2012: The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
2011: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
2010: Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emile Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
2009: From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
2008: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2007: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
2006: In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
2005: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
2004: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
2003: A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
2002: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
2001: Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
2000: Idoru by William Gibson
1999: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
1998: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
1997: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
1996: The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2, Second Edition
1995: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
1994: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs by David Norman
1993: The Way Things Work by David Macaulay
1992: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
1991: D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
1990: The Abominable Snowman by Barbara Antonopulos
1989: O, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
1989: Tassel’s Mission by Susan Thompson-Hoffman
1987: Hot Air Henry by Mary Calhoun
1986: Cross-Country Cat by Mary Calhoun
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