| 2026-07-30 | Do you read me? |
| 2025-09-06 | Unprecedented |
| 2023-10-17 | New-fashioned |
| 2022-09-27 | New and unusual |
| 2022-06-20 | Toni Morrison's "Beloved," for one |
| 2021-12-28 | Candidate for a Booker Prize |
| 2021-12-21 | Work of fiction |
| 2020-07-13 | "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "The Maltese Falcon" |
| 2019-08-23 | Never-before seen |
| 2018-08-19 | Fresh |
| 2017-10-22 | Unheard-of |
| 2016-05-26 | Untried |
| 2016-05-14 | Cutting-edge |
| 2010-01-03 | Never-before-seen |
| 2009-11-17 | Orwell's "1984" or Clarke's "2010" |
| 2008-08-29 | Rice product |
| 2008-04-08 | It's no short story |
| 2005-08-04 | Romance, e.g. |
| 2004-09-27 | "The Catcher in the Rye," e.g. |
| 2004-04-23 | London production |
| 2003-09-03 | "Lord Jim" or "Lucky Jim" |
| 2002-06-23 | Trendsetting |
| 2000-09-28 | Unprecedented |
| 1999-10-18 | Steinbeck work |
| 1997-02-18 | Wouk work |
| 1996-09-01 | Dime ___ |
| 1995-03-22 | Bellow specialty |
| 1995-03-13 | Unusual |
| 1994-01-08 | Hugo contender |