2008:

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
The Best American Essays 2007 Edited by David Foster Wallace
The Elements of Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

2007:

The Undressed Art by Peter Steinhart
Anger by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Watership Down by Richard Adams
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
Waking Up to What You Do by Diane Eshin Rizzetto
The Robber Hotzenplotz by Otfried Preußler

2006:

Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh
Faster by James Gleick
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Better Off by Eric Brende
Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

2005:

1776 by David McCullough
The Art of Digital Music By D. Battino and Kelli Richards
The Piano Tuner by David Mason
Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
It Must Have Been Something I Ate by Jeffery Steingarten
Science of Musical Sound by John Robinson Pierce
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Hooked: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume ed by Stephanie Kaza
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price
Good Benito by Alan Lightman
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

2004:

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
What's Worth Knowing by Wendy Lustbader
Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
Mastering Audio by Bob Katz
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
A New Kind of Science by Steven Wolfram (partial reading)
Derrida in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus J Borg
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Turning the Mind into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman

2003:

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
The Historical Figure of Jesus by E. P. Sanders
Jazz 101 by John F. Szwed
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown by Alan Watts
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffery Steingarten
Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
Peter Camenzind by Herman Hesse
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Food in History by Reay Tannahill
No Death, No Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

2002:

Beethoven's Anvil by William Benzon
The Heart Revolution by Kilmer McCully
Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations ed. by Richard Burgin
Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels
Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Beyond the 120 Year Diet by Roy Walford
Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse
Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change by Thich Nhat Hanh
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V.S. Naipaul

2001:

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
How Children Fail by John Holt
How to Talk So Kids Can Learn by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon
Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living edited by Diane Obson
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg Hodge
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
This is It by Alan Watts
Burning All Illusions by David Edwards
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata

-2000:

Old Path White Clouds by Thich Naht Hanh
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Televsion by Jerry Mander
Island by Aldous Huxley
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Book by Alan Watts
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
Does it Matter? by Alan Watts
Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts
The Way of Transformation by Alan Watts
Become Who You Are by Alan Watts
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
Zen and the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
On Having No Head by by D.E. Harding
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Sri Rahula
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin
My Name Is Chellis & I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization by Chellis Glendinning
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
There Are No Childern Here by Alex Kotlowitz
The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn
The Case Against the Global Economy by Jerry Mander
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Naht Hanh
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Ocean of Sound by David Toop
The User Illusion by Tor Nrretranders
Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
The Doors of Perception and Heaven & Hell by Aldous Huxley
Recollected Essays by Wendell Berry
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Nothing Special: Living Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck
Engine of Reason, Seat of the Soul by Paul Churchland
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
Darwins Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
Full House by Steven Jay Gould
Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Mind of God by Paul Davies
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
The Wasteland by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Walden Two by B.F. Skinner
To Have or To Be by Erich Fromm
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra
The Plain Reader edited by Scott Savage
Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
The Giver by Lois Lowry
To Kill and Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flow by M. Csikzentmihalyi
The Evolving Self by M. Csikzentmihalyi
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Meditation by Eknath Easwaran
Take Your Time by Eknath Easwaran
The Tao is Silent by Richard Smullyan
Zen and Japanese Culture by D.T. Suzuki
Living the Mindfull Life by Charles Tart
Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, and Philosophers by Leonard Koren
The Mind's I edited by Douglas Hofstadter
Thoughts without a Thinker by Mark Epstein
On Truth by J. Krishnamurti
On Relationship by J. Krishnamurti
On Learning and Knowledge by J. Krishnamurti
On Fear by J. Krishnamurti
On Right Livelihood by J. Krishnamurti
On Love and Lonliness by J. Krishnamurti
On Nature and the Environment by J. Krishnamurti
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy