2014
(Numbers indicate stars out of 5)
Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne 3.5
The Fry Chronicles: an Autobiography 4.5
The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution by Keith Devlin 4
Murder Being Once Done by Ruth Rendell 4
2013
Invincible Summer by Hannah Moskowitz 2.5
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 5
Reflections of Osiris: Lives from Ancient Egypt by John Ray 4
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 4
2012
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson 2.5
And Furthermore by Judi Dench (as told to John Miller) 4.5
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison 4
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon 5
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling 3.5
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 5
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers 4
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans 5
The Dragons of Chiril by Donita K. Paul 0
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe 2.5
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder 5
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 4.5
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson 4.5
Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison 4
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon 4.5
A Light in the Window by Jan Karon 4
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 4.5
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 4
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison 2.5
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown 4
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie 3.5
The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans 5
Tutankhamun by Demi 4
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers 4
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers 4
2011
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 4.5
Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace 5
The Better Angel by Roy Morris, Jr. 4
Bound for Glory by Timothy R. Botts and Patricia Raybon 4
The Chimes by Charles Dickens 3
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 5
The Corruptible by Mark Mynheir 3.5
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 4
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens 4
Fyodor Dostoevsky by Peter Leithart 2
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4
The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs 4
The Magic Room by Jeffrey Zaslow 4
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman 4
"Oops!" by Bill Myers 1--Dorothy Parker Award
Out of a Far Country by Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan 3.5
Pershing, by John Perry 4
Raised Right by Alisa Harris 5
Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz 4
Sherman by Agostino von Hasell and Ed Breslin 2
The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4
Stuart Little by E.B. White 2
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4.5