2024

  • The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky
  • The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle
  • How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale
  • The Coworker by Freida McFadden
  • A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories by Baron Ryan
  • The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
  • Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
  • Two-Step Devil by Jamie Quatro

2023

  • The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  • Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
  • Money for Beginners: An Illustrated Guide by L. Randall Wray
  • The Vacationers by Emma Straub
  • Propaganda by Edward Bernays
  • Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith

2022

  • Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope by Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
  • I’d Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays by Tom Segura
  • The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy by Warren Mosler
  • The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton
  • Problems With Modern Monetary Theory: A Comment on Stephanie Kelton’s “The Deficit Myth” by Robert Wenzel
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
  • The Other Me by Sarah Zachrich Jeng

2021

  • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
  • Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim Hwang
  • I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) by Chuck Klosterman
  • Can’t Knock the Hustle: Inside the Season of Protest, Pandemic, and Progress with the Brooklyn Nets’ Superstars of Tomorrow by Matt Sullivan
  • A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

2020

  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  • The Will to Die by Joe Pulizzi
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
  • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
  • On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
  • On Love by Charles Bukowski
  • Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
  • 101 Contrarian Ideas About Advertising by Bob Hoffman
  • Lebron Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete by Brian Windhorst
  • Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  • How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
  • The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresiewicz

2019

  • This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See by Seth Godin
  • The Power of Simplicity by Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin
  • Native Enough by Nina O’Leary
  • Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
  • The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
  • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
  • Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter F. Drucker
  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Disclaimer by Renée Knight
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

2018

  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett
  • Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Blood Sisters by Jane Corry
  • Choosing My Religion by Stephen J. Dubner
  • The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
  • Into The Water by Paula Hawkins
  • Paris For One & Other Stories by Jojo Moyes
  • Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
  • Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
  • White Lead by Susan Daitch
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  • Pushing Into Joy by Hannah Ruth Grimley
  • The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
  • The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz, translated by George Goulding
  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz, translated by George Goulding
  • How to Argue with a Cat: A Human’s Guide to the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • When To Rob A Bank by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
  • The Silent Wife by A. S. A. Harrison
  • The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
  • Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
  • Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
  • Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin

2017

  • Absolute: Biography of a Bottle by Carl Hamilton
  • On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
  • Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  • Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management by Andrew Griffin
  • Drink Talking: 100 Years of Alcohol Advertising by Penny Dade
  • Roar: Get Heard In The Sales And Marketing Jungle by Kevin Duam with Daniel A. Turner
  • The Smart Marketers Guide To Google Adwords by Noa Eshed and Uri Bishansky
  • The Naked Pint by Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune
  • Cult(ure) by Tony Seigh
  • The Alcoholic Republic by W.R. Rorabaugh
  • Killing Marketing by Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose
  • The PR Masterclass by Alex Singleton
  • Absolut Book: The Absolut Vodka Advertising Story by Richard W. Lewis
  • Absolut Sequel. by Richard W. Lewis
  • Modern Rhetorical Criticism by Roderick P. Hart and Suzanne Daughton
  • My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry
  • Think Like A Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  • Your Ad Ignored Here by Tom Fishburne

2016

  • A Professional and Practitioner’s Guide to Public Relations Research, Measurement, and Evaluation by Don Stacks and David Michaelson
  • Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini
  • Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith by Michael Reeves
  • Rejoicing in Christ by Michael Reeves
  • Small Faith, Great God by N.T. Wright
  • Everybody Writes by Ann Handley
  • Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice Redish
  • Public Relations Writing by Doug Newsom and Jim Haynes
  • Public Relations: A Values Driven Approach by Charles Marsh and David W. Guth
  • Reputation Management: The Key to Successful Public Relations and Corporate Communication by John Doorley and Helio Fred Garcia
  • Marketing: The Core by Roger A. Kerin and Steven W. Hartley

2015

  • Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life: A Practical Introduction by Elaine D. Zelley and Marianne Dainton
  • Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
  • Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing – The Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook
  • Shake: A New Perspective on Cocktails by Eric Prum and Josh Williams
  • Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
  • The Logic of His Love by by Francois Du Toit
  • The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
  • The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage by Rob Bell
  • A Medieval Heresy and Inquisition by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
  • The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis’ Christian Reich by Michael Lackey
  • The Third Peacock: The Problem of God and Evil by Robert Farrar Capon
  • Hunting the Divine Fox: An Introduction to the Language of Theology by Robert Farrar Capon
  • Between Noon and Three: A Parable of Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace by Robert Farrar Capon
  • An Offering of Uncles: The Priesthood of Adam and the Shape of the World by Robert Farrar Capon
  • Tales from the Couch: Memoirs of a Drunk Monk by Dave Vaughn
  • The Humanity of God by Karl Barth
  • Dogmatics in Outline by Karl Barth
  • Behold the Spirit by Alan W. Watts
  • The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns
  • Ring of Truth: A Translator’s Testimony by J.B. Phillips
  • The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts by Deanna D. Sellnow
  • Chosen for Paradise: The Inclusion of Humanity in the Saving Act of Christ by John Crowder
  • Seven Spirits Burning: The Christocentric Operation of the Seven Spirits of God by John Crowder
  • V for Vendetta by Steve Moore
  • The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories by Henry James
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
  • Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir by Donna M. Johnson
  • Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

2014

  • Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
  • The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is by N.T. Wright
  • The Shack by William P. Young
  • It is Finished: Why You Can Quit Religion and Trust in Jesus by Blaise Forêt
  • Jesus and the Undoing of Adam by C. Baxter Kruger
  • The Happy Atheist by PZ Myers
  • Cosmos Reborn: Happy Theology on the New Creation by John Crowder
  • Mystical Union: Stuff They Never Told You About the Finished Work of the Cross by John Crowder
  • The New Mystics: How to Become Part of the Supernatural Generation by John Crowder
  • Kingdom, Grace, Judgement: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus by Robert Farrar Capon
  • On the Incarnation by Saint by Athanasius of Alexandria