics] |
| 12. | **** | Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd. | Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits | [Comics] |
| 13. | ** | John Christopher. | The Caves of Night | [Fiction] |
| 14. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Star Beast | [Fiction] |
| 15. | **** | Kenneth Roberts. | The Lively Lady | [Fiction] |
| 16. | * | Charles Palliser. | The Sensationist | [Fiction] |
| 17. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Menace from Earth | [Fiction] |
| 18. | ***** | Eric Ambler. | Cause for Alarm | [Fiction] |
| 19. | **** | Robert A. Heinlein. | The Man Who Sold the Moon | [Fiction] |
| 20. | *** | Robert A. Heinlein. | Methuselah's Children | [Fiction] |
| 21. | *** | Edward Dolnick. | Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon | [Travel] |
| 22. | **** | Mark Twain. | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | [Fiction] |
| 23. | ***** | Michael Chabon. | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | [Fiction] |
| 24. | **** | Eric Ambler. | Background to Danger | [Fiction] |
| 25. | ***** | Eric Schlosser. | Fast Food Nation | [Non-fiction] |
| 26. | **** | Kenneth Roberts. | Captain Caution | [Fiction] |
| 27. | **** | Pierre Berton. | The National Dream: The Great Railway 1871-1881 | [History] |
| 28. | ** | George R. Stewart. | Earth Abides | [Fiction] |
| 29. | **** | Pierre Berton. | The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881-1885 | [History] |
| 30. | **** | F.A. Worsley. | Shackleton's Boat Journey | [Travel] |
| 31. | *** | Steve Krug. | Don't Make Me Think | [Computing] |
| 32. | *** | Fergus Fleming. | Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps | [History] |
| 33. | *** | Daniel Clowes. | Ghost World | [Comics] |
| 34. | ** | Pierre Berton. | Why We Act Like Canadians | [Non-fiction] |
| 35. | **** | Peter Ward Fay. | The Opium War 1840-1842 | [History] |
| 36. | ** | Michelle Arnot. | What's Gnu? A History of the Crossword Puzzle | [Non-fiction] |
| 37. | **** | Pierre Berton. | Niagara | [History] |
| 38. | **** | Mark Sparky Stansas. | Rock Pickers Guide to Lake Superior's North Shore | [Science] |
| 39. | *** | Rudyard Kipling. | Kim | [Fiction] |
| 40. | **** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flash for Freedom! | [Fiction] |
| 41. | **** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flashman at the Charge | [Fiction] |
| 42. | **** | Arthur Roth. | Eiger: Wall of Death | [History] |
| 43. | *** | Frederick Oughton. | The Aces | [History] |
| 44. | **** | Mark Pendergrast. | Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World | [History] |
| 45. | **** | Ernest Thompson Seton. | Two Little Savages | [Fiction] |
| 46. | **** | Eric Ambler. | Passage of Arms | [Fiction] |
| 47. | ***** | George MacDonald Fraser. | Flashman in the Great Game | [Fiction] |
| 48. | **** | Lynda Barry. | One Hundred Demons | [Comics] |
| 49. | *** | J. Arnold Bolz. | Portage into the Past | [Travel] |
| 50. | *** | Eric Ambler. | Judgment on Deltchev | [Fiction] |