| #2 |  So Big
| 4.5 |
| #3 |  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
| 3.82 |
| #4 |  Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
| 4.88 |
| #5 |  The Road
| 4.04 |
| #6 |  Middlesex
| 4.17 |
| #7 |  Guns, Germs and Steel
| 3.83 |
| #8 |  The Color Purple
| 4.14 |
| #9 |  To Kill a Mockingbird
| 4.14 |
| #10 |  Beloved
| 3.95 |
| #11 |  The Shipping News
| 3.9 |
| #12 |  The Goldfinch
| 3.96 |
| #13 |  Interpreter of Maladies
| 3.93 |
| #14 |  Less
| 3.78 |
| #16 |  Olive Kitteridge
| 4.16 |
| #17 |  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
| 4.53 |
| #18 |  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
| 4.25 |
| #19 |  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
| 4.22 |
| #20 |  The Executioner's Song
| 4.13 |
| #21 |  All The King's Men All The King's Men: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
| 5 |
| #22 |  The Grapes of Wrath
| 3.76 |
| #23 |  Gone with the Wind
| 4.03 |
| #24 |  The Good Earth
| 3.78 |
| #25 |  The Bridge of San Luis Rey
| 3.96 |
| #26 |  The Age of Innocence
| 4.01 |
| #27 |  The Nickel Boys
| 4.25 |
