2010
- May 26 - Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon.
- May 12 - The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson.
- April 25 - Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia by Mark Jenkins.
- April 17 - Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer.
- March 27 - Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World by John Man.
- January 9 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
- October 14 - Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade.
- September 30 - The Spartans by Paul Cartledge.
- August 31 - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch.
- August 11 - Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan.
- July 2 - Diary by Chuck Palahniuk.
- June 4 - Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 by Grigoris Balakian.
- June 1 - Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich.
- May 26 - Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk.
- April 23 - Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler.
- March 2 - Darwinian Fairytales by David Stove.
- February 5 - The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue by Merritt Ruhlen.
- January 20 - The Last River by Todd Balf.
- January 7 - The Great Human Diasporas by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza.
- December 21 - The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris.
- December 21 - The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D.T. Max.
- December 14 - Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley.
- November 19 - The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins.
- October 15 - A Brief History of the Human Race by Michael Cook.
- October 6 - Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot by Ken McGoogan.
- October 4 - The World of the Vikings by Richard Hall.
- September 20 - Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler.
- September 16 - First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent by Derek Hayes.
- September 9 - Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails by Frank McLynn.
- July 25 - Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail by Laton McCartney.
- July 7 - Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg.
- June 23 - Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk.
- June 11 - Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
- May 20 - Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.
- May 7 - The Thin Red Line by James Jones.
- March 17 - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.
- March 7 - Suttree by Cormac McCarthy.
- February 5 - A Short History of a Small Place by T.R. Pearson.
- January 30 - The Stand by Stephen King.
- November 1 - Chasing the Devil by David Reichert.
- October 23 - Zodiac Unmasked by Robert Graysmith.
- October 10 - Zodiac by Robert Graysmith.
- September 28 - Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.
- September 19 - Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.
- September 14 - Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
- September 6 - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
- August 11 - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
- August 5 - Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams.
- July 20 - Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy.
- July 5 - When the Mississippi Ran Backwards by Jay Feldman.
- June 22 - Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon.
- May 14 - Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark's America by Dayton Duncan.
- April 20 - Those Tremendous Mountains by David Freeman Hawke.
- April 3 - Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
- March 16 - The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy.
- February 8 - The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
- January 25 - Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land.
- January 18 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
- December 19 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
- November 29 - Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland.
- November 10 - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.
- November 4 - The Best People in the World by Justin Tussing.
- October 24 - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.
- September 12 - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.
- August 11 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
- July 10 - Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game by David Block.
- June 26 - Foul Ball by Jim Bouton.
- June 13 - Ball Four by Jim Bouton.
- May 31 - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
- May 20 - Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer.
- February 17 - Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon.
- January 2 - The 25th Hour by David Benioff.