| year | Title | Author |
| 2002 | A Beautiful Mind | Sylvia Nasar |
| Best Science & Nature Writing 2001 | ||
| Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | |
| Seek | Denis Johnson | |
| The Ice Chronicles | Majewski & White | |
| Leah, New Hampshire | Tom Williams | |
| American Heat | Donald Brown | |
| Pandora's Picnic Basket | Alan McHughen | |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | |
| 2003 | Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
| The Heat is On | Ross Gelbspan | |
| The Man Who Loved Only Numbers | Paul Hoffman | |
| Greenhouse | Gale Christianson | |
| River Dogs | Robert Olmstead | |
| The Double Helix | James Watson | |
| Prey | Michael Crichton | |
| Enough | Bill McKibben | |
| Jennifer Government | Max Barry | |
| The Last American Man | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| Empires of Light | Jill Jonnes | |
| Modern Physics and Ancient Faith | Stephen Barr | |
| The Great Railway Bazaar | Paul Thoreux | |
| The Sheep Look Up | John Brunner | |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | |
| Shiloh: A Novel | Shelby Foote | |
| The Discovery of Global Warming | Spencer Weart | |
| The Progress Paradox | Gregg Easterbrook | |
| 2005 | Wandering Home | Bill McKibben |
| The Long Emergency | James Kunstler | |
| The Geography of Nowhere | James Kunstler | |
| The Party's Over | Richard Heinberg | |
| Out of Gas | David Goodstein | |
| Climate Change Begins at Home | Dave Reay | |
| The Republican War on Science | Chris Mooney | |
| The Google Story | David A. Vise | |
| 2008 | Falling Man | Dom DeLillo |
| Dog Days | Jon Katz | |
| Albatross | Deborah Scaling Kiley | |
| Bush at War | Bob Woodward | |
| Men With Sand | John Moring | |
| It Happened on the Oregon Trail | Tricia Martineau Wagner | |
| 2009 | A Case of Need | Michael Crichton |
| Magnificent Desolation | Buzz Aldrin | |
| Contact | Carl Sagan | |
| Terrible Trail: The Meek Cutoff, 1845 | Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller | |
| Sum | David Eagleman | |
| The Human Stain | Philip Roth | |
| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | |
| 2010 | State of Fear | Michael Crichton |
| 9-11 | Noam Chomsky | |
| When Things Start to Think | Neal Gersonfeld | |
| The Circumference of Home | Kurt Hoelting | |
| Ecotopia | Ernest Callenbach | |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| Say Everything | Scott Rosenberg | |
| The Dawkins Delusion? | Alister & J McGrath | |
| The Tree Rings' Tale | John Fleck | |
| The Language of God | Francis Collins | |
| Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 2011 | The Ways We Choose | Dave Carey |
| Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| The Conscience of a Liberal | Paul Krugman | |
| Lonely | Emily White | |
| How to Live on Mars | Robert Zubrin | |
| Einstein and the Total Eclipse | Peter Coles | |
| The Two Kinds of Decay | Sarah Manguso | |
| Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Perseverance | Margaret Wheatley | |
| The Physics of Star Trek | Lawrence Krauss | |
| Time for the Stars | Robert Heinlein | |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis | |
| Hotel du Lac | Anita Brookner | |
| Einstein's Jury | Jeffrey Crelinstein | |
| Was Einstein Right? | Clifford M Will | |
| The President and the Assassin | Scott Miller | |
| The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| Global Warming and Political Intimidation | Raymond S. Bradley | |
| Deciphering the Cosmic Number | Arthur I. Miller | |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | |
| James Madison | Rick Brookhiser | |
| Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 2012 | A Short History of the Future | W. Warren Wagar |
| A Life of Jesus | Shusaku Endo | |
| A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Great Feuds in Science | Hank Hellman | |
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | |
| A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | |
| A Field Guide to Germs | Wayne Biddle | |
| The Biology of AIDS | Fan, Conner, and Villarreal | |
| Forty Signs of Rain | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Art & Fear | David Bayles & Ted Orland | |
| Why We Disagree About Climate Change | Mike Hulme | |
| The Case for Christ | Lee Strobel | |
| Time to Start Thinking | Edward Luce | |
| The Eskimo and the Oil Man | Bob Reiss | |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling | |
| Cataclysms on the Columbia | Allens, Burns and Sargent | |
| The Constants of Nature | John D. Barrow | |
| Atheism and the Case Against Christ | Matthew S. McCormick | |
| The Long Thaw | David Archer | |
| Our Final Hour | Martin Rees | |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | |
| Hack the Planet | Eli Kintisch | |
| Cancer Ward | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
| Darkness Visible | William Styron | |
| Earth | David Brin | |
| Singularity Sky | Charles Stross | |
| The Climate Fix | Roger Pielke Jr. | |
| The Other Wes Moore | Wes Moore | |
| 2013 | The Peace War | Vernor Vinge |
| Denialism | Michael Spector | |
| Science as a Contact Sport | Stephen Schneider |