[ 2010 ]
China: A History John Keay
A Thousand Moons Over a Thousand Rivers Hsiao Li-Hung
Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan Jonathan Manthorpe
Oracle Bones Peter Hessler

[ 2009 ]
Video Night in Kathmandu Pico Iyer
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning George Monbiot
River Town Peter Hessler
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
Holy Fire Bruce Sterling
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature Caryl Emerson
Consider the Lobster David Foster Wallace

[ 2008 ]
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace
The Discomfort Zone Jonathan Franzen
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
The Art of Cycling Robert Hurst
Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor
Alexander Pushkin : Complete Prose Fiction Paul Debreczeny
In Light of India Octavio Paz

[ 2007 ]
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Where I’m Calling From : New and Selected Stories Raymond Carver
Quarantine Jim Crace
What We Talk About When We Talk about Love Raymond Carver
American Pastoral Philip Roth
A Feast of Snakes Harry Crews
Main Street Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson

[ SELECTED PAST ]
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Last Notes from Home Frederick Exley
A Fan's Notes Frederick Exley
Light in August William Faulkner
Independence Day Richard Ford
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
The Interpretation of Cultures Clifford Geertz
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
Taras Bulba Nikolai Gogol
Oblomov Ivan Goncharov
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
The Good Life Helen and Scott Nearing
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren